Events & Reports

Rhode Island Senate President Introduces Mobile Betting Bill

Rhode Island Senate President Introduces Mobile Betting Bill

by January 17, 2019

Rhode Island looks to secure additional sports betting revenue with authorization of mobile wageringRhode Island Senate President Dominick Ruggerio introduced Wednesday a bill aiming to authorize the provision of sports betting within state limits. The legislator said late la ...

Chino Rheem Adds PCA Main Event Title to Impressive Poker Portfolio

Chino Rheem Adds PCA Main Event Title to Impressive Poker Portfolio

by January 17, 2019

Chino Rheem came, saw, and conquered the PCA Main Event, bulldozing his way to the title through a stacked final tableChino Rheem dominated the six-handed final table of the 2019 PCA Main Event from start to end. He sent all his five opponents to the rail to accumulate a mass ...

Three-Time WPT Champ Chino Rheem Eyes PCA Main Event Title

Three-Time WPT Champ Chino Rheem Eyes PCA Main Event Title

by January 16, 2019

Chino Rheem, a member of the elite club of three-time WPT champs, now eyes another poker summit to attainHe 865-strong starting field of the PCA $10,000 Main Event is now down to its final six players. The six finalists will square off for the title and the first-place prize ...

Sands Bethlehem Buyer Plans to Add Hotel, Water Park to the Casino Resort

Sands Bethlehem Buyer Plans to Add Hotel, Water Park to the Casino Resort

by January 16, 2019

The Poarch Band of Creek Indians has big expansion plans for Sands Bethlehem, awaits regulatory approval to complete purchaseA multi-million expansion is on the way for Sands Bethlehem, the hotel and casino resort that billionaire Sheldon Adelson and his company Las Vegas San ...

New Jersey Sports Betting Growth Slows as Neighbor Pennsylvania Launches Sportsbooks

New Jersey Sports Betting Growth Slows as Neighbor Pennsylvania Launches Sportsbooks

by January 15, 2019

Sports betting growth slowed a bit last month in New Jersey and that has imminently prompted questions whether Pennsylvania is to be blamedOverall betting handle passed the $1.2 billion mark in New Jersey in December, but the growth of the state’s sports gambling market ...

Tommy Nguyen Leads 20 Tough Competitors into PCA Main Event Day 4

Tommy Nguyen Leads 20 Tough Competitors into PCA Main Event Day 4

by January 15, 2019

Canada’s Tommy Nguyen scooped Day 3’s largest stack to lead 20 hopefuls into the penultimate day of the 2019 PCA Main EventMonday was another busy day at the Imperial Ballroom of Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas, which hosts the Main Event of the PCA poker festival. ...

Hard Rock Ventures Into Japan with Guitar-Shaped Casino Resort

Hard Rock Ventures Into Japan with Guitar-Shaped Casino Resort

by January 14, 2019

Hard Rock Japan, the local arm of Florida-based gaming and hospitality company Hard Rock International, presented last week details about its proposed integrated resort in the city of Tomakomai on the island of HokkaidoHard Rock International CEO and Chairman Jim Allen ...

PCA Main Event Day 2 Ends with 79 Survivors

PCA Main Event Day 2 Ends with 79 Survivors

by January 14, 2019

Pierre Calamusa bags the largest chip stack after eight levels of play on PCA Main Event Day 2, leads 79 hopefuls into Day 3Day 2 of the PCA Main Event is now in the books, with just 79 players still in the hunt for the prestigious title and the accompanying first-pl ...

Sam Greenwood Takes Down 2019 PCA $100,000 Super High Roller

Sam Greenwood Takes Down 2019 PCA $100,000 Super High Roller

by January 13, 2019

Sam Greenwood outwits 60 tournament entries to emerge victorious in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller for $1.77 millionWith live tournament earnings of more than $14.1 million, multiple poker titles, and a career spanning more than a decade, Sam Greenwood h ...

Chris Hunichen Leads 5 Into Final Day of PCA Super High Roller

Chris Hunichen Leads 5 Into Final Day of PCA Super High Roller

by January 12, 2019

The field of the PCA Super High Roller has been reduced to just five players who will return today to fight for the $1.77 million top prizeThe $100,000 Super High Roller has over the years established itself as the most thrilling tournament on the schedule of the PokerStars C ...

Ocean Resort Casino Passed to a New Owner a Year after Previous Sale

Ocean Resort Casino Passed to a New Owner a Year after Previous Sale

by January 11, 2019

Ocean Resort Casino is changing hands amid persistent reports that it is threateningly close to facing a repeat of its previous financial woesThe property’s current owner, Colorado-businessman Bruce Deifik, confirmed Thursday that the property was in the process of bein ...

Spain’s Ramon Colillas Wins Inaugural PokerStars Players Championship

Spain’s Ramon Colillas Wins Inaugural PokerStars Players Championship

by January 11, 2019

Ramon Colillas, one of 320 Platinum Pass holders, navigated his way through the PSPC field and won the tournament for $5.1 millionThe PokerStars Players Championship, the latest live tournament experiment conducted by PokerStars, was completed hours ago and it proved more tha ...

Ocean Resort Casino Drifting in Choppy Waters, Reports Suggest

Ocean Resort Casino Drifting in Choppy Waters, Reports Suggest

by January 10, 2019

The newly launched Boardwalk hotel and casino resort may be facing financial troubles, owner reportedly looks for buyersOcean Resort Casino could be tangled in heavy financial woes just six months after its opening, according to reports from multiple local media outlets. The ...

Scott Baumstein Leads 8 into PokerStars Players Championship Finale

Scott Baumstein Leads 8 into PokerStars Players Championship Finale

by January 10, 2019

Scott Baumstein locks up the chip lead into the final day of the first-ever PokerStars Players ChampionshipScott Baumstein entered Day 4 of the inaugural PokerStars Players Championship as the chip leader and after a long day of action he manged to scoop the overnight chip le ...

Oneida Nation, Caesars Offer Peek into Future New York Sportsbooks

Oneida Nation, Caesars Offer Peek into Future New York Sportsbooks

by January 9, 2019

Oneida Nation reveals details about future sportsbooks as sports betting legalization debate gains momentum in New YorkThe Oneida Indian Nation released on Tuesday renderings of th planned sportsbooks at its casinos across New York. The tribe unveiled last week a partnership ...