Rich Alati Tops SHRP Showdown Event #9 for $107,740

Rich Alati Tops SHRP Showdown Event #9 for $107,740

by April 11, 2019

Action at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood is in full throttle with this year’s Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown currently taking place at the popular gambling venueRich Alati was declared the champion of the ninth event on the schedule of the poker festival l ...

Wynn Resorts to Ban Founding Father Steve Wynn from Its Casinos

Wynn Resorts to Ban Founding Father Steve Wynn from Its Casinos

by April 11, 2019

Wynn presented MassGaming with a set of measures it intends to deploy to prove it has severed ties with its founder and is suitable to keep its casino licenseWynn Resorts plans to ban its founder and former boss Steve Wynn from all its properties as part of the company’s effo ...

NJ Casino Workers Union Demands Regulatory Action against Greedy Investors

NJ Casino Workers Union Demands Regulatory Action against Greedy Investors

by April 11, 2019

Atlantic City casino workers union demands speedy action against New York investors who want to “squeeze” money out of the local gambling industryThe labor union representing more than a third of Atlantic City’s casino workers urged Wednesday state gaming regulators to take q ...

The Star to Announce Contractor for Brisbane Casino Resort Within Weeks

The Star to Announce Contractor for Brisbane Casino Resort Within Weeks

by April 10, 2019

Excavation work at the site of the Queen’s Wharf resort nears completion, the actual construction phase is slated to begin in late 2019The winning bidder for the construction of the A$3.6 billion Queen’s Wharf luxury integrated resort in Brisbane will be announced within week ...

Circa Resort & Casino Reaches Important Construction Milestone

Circa Resort & Casino Reaches Important Construction Milestone

by April 10, 2019

The brand-new Circa Resort & Casino reached an important milestone Tuesday morning as first concrete was poured at the property which is currently under development in downtown Las VegasA convoy of 205 trucks delivered the 2,050 cubic yards of concrete that were poured Tu ...

Cyprus’ British Bases Laud Successful Crackdown on Illegal Casinos

Cyprus’ British Bases Laud Successful Crackdown on Illegal Casinos

by April 10, 2019

Cyprus’ British bases lauded the successful end of their four-year crackdown on illegal casino activities conducted within their jurisdictionThe British Forces Cyprus stationed in Cyprus’ Sovereign Base Areas (SBAs) of Akrotiri and Dhekelia said during a Tuesday press event t ...

Kansspelautoriteit Hits Casino.com’s Owner with Six-Figure Fine… Again

Kansspelautoriteit Hits Casino.com’s Owner with Six-Figure Fine… Again

by April 10, 2019

Five years after its first fine from Kansspelautoriteit, ONISAC is served a fresh course of good old regulatory wrathThe owner of Casino.com has once again fallen foul of the Netherlands Gambling Authority. Kansspelautoriteit said Tuesday that it has imposed a €450,000 fine o ...

Tuiofu Hunkin Claims WPTDeepStacks Thunder Valley Title

Tuiofu Hunkin Claims WPTDeepStacks Thunder Valley Title

by April 9, 2019

Tuiofu Hunkin takes down the WPTDeepStacks Thunder Valley Main Event after a short heads-up battle against Yury KlimenkovTuiofu Hunkin outlasted the 678-strong field of the WPTDeepStacks Thunder Valley Main Event on Monday to scoop his career’s largest cash of $121,000 and th ...

Svenska Spel Withdraws Online Casino Ads From All Media Channels

Svenska Spel Withdraws Online Casino Ads From All Media Channels

by April 9, 2019

Svenska Spel to terminate all online casino ads in a bid to address concerns over the growing number of online casino players with problem gambling behaviorSwedish gambling operator Svenska Spel has decided to stop advertising its online casino product through the rest of the ...

Former Ocean Resort Casino Owner Bruce Deifik Dies in Car Crash

Former Ocean Resort Casino Owner Bruce Deifik Dies in Car Crash

by April 9, 2019

Mr. Deifik, who took over the failed Revel last year to reopen it as Ocean Resort Casino, has died in a fatal car accidentColorado businessman Bruce Deifik has died in a car crash, news emerged this past Monday. The reopening of the shuttered Revel casino as Ocean Resort Casi ...

EGBA Urges Portugal to Nix “Discriminatory” Online Gambling Tax Regime

EGBA Urges Portugal to Nix “Discriminatory” Online Gambling Tax Regime

by April 9, 2019

EGBA calls for a flat tax rate based on gross gambling revenue as the popularity of the unregulated market grows among Portuguese gamblersThe European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) has urged the government of Portugal to review the nation’s gambling tax regime as the ...

RedKings Online Poker, Betting Products Bite The Dust

RedKings Online Poker, Betting Products Bite The Dust

by April 8, 2019

RedKings announced last week that it is closing two of its products amid growing competition in the online gambling field and regulatory pressureThe operator said in a statement published Thursday on its official website that it has decided to shut its online poker and bettin ...

Mike Abratique Leads WPTDeepStacks Thunder Valley Final Table

Mike Abratique Leads WPTDeepStacks Thunder Valley Final Table

by April 8, 2019

Causing a frenzy of eliminations at the end of Day 2, Mike Abratique secured overwhelming chip lead into the final day of the poker tourneyThe field of the WPTDeepStacks Thunder Valley Main Event has been reduced from 678 entries to just the final nine hopefuls for the title ...

Finnish Gambling Monopoly Plans Multi-Million Digital Reshuffle

Finnish Gambling Monopoly Plans Multi-Million Digital Reshuffle

by April 8, 2019

Veikkaus to invest between €4 million and €8 million in digital gambling reshuffle to blunt competition from offshore operatorsVeikkaus, Finland’s state-run gambling operator, is planning to invest up to €8 million into adding new online casino games as part of an ongoing ref ...

NagaCorp Unveils Naga 3 Casino Resort Expansion Project

NagaCorp Unveils Naga 3 Casino Resort Expansion Project

by April 8, 2019

NagaCorp moves on to expand its operations in the Cambodian capital with the development of a $4 billion Naga 3 integrated resortNagaCorp has recently unveiled a $4 billion expansion of its NagaWorld integrated resort in the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. The project will s ...