Fri, Feb 19, 2010
The second of Kansas’s four state-owned casinos has been approved to go forward. The Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission finished a background check last week and approved plans by Penn National Gaming Inc and International Speedway Corp. to build the Hollywood Casino just outside of Kansas City, as well as to Chisholm Creek, a casino near Mulvane, featuring partner Lakes Entertainment.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
State and federal inquiries will look at the closed-door deal, which losing bidders and the Senate minority leader say was the result of political favoritism. A Queens congressman says criticism of the multi-billion-dollar deal was sparked by racism. New York Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos (l.) wants a public hearing.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Wynn Resorts (Wynn Macau, left) has won a case in a Hong Kong court that establishes the principal that Macau casinos can legally collect a gambling debt in that jurisdiction.
Sat, Feb 20, 2010
As the governor charges a panel to seek solutions to save racing, a top lawmaker vows to kill any attempt to add slots to New Jersey racetracks. Senate President Steve Sweeny (l.) spoke before the Greater Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce last week.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
The opening of the new $300 million Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Oklahoma was celebrated last week with a ribbon cutting and a lighting of the flames on the Towers and Fire Rings sculpture at the casino’s entrance.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Melco Crown Entertainment receives refund on land it bought to build its third casino in Macau’s Peninsula area near the Macau ferry terminal (l.), effectively closing the door on any new casino.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
The only gaming facility in Las Vegas’ upscale Lake Las Vegas community has announced its plans to close, just one week after neighboring hotel Ritz-Carlton Lake Las Vegas said it plans to shut its doors.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
After years of inaction punctuated only by seemingly conflicting European court rulings, the E.U. appears to have found an internal market commissioner, Michel Barnier (l.), willing to get his hands dirty.
Sat, Feb 20, 2010
Less than one year after opening a casino that had been decades in the make, Laura Spurr, the tribal chairwoman of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi Indians, dies of a heart attack.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Guyana is getting its first five-star hotel along with its first official casino, thanks to the 2006 law that legalized casinos inside new hotel projects of 150 rooms.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features a discussion with Barry Shier, the managing principal with the Partner House, an independent management firm located in Las Vegas, on the former Wynn executive’s views of the gaming industry today.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Regional casinos were able to withstand the early stages of the recession much better than destination resorts. But now that economic woes have visited the heartland, how profitable can they remain?
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
A major casino resort project begun two years before the worldwide recession hit is now set to open at the end of the month. The incorporation of online gaming in the product mix may help to offset what could be a slower-than-originally-anticipated start.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Cambodian casino operator is talking with some Macau junketeers about delivering players to its Phnom Penh casino, NagaWorld (l.).
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Casinos are not yet legal in China proper. But should the day come, one Hainan leisure development will already have the infrastructure in place needed to make the conversion to casino resort.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
The first week after the opening of Resorts World Sentosa (l.) demonstrates that the government is rigidly enforcing its policies against underage gambling and feels paid by local residents.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Casino workers in Singapore may have to travel to nearby Batam, Indonesia for affordable housing.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
A huge leisure project that includes a casino to be managed by Harrah’s Entertainment is facing strong opposition from local groups and residents within the section of Bratislava earmarked for the development.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
New management at casinos in the former East German state of Saxony-Anhalt will have to get creative to make the businesses profitable. The exercise will be a good warm-up for the new owner’s planned mega-project there.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Not all new casino applications tout their indispensible value to the economy or boast the creation of hundreds of jobs. Sometimes a casino is just a casino.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Crown in Melbourne has added a complete renewal of its high-roller areas to the list of projects being undertaken at the flagship property. Details of the plan are being kept under wraps for now.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
After winning approval for a gaming license, the Metepenagiag First Nation is in the planning stages of a casino that the tribe hopes will boost the local economy.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Though Troy King (l.) did not exercise his prerogative to take charge of Bob Riley’s anti-gaming task force, he warned that more unwarranted casino raids could make him change his tune.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Unable to muster the votes for video lottery terminals at racetracks, Governor Steve Beshear (l.) makes one last plea to lawmakers.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Penobscot County gives thumbs-up to table games at Hollywood Slots, but a committee expressed reservations in a second vote. Behind it all: another proposed casino in the area.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
New York’s cash-strapped horse racing organization is willing to cut costs by cutting Big A training. What it’s not willing to do: cut top-level salaries.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Georgia’s House Speaker and the head of the racing industry’s leading body have been working since early 2009 to legalize racing in the state.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Casinos in Colorado’s three gambling towns have been approved to make the payout odds for hitting a blackjack more favorable to the house. They got the OK from the state’s Division of Gaming to allow the payout to change from a 3 to 2 payout to a 6 to 5 payout.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Fontainebleau lender Lehman Brothers is suing developer Jeff Soffer over loans that the resort never paid. Soffer is disputing Lehman’s claim.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
As part of the Station Casinos reorganization process, subsidiary GV Ranch Station Inc. has filed for bankruptcy.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Despite the bruising defeat of gaming expansion in Massachusetts in 2008, the prospects for casinos in the Bay State have never seemed brighter, with a possible vote in the House as soon as March.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Investigators for Pennsylvania’s regulators are recommending Ted Arneault (l.) be rejected for license renewal because of questions concerning “honesty and integrity.”
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Forums held at nearly a dozen communities around New Hampshire last week were the latest in a process to determine if gaming expansion should be approved in the Granite State.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Baccarat had a big year in Las Vegas, accounting for almost 10 percent of Nevada’s gaming revenue in 2009. But is baccarat’s success at blackjack’s expense?
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
A group opposed to a casino in Rohnert Park, near California’s Bay Area is challenging the chairman of the tribe that wants to build it, saying that he’s not a blood Indian.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
A grassroots organization that opposes a casino proposed by the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians in Amador County has filed a lawsuit with the federal courts challenging the tribe’s legitimacy.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
It’s not just the usual casino opponents who have lined up against the Guidiville Band of Pomo Indians’ proposal to build a mega-casino and development in Richmond, California. So are a lot of California tribes.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Norman H. DesRosiers, vice chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission ended his three-year term in January, the same month that a new commissioner, Steffani A. Cochran (l.), came on board.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
has made changes to its executive team.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Experienced gaming veteran Per Widerstrom will help guide internet gambling company PartyGaming as the company’s new chief operating officer.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Tribal watchdog group says the onetime anti-gaming activist-turned-casino official demanded $2M from architect that designed Buffalo Creek, but would have contributed nothing to the project.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Playing card manufacturer Cartamundi is proceeding with its strategy of international expansion. The Belgian producer has added a history-rich card producer to its arsenal, maker of the “Dali” playing cards (l.), to better serve the Spanish market.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Stargate SG-1, a progressive bonus video slot based on t he popular TV show and film, debuted in several casinos across South Africa.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
The casino surveillance industry will gather at the 5th annual World Game Protection Conference in Las Vegas this month to share tricks of the trade.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
MGM Mirage is following in the footsteps of rival Harrah’s Entertainment by upgrading their customer database and player loyalty program .
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
The international lottery division of GTECH and Czech lottery operator Sazka have extended their operation and maintenance contract to the end of 2022.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Gaming managers who apart of the International Facility Management Association will be able to network with each other in the new Casino and Gaming Facilities Community.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Resorts World Sentosa, which opened last week in Singapore, isn’t the only gaming option for residents and visitors. And the existing operations, such as gambling cruises (l.), aren’t taking the opening of the new casino lying down.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Table games dealers at Caesars Palace and Wynn Las Vegas have long struggled to obtain union representation, but after years of stalled negotiations, the future of unionization for gaming workers is uncertain.
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