Ocean Resort Casino Gets Regulatory Green Light ahead of June 28 Grand Opening

Ocean Resort Casino Gets Regulatory Green Light ahead of June 28 Grand Opening

by June 22, 2018

Ocean Resort Casino was granted a gaming license by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission Thursday, just one week ahead of its scheduled grand opening ceremony. The property occupies the site of the former Revel casino resort that was shuttered in 2014 after two years of opera ...

Ocean Resort Casino Gaming License Hearing Extends into a Second Day

Ocean Resort Casino Gaming License Hearing Extends into a Second Day

by June 21, 2018

Owners of Ocean Resort Casino, formerly Revel, appeared before the New Jersey Casino Control Commission on Wednesday seeking to obtain a license for the operation of casino gambling at the renovated property that is slated to open doors June 28.Ocean Resort Casino was purcha ...

Valve Disables Item Trading for Dutch CS:GO and Dota 2 Players as Loot Box Crackdown Looms

Valve Disables Item Trading for Dutch CS:GO and Dota 2 Players as Loot Box Crackdown Looms

by June 20, 2018

Video game developer Valve Corporation announced yesterday that it has decided to disable item trading for Dutch players of its Counter Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2 games.The announcement came shortly after the Netherlands Gaming Authority, Kansspelautoriteit, released ...

Sky Bet Boss Richard Flint Named UK’s Best CEO in Glassdoor’s Employees Choice Awards

Sky Bet Boss Richard Flint Named UK’s Best CEO in Glassdoor’s Employees Choice Awards

by June 20, 2018

Sky Betting & Gaming Chief Executive Richard Flint has been recognized as UK’s best CEO of 2018 in Glassdoor’s sixth annual Employees Choice Awards. Mr. Flint has been at the company’s helm for nearly two decades.Glassdoor’s list shows that the Sky Bet executive has nipp ...

Hainan Resorts Reportedly Set Up Baccarat Entertainment Bars

Hainan Resorts Reportedly Set Up Baccarat Entertainment Bars

by June 19, 2018

Chinese-operated resorts on the Hainan Island are reportedly gearing up to launch entertainment bars that would feature gaming tables where players would be able to wager real money and redeem their winnings at local hotels, restaurants, and shops, local news outlets report citin ...

Universal Entertainment Announces Casino Businesses “Organizational Realignment” to Keep Kazuo Okada Away

Universal Entertainment Announces Casino Businesses “Organizational Realignment” to Keep Kazuo Okada Away

by June 19, 2018

Japanese gaming machine manufacturer and casino operator Universal Entertainment Corporation announced Monday that it would undertake an “organizational realignment” within the corporation to prevent its founder and former Chairman Kazuo Okada and other “unsuitable individuals” f ...

Macau Government Considers Barring All Casino Floor Workers from Gambling

Macau Government Considers Barring All Casino Floor Workers from Gambling

by June 18, 2018

The government of Macau introduced Friday a piece of legislation that calls for banning casino workers from entering gaming facilities beyond working hours, local news outlets report. The measure aims to curb problem gambling among those employed at the city’s gambling venues. ...

MGM Casino Resort Workers to Vote New Contract Terms on June 19

MGM Casino Resort Workers to Vote New Contract Terms on June 19

by June 17, 2018

Unionized workers at MGM Resorts International’s 10 Las Vegas properties will vote Tuesday, June 19, on a new five-year contract, the terms of which they agreed with the casino company earlier this month after prolonged negotiations that could have culminated in a citywide ...

UK Government Lands in Hot Water for Reportedly Delaying FOBT Crackdown

UK Government Lands in Hot Water for Reportedly Delaying FOBT Crackdown

by June 16, 2018

UK’s Labour party is throwing heavy criticism at the government for being “fundamentally weak” after reports emerged Friday that MPs and British bookmakers have agreed to delay the crackdown on the highly controversial fixed-odds betting terminals to 2020.The governmen ...

Caesars’ Las Vegas Casino Resort Employees Approve New Contract

Caesars’ Las Vegas Casino Resort Employees Approve New Contract

by June 15, 2018

Unionized workers at Caesars Entertainment Corp.’s Las Vegas Strip and downtown properties approved Thursday the terms of a new five-year contract, thus putting an end to months of negotiations that, in another case scenario, could have culminated in a citywide employees’ strike. ...

Japan’s IR/Casino Bill Passes Lower House Committee Despite Opposition

Japan’s IR/Casino Bill Passes Lower House Committee Despite Opposition

by June 15, 2018

A Lower House panel in Japan’s Diet passed earlier today the Integrated Resort Implementation Bill despite heavy protests from opposition parties, local news outlet the Japan Times reports.The piece now needs approval from the full Lower House floor before being referred to ...

CrownBet Set to Become Sportingbet after Ownership Change and William Hill Australia Purchase

CrownBet Set to Become Sportingbet after Ownership Change and William Hill Australia Purchase

by June 14, 2018

Australian betting operator CrownBet filed earlier this week a “Change of company name reservation” form with the nation’s Securities and Investments Commission to reserve the Sportingbet Pty Ltd name, local news outlet The Australian Financial Review reports.The move comes ...

Caesars Breaks Ground on Horseshoe Southern Indiana Casino Relocation and Expansion Project

Caesars Breaks Ground on Horseshoe Southern Indiana Casino Relocation and Expansion Project

by June 14, 2018

Horseshoe Southern Indiana held Wednesday a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the official start of an $85-million project for the relocation of the riverboat casino on dry land. The Indiana Gaming Commission gave the green light to the plan in April.The riverboat casino hosted ...

Ocean Resort Casino Gets June 20 Gaming License Hearing

Ocean Resort Casino Gets June 20 Gaming License Hearing

by June 14, 2018

Ocean Resort Casino will have its gaming license hearing on June 20, or just eight days before its grand opening ceremony, the New Jersey Casino Control Commission announced Wednesday.The new owners of what had formerly operated as Revel will have to obtain a casino license ...

Kenyan Security Agencies Eliminate Gambling Machines as Part of Nationwide Anti-Gambling Campaign

Kenyan Security Agencies Eliminate Gambling Machines as Part of Nationwide Anti-Gambling Campaign

by June 13, 2018

A massive campaign against gambling machines has started in the Eastern region of Kenya, with local security agencies trying to remove the terminals which have gained much popularity across the country.A team led by Wycliffe Ogallo, the Eastern Regional Coordinator, confisca ...