MGM Officials Complete Pilgrimage to Springfield

Officials in Springfield, Massachusetts demanded and received visits from top executives with MGM Resorts, including President Bill Hornbuckle (l.), to explain why the company is downsizing its facility there....

Published November 9, 2015

New Jersey, Other States, Considers DFS Regulations, Licensing

New Jersey could join Nevada in requiring daily fantasy sports sites to acquire a state gaming license. The two states offer legal online gaming. A state Senator Jim Whelan...

Published November 9, 2015

Baha Mar’s Izmirlian Hanging On

Baha Mar Ltd. founder Sarkis Izmirlian (l.) has offered to put up more of his own money to prevent his $3.5 billion Baha Mar Resort from full-blown government liquidation....

Published November 9, 2015

Georgia, Oh Georgia

Last week, Michael Pollock of Spectrum Gaming Group testified before a committee of the Georgia state legislature about the efficacy of legalizing casinos in the state. The following article...

Published November 9, 2015

Simermeyer Named as Newest NIGC Commissioner

E. Sequoyah Simermeyer, a member of the Coharie tribe, has been named an associate commissioner of the National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC). He joins Chairman Jonodev O. Chaudhuri as...

Published November 9, 2015

GLOBAL GAMING BUSINESS PODCAST: Larry Eliason, Executive Secretary, South Dakota Commission on Gaming

This week, the GGB Podcast travels to Deadwood, South Dakota to speak with Larry Eliason, the executive secretary of the South Dakota Commission on Gaming on the unique oversight...

Published November 9, 2015

WEEKLY FEATURE: The Path Forward for DFS

The current attacks on daily fantasy sports have been withering. From the moment the Nevada Gaming Control Board declared DFS as “gambling,” other states have launched investigations. But two...

Published November 2, 2015

The MGM REIT: Reduce Debt, Raise Value

MGM Resorts last week announced that it was forming a REIT to house 10 of its properties, including Mandalay Bay (l.) in Las Vegas. The new company would then...

Published November 2, 2015

20-Year Texas-Tribe Dispute Resolved

The Alabama-Coushatta Tribe has regained the right to offer Class II bingo gaming at its Speaking Rock Casino (l.) near Livingston, Texas, following a recent Interior Department ruling. The...

Published November 2, 2015

Baha Mar Lays Off 2,000, But Gets Lifeline

Baha Mar Resort Ltd. has laid off all 2,000 of its employees, but owner Sarkis Izmirlian (l.) has been given three more weeks to stave off liquidation. Should the...

Published November 2, 2015

Mohegan Eyes South Korea

Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority has submitted a $5 billion bid to build a foreigners-only integrated resort on South Korea’s Yeongjong Island. MTGA President Bobby Soper (l.) believes the facility’s...

Published November 2, 2015

Daily Fantasy Sports to Create Control Board

With daily fantasy sports sites under intense scrutiny from both federal and several state authorities, the industry announced it will set up an outside control board led by former...

Published November 2, 2015

Macau Regulator Plans Exit

After 18 years on the job, Macau gaming regulator Manuel Joaquim das Neves (l.) has announced he will leave his position by the end of November. Neves informed local...

Published November 2, 2015

FANTINI’S FINANCE: A Sporting Chance

The investment of several NBA team owners in a company that provides data to the sports betting industry demonstrates how far we’ve come in the possible legalization of the...

Published November 2, 2015

GLOBAL GAMING BUSINESS PODCAST: John Palmieri, Executive Director, New Jersey Casino Reinvestment Development Authority

This week the GGB Podcast emanates from Atlantic City where we speak with John Palmieri, the executive director of the New Jersey Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, on his agency’s...

Published November 2, 2015

WEEKLY FEATURE: Piling On

The future of daily fantasy sports sites continues to get murky as more probes into the industry and calls for regulation have come to light, including an investigation by...

Published October 26, 2015

Macau’s Table Games

Studio City (l.), Melco Crown’s lavish Hollywood-themed resort about to open on Macau’s Cotai Strip, will get 250 new-to-market table games. It needed 400 to avoid a loan default....

Published October 26, 2015

Adelson Researching $2 Billion Atlanta Casino

Las Vegas Sands owner Sheldon Adelson recently paid a quiet visit to Georgia legislators to pitch his $2 billion downtown Atlanta casino. MGM Resorts International has been more open...

Published October 26, 2015

Resorts World Birmingham Debuts

The £150 million (US$230 million) casino complex Resorts World Birmingham has opened in the onetime UK industrial center. It is located at the National Exhibition Centre.

Published October 26, 2015

Packer Ups the Ante

Australian casino giant James Packer will empty his pockets—almost—and plow $10 billion into new casino investments Down Under. Among other developments: a $1.5 billion hotel and apartment tower (l.)...

Published October 26, 2015