Events & Reports

China’s Exploding Middle Class Set to Shape Asia’s Casino Gaming Landscape (Infographic)

China’s Exploding Middle Class Set to Shape Asia’s Casino Gaming Landscape (Infographic)

by May 7, 2018

Tourism statistics from the past decade indicate that there has been an exponential growth in the number of outbound trips from China. While a growth of a massive scale is always attributable to a complex set of factors, it should be noted that the country’s exploding middle clas ...

Larry Greenberg Claims First WPT Title in Inaugural WPT Bellagio Elite Poker Championship

Larry Greenberg Claims First WPT Title in Inaugural WPT Bellagio Elite Poker Championship

by May 6, 2018

Larry Greenberg bested the field of the inaugural WPT Bellagio Elite Poker Championship to claim his first WPT Main Tour Main Event title. The player emerged as the victor over a field of 126 entrants to win a first-place prize of $378,879 and secure a $15,000-worth entry into th ...

Nicolas Dumont Outmaneuvers Tough Final Table to Win EPT Monte Carlo Main Event

Nicolas Dumont Outmaneuvers Tough Final Table to Win EPT Monte Carlo Main Event

by May 5, 2018

Nicolas Dumont, a driving instructor from Paris, France, steered his way through the final table of the EPT Monte Carlo Main Event just beautifully to collect a first place prize of €712,000, the tournament trophy, and a Platinum Pass to the PokerStars Players Championship next y ...

Hard Rock Instals First Signs of New Atlantic City Casino

Hard Rock Instals First Signs of New Atlantic City Casino

by May 5, 2018

Workers at the site of Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City mounted on Friday the first sign that will identify the newest addition to Atlantic City’s legendary Boardwalk. The property is slated for June 28 opening.The former Trump Taj Mahal casino resort is curr ...

Nicolas Dumont Leads EPT Monte Carlo Main Event 8-Handed Final Table

Nicolas Dumont Leads EPT Monte Carlo Main Event 8-Handed Final Table

by May 4, 2018

Nicolas Dumont, a driving instructor from France, emerged Thursday night as the chip leader in the EPT Monte Carlo Main Event and will thus be leading a pack of eight players into the final day of the prestigious tournament.Day 5 of the Main Event kicked off with 16 survivor ...

New Massachusetts Casino Looks to Hire 3,000 Smiling Staff ahead of August 24 Opening

New Massachusetts Casino Looks to Hire 3,000 Smiling Staff ahead of August 24 Opening

by May 4, 2018

MGM Springfield is “pursuing best effort” to make sure that 35% of its 3,000-strong workforce will be represented by Springfield residents, General Manager Alex Dixon said Thursday in a keynote address during a conference at the College of the Holy Cross.MGM Springfield is ...

Tomas Jozonis Leads 16 Finalists Into EPT Monte Carlo Main Event Day 5

Tomas Jozonis Leads 16 Finalists Into EPT Monte Carlo Main Event Day 5

by May 3, 2018

Day 4 of the EPT Monte Carlo Main Event was a relatively short one but full of action and speedy eliminations of tournament entries. The day kicked off with 45 remaining players, but several hours later that number was reduced to just 16 finalists.The 16 hopefuls are set to ...

partypoker Shared Online Poker Liquidity Launch Set to Happen Any Day Now

partypoker Shared Online Poker Liquidity Launch Set to Happen Any Day Now

by May 3, 2018

Partypoker, the online poker brand of gambling giant GVC Holdings, seems to be quickly inching closer toward joining the shared online poker liquidity project that officially launched early in 2018.The operator said at the end of April that it was updating its .es website to ...

Victorian Government Fails to Provide Detail about Point of Consumption Tax on Betting in New Budget

Victorian Government Fails to Provide Detail about Point of Consumption Tax on Betting in New Budget

by May 2, 2018

There was no mention of the potential implementation of a point of consumption tax on corporate bookmakers in Victoria in the Australian state’s 2018-19 budget, which was introduced on Tuesday, May 1.Victorian lawmakers indicated in last year’s budget that they could impleme ...

David Peters Leads Final 45 into EPT Monte Carlo Main Event Day 4

David Peters Leads Final 45 into EPT Monte Carlo Main Event Day 4

by May 2, 2018

US poker pro David Peters is leading what had left of the field of the EPT Monte Carlo Main Event after the tournament’s Day 3 of action. The player accumulated a stack of 1.839 million over the course of play by once again maintaining his well-known composure and making the righ ...

Consolidation Wave Strikes Global Gambling amid Regulatory Pressure and Heavy Competition

Consolidation Wave Strikes Global Gambling amid Regulatory Pressure and Heavy Competition

by May 1, 2018

The first several months of the year turned out to be quite eventful within the gambling field. And probably the most important event witnessed by industry peers was the wave of consolidation that struck globally and involved some of the world’s largest gambling companies.GV ...

Steve O’Dwyer Takes Down Another 50K High Roller at EPT Monte Carlo

Steve O’Dwyer Takes Down Another 50K High Roller at EPT Monte Carlo

by April 30, 2018

Popular poker pro Steve O’Dwyer scooped another title from a PokerStars-branded High Roller last night at the Monte-Carlo Casino during the ongoing EPT festival. The player emerged victorious over a packed field of fellow high roller specialists to collect the tournament tr ...

Ocean Resort Casino Owner Promises Difference-Making Experience upon Property’s Reopening

Ocean Resort Casino Owner Promises Difference-Making Experience upon Property’s Reopening

by April 30, 2018

Days after reports emerged that Ocean Resort Casino, formerly Revel, will open doors on June 28, the property’s owner, Bruce Deifik, revealed important details about their plans of how to prevent it from failure.The former Revel launched in 2012 to much fanfare, but survived ...

Blackstone Buys Spanish Gambling Giant Cirsa

Blackstone Buys Spanish Gambling Giant Cirsa

by April 30, 2018

American private equity firm The Blackstone Group has fully acquired Spanish gambling operator Cirsa Gaming Corporation, local news outlets reported on Friday citing sources familiar with the deal.The purchase price and other details about the deal were not disclosed, but so ...

Sam Greenwood Takes Down EPT Monte Carlo €100,000 Super High Roller

Sam Greenwood Takes Down EPT Monte Carlo €100,000 Super High Roller

by April 29, 2018

Canadian poker pro Sam Greenwood was the first player to register into the 2018 EPT Monte Carlo €100,000 Super High Roller event and, in the early hours of Sunday, he became the last man standing after besting a field of 30 of the world’s best high rollers.Greenwood co ...