Group Declares Nebraska Horseracing Measure Unlawful

Gambling with the Good Life filed a lawsuit with the Nebraska Supreme Court to keep a historic horseracing measure off the November ballot. The group said the ballot is...

Published August 4, 2014

Aria Fine Raises Questions about Access to Games

According to Nevada law, all gaming areas must be open to the public and viewable by state gaming agents. A $100,000 fine levied on Aria resorts has sparked questions...

Published August 4, 2014

Nixon Calls For Missouri Lottery Review

Although it raised record sales of $1.16 billion in fiscal 2014, the Missouri Lottery directed $267 million to education, $21 million less than in 2013. Governor Jay Nixon (l.)...

Published August 4, 2014

Texas Reconsiders Lottery, Historic Racing

Texas lawmakers voted to end the lottery but re-voted due to concerns about filling the $2 billion budget gap that would cause. And a legislator wants the state attorney...

Published August 4, 2014

Landlords Sue Margaritaville Biloxi Operators But Revenues Strong on Coast

Clay Point LLC, landlords for Margaritaville Casino in Biloxi, said the casino owes nearly $4 million rent and $500,000 in unpaid taxes. They added the "made significant concessions" to...

Published August 4, 2014

Plug Pulled On Electronic Pull-tabs

Express Games, Minnesota's major distributor of electronic pull-tab games, recently announced it was ceasing operations. Founder Jon Weaver has started a new company, Pilot Games. Lawmakers approved the electronic...

Published August 4, 2014

Reports Bring Bad News For Iowa

Three recent reports from the American Gaming Association, the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission and the National Indian Gaming Commission brought bad news for Iowa's gaming industry, including 18...

Published August 4, 2014

Ameristar East Chicago Opens Poker Room

Just in time to greet players and guests for the Heartland Poker Tour, August 7-18, the new $400,000 poker room recently opened at Ameristar Casino Hotel East Chicago. The...

Published August 4, 2014

Louisiana Casino Job Fair Attracts Crowds

Job-seekers by the hundreds attended a recent job fair in advance of the December opening of the Golden Nugget Casino and Hotel in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Vice President and...

Published August 4, 2014

BIA Extends Comment for Tribal Recognition

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has extended by 60 days the public comment period for its proposed regulations that would make it easier for the federal government to recognize...

Published August 4, 2014

New Mexico Tribe Goes Over Governor’s Head to Feds Over Compact

The Pueblo of Pojoaque and New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez have stopped talking about the tribe’s gaming compact. So the tribal Governor George Rivera (l.) has gone over the...

Published August 4, 2014

Tribes Battle Over Trust Land

In District Court, the Cherokee Nation said the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians' casino should remain closed. The UKB said that would interfere with its sovereign rights. Judge...

Published August 4, 2014

New York County Exec: Nix to Casinos

In a letter to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the U.S. Interior Department, Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks vowed to fight any future attempt by the Seneca Nation...

Published August 4, 2014

Oklahoma Indian Casinos Add Amenities

The Wyandotte, Choctaw and Muscogee (Creek) tribes in Oklahoma are spending millions of dollars to expand their casinos and transform the properties into family-friendly destinations within the next year....

Published August 4, 2014

Developers Pray For Casino Success

An empty megachurch building near Detroit Metro Airport could become a casino. Backers include the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, which opened and lost Greektown Casino in...

Published August 4, 2014

Protesters Decry Kings Mountain Casino

At a recent meeting of the Kings Mountain, North Carolina city council, dozens of members of the anti-gambling Kings Mountain Awareness Group recently made their feelings known about the...

Published August 4, 2014

Grand Ronde Disenrolls 86 Family Members

In an action she described as "morally and ethically reprehensible," Mia Pickett said although an ancestor was a tribal chief, 86 members of her family were disenrolled by the...

Published August 4, 2014

Chochon Joins WSOP

Gregory Chochon, former head of poker for BarrierePoker.fr in France, has joined the Las Vegas office of Caesars Interactive’s World Series of Poker. The role of director for...

Published August 4, 2014

Packer Eyes Strip Casino

Australian casino magnate James Packer and his Crown Resorts company are reportedly eyeing the former Frontier casino site (l.) across the Las Vegas Strip from Wynn Las Vegas for...

Published August 4, 2014

Argosy Closes, Hard Rock Sioux City Opens

"Attention! The Argosy Casino is closed. Please exit the facility at this time." Thus with that announcement the Argosy Sioux City riverboat unceremoniously shut its doors for good....

Published August 4, 2014