World Casino News covers breaking news from around the globe. In this section we cover casino news. This is our main category which contains about 75% of all articles so you may see the same articles also appear in sub-categories or additional sections if more than one subject is prominent in the story.
This is a great section for readers to follow the progress of their favorite up and coming new casinos. We report on new casino proposals as the stories break and keep you in the loop if they hit snags. As the projects move from the drawing table to groundbreaking, and when construction and other milestones are reached, we'll let you know with casino project updates. Look for opening date announcements and coverage of grand openings here as well.
In this section, we also cover expansion projects, new hotel announcements, and casino closures. Look for the occasional cruise ship news here too. This is the section you will want to bookmark to stay abreast of all the Latest Casino and Gambling News, as it happens, anywhere in the world.
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 ...
In a game of semantics, Governor Steve Beshear of Kentucky called the online gambling domains “gambling devices” which are illegal in the US state. Beshear, through Secretary of the Justice Michael Brown, filed...
Sofitel has brought it's luxury brand and signature style to Macau's historic waterfront district with the opening of Sofitel Macau. The new development includes the ultra luxurious hotel with spa facilitie...
First Hurricane Gustav roared into the Gulf of Mexico and shortly behind Gustav came Hurricane Ike. With both storms being touted as having the potential to come ashore as Category 4 storms, evacuations wer...