After recently settling with the state of Missouri over a casino license issue, Pinnacle Entertainment announced that it was canceling plans to expand its L’Auberge du Lac casino complex near Lake Charles, Louisiana. The project, named Sugarcane Bay, carried an estimated cost of US$305 million and would have included a new riverboat casino to go [...]
The Australian government’s Productivity Commission recommendations are unlikely to be well received by the gambling groups Tatts and Tabcorp, which have exclusive retail wagering licences in some Australian states. The Age newspaper reports that the recommendations of the Commission place renewed pressure on the gambling companies, because it urges state governments to scrap their exclusive [...]
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One year on from Russia’s draconian bans on gambling in all but four remote regions, gambling is still apparently rampant despite police raids and other enforcement measures. Far from being game over, it appears that the popular pastime has simply moved underground, or has remodeled to exploit loopholes in the law, resulting in calls for [...]
OnGame, the world’s 6th largest online poker network, has just brought on the largest sports betting exchange, Betfair. Though the biggest exchange betting site, Betfair has had little luck when it comes to the online poker arena. A sponsor of the World Series of Poker Europe, Betfair regularly lags in the number 16 spot of [...]
TOKYO (AFP) – One of Japan’s top sumo tournaments began in Nagoya Sunday without live TV coverage and with fans staying away in disgust at a scandal over illegal gambling. The 15-day event opened only days after police raided 13 sumo stables and dozens of offices and houses for evidence linking wrestlers and stablemasters to [...]
Attempts to legalise intrastate online gambling in the state of New Jersey entered a new phase this week as Democratic Party lawmakers called for a gaming summit to reconcile competing proposals to put sports and Internet betting to a public vote in a referendum this fall. Last week land casino operators in the state were [...]
The Swedish state gambling company Svenska Spel has announced the departure of chief executive officer Meta Persdotter after a mere 18 months in office, giving no detailed reasons for her departure, or any indication as to her future plans. The ousting comes only a week after marketing director Tomas Agrell was given notice, although the [...]
Events 24, 26 and 27 are in the record books as three more bracelets were won at the 41st World Series of Poker in Las Vegas over the past 24 hours. The long-running event 24 – the $1,000 buy-in No-limit Hold’Em at last produced a winner after 4 days of hard grinding poker when Jeffrey [...]
Perth, Ontario pro Scott Montgomery (28) emerged victorious Wednesday night in World Series of Poker event 36, a $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em competition contested by an initial field of 3,102. It was the culmination of four tough days of highly competitive poker which saw the final nine survivors return to the tables for the last [...]
