Events & Reports

Tiverton Casino Set to Open a Month Ahead of Schedule

Tiverton Casino Set to Open a Month Ahead of Schedule

by May 25, 2018

Twin River Tiverton Casino Hotel in Tiverton, Rhode Island will open doors on September 1, precisely a month ahead of schedule, property officials confirmed Thursday.John Taylor Jr., Chairman of the company behind the project, Twin River Management Group, told media that the ...

Swedish Watchdog Warns 39 Media Outlets Against Advertising Unregulated Gambling Operations

Swedish Watchdog Warns 39 Media Outlets Against Advertising Unregulated Gambling Operations

by May 23, 2018

The Swedish gambling regulator, Lotteriinspektionen, has warned 39 online media outlets to stop promoting unlicensed gambling company as the activity is illegal under Sweden’s Lottery Act.The move comes as the Scandinavian country is entering the final stages of the liberali ...

Queensland Tourism Officials to Meet with Casino Companies as Part of State Tourism Growth Strategy

Queensland Tourism Officials to Meet with Casino Companies as Part of State Tourism Growth Strategy

by May 22, 2018

A team of Queensland tourism officials will be traveling to Macau and Las Vegas in a bid to attract major gaming and hospitality operators to the Australian state, local media reports.The team will be led by Queensland Tourism Minister Kate Jones. The trips to the two major ...

Bet365 Denies Malta Relocation Reports, Confirms Expansion in the Gambling Hub

Bet365 Denies Malta Relocation Reports, Confirms Expansion in the Gambling Hub

by May 21, 2018

UK gambling giant bet365 denied plans to relocate its Gibraltar operations to Malta following Britain’s exit from the European Union after Maltese news outlet The Sunday Times of Malta published a report about the move.Bet365 currently ranks among the world’s largest online ...

Will Atlantic City’s Two New Casinos Oversaturate Its Recovering Gaming Market?

Will Atlantic City’s Two New Casinos Oversaturate Its Recovering Gaming Market?

by May 20, 2018

After several weeks of speculations over the opening of what would be Ocean Resort Casino, it was recently confirmed that the property, formerly known as Revel, would swing its doors open on June 28. And Hard Rock International had previously picked that exact date to reopen the ...

US Millennial Customers Prefer Gambling Online than in Landbased Casinos

US Millennial Customers Prefer Gambling Online than in Landbased Casinos

by May 18, 2018

With the US Supreme Court ruling in favor of the state of New Jersey in the latter’s sports betting case and by thus clearing the way for legalizing sports betting nation-wide, it is now up to each of the states to make a decision whether to add this form of gambling to market or ...

Australian iGaming Operator Suffers Liquor & Gaming NSW Backlash for Illegal Advertising

Australian iGaming Operator Suffers Liquor & Gaming NSW Backlash for Illegal Advertising

by May 17, 2018

The New South Wales (NSW) Government’s agency Liquor & Gaming NSW revealed that a local online gambling operator has faced Australian regulatory backlash for violations of gambling advertising rules. Neds.com.au, a web-based betting company, has come under conviction for ille ...

Czech Republic Residents Increase Their Gambling Expenditure in 2017

Czech Republic Residents Increase Their Gambling Expenditure in 2017

by May 16, 2018

Jindrich Voboril, the national drug coordinator of the Czech Republic, revealed that a total of 39.8 billion Czech crowns were spent by local citizens on gambling last year. The figure represented approximately a half-a-billion increase in comparison to the customer spending a ye ...

Experts Claim Australian Children Get Unrestricted Access to Gambling in Video Games

Experts Claim Australian Children Get Unrestricted Access to Gambling in Video Games

by May 16, 2018

A recent report released by Digital Australia, almost all Australian households with children (97%) own at least one video games device. More than half of the households (above 60%) own five or more devices for playing video games.Almost twenty years have passed since the bo ...

New Jersey April Online Gambling Surge YOY to Receive Boost by SCOTUS Decision

New Jersey April Online Gambling Surge YOY to Receive Boost by SCOTUS Decision

by May 15, 2018

The upswing trend continues for the New Jersey gambling operators eying Internet gaming as a boost to their land-based business in Atlantic City. After the record-setting haul of $25.6 million posted in March, online gaming revenue was down but continued to surge year-on-year in ...

Casino Growth Boosts Portugal Online Gambling Market by 8% in Q1

Casino Growth Boosts Portugal Online Gambling Market by 8% in Q1

by May 15, 2018

Portugal has revealed that its online gaming revenue rose over the first three months of 2018, partly thanks to a boost in online casino earnings.The national gambling regulatory body – Serviço Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos do Turismo de Portugal (SRIJ) – revealed that ...

Illinois Politicians to Decide on Controversial Video Gambling Bill

Illinois Politicians to Decide on Controversial Video Gambling Bill

by May 14, 2018

There is a ban on video gambling in more than a hundred communities across the State of Illinois, but veterans’ organizations may soon be exempt from the restriction. State senators passed a bill last week and by the end of the month, the House is expected to take it. Politicians ...

Bookmakers Make Last-Ditch Attempts to Soften Government on Planned FOBTs Crackdown

Bookmakers Make Last-Ditch Attempts to Soften Government on Planned FOBTs Crackdown

by May 13, 2018

William Hill’s newly appointed Chairman has penned a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May in a last-ditch effort to convince Britain’s top lawmaker that the planned massive crackdown on fixed-odds betting terminals would have catastrophic consequences, The Telegraph r ...

Caesars to Do Whatever It Takes to Build a “Uniquely Japanese” Casino Resort, Company Exec Says

Caesars to Do Whatever It Takes to Build a “Uniquely Japanese” Casino Resort, Company Exec Says

by May 11, 2018

As the Japanese government has entered what are hoped to be the last stages of discussion of the Integrated Resorts Implementation Bill, some of the world’s largest gaming and hospitality companies have been keen to shed more details about their expansion plans in the country. ...

Las Vegas Casino Workers to Hold Strike Vote on May 22 over Improved Contract Terms

Las Vegas Casino Workers to Hold Strike Vote on May 22 over Improved Contract Terms

by May 10, 2018

The Las Vegas UNITE HERE Culinary and Bartenders Unions announced Wednesday that they will hold a strike vote on May 22, allowing their members to cast votes on whether they should go out on strike if they fail to negotiate better working conditions with their employers.The ...