The chief executive of online gaming giant PokerStars agreed to forfeit $50 million to federal prosecutors to rid his himself of a two-year-old complaint filed by the U.S. government.
Casinos & Gaming
MACAU — In the nearly three dozen casinos in Macau, the world’s biggest gambling market, there’s only one game that matters: baccarat.
Boyd Gaming Corp., the primary sponsor of the annual NASCAR Nationwide Series race in Las Vegas, will now be reflected in the name.
Pinnacle Entertainment secured almost $3 billion in financing needed to complete its $2.8 buyout of rival regional gaming operator Ameristar Casinos.
Two restaurant cashiers at The Orleans filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday claiming that owner Boyd Gaming repeatedly forced them to work 30-to-45 minutes off the clock each shift.
With just more than a week before a crucial referendum on a Wynn Resorts Ltd. project, a group of volunteers and business owners are going door-to-door in a small Massachusetts town lobbying for the gaming company’s planned $1.2 billion casino-resort.
The Strip’s New York-New York, home to a faux Statue of Liberty and a scaled-down version of the Brooklyn Bridge, will soon house an 18-foot-tall replica of a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup and other over-sized candy brands.
Caesars Interactive Entertainment announced it was forming a social poker development studio to expand the free-to-play World Series of Poker game through its Playtika division.
The Stamis family has two weeks to round up the financing to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy before the main lender gets a chance to oust them from their long-time ownership of locals casino Jerry’s Nugget.
As expected, Las Vegas Sands Corp. has asked Clark District Judge Rob Bare to either reduce drastically, throw out entirely or order a retrial of the verdict won last month by former company consultant Richard Suen.
Remember the original “Star Trek” television series episode titled “Mirror, Mirror,” in which members of the Enterprise crew were transported to a parallel universe with an alternate reality?
The ability of a sports fan at almost any tavern in Nevada to get up from their burger, fries and beer and wander across the bar to wager on a football game or the fifth race at Hollywood Park is quickly coming to an end.
State gaming regulators cautioned the casino industry Monday about the use of Google Glass by customers, saying the wearable computers could be used as a cheating device by gamblers.
Federal antitrust regulators had few questions when a trifecta of casino industry mergers — just under $20 billion in combined value — created the Strip’s two largest corporate ownerships and a regional gaming giant nearly a decade ago.
Casinos in several states, including Nevada, are forbidding gamblers from wearing Google Glass, the tiny eyeglasses-mounted device capable of shooting photos, filming video and surfing the Internet.
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