New Jersey gaming regulators, after an intensive licensing investigation that lasted more than year, gave PokerStars approval to offer Internet gambling in the state on Sept. 30.
Inside Gaming
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As the gaming equipment manufacturing sector coalesced in the last two years through almost $17 billion in mergers, Joc Pececnik quietly watched with keen interest and personal insight.
One analyst decided to escape the mind-numbing overload of last week’s Global Gaming Expo and check out the resurgent Las Vegas locals gaming market.
The Downtown Grand missed the gaming resurgence that has boosted Fremont Street in the past 12 months.
JCM Global doesn’t attract the crowds to its Global Gaming Expo trade show booth in the numbers that swarm major slot machine manufacturers.
Not found among the list of discussion topics being covered during the Global Gaming Expo is the idea of a casinowide smoking ban.
Dan Lee and Jim Murren might be bumping into each other in unfamiliar settings.
Forty years ago, he wrote the betting lines in chalk at the old Royal Inn. Today, the lines are updated electronically via mobile sports wagering applications.
One gaming analyst isn’t waiting for MGM Resorts International to decide if it’s a good idea to split off all or a portion of the casino company into a real estate investment trust.
Derek Stevens could never pull off his antics if the privately held D Las Vegas were publicly traded. The D’s majority owner would have given the Securities and Exchange Commission fits with an in-house-produced video of a pseudo board of directors meeting posted to YouTube on Aug. 31.
The two keynote speakers at last year’s Global Gaming Expo angered half the audience. This year’s addresses are sure to infuriate the rest of the crowd.
We’re not a full year into the slot machine industry’s brave new world, and some members of the investment community have doubts about the future.
Station Casinos received a vote of confidence last week from Wall Street. It’s not like the company needed the endorsement.
BILOXI, Miss. — Ten years ago, I learned firsthand about Southern hospitality in the most unlikely of settings.
Last week the casino operator, which made tremendous strides toward completing the complicated restructuring of its bankrupt operating unit, committed public relations suicide.