The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood could be transformed into a full-scale casino with blackjack, roulette and craps under a bill approved by the Florida Senate on Thursday. On a 27-11 vote, the Senate voted to expand the 2007 gambling agreement between the Seminole Tribe of Florida and Gov. Charlie Crist in legislation [...]
Las Vegas Sands announced that the appointment of Jason Ader to its board of directors. Ader is the CEO of Hayground Cove Asset Management, an investment management firm he founded in 2003. Prior to founding that company, Ader was a senior managing director at Bear Stearns & Co. He has been ranked on Institutional Investor’s [...]
Today, programmers are gunning for the world’s best Texas Hold ‘em players. Forget Deep Blue’s mastery of bishops, queens and knights. Think pocket aces, open-ended straight draws, the flop – all calculated by increasingly popular poker bots. Last month, for the first time, a computer program beat top online poker players in a contest called [...]
In a significant turn of events that will have poker fans celebrating all over Texas, HB 222 was passed by the Texas House Committee last week. Jose Menendez’s bill, also known as the Poker Gaming Act of 2009, will allow new licenses to be created that enable secure venues to offer games of poker to [...]
Law enforcement officials will tell people that the reason they go after illegal gambling activity is because they are trying to uphold the law. Law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and a government attorney will split over $2 million that was seized while investigation former Teamster President John L. Neal. Observer Franklin Grover said: “While more violent [...]
Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. and Atlantic Coast Entertainment Holdings, Inc. today said they have signed a definitive agreement under which Pinnacle agreed to purchase the entities that own The Sands and Traymore sites in Atlantic City, N.J. from entities affiliated with financier Carl Icahn for approximately $250 million, plus an additional $20 million for certain tax-related [...]
Betfair, the world’s leading betting exchange, has reinforced its commitment to English cricket by becoming the Official Betting Partner to the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB). The agreement will allow Betfair to use the ECB logo on collateral, and also includes perimeter boards. Betfair will utilise its ECB and TMG sponsorships to raise brand [...]
Ladbrokes Casino recently had their award-winning commercials taken off the air after just a single member of the public complained that they glorified gambling. Now popular online bingo site are facing similar difficulties. A statement from the ASA said: ”We noted there was also a reference to chat rooms where you could ‘make new friends’, [...]
The smaller companies gambling sites, often with good quality offers themselves are being dominated. They are shut down because of the big companies taking all their gamblers and than get acquired and add to the big company that has even more profits and it goes on like that. In the past few years have shown [...]
The Government of Antigua and Barbuda has recently asked United States officials to allow online casino operators based in their country to travel in and out of the U.S. freely. This plea comes in the wake of several arrests of online casino operators over the past several months. These arrests, combined with the passing of [...]
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