Hard Rock Casino to be Built in Sioux City, Iowa

April 18, 2013 Casino
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Next time you’re in Iowa, don’t be so down… there’s betting to do! Sioux City Entertainment will build a Hard Rock Casino in northwest Iowa’s Sioux City after the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission awarded a gambling license to them on Thursday. The new casino will replace the flailing Argosy Sioux City riverboat casino. Penn [...]

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Maryland Passes Bill Allowing Ex-Cons to Work in Casinos

April 3, 2013 Casino
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If you’re hoping to score big in a Maryland casino, you may want to bring your pepper spray. In a move to open thousands of middle-class jobs to former offenders, the General Assembly gave final approval Wednesday to legislation that would allow Maryland casinos to hire some people currently banned because of criminal records. This [...]

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Wynn Unveils Rendering of $1.2 Billion Massachusetts Resort Casino

March 29, 2013 Casino
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Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn has unveiled an artist’s rendering of a $1.2 billion proposed resort casino in Everett, MA. The rendering shows a high-rise building on the banks of the Mystic River, connected to what appear to be restaurants and retail stores along a riverwalk. Wynn said that his new hotel, which is still [...]

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‘Resorts World Las Vegas’ Casino to Become a Reality?

March 5, 2013 Casino
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Genting’s plan to build “Resorts World Las Vegas” took a big step forward when the Malaysian company announced that it will purchase the plot of land where Boyd Gaming had abandoned its Echelon project. Before the big economic crash, the northern end of the Strip was to become a booming area of multi-billion dollar casinos, [...]

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Scientific Games Buys Out Slot Machine Maker WMS for $1.4 Billion

January 31, 2013 Casino
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Gaming machines maker WMS Industries Inc. is being bought out by rival Scientific Games Corp. for $1.42 billion in cash and debt, a deal highlighting the consolidation in the casino industry driven by gaming demand from emerging markets such as China. Scientific Games, a company that primarily makes instant lottery tickets and software, is expanding its scope [...]

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Lotto Winner Urooj Khan Poisoned

January 9, 2013 Casino
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In a twist of tragic fate, an Illinois man dropped dead last July, just one day after receiving a check for $425,000 (minus taxes) on a $1 million lottery scratcher win. The death was determined to be of natural causes until a family member asked for further investigation and it was found that 46-year-old Urooj [...]

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December 2012 Good for Casinos, Especially Macau

January 3, 2013 Casino
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While most industries are slowly recovering from a world-wide recession, Macau, the world’s largest casino market, raked in $38 billion (23.2 billion pounds) in annual gambling revenues in 2012 after monthly revenues for December hit a record 20% growth. Macau is the only place in China where visitors are able to legally gamble in casinos, [...]

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MIT Blackjack Card Counter Receives Mixed Ruling

November 2, 2012 Casino
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Laurie Tsao was one a part of the MIT blackjack team that was portrayed in the Hollywood film, “21.” Last Tuesday an appeals court ruled on Tsao’s trespassing case, put forward by Caesars Entertainment. As a member of the MIT blackjack team, Tsao had been banned from Caesars properties for being an “Advantage Gambler.” But [...]

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Hurricane Sandy Closes Atlantic City Casinos

October 29, 2012 Casino
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Nicknamed “Frankenstorm,” Hurricane Sandy is making a direct hit on the United States second largest gambling destination, with mandatory evacuations being ordered for Atlantic City’s casinos. The boardwalk is like a ghost town now as flooding and ounding waves have already broken up sections of the Atlantic City boardwalk, according to photos posted to social media. Once the [...]

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Berkley Law Students Decapitate Casino’s Bird

October 17, 2012 Casino
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Two men were jailed in Las Vegas last Friday and face felony charges of conspiracy and the willful malicious torture or killing of wildlife. Justin Teixera, 23 and Eric Cuellar, 24, are both law students who, according to Las Vegas police, were witnessed by someone at the Flamingo Casino with a dead bird that had [...]

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