Changes in Attitude

Last July, Jim Thomason, general manager at the Grand Victoria Casino in Elgin, Illinois, said the operation was losing future revenue to video gambling machines. More recently he said...

Published January 12, 2015

Lotteries Attract Old and Poor

When 1,000 adults were how to accumulate several hundred thousand dollars, 38 percent with incomes below $25,000 and 31 percent 55 or older replied, "Win the lottery." Americans spent...

Published January 12, 2015

Green Hotels on the Rise

With water levels decreasing at an alarming rate, some hotels and casinos feel the time is now to step in and provide solutions to this problem. Leading the way...

Published January 12, 2015

Another New Buffalo?

The U.S. Justice Department recently passed a new policy that allows tribes to grow and sell marijuana. How this will affect tribal casinos, if at all, is still unclear....

Published December 22, 2014

Sticks & Stones

A U.S. district court judge has thrown out a defamation lawsuit filed by Steve Wynn (l.) against hedge fund manager Jim Chanos. Last April, Chanos told a journalism class...

Published December 22, 2014

To the Victor Go the Spoils?

Caesars Entertainment continues to stagger under massive levels of debt and may be forced to file for bankruptcy. If that happens, which Sin City casino companies would benefit most?...

Published December 22, 2014

Fantasy Become Reality

Startup company Game Sports Network is the latest company looking to get their cut of the ever growing fantasy sports pie. The company has raised $7.5 million already, in...

Published December 22, 2014

Walk, Talk With Personality

As more and more casinos enter the national market, regional casinos will have to reinvent and rebrand themselves to make them distinct from their competition says a marketing expert,...

Published December 22, 2014

Study Links Personality Disorders to Gambling Addiction

The correlation between gambling addiction and personality disorders has been established for the first time in a study by Monash University of Australia. Meanwhile an American study suggests problem...

Published December 8, 2014

Strip & Bet

This could be a first: a strip club in Las Vegas wants to open a sports book. The Hustler has filed an application with the Nevada Gaming Commission to...

Published December 1, 2014

Silver Tongued

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver (l.) has expanded on earlier comments in an op-ed piece in the New York Times saying he supports legal sports betting, saying the practice needs...

Published November 24, 2014

Dodging the Bullet

Kevin Washburn (l.), who runs the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was recently asked to comment about the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Michigan v. Bay Mills. He said that...

Published November 24, 2014

AGA Truth Squad

The American Gaming Association's "Get To Know Gaming" campaign helped persuade Massachusetts voters to defeat a ballot referendum, said Chief Executive Officer Geoff Freeman (l.). Whereas in the past...

Published November 17, 2014

Don’t Bogart that Joint

Smoking pot―even if it’s medically prescribed―in the state of Nevada may be cause for job termination, a labor lawyer warns. Though Silver State law requires that employers make accommodations...

Published November 17, 2014

Car Quest

Vicki Wersching said the key she received in the mail from Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, Florida opened the lockbox to the Range Rover Sport the casino recently was giving...

Published November 17, 2014

No More French Clowns

Casino magnate Steve Wynn has come up with what he says is an overdue alternative to Las Vegas’s ubiquitous Cirque du Soleil shows. It’s called ‘ShowStoppers,’ and Wynn promises...

Published November 10, 2014

Hard Time

A former master of the California Senate, Rod Wright (l.), who once was the champion of expanding gaming in the Golden State, ended up serving no prison time for...

Published November 10, 2014

Core of the Problem

A new study shows that the pleasure receptors in the brains of compulsive gambling react differently from those of substance abuse addicts.

Published October 27 2014

Fahrenkopf’s Favorites

Competition may be the reason for Atlantic City’s decline as a gaming capital, according to Frank Fahrenkopf, former longtime chief executive officer and president of the American Gaming Association.

Published October 20, 2014

More Money, Fewer Fixes

Although fixed games and bribed players were a continuing nightmare for the NFL half a century ago when Alex Karras (l.) owned a Detroit bar with a group of...

Published October 20, 2014