Hope Remains For Skill-based Gaming Machines

Despite setbacks in Atlantic City, there is still a push to include skill-based gaming machines in Atlantic City’s casinos. Caesars Entertainment introduced some skill-based games, but pulled them from...

Controversy Over New Jersey Casino Control Commission Appointment

Outgoing New Jersey Governor Chris Christies has appointed a new head to the state’s Casino Control Commission, leading to charges that the current head, Matthew Levinson (left, being sworn...

Boardwalk Hall Upgrades

The CRDA has approved a $10 million renovation of Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall lobby.

Pennsylvania Mini-Casino Issue Causes Turmoil, Confusion

As clear winners and losers emerge in the competitive atmosphere created by Pennsylvania’s new law creating satellite mini-casinos, some operators are crying foul. But Mount Airy casino (l.) in...

Caesars Buying Two Indiana Racinos

Caesars Entertainment is acquiring Centaur Gaming and its Indianapolis-area racetracks, Hoosier Park and Indiana Grand (above), for $1.7 billion. The deal adds 4,000 slots and e-table positions to the...

N.Y. Eyes Sports Betting; Questions Slumping Results for New Casinos

With expectations mounting that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn a federal ban on sports wagering the New York legislature will have at least one legalization bill to consider...

AGA Wants to Preserve Full Interest Deductibility in Tax Reform

The American Gaming Association has made common cause with other business-oriented associations to oppose removing full interest deductibility in the tax reform legislation being considered in Congress. The AGA...

Strip Shooting: High Court Ruling Has MGM in the Hot Seat

Not only is gaming giant MGM Resorts certain to be deluged with claims from victims of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. Now a panel of the Nevada...

Wynn-Okada Battle Heading to Trial

A Nevada judge says Wynn Resorts will have to prove to a jury that it acted properly five years ago when it forcibly redeemed Kazuo Okada’s 20 percent stake...

MGM Springfield Project Moving Aggressively

The MGM Springfield is looking at a fall of 2018 opening. The $960 casino project in the heart of Massachusetts’s third largest city is moving aggressively to make that...

Caesars Completes Planet Hollywood Makeover

The Strip resort has 2,496 new hotel rooms thanks to a $100 million investment―the first installment of a program that has Caesars renovating its entire Las Vegas portfolio of...

Connecticut Challenges Foxwoods’s Class II Games

The Pequot tribe has about 100 electronic Class II bingo machines sitting in the Foxwoods Resort Casino (l.) ready to be turned on. This has set off alarm bells...

Massachusetts Casinos Rising Rapidly

The Wynn Boston Harbor near Boston and the MGM Springfield (l.) are both rising rapidly from their building sites. The Wynn is due to open in 2019 and the...

Florida Senator Proposes Limited Gaming Bill

Florida state Senator Travis Hutson (l.) proposed legislation that would define daily fantasy sports contests as player rather than team based; allow decoupling; lower slot taxes; and permit designated...

FinCEN Slams California Card Club With Huge Fin

FinCEN last week issued $8 million penalty on California Card Club for willful violation of anti-money laundering controls. The agency claimed that Artichoke Joe’s Casino turned a blind eye...

MGM Laying Off Hundreds at Mandalay Bay

Business is down at the Strip hotel where a gunman staged the worst mass shooting in U.S. history and owner MGM Resorts is cutting jobs in response. Insurers, meanwhile,...

Firm Seeking Atlantic City’s Closed Revel Casino’s Buys Adjacent Land

Though New York-based Keating & Associates LLC, which is seeking to buy the closed Revel Atlantic City casino, does not appear to be the frontrunner for the property, it...

New Jersey CRDA to Pay $5.6 million Towards Trump Plaza Demolition

New Jersey's Casino Reinvestment Development Authority has preliminarily approved a $5.6 million payment to billionaire Carl Icahn towards the demolition of his closed Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City....

Atlantic City’s New Mayor Inherits the Good and the Bad of the Last Four Years

Atlantic City voters have elected a new Mayor after four tough years for outgoing Mayor Don Guardian. Frank Gilliam Jr. (l.) will now head a resort with several new...

Stakeholders Align Ahead of Sports Betting Case

The American Gaming Association previews the U.S. Supreme Court case challenging the federal ban on sports betting, as suppliers, operators and states jockey for position in anticipation of legal...