Last week legislators in the state of New York approved a plan to build seven new land-based casino properties in the Empire State. The plan, which has been heavily endorsed by the state's governor, Andrew Cuomo, will be put to a vote in a November election. New York expansion plan
Facing little opposition to his plan to put a casino in Everett, Massachusetts, a waterfront city located just beyond Boston's borders, Steve Wynn is likely to be a happy man after the outcome of a referendum on the matter to be voted on by residents here today. Wynn plans $1.2
Fresh off an emergence from bankruptcy protection, Revel Casino-Hotel in Atlantic City is poised to make notable changes as it looks toward a future that its operators hope will include profitability, something that has eluded the property in the little more than a year since it has been open to
Today ESPN announced via a press release that they will begin airing coverage of the 2013 World Series of Poker beginning on August 6. Coverage of the Final Table of the Main Event - arguably the most important televised presentation of a poker tournament to happen all year - will
On the eve of a special legislative session that has been called in the state of Illinois to address pension reform, there are many in the state who believe that in the absence of any kind of accord among the two houses comprising the legislature, the session will be little
In an unusual incident, a 23-year-old woman was shot inside a Wisconsin casino over the weekend. At around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday morning, shots rang out on the gambling floor of the Potawatomi Bingo Casino, located near downtown Milwaukee. "We all of a sudden heard a bang," said Milwaukee resident
Putting an end to a long-standing battle, the Seneca Indian tribe reached an agreement with the state of New York this week, with the tribe agreeing to share gambling revenue that was being withheld in protest of the installation of video lottery machines in commercial, non-tribal racetracks in the western
After nearly a month of silence with regard to the case, an appeal has been filed in the matter of PokerStars versus New Jersey's Atlantic Club Casino Hotel. Last month a New Jersey judge upheld the Atlantic Club's termination of a purchase deal between the struggling land-based Atlantic City casino
Last week the governor of the state of Illinois, Democrat Pat Quinn, called for a special legislative session for lawmakers to address the state's public employee pension crisis after the spring session wrapped up at the end of last month with no progress being made on that, or frankly any
The former chairman of online poker behemoth PokerStars has reached a deal with the United States government to settle his Black Friday case. Mark Scheinberg will forfeit $50 million in assets. Scheinberg's agreement with the federal government does not make clear what portion of the $50 million sum is comprised
Each month when the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement reports Atlantic City revenue numbers, the story sounds much like it has for the month before that, and likely, the month before that one, too. As Atlantic City's struggling gambling industry continues to limp along in the face of increasing
A Pennsylvania legislator who oversees a powerful state committee on gambling doesn't think the time is right for an online gambling bill in Pennsylvania. Rep. Tina Pickett - the chair of the Gaming Oversight Committee in the Pennsylvania House - told reporters that she was worried about "bringing gambling to
