3704 stories by Philip Conneller
Former Nevada Governor and Casino Industry Reformer Paul Laxalt Dead at 96
Paul Laxalt, the former Nevada governor who helped clean up and stabilize the state’s gaming industry in the 1970s, has died at 96. His family said the grandfather of current GOP gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt passed away of natural causes at a...
Elaine Wynn Buries Hatchet with Wynn Resorts as Phil Sartre Becomes Vice-Chairman
Gaming industry veteran Phil Sartre has been appointed vice-chairman of Wynn Resorts in a move that should ease tensions between the company and its biggest shareholder and co-founder, Elaine Wynn. Satre, who is the former CEO of Harrahs, now Caesars, is expected...
DraftKings Sportsbook Goes Live, Becomes New Jersey’s First Online Sports Betting Platform
DraftKings has won the race to offer a full-scale digital sports betting platform in the New Jersey market, the first such platform that exists in the US outside Nevada. DraftKings Sportsbook launched in earnest on Monday morning after a week of invite-only...
Seattle Poker Players Cry Foul Over Lost Tribal Casino Jackpot Fund
What's the fate of a Seattle, Washington player-funded jackpot when a poker room closes? That's what customers at the Snoqualmie Casino, just outside Seattle, want to know, as their poker jackpot is about to disappear into the ether -- or at least, into...
Connecticut Sports Betting Deadline Set By Governor Dannel Malloy, Legislature Has Until End of Week
Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy has asked the legislature to tell him by the end of the week whether state lawmakers are committed to moving on sports betting this year, but it isn’t yet clear whether there is an appetite for a special...
William Hill Aims to Pull Off Penn National US Sports Betting Coup
William Hill is in early talks to form a sports betting partnership with Penn National Gaming, according to reports in the UK media over the weekend. The Times and City AM quoted “City sources” -- a reference to London’s financial district --...
Japanese Gaming Mogul Kazuo Okada Arrested in Hong Kong on Fraud Charges
Kazuo Okada -- one of the original co-founders of Wynn Resorts -- has been arrested in Hong Kong on “corruption-related offenses,” according to a filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Monday by Universal Entertainment. The Japanese slot machine and pachinko...
Bet365 ‘Colonizes’ Half of La Liga with Ten New Sponsorship Deals
Bet365 this week completed ten separate sponsorship deals with ten teams from Spanish soccer’s prestigious La Liga. The unprecedented move means the British online gambling giant has partnered up with exactly half of Spanish soccer’s top tier in what the country’s el...
Australia Proposes Prison Terms for Athletes Passing Insider Information to Bookmakers
Tough new sports integrity rules proposed by Australia’s federal sports minister Bridget McKenzie would see athletes who collude with bookmakers fined or imprisoned following a trial in a new “national sports court.” The proposals follow the recommendations of a government-backed report into...
William Hill Blames Billion-Dollar Loss on FOBT Cuts, Looks to US for Silver Lining
William Hill blamed the UK government’s clampdown on fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs), Friday, for dragging it one billion into the red in the first half of the year. The British sports betting giant reported pre-tax H1 losses of £820 million ($1.06 billion),...
