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This Christmas/New Year’s/Hanukkah depending on the year/Kwanzaa holiday season is quite nice. My kids are on break from school, which unlike a lot of parents, makes me happy. My wife gets to work from home until next week, which unlike a lot of husbands and for the sake of parallel sentence structure, makes me happy.… Read more »
The massive Resorts World Las Vegas property will open in about two years, the first new sprawling, luxury casino resort on the Las Vegas Strip in a long time. None of the companies and people that run the other casinos on the Strip could be overly thrilled with new competition, though having an empty lot… Read more »
The American Gaming Association (AGA), the gambling industry’s top lobbying group, recently announced that it has hired Bill Miller as its new President and Chief Executive Officer. Miller will begin his tenure with the AGA on January 14th, 2019. “I am honored to join a team with a well-earned reputation for advancing the casino gaming… Read more »
For a lot of us, the holiday season is one of joy, a chance to wind down the year spending time with friends and family and enjoying the fun of sharing gifts with each other. For many, though, the holidays are stressful, as they just don’t have enough money to buy even the smallest of… Read more »
Despite writing for a poker site for nearly a decade and a half, I am not much of a gambler. I can’t say I have ever played three card poker in a casino and I know if I did, I would only place the most basic bets. It’s a good thing Harold M. of Lakewood,… Read more »
The Washington, D.C. Council passed a bill to legalize sports betting on Tuesday which, if it becomes law, will make the District of Columbia the ninth U.S. jurisdiction to permit the pastime. Nevada, of course, has had sports betting for years, but it wasn’t until this May – when the Supreme Court overturned PASPA –… Read more »
When my wife took her job at her current employer a bit over a year ago, she was required to sign a Non-Compete Agreement (NCA). It said something to the effect of disallowing her from accepting employment elsewhere in a similar role within a certain geographical area for a year after (and if) she departs… Read more »
It is over. The controversial prop bet between Rich Alati and Rory Young has ended ten days early. If you are thinking that it’s too bad for Alati that he made it two-thirds of the way through his 30-day term of pitch-black solitary confinement only to lose, you would be wrong. It was Young, the… Read more »
On Tuesday, the National Basketball Association (NBA) and The Stars Group announced that they have entered into a multi-year partnership that will have Stars become an “authorized gaming operator” of the NBA. “The Stars Group is an accomplished global online gaming leader and we are excited to work with them on their first U.S. sports… Read more »
We all love poker, right? I mean, I’m writing articles for a poker news site (though I frequently branch out into non-poker news) and you are reading a poker news site at this very moment. Heck, I’ve been writing for this site since day one, thirteen years ago, so I must think poker is pretty… Read more »
Any football fan (American football, that is) knows that the University of Alabama is a juggernaut. Going into the season the Crimson Tide were listed as about 2-to-1 favorites to win the national championship and from the pre-season through November, bettors wagered on them to win it all, risking money on a relatively poor payout… Read more »
Two giants of the gaming industry, MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment, have teamed up to create the non-profit Sports Wagering Integrity Monitoring Association (SWIMA), which is just as it sounds: a watchdog organization with the aim of maintaining the integrity of the growing U.S. sports betting industry. According to a press release, SWIMA is… Read more »
The Stars Group and Eldorado Resorts, Inc. have agreed to a 20-year deal in which The Stars Group – parent company of PokerStars and Full Tilt – will be able to operate sports betting sites in the United States under Eldorado’s gaming license. The agreement applies to thirteen states in which Eldorado operates: Colorado, Florida,… Read more »
CG Technology, once known as Cantor Gaming, has come to an agreement with the Nevada Gaming Commission to pay $2 million in fines for a slew of sportsbook violations. The settlement will allow CG Technology to keep its gaming license, which seemed to be seriously in jeopardy. CG Technology operates sportsbooks at the M Resort,… Read more »
The parent company of one of poker industry’s largest content sites, PokerNews.com, is in hot water as a number of American music labels have filed a lawsuit against it for copyright infringement. The lawsuit, initially made known to the public by TorrentFreak and confirmed by multiple media outlets, is seeking as much as $7 million… Read more »
It appears that the legalization of sports betting is something that may be up for discussion in the Tennessee legislature in 2019, as State Representative Rick Staples introduced HB 0001 in the House of Representatives last week, a bill which “authorizes sports betting in this state only in jurisdictions that approve sports betting by local… Read more »
Penn National Gaming and VICI Properties announced on Wednesday that they have agreed to acquire the operations and real property of the Greektown Casino-Hotel in Detroit, Michigan for about $1 billion in cash. The transaction is expected to close in the middle of next year. Two-Pronged Financial Deal Penn National bought the operations part of… Read more »
According to a pair of reports last week from The Guardian, UK bookmaker and online sports betting firm Ladbrokes may be in a bit of hot water. It does not seem particularly serious, but at least four people have alleged that Ladbrokes accepted horse racing wagers then later cancelled them for no apparent reason. The… Read more »
Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, a Sheldon Adelson ally and opponent of online poker, was defeated in his bid to become the next Governor of the Silver State, losing to Democrat Steve Sisolak on Tuesday night. Sisolak received 49.4 percent of the vote to Laxalt’s 45.3 percent. Laxalt is a RAWA Fan Nevada was the… Read more »
Adam Laxalt is the Attorney General of Nevada. He is currently running for Governor on the Republican side of the ballot. He is also, somewhat oddly considering the state he wishes to lead, against online poker. He is also getting very little support from his family, as is evidenced by a recent op-ed penned by… Read more »
As we wait for online poker rooms to finally launch in Pennsylvania, it looks like one casino who already shelled out the big bucks for an interactive gaming license has reversed course and will sit out the upcoming party. Multiple media outlets have reported that the Philadelphia Live! Casino, a property that is still under… Read more »
I wonder if the NFL is going to keep crying about how sports betting threatens the integrity of the game. Forget about all the league and team partnerships with daily fantasy sports sights; on Friday, the Baltimore Ravens announced it has entered into a partnership with the Horseshoe Casino Baltimore. “Horseshoe Casino Baltimore has become… Read more »
The United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UKGC) has fined online gaming operator Paddy Power Betfair (PPB) £2.2 million for allowing problem gamblers to play and for failure to adhere to anti-money laundering regulations. They Stole From Puppies The Commission found that in 2016, two of Paddy Power Betfair’s customers gambled “significant sums” of money on PPB’s… Read more »
We have thrown the phrase “crony capitalism” around on this site many a time, but hoo boy, what ProPublica reported last week takes it to another level. According to Justin Elliott, United States President Donald Trump spoke directly to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe about the possibility of Las Vegas Sands Corp. founder and CEO… Read more »
Last week, Eldorado Resorts, Inc. announced that it completed the acquisition of Tropicana Entertainment, Inc. from Icahn Enterprises. It’s a bit of a complicated transaction, valued at $1.85 billion, but I will do my best to explain it. Eldorado merged a “subsidiary” into Tropicana and then Tropicana became a subsidiary of Eldorado, but not before… Read more »
