Tioga Downs Casino opened on Friday with fanfare. The event was complete with balloons, confetti, and a crowd of potential gamblers. Despite the celebration, many in Upstate New York wonder whether the new wave of casinos are going to bring a flood of cash to the region. In the ribbon
Lippo Group, an Indonesian conglomerate which has a partnership with Caesars Entertainment for a South Korean casino, is having trouble convincing its partners to make the necessary lands deals for the project to begin. In January 2013, Lippo Group joined with Caesars and a third party, LOCZ Korea, to develop
SugarHouse Casino in Philadelphia launched a website in September which operates in the New Jersey licensed online gambling industry. The site partners with Golden Nugget Atlantic City and is named PlaySugarHouse.com. In its first full month of business in October 2016, SugarHouse Online helped Golden Nugget stake a 25% share
Several legal cases involving the drug Abilify have been centralized in pretrial proceedings by a panel of judges. One of those cases involves a New Jersey man who claims he lost $75,000 gambling while taking Abilify, which he says gave him the urge to gamble. The man claimed he took
X (name redacted per GDPR), a former PokerStars employee, pleaded guilty to operating an illegal gambling business on Monday. In doing so, X was fined for his roll in the Black Friday scandal, but avoided a potential 5 years in federal prison. X, a 43-year old UK citizen, oversaw payment
A Powerball lottery ticket sold in Tennessee this weekend had the winning numbers for a $421 million jackpot. The winnings are expected to be one of the largest sums paid in lottery history. The original expected jackpot was $403 million, but a late surge in ticket buys caused the jackpot
Pennsylvania casinos are adding arcade-style gaming machines to their list of playable games. Rivers Casino is the latest brick-and-mortar casino to add "party pits" full of such games, in the hopes of attracting millennial-age gamblers. Gamblit Gaming, a California-based casino digital games developer, has developed the game Smoothie Blast, which
The United States Trustee Program disapproves of the Caesars Entertainment Corporation's bankruptcy reorganization plan for its operations division, CEOC. The United States Trustee Program is a government agency which oversees bankruptcy cases and private trustees under the auspices of the US Department of Justice. The Trustee Program's overseer rejected Caesars
William Hill USA is the first legal sportsbook in the United States to offer eSports betting. William Hill announced on Friday it would partner with the Downtown Grand Casino to accept wagers on electronic sports, which is the official name for competitive gaming on console, particularly video games. The first
The long-awaited merger of FanDuel and DraftKings has happened. The top two daily fantasy sports websites have been rumored to be in merger talks for months. Despite the expected merger, ESPN reported that the Federal Trade Commission might look into the merger, because the two companies control more than 80%
A man convicted of a 2012 assault blames the drinks he was served at a Pennsylvania casino for his behavior. The man, Nicholas Mullins, is suing the casino which served him the drinks. Nicholas Mullins gambled at the Bethlehem Sands Casino one night in 2012. While gambling, Mullins claims he
Reality TV star Jake Harris was attacked and beaten after leaving a casino in Washington state in a robbery attempt. The 33-year old Jake Harris is star of the Discovery Channel program, Deadliest Catch. The attack happened in Quil Ceda Creek Casino in Marysville, Washington. A passanger in the car
