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Philip Conneller
4177 stories by Philip Conneller
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hainan Casinos Unlikely with Beijing Stalwartly Opposed, Experts Say
The likelihood of China turning the southern province of Hainan into a casino hub to rival Macau is minimal, according to expert opinions canvassed by the South China Morning Post at the recent Global Gaming...
Sports Betting Apps: When — and with How Much Force — Will They Hit the US Mobile Market?
With last Monday's US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decision to strike down PASPA -- the law that banned all but four American states from regulating sports betting -- many new questions are bubbling up about how the...
Steve Wynn Draws on Fine Art Savoir-Faire with Self-Created Global Art Business
Steve Wynn -- the man who once reinvented Las Vegas -- has now reinvented himself: as an art dealer. According to artnet.com, fallen casino mogul Steve Wynn, 76, has launched a company called Sierra Fine...
Non-Gaming Mandarin Oriental Las Vegas Grabbed Up by Hilton, Hotel to Morph into Waldorf Astoria
The Mandarin Oriental in Las Vegas -- a AAA Five Diamond Award and Forbes Triple Five-Star casino-less property -- will become the Waldorf Astoria come August. The Mandarin Oriental has for years vied with the chichi...
