Although there are fewer casinos there than just a few years ago, Atlantic City is still a vibrant and important gaming center in the U.S. market. World Casino News brings you up to the minute developments as multi-billion properties such the former Revel open close and are sold. We deliver breaking news on plans for gambling expansion and follow the burgeoning regulated online casino industry there as its momentum increases along with revenues.
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Paul Fireman has proposed to develop a new casino south of Liberty State Park should voters in New Jersey decide in November to allow casinos outside of Atlantic City. Fireman who had earlier been the head of R...
In the state of New Jersey, Assemblyman Ralph Caputo has announced he has plans to create a measure to explain, in detail, how the revenues from the gaming venues in the north of New Jersey will be utilized. Th...
The management team of Carl Icahn have filed a formal petition requesting permission to close the Trump Taj Mahal in October. The petition was filed today and asks the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement ...
Gambling operators in Atlantic City are trying to determine how to attract millennials to gaming venues as this category of individuals do not seem as interested in table games and slots like older generations....
When the state of New Jersey decided to approve online gambling legislation, many officials as well as opponents of the activity were opposed due to the risk of problem gambling. Despite regulations put in plac...
Billionaire and owner of the Trump Taj Mahal casino, Carl Icahn had announced earlier this month that he intended to shut down the troubled Trump Taj Mahal casino on October 10 as a result of the casino continu...
The referendum to move casinos out of Atlantic City goes to vote on November 8th and both opponents and proponents of the referendum are campaigning hard to sway voters to their side of thinking. Assemblyman Ra...
The Trump Taj Mahal has just a few more weeks in operation before the casino will shut its doors forever. Trying to capitalize on the closure of a competitor, the Resorts Casino Hotel has launched a promotion p...
The casino industry in Atlantic City has struggled as gross gaming revenues have declined by as much as fifty percent in the last decade. The city which has a monopoly on New Jersey’s casino industry saw four o...
Atlantic City has already witnessed the closure of four casinos since 2014 and will lose its fifth casino on October 10 when the Trump Taj Mahal casino shutsdown for good. Billionaire Carl Icahn decided to clos...
The $2.4 billion Revel Casino which opened in 2012 struggled to post profits and went into bankruptcy twice before finally shutting down in 2014. The Revel was one of the five casinos to shutdown in Atlantic Ci...
American casino table limit signage developer VisuaLimits has installed 155 of its two-sided VL-Focus live pit innovations with optical-analytics capabilities at the Borgata Hotel Casino And Spa in Atlantic Cit...
State revenues in New Jersey could get a much-needed shot in the arm if online poker is approved in neighboring Pennsylvania and then partners with the Garden State, where its underwhelming poker franchise has ...
The Republican governor of New Jersey has reiterated his support for a coming casino-expansion referendum that would allow areas in the north of the state to bid for the right to operate a pair of new casinos.
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The New Jersey referendum that will allow gambling to take place outside of Atlantic City, nearer to New York City, now has more opposition, this time coming from inside New York. A major union of the state as ...