WEEKLY FEATURE: Does Sports in Vegas Equal Sports Betting OK?

The near-unanimous vote of National Football League owners to approve the move of the Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas did nothing to change the opposition of NFL Commissioner Roger...

Published April 10, 2017

WEEKLY FEATURE: Two Grand Openings, One Government Raid

Okada Manila (l.), Tiger Resort’s $2.4 billion resort in Manila’s Entertainment City, debuted with dancing fountains last week. The casino held a soft opening in December and even at...

Published April 3, 2017

WEEKLY FEATURE: Young Bermuda Industry Under Fire

The island nation doesn’t have a single resort casino yet, but already its Gaming Commission is getting hammered by lawmakers for not doing its job. The criticism has prompted...

Published March 27, 2017

WEEKLY FEATURE: New Mexico Compact Dispute Sucks In Slot Makers

The Pojoaque Pueblo has shut down 30 leased slot machines at its Buffalo Thunder casino (l.) after New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez threatened to invalidate the licenses of the...

Published March 20, 2017

WEEKLY FEATURE: Illinois At It Again

In a 31-26 vote, the Illinois Senate recently approved legislation allowing six new casinos, including one in Chicago, plus slots at airports and Chicago-area racetracks. All the provisions would...

Published March 13, 2017

WEEKLY FEATURE: MGM Resorts Bids for Sands Bethlehem

Pennsylvania’s most successful casino may change owners. Sands Bethlehem CEO Mark Juliano in a note to casino employees told them that a potential buyer has expressed interest in buying...

Published March 6, 2017

WEEKLY FEATURE: iGaming at Top of List in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania lawmakers are facing multiple challenges in putting together omnibus gaming legislation that would legalize online gaming and daily fantasy sports and expand other gaming. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf...

Published February 27, 2017

WEEKLY FEATURE: Smoking Lounges Stay in Macau Casinos

Macau’s Health Bureau has announced a proposal that would keep smoking lounges in the city’s casinos. It’s an abrupt about-face from the government’s former pledge to ban all smoking...

Published February 20, 2017

WEEKLY FEATURE: Super Opportunity

Last week’s Super Bowl presented some stark contrasts in betting, as pointed out by the American Gaming Association when it compared record legal wagering on the Super Bowl in...

Published February 13, 2017

WEEKLY FEATURE: The Dance Begins in Japan

With casino gaming now legal in Japan, global operators are wasting no time seeking out domestic partners for potential integrated resort developments in the country. Hard Rock International wisely...

Published February 6, 2017

WEEKLY FEATURE: Vietnam Counts Down to Locals Trial

A three-year program that will allow Vietnamese locals to gamble at two domestic casinos will officially launch March 15. Union Gaming believes that the language of the decree could...

Published January 30, 2017

WEEKLY FEATURE: New Jersey Sports Betting Suit Lives On

The U.S. Supreme Court has kept the hopes of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (l.) alive in its challenge of a federal ban on sports betting by asking for...

Published January 23, 2017

WEEKLY FEATURE: Catch-All Bill Introduced in Pennsylvania

Jay Costa (l.), the minority leader of Pennsylvania’s state Senate, has introduced a bill that would authorize online gaming, daily fantasy sports, online lottery sales and tablet gaming at...

Published January 16, 2017

Okada Manila Opens in Entertainment City

Pachinko king Kazuo Okada’s self-named resort (l.) has opened in Manila. Officials say the $2.4 billion Okada Manila, the third of four casino resorts planned for Entertainment City, could...

Published January 9, 2017

WEEKLY FEATURE: Trump & Gaming Perfect Together?

AGA President and CEO Geoff Freeman says having a former casino owner as president (Donald Trump shown at the opening of Trump Taj Mahal in 1990) will be a...

Published December 26, 2016

WEEKLY FEATURE: Crown Beats a Retreat

James Packer (l., with Melco Crown Co-Chairman Lawrence Ho) and Crown Resorts have withdrawn from the international casino market, keeping only the casinos in Australia it owns. Crown plans...

Published December 19, 2016

WEEKLY FEATURE: All Eyes on Japan, Brazil

Excitement is mounting among global gaming operators as Japan moves closer to a legal casino industry. Enabling legislation was passed December 2. But a second implementation bill could face...

Published December 12, 2016

WEEKLY FEATURE: Pokagons To Open First Indiana Tribal Casino

The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, owners of three Four Winds Casinos in Michigan, recently was granted land-into-trust status for 166 acres in South Bend, Indiana from the Bureau...

Published December 5, 2016

WEEKLY FEATURE: New Hope for Sports Betting Under President Trump, Says AGA

Sara Rayme (l.), a top executive with the American Gaming Association, says the casino industry will renew its push for legalized sports betting with a former casino owner as...

Published November 28, 2016

WEEKLY FEATURE: Baazov Makes Bid for Amaya

David Baazov, former CEO of Amaya Inc., has made a non-binding, all-cash bid to buy the company valued at about $2.56 billion. Baazov, who already owns about 17.2 percent...

Published November 21, 2016