The New Jersey Casino Control Commission postponed a vote Wednesday that could allow the American Gaming Association to participate in the licensing case of PokerStars’ purchase of a failing Atlantic City casino.
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Attorneys for online gaming giant PokerStars said an attempt by the American Gaming Association to block the company from buying a failing Atlantic City casino was a “thinly veiled anti-competitive campaign” to keep new ownership out of the market.
Nevada Gold & Casinos Inc. on Tuesday posted a third-quarter profit, as the company continues to pay down debt, adjust operations at its casinos and slot routes, and complete its restructuring program.
Timothy Poster resigned as chief operating officer of Wynn Las Vegas on Monday, less than a month after he was promoted to replace Maurice Wooden. Wooden is president of Wynn Las Vegas and Encore.
The Federal Trade Commission signed off Monday on the Scientific Games Corp.’s $1.5 billion acquisition of slot machine maker WMS Industries.
ATLANTIC CITY — In a pretty dismal month for Atlantic City’s casinos, there was some good news: The struggling Revel might be turning things around.
A Las Vegas-based gaming company has sent a letter to Toronto’s city manager expressing its interest in building a luxury casino-resort.
Last week’s news that Genting Group had bought the moribund Echelon property and would build out a $2 billion to $7 billion Strip hotel-casino complex was hailed as good news for recession-weary Las Vegas.
Kazuo Okada, chairman of Universal Entertainment Corp., and three other directors of the Japanese gaming company will be in Las Vegas next week for a closed-door hearing with Nevada gaming regulators, the Review-Journal has learned.
Gaming revenues in January fell 12.4 percent statewide and 18.7 percent on the Strip based on a challenging comparison to figures produced by Nevada’s resort industry a year ago.
NEWARK, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie says he’ll take the fight to legalize sports gambling in New Jersey to the U.S. Supreme Court, if necessary.
BMM Testlabs, the international gaming product testing laboratory company, celebrated its new relocated Las Vegas headquarters with a ribbon-cutting Thursday and plans to hire about 100 workers in the next two years.
MGM Resorts International terminated its agreement to manage a hotel-casino development in Vietnam that is partially owned by Pinnacle Entertainment.