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Sands Casino Bethlehem faces fines for mixing playing cards

November 22, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation, Pennsylvania

When casino regulations are violated, the gaming venue must pay the consequences. The Sands Casino Bethlehem is the latest gaming venue in the United States to face a fine after state gaming regulators found th...

AZ Gov offers tribe deal to expand gaming at Glendale casino

Kim M

November 22, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Gaming Law & Legislation, Tribal Gaming, Arizona, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation

An agreement that would lift restrictions on the Tohono O’odham Nation’s Desert Diamond West Valley Casino and Resort in Glendale and give additional gaming opportunities to 10 other tribes in the state was ann...

Fight over the Hollywood Casino liquor license heats up

Kim M

November 20, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Tribal Gaming, California, Licenses, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation

Despite considerable traffic delays and several crashes that were reported by local media on the opening day of the long-awaited Hollywood Casino Jamul, the $460 million casino has not contributed to any seriou...

Kazuo Okada’s Universal Entertainment loses defamation case against Reuters Japan

Renee Kingsley

November 18, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Japan, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation, Philippines

Billionaire Kazuo Okada, the chairman of Japanese based Universal Entertainment, had filed a case against the Japanese division of Thomson Reuters Corp and three journalists on defamation charges back in Decemb...

Five states join New Jersey’s effort to legalize sportsbetting

Adam Morgan

November 15, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Sports betting, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation, New Jersey

New Jersey has received some significant support in its fight against the Professional And Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) of 1992 after five states presented themselves as “amici curiae”, or friends of t...

Borgata Casino legal counsel wants Phil Ivey and Cheung Yin Sun to pay back $15 million

Renee Kingsley

November 13, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Poker, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation, New Jersey

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The on-going legal battle between poker pro Phil Ivey and Atlantic City’s Borgata Hotel and Casino has been well documented over the last couple of years. Towards the end of October, U.S. District Court Judge N...

Hacker begins publishing hacked Casino Rama data; $50M class action lawsuit may be filed Monday

Lars Jones

November 13, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Canada, Ontario, Data Protection, Canadian Tribal, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation

The Casino Rama Resort in Ontario, Canada announced Thursday that the facility had suffered a data breach that could have compromised information going back as far as 2004. One day later a class action lawyer b...

Mismanaged EB-5 investment for visa program in South Dakota spawns lawsuits, criminal charges

Lars Jones

November 13, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Economy/Finance, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation, Financial Fraud, South Dakota

Financiers of the Deadwood Mountain Grand resort are suing a group of developers that turned the former Homestake gold mining slime plant in overlooking Deadwood, South Dakota into a luxurious hotel and casino ...

Crown’s Barangaroo casino project threatened by Millers Point Fund lawsuit

Renee Kingsley

November 12, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Australia, Casino project updates, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation

The Barangaroo casino project in New South Wales (NSW) has been hit with a number of delays ever since Crown Resorts proposed to build the $2 billion casino resort in 2012. The Land and Environment Court is exp...

Seminole Tribe of Florida can keep blackjack at casinos

Kim M

November 10, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Tribal Gaming, Florida, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation

The federally recognized Seminole Tribe of Florida has won the right to keep offering blackjack at its Florida casinos. After a five-year exclusivity clause in the 2010 compact between the Seminole Tribe and...

Former cage manager ordered to re-pay Macau VIP junket operator

Adam Morgan

November 8, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Macau, Crime, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation

In Macau, a court has ordered a former casino cage manager for junket operator Dore Entertainment Company Limited to repay $12.9 million she allegedly stole from a VIP room at the Wynn Resort Casino Macau in Se...

Poker Pro Phil Ivey loses Crockford Casino appeal and winnings of more than $10 million

Renee Kingsley

November 4, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Poker, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation, United Kingdom

Poker Pro Phil Ivey is one of the most accomplished and decorated poker players in the history of the gaming having won 10 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and more than $23.5 million in career prize mone...

Gran Casino Teatro Balear wins court decision

Kim M

November 4, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Casino project updates, Licenses, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation, Spain

A legal challenge by the Casino Platja de Palma has been rejected by the Superior Court of Justice in the Balearic Islands in Spain, which ruled in favor of the decision by the executive branch to allow the Gra...

Federal judge postpones injunction against coming Dominican Republic casino

Adam Morgan

November 3, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Casino project updates, Dominican Republic, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation

In the Dominican Republic, a federal judge has postponed the implementation of an injunction against Hard Rock International and its plan to build a 38-story hotel tower featuring a 23,000 sq ft casino in the c...

Regulators warning Florida card rooms, “Change the way games are played”

Lars Jones

November 3, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Poker Law, Florida, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation

The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) has started to issue warning letters to card rooms at Florida parimutuels, telling them that the card games currently being played are too m...

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Sands Casino Bethlehem faces fines for mixing playing cards

AZ Gov offers tribe deal to expand gaming at Glendale casino

Fight over the Hollywood Casino liquor license heats up

Kazuo Okada’s Universal Entertainment loses defamation case against Reuters Japan

Five states join New Jersey’s effort to legalize sportsbetting

Borgata Casino legal counsel wants Phil Ivey and Cheung Yin Sun to pay back $15 million

Hacker begins publishing hacked Casino Rama data; $50M class action lawsuit may be filed Monday

Mismanaged EB-5 investment for visa program in South Dakota spawns lawsuits, criminal charges

Crown’s Barangaroo casino project threatened by Millers Point Fund lawsuit

Seminole Tribe of Florida can keep blackjack at casinos

Former cage manager ordered to re-pay Macau VIP junket operator

Poker Pro Phil Ivey loses Crockford Casino appeal and winnings of more than $10 million

Gran Casino Teatro Balear wins court decision

Federal judge postpones injunction against coming Dominican Republic casino

Regulators warning Florida card rooms, “Change the way games are played”

UK Lawmakers Press For Tax Shake-Up in Gaming Sector

SJM Confirms L’Arc Acquisition While Pulling Back From Ponte 16 Deal

Wisconsin Shelves Online Sports Betting Vote as Lawmakers Reassess Plan

Illegal Offshore Gambling Surges, Draining Billions from Australian Market

New York Gaming Commission Reconsiders Licenses for Prediction Markets