Our Casino News section is where you will find breaking news and updates on important developments as they unfold. Look to this section to learn what is happening today and beyond with casino proposals, project updates, openings, expansion projects, closures, and even casino cruise ships. We cover the entire world in this section with the latest news front and center. As new articles are published, they take the top positions.
Stay on top exciting new prospects or follow along as controversies bubble up or the tug of wars develop. Often you'll see casino project updates appear in another section as well when lawsuits and litigation rear their heads. And sometimes you can follow a proposal through all of its steps from concept to licensing to the grand opening announcement and celebration. Looking for a topping out ceremony? This is the place!
Most casinos don't last forever. Sometimes they'll move from the river to land, they might be imploded to make room for something fresh and new, or what may have seemed like a great concept just can't make the numbers and closes after a year. Look for breaking and sometimes sad news about casino closures in this section.
The Fitzgeralds Casino/Hotel, a Reno landmark since 1976, will close on November 30 putting almost 500 employees out of work. It is expected to re-open in two or three years after extensive renovations but the ...
After two hugely successful events this year, the Asian Poker Tour has announced that the first leg of next year's tour will be held from January 27 to February 1, 2009 at the Dusit Thani Manila Hotel in Makati...
September saw a 15.1% decrease in casino revenues over the same month last year. It is the largest single month decline in the entire 30 years since Atlantic City opened its first casinos. This makes a 6.3% dec...
Las Vegas Sands shares have lost over half of their value during this turbulent year putting the company in jeopardy of violating its lender covenants. Chairman and main shareholder, Sheldon Adelson, used perso...
A class action lawsuit was filed in the US District Court of New York this past month that alleges ten members of the Vanguard Group management violated US racketeering laws, causing investors to become owners ...
In what was probably the toughest field in Asia's relatively short poker tournament history, 20-year-old Yevgeniy Timoshenko from the United States took the final table and top prize with a pair of ladies. ...
This is the first year for the SkyCity Festival of Poker and the promoters are aiming big with the goal of offering a million dollar prize pool. With the number and caliber of the poker professionals that plan ...
One of the online gambling industry's biggest players has had three of its core operations pass the strict Safe and Fair accreditation process offered by eCommerce and Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance (eC...
Joyland Casino is an online casino offering new players a $25 free bonus just for registering without having to put up a matching deposit. A Canadian woman, Sylvia P., used that bonus money to play the Beac...
US Congressman Barney Frank has been lobbying for remedies to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) practically since the day it passed. He was a vocal opponent to the original legislation ...
New laws went into effect the first of September that allowed cash poker games to be played in Italy legally. Since over two million citizens had played at an online poker site at least once when it was still a...
The rumors have been flying for months in New York and Las Vegas but weren't officially confirmed until August 27. Las Vegas Sands Corp. bought back the leased space from the club's owner, Jay-Z, for an und...
Tight credit markets have forced yet another gambling company to postpone beginning a project in the United States. MGM Mirage is delaying the start of construction on the $5 billion dollar MGM Grand Atlant...
Known as the “father of riverboat gaming”, Bernard “Bernie” Goldstein is the current chairman of the board of Isle of Capri Casinos Inc. Goldstein was instrumental in lobbying for the original riverboat gaming ...
Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson has often gone in the opposite direction of the rest of the gambling industry and he's continuing that tradition even in these uncertain economic times. While casino projects ...