3661 stories by Philip Conneller
Caesars Korea Casino Resort to Open 2021, First Asian Venue for Gaming Giant
Caesars Korea -- the casino operator's first foray into the East Asian gaming market -- will be completed in early 2021, according to William Shen, senior vice president and managing director of Caesars Korea and Japan. Shen, speaking exclusively to GGRAsia on...
West Virginia Governor Jim Justice Relents on Integrity Fee Amid Conflict of Interest
West Virginia is pressing ahead with sports betting, minus the sports leagues’ controversial “integrity fee.” State Governor Jim Justice had threatened to intercede on behalf of the leagues and use a special session this week to reexamine sports betting legislation passed in...
Can Sports Betting Save the Atlantic City Race Course?
New Jersey plans to have its sports betting regulations in place by June 7, by which time Monmouth Park will be ready to go. In fact, it was ready in 2014, when only a federal injunction prevented it from unveiling its shiny...
Boomtown Reno Casino Fined for Offering Links to Illegal Offshore Gambling Websites
The Boomtown Casino in Verdi, near Reno, Nevada, was lucky to keep its license this week after it was forced to explain to the Nevada Gaming Control Board why it had provided links on its website to unlicensed offshore gambling sites. The...
NFL Supports ‘Common Sense’ Sports Betting Laws, Sets Out ‘Four Core Principles’ of Regulation
On the eve of the NFL’s spring meeting in Atlanta, commissioner Roger Goodell tentatively embraced sports betting and called on Congress to “enact uniform standards” for states that opt to regulate. These, he wrote, must include four “core principles,” as follows: There...
The Royal Wedding: Odds, Oddities, and Novelty Bets That Did and Didn’t Pay Off
Of all the wacky royal wedding lines offered by UK bookmakers, one that didn’t come in -- to the delight of an estimated two billion global viewers -- was that the now-Duchess of Sussex, née Meghan Markle, wouldn't even show up. At 1,000/1 --...
PokerStars Seals Deal with Hong Kong-Listed Casino-Hotel Group to Expand Asian Tournament Footprint
PokerStars’ parent The Stars Group has inked a deal with Hong-Kong-listed International Entertainment Corp to operate land-based poker tournaments in “certain Asian counties” under the PokerStars brand, according to a filing by International to the Hong Stock Exchange. International Entertainment is the...
Connecticut Plans Special Session to Fast-Track Sports Betting
Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy said this week that “the world has changed” since the US Supreme Court struck down PASPA, paving the way for state-sanctioned sports betting. Malloy said he would talk with lawmakers on Wednesday with a view to organizing a...
Culinary Union Expected to Vote for Citywide Las Vegas Strike, Walkout Unlikely
The Culinary Union, Nevada’s biggest casino workers’ union, will vote on Tuesday on a measure that threatens to bring Las Vegas to a virtual standstill. For the first time in 15 years, the union’s 50,000 bartenders, bellmen, cocktail servers, food servers, housekeepers,...
Japanese Lawmaker Claims Pachinko Industry Morally Unsuitable for Casino Market Role
A Japanese lawmaker has questioned whether the pachinko industry can be trusted to participate in a future Japanese casino market. As reported by Asian Gaming Brief this week, Takashi Takai, a member of the Lower House, who represents the Constitutional Democratic Party...
