Las Vegas Sun Stories: Gaming Nevada gaming revenue tops 1 billion in January Nevada’s casino gaming win dipped by 2.05 percent in January but still broke the $1 billion mark, the state Gaming Control Board reported today. Although a drop from January 2017 — about $1.03 billion to ... more info... ...

Casino News Today VIGE2018: 30 May – 1st of June VIGE2018 will include 3 dedicated conferences, iGaming Knowledge Seminar, Innovation Talks Live and Millennial Gaming Forum. VIGE (Vienna International Gaming Expo) is a unique yearly event which brings together the online gaming industry from +60 countries and facilitates networking and learning....

Casino News Daily Dennis Blieden Leads 13 Players into Day 5 of WPT LAPC Championship The field of this year’s edition of the WPT L.A. Poker Classic $10,000 Championship was whittled down to just 13 contenders from a 493-strong field. Dennis Blieden, a player with two previous live tournament cashes, will be leading the pack of survivors into...

Casino News Daily João Vieira and Leo Margets Join Winamax’s Team of Sponsored Players ahead of Spanish Launch If there were any doubts that Winamax was very serious about its expansion across Europe, the French online poker room has been doing its best to clear these completely. It announced on Tuesday that two more non-French poker pros have...

Casino News Daily Atlantic City Labor Union Pens Agreement with New Trump Taj Mahal Casino Owner Officials for labor union UNITE HERE Local 54 and casino operator Hard Rock International have signed a “card count neutrality” agreement, the Press of Atlantic City reported. The agreement could help the union return at the former Trump Taj Mahal...

Casino News Daily Ladbrokes, Paddy Power, bet365, and CrownBet Bid for William Hill’s Australian Gambling Business William Hill has received four offers from fellow gambling operators for its Australian business, the Australian Financial Review reported on Monday. The winning bidder is set to undergo due diligence before the end of the week and...

Casino News Today BetterBetting announces its BETR token listing on HitBTC exchange BetterBetting, a blockchain-based, decentralised peer-to-peer sports betting system, recently announced its eagerly awaited listing on the HitBTC exchange. HitBTC, a global trading platform with multi-currency support, has been operating as a major exchange since...

Casino News Daily Melco Looks For Cyprus Casino Resort Staff Casino operator Melco Resorts & Entertainment and its partner Cyprus Phasouri (Zakaki) Limited have begun searching for staff for their €550-million integrated resort, currently under development in the Cypriot city of Limassol. The developers have recently opened the first job...

Casino News Daily More Details Shed on Greece’s New $8-Billion Casino Resort After the Greek Council of State gave last week the green light to the Hellenic Gaming Commission to prepare and launch a bidding process for casino operators interested to join the $8-billion plan for an integrated resort near Athens, more details about the gaming portion...

Casino News Daily Poker Tournaments Starting February 26-March 4 This week’s poker tournaments overview includes events that are set to take place in Pennsylvania, Florida, Nevada, California, and the Czech Republic, all equally exciting destinations and all promising equally exciting opportunities for both poker pros and recreational players....

Casino News Daily John Misirian Leads after WPT L.A. Poker Classic $10,000 Championship Day 1 The 2018 edition of the WPT L.A. Poker Classic $10,000 Championship kicked off on Saturday at Commerce Casino. As many as 475 entries registered for the prestigious tournament during its first day, but only 282 of them will progress into Day 2, which...

Casino News Daily A Casino Could Secure Convention Center for Sunshine Coast, City Council Believes The possibility for the addition of a casino as part of the Maroochydore Central Business District development project is still being discussed by the Sunshine Coast Council, despite recent comments by Mayor Mark Jamieson that a facility of this...

Casino News Daily Tyler Groth Wins WSOP Circuit Rio Las Vegas $365 Pot-Limit Omaha Last summer, Tyler Groth captured his first WSOP gold bracelet for winning a $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event at Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Last night, the player captured his first WSOP Circuit gold ring for winning another Pot-Limit Omaha event,...

Casino News Today Fair Play Bets signs agreement with Microgaming Following ICE, Fair Play Bets’ agreement creates stronger entertainment destinations with Quickfire, powered by Microgaming. Fair Play Bets, operator of multiple reputable online casinos, has ramped-up its world-class offering on its VegasPlay.com and DiamondWorldCasino.com casinos...

Casino News Daily Unregulated Operations Drive Growth in Sweden’s Gambling Sector in 2017 Sweden’s regulated market was worth SEK17.07 billion (approximately $2.09 billion) in 2017, latest figures released by the Swedish Gambling Authority, Lotteriinspektionen, show. Regulated gambling operations recorded a 1% decrease from a year earlier. Svenska...

Casino News Today SiGMA 2018 Selling Out Fast With the ink barely dry on the final dates for SiGMA 2018, the available expo space is going fast. Even at a glance, the floor plan is filling up fast. As things stand, 80% of the available space has already been assigned. This already makes the show, scheduled for 28-30 November, an essential calendar...

Casino News Today FAUNUS AFFILIATE NETWORK HOSTS THE SECOND CRYPTO AFFILIATE & MARKETING CONFERENCE Following the success of Crypto Affiliate & Marketing Conference (CRAC) 2017, the event is to gather ad networks, crypto trading brokers, gambling operators, ICO founders, exchanges, cryptocurrency developers and affiliates in Prague once...

Casino News Daily WSOP Main Event Champions to Clash at the Bicycle Casino Next Week Former WSOP Main Event Champions will be the stars of the Live at the Bike! poker web show next Thursday and Friday, it has been announced. They will clash in cash games at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, California and action will be streamed live on the Twitch...

Casino News Daily Jeju Shinhwa World to Open Casino on February 25 Jeju Shinhwa World, an integrated resort recently built and launched on South Korea’s Jeju Island, is set to open a foreigners-only casino on February 25 after multiple previous delays, developer Landing International revealed in a Wednesday filing. Earlier that day, the company...

Casino News Daily Casino Company’s Visit to Sunshine Coast Promoted by Queensland Government The Queensland government confirmed that it had promoted the recent visit to the site of the Maroochydore Central Business District by executives of Malaysian casino operator NagaCorp, local news outlet the Sunshine Coast Daily reported earlier today....

Las Vegas Sun Stories: Gaming Winning bid tossed in Pennsylvania casino license auction Las Vegas Sands Corp. submitted the highest bid Wednesday in an auction for the rights to Pennsylvania's fourth mini-casino license, but ... more info... ...

Las Vegas Sun Stories: Gaming Las Vegas Sands wins auction for Pennsylvania mini-casino The owner of Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem has won the rights to build a mini-casino on the other side of Pennsylvania. The Morning Call of Allentown reports that ... more info... ...

Casino News Daily Las Vegas, Macau Casino Revenue Comparison Report (with Infographic) The following infographic includes information about the state of Las Vegas and Macau’s casino industries between 2007-2017. The decade in question included periods of sharp economic downturn in both cities that were followed by what are believed to be periods...