Fri, Sep 11, 2009
In the midst of the deepest downturn ever experienced by the Atlantic City casino industry, the only new development under way, Revel, seems to be close to reaching an agreement that will ensure the project gets completed in mid-2011.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
Exclusivity clause rankles dog and horse tracks in southern Florida, and could rein in future growth up north, opponents say. But Governor Charlie Crist (l.) is confident deal will go through.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
NagaWorld is out to become THE Indo-China hotel casino complex. With a 70-year license that includes a 40-year regional monopoly clause, the Cambodian operator seems well positioned to weather a few economic hiccups. The first half of 2009 put that theory to the test.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
August gaming revenue in Macau set a record for the SAR, reversing a steady decline that has been ongoing since 2008. MGM Grand Macau (l.) was a major winner in August.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that the U.S. law banning internet gambling is valid, it also held that states have the right to legislate and regulate the activity within their borders—possibly opening up legalization of online gaming in individual state.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
Biloxi-based Treasure Bay Casino has been selected to replace Isle of Capri Casinos as the operator of the Our Lucaya Casino on Grand Bahama Island in the Bahamas.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board and Chairman Gregory Fajt ordered the Foxwoods Philadelphia development group to abandon efforts to relocate the project downtown, ruling that the project must go in its original waterfront location and plan (l.).
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
The Match-E-Be-Nahs-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians will break ground on its casino this month, after a favorable ruling from the federal government designated its land in Wayland Township part of the tribe’s reservation.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
The planned expansion of gaming tables at Crown’s flagship casino in Melbourne, Australia has been called into question by Opposition lawmakers. A review of the deal is planned but no changes are anticipated.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (l.) says state was not notified about 1 percent ‘surcharge’; investigation could follow. And he also cracks down on “free play” at the slots, demanding the state get its 25 percent.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
Will the move by the chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot tribe to provide payments to his tribal members before the lenders get paid have any impact on lending by commercial financial institutions in Indian Country?
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
Russia may have closed down its casino industry, but veteran Storm International is determined to stay a player in the region. By the end of September the company will have operations in three former Soviet republics.
Sat, Sep 12, 2009
This week's GGB Podcast features Steve Rittvo, the president of the Innovation Group of Companies. He discusses the current state of the industry, expansion opportunities, marketing initiatives and more with Global Gaming Business Publisher Roger Gros.
Sat, Sep 12, 2009
One of the final elements of the first phase of Melco Crown's Entertainment's City of Dreams, the Grand Hyatt, is set to open later this month.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
U.K. television viewers have been playing roulette live for cash for several years, with the shows available only on satellite TV. Now, new regulations will allow the same show to be seen in every U.K. household with a TV set.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
The profits of Ontario’s Casino Rama are the subject of a controversial court case, with the casino’s host, the Chippewas of Mnjikaning claiming the government is taking too much revenue from the First Nations.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
One-third of British Columbia casino revenues were supposed to benefit regional non-profits. But government is paying the full freight.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
Casino projects are often promoted as a means to spur the general economic development of a given area. In the Canadian city of Edmonton, Alberta, a casino may be built to directly fund construction of a new sports venue.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
Brazil is nearing passage of a new gaming law, according to a representative of the Brazilian Lottery Association. If he is right, some 300 bingo hall licenses could be up for bid by early 2010.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
Gambling opponents foresee more addiction, greater social risks
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
The province of Ontario, Canada continues to have problems with the governance of its public lottery and gaming entity. Just over two years after an insider-lottery-win scandal forced a management shakeup, the organization is in hot water again over expense charges and—potentially more serious—project bid processes.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
The battle in Europe between government gaming monopolies and commercial online operators continues with no end in sight. A recent preliminary ruling by the European Court of Justice has given monopolists something to cheer—for now.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
Estonia’s Olympic Entertainment Group will be taking the plunge into the world of online gaming come 2010. Meanwhile, some changes in management at various levels of the company have been announced.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
After a year of floundering the Kansas state-owned regional casinos that were authorized in 2007 seem much closer than ever before to becoming a concrete reality, with the Boot Hill Casino (l.) in Dodge City almost completed. Penn National has bought out the Cordish Company for a site at the Kansas Speedway and the right to build a Hollywood casino.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
West Virginia’s legendary Greenbrier resort has broken ground on a new casino after receiving the final go-ahead from the state lottery commission on the plan to revive the famous property.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
Lawmakers representing two counties in Delaware, including the state capital in Wilmington (l.), are forming a coalition to push for passage of legislation permitting two new slot venues in the state.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
Minor creditors in the Las Vegas gaming company’s bankruptcy case allege that Station Casinos has not been fair to its lenders.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
Ohio may be the scene of the most contentious debates on gaming in the country, involving a high controversial constitutional amendment election campaign, plus two lawsuits challenging the executive order creating seven state racinos are before the state supreme court. Former governor, now U.S. Senator George Voinovich (l.), is criticizing his successor for approving slots at racetracks.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
Developers are starting to appear around corners and in the byways of various small and medium size Massachusetts towns, scouting out potential sites in strategic locations for possible casinos, now that the legislature has started to look seriously at the issue of expanding gaming.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
New casino openings cause a big year-on-year revenue spike, despite revenue drops at some Pennsylvania casinos.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
The president of the Casino Association of New Jersey, Joe Corbo (l.), is disputing a study from Rutgers University that says the state would benefit from VLTs at racetracks.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
Recent incidents at Las Vegas casinos led the Nevada Gaming Control Board to organize informational seminars, during which regulators and casino operators can discuss regulations.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
Its appeal shelved by Maryland’s highest appellate court, Laurel Park is continuing to appeal to regulators to reinstate its bid to operate slots at the racetrack.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
Nobody says Mississippi gaming regulators aren’t honest. But a legislative watch dog committee claims that they could do a better job—and that it needs to start with better training.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
The Twin River racino in Rhode Island, currently owned by bankrupt BLB Investors, may have a new owner, and it may be Warner Gaming, although that’s not certain since state regulators and Warner are not talking
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
An Illinois town that once sought to have its own casino is now banning slot machines; meanwhile the legislature is considering a big casino for Chicago.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
UNITE-HERE leader Bob McDevitt (l.) urges peace in other union dealings.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
The elite hospitality management group will open three venues in CityCenter’s Aria hotel in December. The firm is currently hiring for all positions at its new locations.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
Flagler Dog Track becomes Southern Florida county’s first racino.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
As the company contemplates its future, CEO Tilman Fertitta has once again proposed to take Landry’s private. A special committee will consider Fertitta’s plan.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
The owner of the Gold Spike and Barcelona hotels in Las Vegas has purchased the Resort on Mount Charleston and the St. Tropez, both of which the company plans to improve upon.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
General Growth, owners of the Shoppes at the Palazzo, have filed a motion to settle in the case of the Lavo nightclub in the Palazzo lobby. The nightclub’s owners sued General Growth, but the company is now in bankruptcy.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
In the town of Biloxi, the IP Casino has expressed its opposition to a proposal before the Biloxi City Council that would raise water and sewer rates.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
More than $220 million in debts and a ‘flawed’ system does not deter corporation from reorganization attempt.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
Tribal members will be the beneficiaries in a partnership between NIGA and the Pawnee Nation College to provide training in gaming. NIGA Chairman Ernie Stevens (l.) says the tribal college system is important for Indian Country.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
One of Oklahoma’s most successful gaming tribes will very likely be in the racetrack business by the end of the year. The Chickasaw Nation has made a successful bid of $80.25 to Magna Entertainment to buy Remington Park, the state’s largest track.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
The Yakama Nation of Washington gets a reprimand for failing to get Interior Department approval for per capita payments.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
In Northern California the mantra for opposing Indian casinos is to require a vote of the people, where Indian casinos typically do not do well. But so far an attempt by an area legislator to incorporate that philosophy into state law has floundered, with no apparent support.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
The point that the California town of Richmond is making about the proposed Point Molate Indian casino and resort along San Francisco Bay is one that is rarely encountered: That allowing one Indian casino to be built would be a knife to the vitals of an existing one.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
A new compact signed between California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (l.) and the Habematolel Pomo tribe of Upper Lake, near Clear Lake would allow the tribe to build a small casino, and pay 15 percent of its revenues to the state.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
North Carolina’s new governor Beverly Perdue isn’t saying yes and she isn’t saying no to a longstanding desire by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to add live table games to its Harrah’s Cherokee Casino.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
The city council of San Jacinto in Riverside County, California, recently listened to supporters of putting land adjacent to the city into federal trust land plea their case.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
The National Indian Gaming Commission chairman is turning a deaf ear to requests by members of the advisory committee that is reviewing proposed regulations changes to Class II and Class III machines to have their own technical advisers attend their meetings so they can consult them.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
Some neighbors of the Valley View Casino in Valley Center, San Diego County are enduring neon lights through their bedroom windows at and loud sounds throughout the night and construction noises in the daytime. The casino’s efforts to mollify them are not working.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
CEO Alex Yemenidjian recently announced his picks for a new executive team at the Tropicana, which is being remodeled to reflect a new image for a new era for the property.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
After two years working in Las Vegas and Mississippi, former Valley View Casino General Manager Bruce Howard is back to oversee operations at the casino, as well as the construction of a new hotel.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
A veteran of marketing and gaming strategy is joining the executive team at Cannery Casino Resorts from a similar role he filled at Australia’s Crown Casino Limited.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
In light of the nation’s current discussion of health care reform, MGM Mirage has elected California doctor Joseph Sugerman to join its board of directors.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
The SoCal casino’s new poker room will be managed by poker operations expert George Arsenis. Arsenis worked at the Tropicana in Atlantic City prior to joining the team at Pala Casino.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
For the second time this year, the Cosmopolitan hotel and casino has hired an executive from a competing resort. Las Vegas Sands financial guru Jeff Burge will be the new CFO at the Cosmopolitan.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
With football season’s kick-off, Cantor Gaming is now offering its in-running bets on NFL games at three Las Vegas resorts. Cantor CEO Lee Amaitis with the betting device.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
The massive integrated resort will use VingCard’s Visionline wireless online locking solution in the hotel portion of the new Resorts World Sentosa complex.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
The alliance of the Russian slot manufacturer and the online financial services partnership aims to retrain Russian gamblers to go online for investing—and the lottery.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
Oklahoma’s Cherokee Nation Entertainment has expanded its surveillance system from NICE Systems, at the tribe’s casinos in Tulsa and West Siloam Springs.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
A new group focused on linking casino direct marketing executives together recently organized a board of directors and selected a CEO.
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
Barry Shier is joined by two other senior executives in a business to offer management services to distressed properties and investors.
Sat, Sep 12, 2009
G2E will offer special discounts to members of the Canadian Gaming Association and exhibit at the Canadian Gaming Summit in April.
Sat, Sep 12, 2009
G2E will offer special discounts to members of the Canadian Gaming Association and exhibit at the Canadian Gaming Summit in April.
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