Baseball Coach Winner of Missouri-Held Heartland Poker Tour

by October 28, 2014

Matt Culberson is the big winner of the Heartland Poker Tour, held earlier this week at the Ameristar Casino Resort Spa in St. Charles, Missouri. He defeated Michael Ross, a 38-year-old professional poker player from Chicago, Illinois, in a nerve-racking nationally televised fina ...

VinaCapital Renews Casino Construction After Finding New Investor

by October 27, 2014

VinaCapital, a leading investment management and real estate development firm in Vietnam, has announced it is now ready to renew the construction of its new €3.15-billion resort and casino facility in the city of Hoi An. The company faced a hold-up due to the fact that Genting Gr ...

Playtech Reports Record Revenue in Q3, Plans on Major Acquisition, Wins Over Winamax Dispute

by October 26, 2014

The online gaming operator Playtech has reported a considerable increase in revenue for the third quarter of this year, bringing the company back on its feet.The current expectations are that it will surpass the revenue predictions for 2014. Last Wednesday, Playtech publishe ...

888 Boosts Its Spanish Sportsbook as New Gambling Licenses Will be Provided

by October 25, 2014

Last Wednesday, 888 Holdings, which operates under the UK gambling legislation, held a poker event in the Spanish capital – Madrid. The event, organized in Casino Gran Via, gathered funds for Forever Dream – a non-profit campaign of the Nacex Foundation. The campaign ...

Daniel Negreanu and Jack McClelland Are About to Join the Poker Hall of Fame

by October 25, 2014

The Poker Hall of Fame will have two new additions at the beginning of November after an official event that is to be held at Binion’s Gambling Hall in Downtown Las Vegas. The induction of Daniel Negreanu and Jack McClelland will become a fact at a ceremony that is scheduled for ...

Totally Gaming to Host Its Next ICE Conference in February, 2015

by October 23, 2014

Totally Gaming 2015 ICE – the largest and most anticipated trade event of 2015, will be held between February 3 and February 5. The conference will be located at the ExCeL London Exhibition and Convention Center – a venue approximately ten minutes away from the Canary Wharf, the ...

Daniel Negreanu Will Host the St. Jude Celebrity Poker Tournament

by October 23, 2014

Daniel Negreanu keeps on setting an example for poker players by spending time, money and resources on charities. The next activity he plans to realize is the St. Jude Celebrity Poke Tournament, which he is going to host. The event is located in Vdara, Las Vegas, and will be held ...

TonyBet to Host the Biggest Live Open Face Chinese World Championship; World Poker Tour Comes Back to Prague

by October 22, 2014

Tonybet, an online gaming site, has recently announced that it will be hosting the first ever Open Face Chinese World Championship. The vent will be held at the Prague’s King Casino together with a WPT National Event with a $2,500 entrance fee.Tony G announced that his websi ...

City Revere Files a Lawsuit Against the Gaming Commission of Massachusetts

by October 22, 2014

Revere, a city five miles away from downtown Boston, has recently filed a lawsuit against the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. The reason for the lawsuit is the loss that its casino Mohegan Sun has suffered against Wynn Resorts. The two companies bet for the chance to receive cas ...

MGM Resorts International to Sell Gold Strike Casino to JETT Gaming

by October 21, 2014

MGM Resorts International announced that it had reached an agreement to sell its Gold Strike Casino located in Nevada’s city of Jean. The property will be acquired by the casino and slots operator JETT Gaming. The latter is currently owned by members of the Herbst family.The ...

Game Show Network Looking to Invigorate Its “High Stakes Poker” Show

by October 20, 2014

For the past few years, there has been a major decline in TV poker programs. Ever since “Black Friday” took place, the only successful broadcast tournaments were the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and the World Poker Tour (WPT).This trend, however, may be over, as the Youtube c ...

Gambling Industry Leaders Will Join the 27-8th of October AC Mobile and Table Gaming Summit

by October 20, 2014

In just a week, the AC Mobile and Table Gaming Summit will take place in Atlantic City. The event will be take place between October 27 and October 28. A number of companies, which specialize in different niches and sectors of the offline and online gambling industry, will come t ...

James Packer of Crown Resorts Says States’ Regulations and High-Rollers Harm the Company

by October 18, 2014

During the Annual General Meeting last Thursday, Crown Resorts chairman James Packer stated that high rolling punters are “killing” the profits of his gambling facilities in Melbourne and Perth. He reported a low increase in revenue for the first 15 weeks of this year’s second qu ...

MGM Resorts International Stands Behind Let NY Play Campaign for Legalizing Online Poker in NY

by October 18, 2014

Even though MGM Resorts International does not have a gambling facility in New York, when it comes to online poker services, it has shown great interest in promoting a legal poker scheme for online platforms. The company has not even bought or shown interest in buying one of the ...

International Gambling Operators Start to Withdraw from Singapore As New Gambling Bill Nears

by October 17, 2014

As the Remote Gambling Bill in Singapore passed its second reading earlier this month, a number of online gambling businesses have withdrawn their operations from the country. The bill is going to limit the Singapore gambling market to only non-profit operators owned locally. The ...