Sat, Jan 30, 2010
After months of speculation and political infighting, the Aqueduct Entertainment Group, a consortium of seven partners, including the Navagante Group of Las Vegas, won the right to build and operate the slots casino slated for Aqueduct racetrack, New York’s busiest.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
The 60-year old St. Louis riverboat President Casino (l.) is likely to play its last hands on or around July 1. The Missouri Gaming Commission followed the recommendations of executive director Gene McNary, who wants to revoke its license for underperforming.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
The historical role of an exposition has been to present its visitors with a glimpse of the future, as viewed through the lens of the latest manufactured products and prototypes. From that standpoint, IGE 2010 managed to fulfill its promise. (Novomatic once again had the largest stand at IGE at left.)
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
Sheldon Adelson, who's about to open his fourth casino in Singapore, says South Florida could be his next “destination resort.” The Las Vegas Sands CEO says one mega-resort in Miami or Fort Lauderdale could make more money for the state than seven Seminole casinos.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
House has signed off on bill to bring poker, blackjack and more to the state's three racinos; now developers are proposing full-scale casino in Wilmington.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
Another veteran, land-based casino supplier is venturing into the unknown wilds of online gaming. Slot machine and systems manufacturer WMS apparently wants to make internet gaming part of its own future, according to CEO Brian Gamache (l.).
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
Even though the casino at Resorts World Sentosa isn’t yet open, traffic to the leisure island is up 10 percent since four of the property’s hotels opened two weeks ago.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
The bankruptcy process for Detroit’s Greektown Casino Hotel should come to an end in June due to a new board, schedule and operator installed by the court last week.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
With the long-awaited replacement cycle supposedly about to kick in, technology upgrades long overdue and many new jurisdictions coming online, the future of the slot manufacturing industry rarely has looked brighter.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
The Ontario Court of Appeals recently ruled that the Chippewas of Rama First Nation will no longer receive 35 percent of the profits from Casino Rama (l.).
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Randy Fine, the managing director of the Fine Point Group, on the company’s spectacularly successful year in 2009 and prospects for even bigger things in 2010.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
The country’s 32nd casino debuts in a special economic zone located on the border with Vietnam.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
A new proposal by Ireland's Opposition Labor Party is calling for an increase in tax on betting. While far short of the original 5 percent tax, industry fears are that any increase will further damage an already ailing sector.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
The advocate general of the European Court of Justice last week affirmed the principal that the gaming laws of the European Union are the primary rules overseeing gaming on the continent—with no exceptions.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
The Polish government appears determined to learn exactly how far some disgraced former ministers of parliament went in their alleged efforts to influence new gaming legislation to favor specific operators.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
It has been a long, slow recovery for the still ailing Casino Ljubljana. Two of the company's main stakeholders are thought to be willing to trade some debt for more equity in the operation.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
National emergency causes government to impose a 16 percent VAT tax on gaming and liquor, increasing the likelihood of illegal operations.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
With gaming expansion in its principal markets, the president of the Bahama’s Atlantis Casino Resort, wants the nation’s leaders to review the existing gaming laws and permit permanent residents of the nation to gamble in the casinos.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
The Ontario government has expressed support of hospitality business in Niagara Falls with a lease extension of 15 years for Casino Niagara.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
The Lotteries and Gaming Authority of Malta last year garnered more than €19 million from online gaming operators who chose the Mediterranean island as their regulatory home.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
A new report estimates that mobile gaming in China will rise at more than a 50 percent clip in the next five years.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
The last remaining shares owned by PartyGaming founder Anurag Dikshit were sold last week, ending the wild ride he began in 1997.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is in the process of expanding its Cherokee Casino and Hotel, and is negotiating with the state’s governor to allow live table games on the property, while a virus sickens visitors to the property
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
Once thought recession proof, casinos are demonstrating that is definitely not the case. For example, in Washington state casinos saw revenues decline 30 percent in 2009.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
A tentative agreement has been reached between the United Auto Workers union and Connecticut’s Foxwoods casino on a contract for the casino’s table-game dealers.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
The Grand Soleil Casino Resort in Natchez, Mississippi has been beset by problems for years, and has yet to open its doors. The property will be sold at auction on February 12.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
Arizona officials, now including former presidential candidate John McCain (l.), continue to express opposition to the Tohono O’odham Nation’s proposed casino plans in Glendale.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
The rural Northern California residents of Yolo County thought they had dodged a bullet when the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation in October announced it was abandoning plans for a giant casino expansion. However last week the tribe unveiled much less ambitious plans.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
Pennsylvania’s regulators fine Foxwoods Philadelphia for missing deadlines and put heavy pressure on to get the casino to get financed, up and running. The initial renderings (l.) for Foxwoods are pretty much moot.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
A New Jersey state senator called for a full-blown casino at the Meadowlands racetrack (l.) during a panel discussion on the state’s racing industry.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
A bill introduced for the second time in the New Hampshire Senate would allow six casinos in the Granite State, although the prime mover is Millennium Gaming, which wants to invest millions to rehabilitate the Rockingham Park racetrack.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
The provision of a gaming bill that would have allowed river and lake based casinos to be moved inland was dropped from a bill approved by the Indiana Senate Appropriations Committee last week.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
A potential developer of a regional casino in Kansas’s southeast zone would have to invest less money under one of several bills that have been introduced in the Legislature to change a controversial law that was barely passed in 2007.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
Atlantic City officials turn down union request to put a $300M tax break to a vote. The deal would allow the unfinished Revel Entertainment resort to pay just a fraction of some taxes over 20 years.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
Nearly identical bills that give voters the opportunity to change the location of a casino in Columbus from the Arena District to the West Side are progressing quickly in both houses of the Ohio legislature.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
Not one of the state's five approved slot parlors has opened its doors, but state legislators are already contemplating the addition of Vegas-style table games.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
A task force composed of several Bay State communities that stand to be impacted if casinos are legalized and one is built in their region met last week to talk about how to get lawmakers to listen to their concerns.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
January closure leaves just six of 11 casinos with horse betting facilities. Simulcasting generated less than $600K in '09, down from a high of $1.6M in 2000.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
With a 2009 revenue drop of 11 percent, Mississippi casinos have been slammed by the economic downturn. Now they may be forced to compete with Alabama, if the state legalizes casinos.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
The judge in Station Casinos’ bankruptcy case has deferred ruling on whether unsecured creditors can sue the company, but did encourage Station to listen to bondholders in its reorganization talks.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
The opening of the temporary facility for La Mesa Race Track & Casino has been pushed back again. The state’s racing commission met the property’s new general manager at a recent meeting.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
A Miami bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of Fontainebleau Las Vegas to Tropicana Entertainment owner Carl Icahn.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
Thanks to strong marketing and big giveaways for players, CEO expects momentum to continue
Sun, Jan 31, 2010
The term of National Indian Gaming Commission Vice Chairman Norm DesRosiers came to an end last week as he finished a three-year term touched by controversy and accomplishment.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
Rumors are swirling that Ladbrokes has selected former Marks and Spencer executive Carl Leaver to replacing departing CEO Chris Bell, but no official announcement has been made.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
Experienced digital media executive Gideon Bierer has joined the IGT team as vice president of new media, a new position created to oversee social networking efforts.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
Gaming company Four Corners Inc. selected gaming law veteran Tom Foley to join the company’s board of directors.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
Former task force head resigned after winning big at a Mississippi casino. His jackpot was discovered by an Alabama casino operator, who hired a detective to monitor him
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
Bankrupt slot parlor brings in a whole new team to help facility emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
Las Vegas-based advertising agency SK+G Advertising has been chosen to craft brand identities and creative strategies for CityCenter and three of its properties, Aria Resort & Casino, Vdara Hotel & Spa and Crystals entertainment and retail district.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
Though the slot company’s domestic shipments decreased in the first fiscal quarter, due to cost-cutting measures, IGT posted a profit.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
Slot-maker International Game Technology has sold its first server-based slot system in Scandinavia, to the Grand Casino Helsinki in Finland.
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
As New Jersey regulators consider whether to approve MGM Mirage’s Macau partner Pansy Ho, the company has signaled that it has chosen Macau if forced to choose.
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