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New Jersey Blackjack Player Sues Hard Rock Hotel for Confiscating His Winnings
Mr. Kho Claims the Only Reason His Winnings Were Taken Was Due to Card Counting A man is suing the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas because he says the casino stole $3,600 in blackjack winnings from him. The Hard Rock’s management agrees they did not allow the...
Harold Holder Stripped of Gaming License for His Rural Nevada Casinos
Harold Holder Also Owned Sharkey’s Casino until Recent Months Harold Holder, the owner of a pair of Nevada casinos, will have to surrender his license to operate the casinos. Holder’s casinos are alleged to have kept less han the required bankroll on...
Report on Stockton University’s Ill-Fated Purchase of The Showboat Casino Released
Herman Saatkamp Resigned in April, When Rancor over the Deal Reached Its Peak A four-month probe into Stockton University’s $18 million purchase of the closed Showboat casino in Atlantic City assigned blame to several parties for the failed real estate deal....
Freedom Play Plans September 27 Anti-Gaming Protest at Plainridge Park Casino
Kris Mineau Giving Pro-Marriage Testimony in 2010 “Freedom Play”, an anti-gambling group which tried to repeal a gaming law in Massachusetts, is planning a protest outside the Plainridge Park Casino on Sunday, September 27. Kris Mineau, the Freedom...
Rand Paul Plans Campaign Stops for Two Nevada Casinos
Rand Paul’s Message of Self-Reliance and Low Taxes Should Find a Good Reception in Nevada Sen. Rand Paul planned a four-casino stop today in a four-city tour of Nevada. Two of the locations he plans to visit are local casinos. The libertarian candidate for...
Jeff Gural Presents New Plan for Tioga Downs to Gaming Facility Location Board
Tioga Downs May Be New York State’s Next Full Casino, If Jeff Gural’s License Is Approved Tioga Downs owner Jeff Gural and his team of advisers appeared before the New York Gaming Facility Location Board on Thursday to make a second proposal about expanding...
Rob Goldstein Tells New York Audience Macau’s VIP Sector Is “Broken”
Rob Goldstein Said, “A model built on the very, very high end is more troubling right now.” When Rob Goldstein engaged in a question-and-answer session at the Bank of American-Merrill Lynch 2015 Gaming and Lodging conference today in New York City,...
Legal American Sports Betting Would Generate $12 Billion in Revenues Each Year
Manfred Told ESPN’s Outside The Lines, “Gambling in terms of our society has changed its presence on legalization.” American states are losing the proceeds of an estimated $12 billion a year industry by banning sports betting, according to one...
Anti-Online Gambling Candidates Not Doing Well in the U.S. Presidential Campaign
Most of the Anti-Online Gambling Candidates Took Part in the Early “Second-Tier” GOP Presidential Debate The anti-online gambling candidates among the candidates running for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Presidential Election in 2016 are not...
Caesars Interactive to Host Delaware Lottery Websites on Atlantic City Servers
Gavin Isaacs, Former CEO of SHFL, Became CEO of Scientific Games When His Noncompete with Bally Technologies Ended in June 2014 Caesars Interactive is now going to host Delaware lottery gaming on its Atlantic City servers, in a first-of-its-kind interstate online...
