WEEKLY FEATURE: Your Serve

In a sudden counter bid for bwin.party, GVC holdings upped its offer for the online gaming site to about $1.6 billion and reignited the bidding war for bwin. The...

Published August 3, 2015

WEEKLY FEATURE: For GLPI, Second Time’s a Charm

The offer Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. made to acquire Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc.’s real estate assets has been accepted by Pinnacle. The transaction will be for $4.75 billion in...

Published July 27, 2015

WEEKLY FEATURE: Caesars Close to Restructuring Deal

The second-largest shareholder of Caesars Entertainment is reportedly in talks to salvage the bankruptcy restructuring plan of the company’s largest operating unit. A company controlled by billionaire John Paulson...

Published July 20, 2015

WEEKLY FEATURE: Rocky Road for Massachusetts Commission

A judge of the Superior Court last week refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the city of Boston against the Massachusetts Gaming Commission (l.). The commission asked that...

Published July 13, 2015

WEEKLY FEATURE: New Federal Rules Streamline Indian Recognition Process

After more than two years of talking about it, the U.S. Interior Department has officially unveiled its new rules for recognizing Indian tribes. Secretary Sally Jewell (l.) said the...

Published July 6, 2015

WEEKLY FEATURE: Online Gaming Ban Back in U.S. Senate

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), shown at left with LVS Chairman Sheldon Adelson, has introduced his expected bill to ban online gaming in the U.S. in the Senate. The...

Published June 29 2015

WEEKLY FEATURE: Industry Speaks to IRS

Gaming industry representatives headed by AGA President Geoff Freeman testified at an IRS public hearing in opposition to the agency’s slot reporting proposal. Freeman (l.) told IRS commissioners that...

Published June 22, 2015

WEEKLY FEATURE: Pennsylvania Gains iGaming Steam

As a fifth online gaming bill has been introduced in the legislature, the push toward legal iGaming in Pennsylvania is gaining momentum. Caesars Interactive official Michael Cohen (l.) told...

Published June 15, 2015

WEEKLY FEATURE: Boston Bashes Wynn

Boston has upped the heat of its rhetoric against the Massachusetts Gaming Commission and its granting of a license to build a casino in Everett at the same time...

Published June 8, 2015

WEEKLY FEATURE: Eastern Action Online

Pennsylvania and New York are considering legalizing iGaming. Pennsylvania is holding hearings on its gambling industry including the possible legalization of online gambling. Officials at the state’s Meadows Racetrack...

Published June 1, 2015

WEEKLY FEATURE: Movement in Macau

Last week’s G2E Asia crystalized, for many members of the gaming industry, just what is happening in Macau. And when Melco Crown’s Jamie Packer (l.) became the latest casino...

Published May 25, 2015

WEEKLY FEATURE: No More Hooting in Vegas?

Hooters Casino Hotel in Las Vegas has been sold to Trinity Hotel Investments of New York for $53.8 million. The sale comes fresh off the sale of next-door neighbor...

Published May 18, 2015

WEEKLY FEATURE: Sweet Home Alabama

In a rare move, Republican legislators in Alabama are supporting allowing gambling to help close the state's $280 million-plus budget gap. The bill’s sponsor, Senate President Pro Tem Del...

Published May 11, 2015

WEEKLY FEATURE: Hurdle Crossed for iPoker Bill in California

After several years of trying, proponents of bills to legalize online poker in California have passed a bill out of committee and into a series of hearings. Although it’s...

Published May 4, 2015

WEEKLY FEATURE: Help for Japanese Casino Bill?

A bill to legalize casino gaming in Japan has been repeatedly delayed, dashing hopes by supporters that the country can get resorts up and running in time for the...

Published April 27, 2015

WEEKLY FEATURE: Tribes Face Connecticut Roadblocks

Connecticut’s two gaming tribes, the Mohegans and the Pequots, are encountering growing resistance to their call for new casinos, including from a new player, the state’s attorney general. According...

Published April 20, 2015

WEEKLY FEATURE: Power Outage in AC

Florida developer Glenn Straub (l.) finalized his deal to purchase Atlantic City’s closed Revel casino and immediately found himself in a showdown with the casino’s energy provider. ACR Energy...

Published April 13, 2015

WEEKLY FEATURE: Cadillac Jack Goes to AGS

The consolidation in the slot industry continues. When Amaya put Cadillac Jack on the auction block, there were many tire-kickers, but it took almost a full year to get...

Published April 6, 2015

WEEKLY FEATURE: Raw Testimony at RAWA Hearing

A House subcommittee, chaired by Sheldon Adelson acolyte Congressman Jason Chaffetz (l.), held a hearing on the Adelson-backed restoration of America’s Wire Act—which would ban online gambling in the...

Published March 30, 2015

WEEKLY FEATURE: Caesars Bankruptcy Gets Dicey

The judge in the bankruptcy case of Caesars Entertainment’s largest operating unit has ordered an independent examiner to investigate transactions related to the restructuring. He refused to dismiss a...

Published March 23, 2015