Events & Reports

New Jersey Generates Record Online Gambling Revenue in March

by April 13, 2017

The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement reported on Wednesday monthly revenue figures for Atlantic City’s seven operational casinos as well as for the state’s online gambling operations.Revenue from the state’s brick-and-mortar properties amounted to $200.1 million in ...

Ari Engel Wins MSPT Potawatomi Casino $1,100 Main Event

by April 12, 2017

Poker pro Ari Engel has added another poker title to his hefty collection after winning the Mid-States Poker Tour Milwaukee $1,100 Main Event for $114,876.Engel has had a mad ride around US casinos these past weeks, traveling to Tulsa for the WSOP Circuit Hard Rock Tulsa fes ...

Italy’s Online Gaming Head Confirms Progress on Online Poker Shared Liquidity

by April 12, 2017

Europe’s segregated online poker markets are moving steadily closer to merging their player pools, Daria Petralia, Head of Online Gaming at Italy’s gambling regulator – Agenzia delle dogane e dei Monopoli (ADM) – revealed on Tuesday.Speaking at an online gambling conference a ...

Federal Appeals Court OKs Martha’s Vineyard Casino Plan

by April 12, 2017

A federal appeals court has reversed on Monday a lower court decision from 2015 that banned the Massachusetts-based Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head from opening a casino-like venue on the Martha’s Vineyard island.The Monday court ruling could pave the way for the constr ...

PokerStars Returns to Monte Carlo for Next Championship Event

by April 11, 2017

PokerStars has allowed itself only a two-week hiatus between the PokerStars Championship Macau, which was completed on April 9, and the next Championship event on its schedule.The next festival of the poker operator’s new live tournament era will be held at Monte-Carlo Casino ...

Maurice Hawkins Wins Record 10th WSOP Circuit Gold Ring at Horseshoe Council Bluffs

by April 11, 2017

One particular word pops into WSOP Circuit fans’ minds when they hear the name Maurice Hawkins – unstoppable. Hawkins has indeed been unstoppable since last spring. He has won six WSOP Circuit gold rings since April 2016, capturing the last of them only last night and has become ...

Tiger’s Poker Night Returns to MGM Grand Las Vegas Casino on May 19

by April 10, 2017

MGM Grand Las Vegas Hotel & Casino will play host to Tiger’s Poker Night for another year. The charity poker tournament is set to take place on May 19 and will feature popular poker and non-poker names who will be raising money for underserved students to provide them with th ...

GVC Holdings’ bwin Brand Adds NYX OGS Casino Content

by April 10, 2017

Gaming and sports betting content supplier NYX Gaming Group has penned an extension to its existing partnership with gambling operator GVC Holdings. Under the deal, GVC-owned bwin will go live with NYX Gaming’s Open Gaming System (OGS).Generally speaking, NYX OGS is an onlin ...

Tabcorp Seals Exclusive Australian Hotels Association NSW Wagering Deal

by April 10, 2017

Australian gambling operator Tabcorp today announced that it has sealed a five-year wagering agreement with the Australian Hotels Association New South Wales. Under the terms of the deal, 1,116 hotels and pubs around the state will sign the operator as an exclusive wagering partn ...

Daniel Weinman Wins 2017 WPT Tournament of Champions

by April 10, 2017

Season XV of the WPT Main Tour was brought to a close in a spectacular manner, with Daniel Weinman fighting fiercely for the Tournament of Champions title and eventually capturing it on Sunday at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida.Weinman received th ...

Daniel Weinman Leads 2017 WPT Tournament of Champions Final Table

by April 9, 2017

The World Poker Tour is several hours away from ticking off yet another season in its fourteen-year history as completed. The popular poker brand has always concluded its Main Tour seasons in style and Season XV comes as no exception to this rule.This year’s Tournament ...

Gold Coast Real Estate Agent Offers New Site for A$3-Billion Casino Resort

by April 8, 2017

A Gold Coast real estate agent has proposed an alternative location for the A$3-billion Gold Coast Integrated Resort, which according to latest plans will be built on the Southport Spit by China-backed investor group ASF Consortium.Speaking to local media, Peter Bonenti, a r ...

Ryan Riess Wins 2017 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale

by April 7, 2017

Ryan Riess knows the view from the top of the poker world. The player climbed up there when he won the WSOP $10,000 Main Event in 2013. Now, almost four years later, the Michigan-born poker pro has ticked off another poker goal – to win a major WPT Main Tour event.It was only ...

Developer Rebrands Montreign Resort Casino to Resorts World Property

by April 7, 2017

Gambling operator Empire Resorts Inc. announced on Thursday that it has reached an agreement to rename its Montreign Resort Casino to a Resorts World property. The $1.2-billion complex is currently under development in the town of Thompson in Upstate New York.Under the agree ...

Johnny Lodden Becomes Latest partypoker Brand Ambassador

by April 6, 2017

partypoker’s team of ambassadors has become more and more clustered with poker celebrities recently and Norway’s Johnny Lodden is now joining the poker brand’s team of ambassadors to promote it across the Nordics and the rest of the world.Despite his young age, the 31-year-o ...