Events & Reports

Swiss Gambling Ban Sees Overwhelming Support from All Age Groups, Study Finds

Swiss Gambling Ban Sees Overwhelming Support from All Age Groups, Study Finds

by July 27, 2018

There was no significant difference in the way voters from different age groups voted on the proposed ban on the provision of online gambling services by offshore operators in Switzerland, a recently published VOTO study shows.VOTO reports are compiled after each referendum ...

Simon Lam Leads WPT Gardens Main Event Final Table

Simon Lam Leads WPT Gardens Main Event Final Table

by July 26, 2018

The WPT Gardens $5,000 Main Event final table was set early today after a long Day 4 of the tournament. Six players are set to return later today at the host venue, the Gardens Casino in Hawaiian Gardens, Southern California, to play down to a champion.The winner will take h ...

San Manuel Casino Breaks Ground on Multi-Million Expansion

San Manuel Casino Breaks Ground on Multi-Million Expansion

by July 26, 2018

San Manuel Casino broke ground Wednesday on a $550-million expansion that will see the addition of a hotel and an event center, among other facilities, to the property’s existing operations. The expansion project will be carried out in several phases and a date for its finalizati ...

Saya Ono Leads 46 Players Into WPT Gardens Main Event Day 4

Saya Ono Leads 46 Players Into WPT Gardens Main Event Day 4

by July 25, 2018

Tuesday was an important day at the Gardens Casino in Southern California as it saw the money bubble of the inaugural WPT Gardens Poker Festival $5,000 Main Event burst to secure the top 73 finishers with a payout.Besides that, the overall 584-strong field of the tournament ...

Facebook Follows Google in Banning Gambling Adverts in Italy

Facebook Follows Google in Banning Gambling Adverts in Italy

by July 25, 2018

Another major advertising medium has changed its policies for advertising gambling products in Italy after Google AdWords informed last week Italy-facing advertisers that they will no longer be able to promote gambling products and services in the country.Following the recen ...

Israeli Hoteliers Buy Shuttered Las Vegas Strip Motel, Hint Casino Development Plans

Israeli Hoteliers Buy Shuttered Las Vegas Strip Motel, Hint Casino Development Plans

by July 24, 2018

A new hotel and casino complex might spring up in the southern end of the Las Vegas Strip after two Israeli hoteliers bought earlier this month the 1960s-era Motel 8 and hinted at plans to bulldoze the site to make room for a new development, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. ...

“Huge Net Cash Pile” Could Win Genting Singapore a Coveted Japan Casino License

“Huge Net Cash Pile” Could Win Genting Singapore a Coveted Japan Casino License

by July 24, 2018

Genting Singapore has a significant chance to win a license for the operation of an integrated resort with a casino floor in Japan, a report by research firm Maybank Kim Eng says.Japan has just completed its two-phase casino gambling legalization process to lay the foundatio ...

Illegal Gambling Operators Use WeChat’s Virtual Red Envelopes to Lure Gamblers

Illegal Gambling Operators Use WeChat’s Virtual Red Envelopes to Lure Gamblers

by July 24, 2018

Chinese police has recently cracked down on yet another illegal gambling ring that used WeChat to provide users of the extremely popular messaging app with the opportunity to punt on virtual red envelopes, the South China Morning Post reports citing information obtained by the Xi ...

Paul Höfer Bags the Lead after WPT Gardens Main Event Day 2

Paul Höfer Bags the Lead after WPT Gardens Main Event Day 2

by July 24, 2018

German poker pro Paul Höfer is eying his first WPT Main Event title in the inaugural WPT Gardens Poker Festival. The player finished Day 2 of the festival’s $5,000 Main Event as the overnight chip leader with 597,000 to place himself in a good position to conquer the tournament’s ...

Yumi Bui Enters WPT Gardens Poker Festival Main Event Day 2 as Overall Chip Leader

Yumi Bui Enters WPT Gardens Poker Festival Main Event Day 2 as Overall Chip Leader

by July 23, 2018

Yumi Bui, a player from San Diego, California, is the overall leader from Days 1A and 1B of the WPT Gardens Poker Festival $5,000 Main Event. She bagged the largest stack last night after Day 1B of the tournament to cement her top spot for a chance to win her first major poker ti ...

Twin River and Dover Downs Set to Merge amid US Land-Based Casino Sector Consolidation Wave

Twin River and Dover Downs Set to Merge amid US Land-Based Casino Sector Consolidation Wave

by July 23, 2018

US gaming companies Twin River Worldwide Holdings Inc. and Dover Downs Gaming & Entertainment Inc. announced on Sunday that they have agreed to merge their operations amid a wave of consolidation in the US land-based casino sector.Twin River currently operates as a priva ...

Brandon Lai Leads after Day 1A of WPT Gardens Poker Festival Main Event

Brandon Lai Leads after Day 1A of WPT Gardens Poker Festival Main Event

by July 22, 2018

Season XVII of the World Poker Tour has kicked off in style with a summer festival at the Gardens Casino in Hawaiian Gardens, California. And Day 1A of the festival’s $5,000 buy-in Main Event is already in the books.Played yesterday at the host casino, the first starti ...

Melco Opens Two Casino Facilities at Larnaca Airport Within Months

Melco Opens Two Casino Facilities at Larnaca Airport Within Months

by July 21, 2018

Two satellite casino facilities will open doors at the Larnaca International Airport by the end of the year under an agreement between Integrated Casino Resorts Cyprus and Hermes Airport Ltd., a joint statement by the two companies says.Integrated Resorts Cyprus represents t ...

Anthony Zinno Wins CPPT $5,000 Main Event at The Venetian after Hot WSOP Run

Anthony Zinno Wins CPPT $5,000 Main Event at The Venetian after Hot WSOP Run

by July 20, 2018

Anthony Zinno, one of the notable members of global poker’s elite and one of the few three-time WPT Main Event winners, topped the field of another prestigious tournament after a nice run at the WSOP.Zinno took part in another popular summer series annually taking place in L ...

Italian Deputy Prime Minister Says Ads Ban Is First Step in Larger Gambling Clampdown

Italian Deputy Prime Minister Says Ads Ban Is First Step in Larger Gambling Clampdown

by July 20, 2018

Gambling is a growing social and cultural issue that is devastating Italian society, the country’s Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said Thursday in another wave of negative comments directed toward Italy’s gambling industry.Minister Di Maio visited the Citadel of Catholi ...