WEEKLY FEATURE: PokerStars Clean?

Amaya Gaming last week announced it has completed its acquisition of PokerStars and Full Tilt. The announcement came shortly after Amaya stockholders approved the $4.9 billion deal. With the...

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WEEKLY FEATURE: Glendale Grab

A combination of action by the Department of the Interior and fewer declared enemies may be moving the stars into the right place for Arizona’s Tohono O’odham tribe and...

Published August 4, 2014

WEEKLY FEATURE: Can Atlantic City Be Saved?

As Atlantic City faces a continuing decline in casino revenue and the threat of three of its 11 casinos closing by the end of the summer, state and local...

Published July 28, 2014

WEEKLY FEATURE: No Stinkin’ Compact: California Tribe Launches Online Poker Site

The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel Indians has launched a real-money online poker site despite no state regulations in California for online gambling being in place. The tribe has...

Published July 21, 2014

WEEKLY FEATURE: Aristocrat Steps Up

Aristocrat Leisure Ltd. wraps up a month of acquisitions and partnership deals aimed at keeping up with powerful competition with the purchase of VGT, a leading Class II manufacturer....

Published July 14, 2014

WEEKLY FEATURE: Vegas Hotels Rebrand

David Siegel, a leading developer of timeshare properties, has been confirmed as the new owner of the LVH Las Vegas Hotel and Casino (l.), the former Las Vegas Hilton,...

Published July 7, 2014

WEEKLY FEATURE: Sports Betting Blow

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear New Jersey’s appeal of a lower court ruling that the state’s sports betting law violates a federal ban. But that may not...

Published June 30, 2014

WEEKLY FEATURE: Back in the USA

The sale of PokerStars to Amaya Gaming for $4.9 billion could open the door for the poker giant’s entry into the fledgling U.S. online market. Amaya and its chairman,...

Published June 23, 2014

WEEKLY FEATURE: Back in the USA

The sale of PokerStars to Amaya Gaming for $4.9 billion could open the door for the poker giant’s entry into the fledgling U.S. online market. Amaya and its chairman,...

Published March 31, 2014

WEEKLY FEATURE: MGM Gets First Massachusetts Casino License

MGM Resorts won the first casino license in Massachusetts last week for a proposed casino in Springfield (l.). But voters in the Bay State appear to have radically changed...

Published June 16, 2014

WEEKLY FEATURE: Still a Pulse for Japan Casino Bill

Amid fading hopes that Japan’s parliament will act this year to legalize casinos, a leading advocate for the stalled bill in the Diet says it could come up for...

Published June 9, 2014

WEEKLY FEATURE: Death in Japan

It looks as though casino advocates in Japan’s Diet have run out of time to get a legalization bill passed in the current session, even as PM Shinzo Abe...

Published June 2, 2014

WEEKLY FEATURE: Asian Influence

Last week’s G2E Asia turned the attention of the gaming world on Macau. Keynote speaker and MGM China Co-Chairwoman Pansy Ho (l.) took the opportunity to emphasize that Macau...

Published May 26, 2014

WEEKLY FEATURE: Macau’s Credit Card Headache

More bad news for jittery Macau investors. The latest is that local authorities have given the casinos until July 1 to oust illegal hand-held card-swipe devices from their properties....

Published May 19, 2014

WEEKLY FEATURE: Analysts Say Japan Moving Forward

Despite some unsettling reports to the contrary, investment brokers Union Gaming Research Macau maintain that all is fundamentally well in Japan with the process of legalizing casinos. The firm...

Published May 12, 2014

WEEKLY FEATURE: Much More MGM in Vegas

MGM Resorts International announced several developments last week that will cement its position as the largest and most important operators in Las Vegas. After announcing it will build an...

Published May 5, 2014

WEEKLY FEATURE: Hopes Fade in Vietnam

Investors looking for a more open market in Vietnam have found disappointment instead. New regulations have been submitted to the National Assembly, which will maintain the current ban on...

Published April 28, 2014

WEEKLY FEATURE: Odd Couple

Baltimore-based mega developer the Cordish Companies and the Pennsylvania-based national gaming company Penn National are putting their act together and taking it to Orange County, New York, where they...

Published April 21, 2014

WEEKLY FEATURE: Caesars Downgrade

A group of Caesars Entertainment Corp. lenders and bondholders is taking a closer look at the company’s recent strategy of creating subsidiaries in an effort to manage its debt....

Published April 14, 2014

WEEKLY FEATURE: Okada’s Chiller in Manila

The $2 billion Manila resort planned by Japanese billionaire Kazuo Okada (l.) is on the rocks again. His Philippine subsidiary has fired one of the partners it secured last...

Published April 7, 2014