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.
iMEGA filed a brief on Sept. 29 with the US Court of Appeals in yet another challenge to the UIGEA of 2006 that attempts to block online gambling transactions for US players. The new suit claims that the UIGEA ...
Restrictions on television advertising by bookmakers, casinos and online gambling sites were lifted last year in the UK. After the UK arms of both Yahoo and MSN opened themselves up to UK licensed gambling adve...
The riverboat was built in 1923 and served along the Ohio River for ten years. In 1933, it became a St. Louis passenger steamship and later on, an entertainment vessel. It was reincarnated in 1991 as one of the...
In the middle of this past May, Foxwoods Casino opened their $700 million dollar project, MGM Grand at Foxwoods, with a huge party attended by a number of celebrities. Two weeks later the Mashantucket Pequots w...
After surpassing Las Vegas revenues last year, Macau has reported a loss in gaming revenues for the first time. September revenues were reported to be down 3% over the same month last year. With most of the big...
When the plan was announced to have the final leg of this year's Asian Poker Tour a few months ago, it was meant as a bigger and better version of the event last held in 2006 with more players and a higher priz...
Despite the credit crunch and the need for creative financing by Chairman Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas Sands Corp. remains on track with the planned end-of-2009 opening of Singapore's Marina Bay Sands. The co...
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...