In a time not too long ago, the journey to Las Vegas for poker tournaments in May meant only one thing – you were headed to the World Series of Poker. Over the years, however, other casinos have learned that the WSOP isn’t a beast to be feared but a challenge to be faced. With… Read more »
Make way for another huge casino on the Strip The Las Vegas Strip’s skyline is about to get more crowded. On Wednesday, the Clark County Commission approved entertainment and dining mogul Tillman Fertitta’s plans for a 43-story, 2,420-room (!) casino resort on the southeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Harmon Avenue. The property would… Read more »
No joking matter (actually, it was) Yesterday, we talked about a glitch on GGPoker that wreaked havoc across the online poker room. As we said, though things like that sometimes happen online, internet poker mostly avoids some of the problems of live poker, such as misdeals. And hoo boy, was there an entertaining misdeal the… Read more »
Billionaire owner of the Golden Nugget casinos Tilman Fertitta is buying a six-acre piece of land on the Las Vegas Strip for over $200 million. The land, currently occupied by a Travelodge motel, restaurants, and retail, is on the southeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Harmon Avenue. It’s a solid spot, in between the… Read more »
Fertitta Entertainment, the parent company of Golden Nugget, announced Monday that it will once again be a publicly traded company after being private for the last decade. It will make the move not via an initial public offering (IPO), but through a merger with FAST Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). A SPAC… Read more »
Reverse merger Golden Nugget announced on Monday that it will taking its online gambling business unit, Golden Nugget Online Gaming, Inc. (GNOG), public. Once the process comes to fruition, GNOG will become the second “pure” online casino company, as the announcement put it, to be publicly traded. GAN was the first, going public in early… Read more »
No matter what your position regarding online gaming and poker, there’s only one thing that matters to politicians who have passed regulations regarding the industry – how much money are the online sites bringing in? There are early reports in on the burgeoning Pennsylvania online gaming scene – albeit sans online poker – as the… Read more »
Over the past decade or so, there have been many rumors regarding the future of Caesars Entertainment. Even after the company, then known as Harrah’s, purchased the World Series of Poker back in 2004, there was some thought that the company would be sold and the WSOP would be either sold as a separate entity… Read more »
