Atlantic City Reaches Tax Deal With Borgata

Atlantic City has agreed to refund the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa $88 million in taxes. In return, Borgata agreed to drop further tax appeals from 2011 to 2014....

Published June 16, 2014

Pennsylvania Bills Address Tavern Games

Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering one bill that makes the tavern game program more appealing to applicants, and another that would add video gaming to bars.

Published June 16, 2014

New Hampshire Lawmakers Regulate Charitable Gambling

In New Hampshire, legislators have sent to the governor a bill that would tighten charitable gambling rules. Charities would be required to keep and report financial details, and the...

Published June 16, 2014

Moulin Rouge: Here Today, Gone Today (But Coming Back)

GCA Leisure, LLC has announced plans to bring back the historic Moulin Rouge to Las Vegas. To that end, the casino opened for a single day last week...

Published June 16, 2014

South Carolina Voters Say Yes To Gambling Questions

A significant majority of voters in the recent South Carolina Democratic primary said states, not Congress, should decide if they want online gambling. Also, voters said they want the...

Published June 16, 2014

New York’s Resorts World Still Winning Big

New York State lottery officials say Resorts World Casino at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens realized $793 million in net revenue in the last fiscal year. That’s 14 percent more...

Published June 16, 2014

Atlantic City Revel Casino Workers Vote to Unionize

Workers at Atlantic City’s Revel casino have voted to join the city’s largest casino workers union. All 11 Atlantic City casinos are now union shops, but in Revel’s case...

Published June 16, 2014

Station to Open Seventh Wildfire

Station Casinos opened its 10th casino and its seventh Wildfire property on Lake Mead Parkway in Henderson last week. The property was developed at the site of the old...

Published June 16, 2014

Massachusetts Could Soon Award First Casino Resort License

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission is on pace to award the first license for a casino resort to MGM Resorts (l.), for its proposed project in Springfield. And a possible...

Published June 9, 2014

Illinois Blowback

The failure of a bill to legalize casinos in Illinois was a mystery to some observers. Sponsor state Rep. Robert Rita (l.) had added amendments that he hoped would...

Published June 9, 2014

New Jersey Presses Sports Betting Case

With a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on whether to hear New Jersey’s challenge to a federal ban on sports betting imminent, the state has filed its latest...

Published June 9, 2014

Harrah’s Casino Tunica Closed

Harrah's Casino Tunica in Mississippi closed at midnight, Sunday, June 1. The former Grand Casino was the biggest casino between Las Vegas and Atlantic City when it opened in...

Published June 9, 2014

New York Report: Don’t Count Casino Money Yet

New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli (l.) has issued a report warning residents to be wary of optimistic revenue projections from would-be casino developers. In Albany, officials are wondering what’s...

Published June 9, 2014

TJM Buys Atlantic Club; No Casino Planned

TJM Properties, Inc., which recently reopened the Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City as a non-gaming property, has purchased the shuttered Atlantic Club.

Published June 9, 2014

SBE Entertainment Inks Loyalty Partnerships

As the grand opening of its SLS Las Vegas hotel-casino nears, the Los Angeles hospitality company has announced alliances with the Preferred Hotels & Resorts loyalty program, and with...

Published June 9, 2014

SugarHouse Chief: No Second Philly Casino

Wendy Hamilton (l.), the general manager of Philadelphia’s SugarHouse Casino, disputed the findings of a recent study funded by legislators, saying a second city casino would cannibalize the market.

Published June 9, 2014

Michigan Judge Stops Charitable Gambling Regulations

Stricter regulations on charitable gambling events have been put on hold by Michigan Court of Claims Judge Pat Donofrio. Several charities filed suit to stop the new rules, claiming...

Published June 9, 2014

U.S. Casinos Generate Record Revenues

Commercial and tribal casinos in the U.S. generated a record $66.3 billion in revenues last year, according to a recent report by Rubin Brown.

Published June 9, 2014

Foxwoods Philly Group Sues for Fee Refund

The partners in the doomed Foxwoods Philadelphia project have filed a federal complaint through bankruptcy court seeking a refund of its $50 million licensing fee.

Published June 9, 2014

Iowa Developers Plea for a Chance

The rejection of new gaming licenses by the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission has come under scrutiny as the board considers other proposals. Meanwhile, the new Hard Rock Sioux...

Published June 9, 2014