A federal judge has granted a request from the four major U.S. professional sports leagues and the NCAA to at least temporarily stop New Jersey from allowing legalized sports betting.
Casinos & Gaming
ATLANTIC CITY — The battle over the future of the Trump Taj Mahal entered what could be its final phase on Friday as union picket lines went up outside the struggling casino, which even its would-be savior says is likely to close.
A sudden bylaw revision by Full House Resorts will make it difficult for shareholders seeking changes in the regional casino operator to call a special meeting before the end of the year.
ATLANTIC CITY — Billionaire investor Carl Icahn says the struggling Trump Taj Mahal casino “will almost certainly close.”
TRENTON, N.J. — Claims that New Jersey’s plan to allow legal sports gambling violates federal law are meritless, the state wrote in a court filing in response to efforts by four major U.S. pro sports leagues and the NCAA to stop gambling from beginning this weekend.
ATLANTIC CITY — One worker had to move up a double mastectomy before her insurance runs out in a week. Another says he can no longer afford diabetes medicine for his young son, and a third may have to do without medication for frequent asthma attacks.
State gaming regulators took the “soft launch” tag off the Real Gaming poker website Thursday, allowing the Internet presence for Michael Gaughan’s South Point to move forward after a nearly eight-month testing period.
M Resort owner Penn National Gaming said revenue and profits declined in the third quarter as regional gaming markets across the U.S. continued to under-perform.
BOSTON — Wynn Resorts is redesigning its proposed $1.6 billion resort casino in Everett and has scheduled a public meeting to discuss its cleanup plan for the heavily polluted former chemical plant site.
ATLANTIC CITY — Trump Entertainment Resorts is dropping its threat to close Atlantic City’s Taj Mahal casino on Nov. 13.
Regional casino operator Full House Resorts put itself up for sale Wednesday, more than a week after a shareholder group surfaced that was seeking to remake the Las Vegas-based company’s board and management.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. is angling to build a $1 billion hotel-casino development in the Philippines in an effort to break into the Asian gaming market.
ATLANTIC CITY — The CEO of Caesars Entertainment said Wednesday a new $125 million meeting center his company is building will help define Atlantic City’s future, even as he pointedly refused to say whether his company is done closing casinos there.
To paraphrase Monty Python, gaming expansion in Japan is apparently not dead yet. That’s good news to some of the world’s biggest casino operators, who view the Land of the Rising Sun as the Holy Grail.
TRENTON, N.J. — The four major U.S. pro sports leagues and the NCAA on Tuesday again urged a judge to stop the state from allowing legalized sports betting this weekend.
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