Samuel Tsehai Leads Day 4 of partypoker WPT Canadian Spring Championship

by May 5, 2015

Season XIV of the World Poker Tour kicked off with a tournament at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Canada. One of its highlight events, the partypoker WPT Canadian Spring Championship, has already started and is to continue up to May 6, when the six-handed final table is s ...

Melco Crown Philippines Awarded First Regular Gaming License

by May 5, 2015

Melco Crown (Philippines) Resorts Corp., a subsidiary of gambling operator Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd., announced earlier today that its property City of Dreams Manila has been awarded a regular gaming license by PAGCOR, known to be the Philippine gaming regulator.City of ...

Government Gives Aquis Great Barrier Reef Resort Environmental Approval

by May 4, 2015

The federal government of Australia gave environmental approval to the A$8.15-billion project for the construction of Aquis Great Barrier Reef Resort, which is to be located north of Cairns, Queensland.Now, billionaire Tony Fung, who is in charge of the major project, needs t ...

Mustapha Kanit Wins EPT Season 11 Grand Final €50,000 Super High Roller

by May 4, 2015

The EPT Season 11 Grand Final €50,000 Super High Roller was completed a few hours ago after just one day of play. Italian player Mustapha Kanit won the event to capture the amount of €936,500.The €50,000 Super High Roller attracted as many as 66 entries who created a prize po ...

Erik Seidel Wins EPT Season 11 Grand Final €100,000 Super High Roller

by May 3, 2015

The EPT Season 11 Grand Final €100,000 Super High Roller event was completed mere hours ago with Erik Seidel emerging victorious over a field of 71 players to win the first-place prize of €2,015,000 ($2,256,900).Day 3 of the event saw 8 players returning for the final table. ...

Dario Sammartino Leads EPT Grand Final €100,000 Super High Roller Final Table

by May 2, 2015

The European Poker Tour Season 11 Grand Final is currently taking place at Monte-Carlo Casino in Monaco. The tournament is to run through May 8, with the Main Event scheduled for May 2-8. The €100,000 Super High Roller is yet another event that deserves to be paid special attenti ...

Joe Kuether Enters Top 3 of the GPI Player of the Year Leaderboard

by May 1, 2015

After this week’s update of the GPI Player of the Year leaderboard, Polish player Dzmitry Urbanovich still ranks first with 2,483.10 points, followed by Argentinian Ivan Luca with 2,409.51 points. The only change in top 3 came with Joe Kuether replacing last week’s №3 ...

Mr Green Litigates Austrian Online Casino Tax

by April 30, 2015

Earlier today, gambling operator Mr Green & Co announced that it had commenced an appeals process concerning its financial responsibility in Austria. The company had presented an appeal to the Austrian Administrative Court and had also filed a complaint to the European Commis ...

Penn National Gaming to Buy Tropicana Las Vegas

by April 29, 2015

Pennsylvania-based casino operator Penn National Gaming announced earlier today that it is to purchase Tropicana Las Vegas Casino Hotel Resort as part of its strategy to introduce its operations in Las Vegas. The company is to pay the amount of $360 million to the current owners ...

Indiana State Opposes South Bend Casino

by April 29, 2015

The Indiana State Senate approved on Tuesday a resolution that would prevent the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians from building a casino in South Bend.Senate Concurrent Resolution 54 was voted in favor of by the Senate Rules Committee on Monday, and was given the green lig ...

NetEnt Posts Record Q1 Revenue

by April 28, 2015

Popular supplier of online casino content NetEnt released its interim report for the first quarter of 2015. Revenue increased more than 37% year-on-year to SEK258.3 million compared to SEK188.4 million posted a year ago.Operating profit was up 59.8% and totaled SEK81.8 millio ...

Ryan Jones Wins WSOPC Harrah’s Cherokee Casino $1,675 Main Event

by April 28, 2015

The WSOP Circuit Harrah’s Cherokee Casino $1,675 Main Event was completed a few hours ago, after Ryan Jones topped the field of 786 entries to win the amount of $235,804, the special WSOPC ring, and a seat into the WSOP National Championship.As mentioned above, the event attr ...

Michael Rocco Leads Day 3 of WPT World Championship

by April 27, 2015

The Season XIII WPT World Championship is currently taking place at the Atlantic City’s Borgata Casino. Day 2 of the prestigious event saw as many as 171 players sitting at the tables. Of those, 166 returned from Day 1 and 5 entered the Championship yesterday, as registrati ...

Pennsylvania Legislators Review State Casino Industry

by April 27, 2015

Pennsylvania is about to have its casino industry reviewed, as two public hearings on the matter have been organized by the state Gaming Oversight Committee. Both meetings are to be held at Northeastern Pennsylvania casinos.The first one is scheduled for tomorrow, April 28, a ...

Maine Gears Up for New Casino Debates

by April 26, 2015

Maine legislators have long been trying to introduce an encompassing gambling policy that would allow the state to eventually gain control over its casino industry. Furthermore, Sen. Linda Valentino has been among the keen proponents of the launch of new gambling venues on the te ...