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The group’s co-Chief Executive Officer, Jim Ryan, said that it aims to create a portal for Bwin.Party with the US companies so that it is poised to enter a legalized and regulated online gambling industry. “We have to be ready for both federal or state,” he said in an interview. “It feels good to have American taxpaying companies finally driving this.”Party Gaming, before it merged with Bwin to become bwin.party, was once considered the king of US online poker and...
After Tropicana Casino and Resort won state regulatory approval to put slots and table games inside its mall-like shopping and entertainment center, Harrah’s Resort plans to add gambling at The Pool, the dome-covered swimming and nightclub area.In another quest for gamblers, Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino is pushing the affordability theme by introducing two new table games that offer low-stakes wagering. They include a 50-cent roulette wheel and a us$ 3 craps table. Those games are in addition to four...
Number of the day8.7 percentThat's how much Las Vegas casino gambling revenue fell in August, ending three months of gains. Betting declined to $496.9 million on the Strip, Nevada's Gaming Control Board said Tuesday. Revenue is up 5.2 percent for the first eight months of 2011 from a year earlier as the city stages a bumpy recovery from a record two-year drop in gambling and conventions.Hear hereIt's a pretty inexpensive way to use other people's money.Greg McBride, an analyst for...
After the refusal by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) to give Full Tilt Poker a gaming license, new details have emerged about the extent to which the poker site lied to their regulator and let their players down.The fact that the chief of the AGCC didn’t know that something wrong was going on at Full Tilt Poker until Black Friday’s events back in April, demonstrates just how successful the site’s directors were in covering their tracks, and betting shop...
The transaction is subject to the parties' completion of a definitive agreement. The MOSAIC project involves the modernization of systems and integration of Holland Casino's casino management tools across all of its properties in the Netherlands using IGT's Systems solutions. The LOI was signed on Wednesday, Oct. 5 by Patti Hart, IGT CEO, and Dick Flink, Holland Casino CEO, in front of a packed audience in IGT's booth at the Global Gaming Expo (G2E) in Las Vegas.IGT is incredibly proud...