Fri, Jan 22, 2010
The first casino resort opened in Singapore last week in a race that turned out to be over before it began. Genting’s Resorts World on Sentosa Island opened several of its hotels with the casino (l.) scheduled to open as soon at the Singapore Casino Control Board issues the license, probably sometime in March.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Investor Carl Icahn is the winning bidder in the Fontainebleau bankruptcy sale with an offer of $156.2 million. Other bids were rejected for not meeting qualifications. And previous suitor, Penn National Gaming didn’t even bid.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
An agreement between one of the owners of Detroit’s Greektown Casino and the Isle of Capri to bring the company in as a management consultant is rejected by the bankruptcy court. Randy Fine and the Fine Point Group may return.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
By inserting revenue from legalized slots at state racetracks, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear (l.) is putting the legislature on the spot. But a bill in the legislature that would change the state constitution to allow gaming is being opposed by the racetracks.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Don Marrandino, the president of Harrah’s Entertainment’s eastern region. He discusses his impressions of the Atlantic City market since his appointment six months ago.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
The gaming industry in Ukraine is dead and all but buried, but the government seems intent on keeping up the appearance at least of a possible future. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko (l), the favorite to win the presidency, isn’t likely to change anything.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
The beginning of the year can be very informative of the direction many companies will take for the following three quarters, not matter if it’s operators or suppliers.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
A bill from Union, N.J., Senator Ray Lesniak (l.) would put Jersey in the forefront of the flourishing online gaming industry, now illegal throughout the U.S. Lawmakers elsewhere, including Nevada, Florida and California, are also working to legalize the virtual games.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Slot and system manufacturer Bally Technologies announced that it is acquiring Scottsdale, Arizona-based Games4you LLC, the casino design firm formed by Jason Stage, the former slot design VP for Atronic Americas.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Spain is moving forward in its efforts to establish a regulated online gaming market. The challenge will be to draft a nationwide law that satisfies all the highly independent parties.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
The VIP rooms at the majority of Australia’s major casinos have been the last places in the country where players could smoke and play table games at the same time. That right may be coming to an end if anti-smoking activists get their way.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
It may be better in the Bahamas, but not for locals who wish to play in the casinos there. A commission studying the situation appears to have other pressing issues that are keeping it from tackling the problem.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Four Canadian gamblers who had signed voluntary self-exclusion agreements were recently fined for violating the bans, including one gambler who was fined twice.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
A new cooperation between two major players—one rooted in the traditional, regulated lottery world, the other conceived in the relative wilds of the online industry—could be the first milestone of the decade.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
In a joint venture with PhilWeb, the Philippines Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) has launched its first venture into online gaming.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Even though it wasn’t included in the initial Maryland slots legislation due to opposition from its legislative reps, Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (l.) wants to introduce a bill that would allow a location in Prince Georges County.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
The Iowa board in charge of issuing gaming licenses was being extra careful scrutinizing four plans for casinos to add to the 17 already in operation. Commissions pronounced themselves happy with two plans and unhappy with two others.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Rep. Marcel Black wants to give commercial casinos the right to offer all the games offered at tribal gaming halls. The Indians, who are not subject to state regulations, do not have to conform with stringent new state standards for bingo.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Kansas has been trying to attract a viable casino bidder for the right to build a state-owned but privately operated casino resort the Southeast zone, but the problem is that the minimum investment of $225 million is seen as too high. A state representative wants to do something about that.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
It must be an election year. Both parties in Illinois are blaming each other for a bill passed last year that could allow up to 45,000 slot machines in the state, and which has turned out to be unpopular.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
A Texas hotel chain owner is gathering signatures to put an issue on the ballot in Arkansas that would give him a monopoly on building casinos in the state.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Yet another “deadline” comes and goes in the long wait for a Big A racino operator. Governor David Paterson had pledged to make the announcement January 8.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Penn National Gaming Inc. is hedging its bets in Ohio. Although it has agreed to look at the feasibility of building a regional casino resort in Columbus, Ohio in another area than that specified by the constitutional amendment that the voters passed in November, it exercised its option and bought 24 acres in the city’s Arena District.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
A sharp increase in baccarat win has pulled Las Vegas casinos from the economic doldrums. The high stakes table game is popular with international “whales,” and though the house edge is small, in November, Las Vegas got lucky.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
New Jersey senator proposes plan to slash sales and room taxes by three-quarters at Revel Entertainment's upcoming Boardwalk casino. But a prominent Atlantic City union chief calls it “corporate welfare” and a bad deal for casino workers.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Dealers at Caesars have been attempting to unionize for the past two years, but a failure to compromise has left Caesars, the Transport Workers Union and the dealers at an impasse.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
As Reno resorts attempt to remain competitive despite the recession and the success of California tribal gaming, some gaming operators worry that prices are being cut too low.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Video gambling has been banned in North Carolina—except at the state’s Cherokee casino—so gaming operators are turning to video sweepstakes machines to generate revenue, despite hefty fees.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
The owner of two sites in Planet Hollywood’s Miracle Mile Shops, Krave nightclub and Harmon Theater, Krave Entertainment has filed for bankruptcy reorganization.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Since 2007, Florida lawmakers and Governor Charlie Crist have battled over terms of a tribal gaming deal. With a second compact in the dust, the tribe may now turn to the federal government to keep blackjack going at its South Florida casinos.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
The Seneca Gaming Authority of New York State says Michigan start-up is ineligible for a tribal gaming license. But the tribe's president disagrees, and has urged the company to press on in its plan for a Catskills casino.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
A Washington-based tribe, the Cowlitz Tribe, has a proposed casino project that is in limbo, subject to bills in Congress that would “fix” the Supreme Court’s “Carcieri” decision from last year that make it almost impossible for tribes recognized after 1934 to put land into federal trust.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
The Morongo Band of Mission Indians last week did a heavy lobbying effort on its fellow gaming tribes gathered at an annual conference in Palm Springs to try to change some minds about whether getting behind Internet poker is a good idea.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Governor Jan Brewer (l.) says that voters did not intend for Arizona tribes to purchase off-reservation lands and build casinos on them when they expanded gambling in 2002.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
After its seven-year contract with the United Auburn Indian Community ends in June, Station Casinos will cease management of the Thunder Valley casino in Sacramento, California.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
International Game Technology has named a former chief of global marketing for Hewlett Packard as its new chief marketing officer.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Hard Rock International has selected John Galloway to head the company’s global marketing efforts as vice president and chief marketing officer.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Kevin Seneca rose through the ranks to replace Jeffrey Gill, who served only four months. Gill replaces Barry Snyder Sr.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Slovenia-based hotel and casino operator Hit Group is bringing in what appears to be a rising talent to manage its largest and most prestigious property.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Testing and certification company Gaming Laboratories International continues its worldwide expansion with the recent approval of Chile’s national casino regulatory authority to serve that country’s casino sector.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Austrian supplier Apex Gaming is committing more resources to what it sees as the growing potential of the so-called street markets in Italy, Spain and Latin America.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Three companies involved primarily in niche online gaming segments have decided to form a collaboration that could just be the next online giant in the making.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
The upcoming Caribbean Gaming Show in the Dominican Republic will be attended by many gaming operators and manufacturers.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
FutureLogic plans to introduce its new CouponXpress printer at the International Gaming Expo in London this month.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Aristocrat Technologies has invited slot managers from more than 20 European casinos to take part in a three-day class on slot machine performance and techniques.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
PokerTek has a new client in Caliente, the Mexican gaming company that operates 59 properties in the country. PokerTek has installed eight PokerPro Texas Hold’em tables at two of Caliente’s casinos.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
David Barber, the lead enforcer on Alabama governor's anti-gaming task force, who helped lead raids on electronic bingo halls, resigned after hitting it big at a Mississippi casino.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board wants to start simple before adding the more exotic table games because regulators must understand the games.
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