At Wednesday’s Global Gaming Conference, industry big wigs revealed a bleaker-than-expected outlook for the land-based casino industry. According to a panel that included Harrah’s CEO Gary Loveman, IGT CEO TJ Matthews, Olympic Entertainment chairman Armin Karu and National Indian Gaming president Ernie Stevens, the current recession has many in the gambling world cutting back their [...]
Monday, GamArena operator Jadestone Networks announced its cooperation with Nordic game operator Paf as a launch partner for its new online-gaming venue DiceArena.
Jadestone Networks projects that, as an online casino specializing in dice games, DiceArena’s range of novel, multiplayer games will draw players away from many other Internet-gambling sites. To date, the company has [...]
World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association chairman Sir Rodney Walker has expressed concern over future association backing. The news comes after two major WPBSA sponsors, Saga Insurance and 888.com, pulled out of sponsorship contracts two weeks ago for the organization’s Masters and world championship tournaments, respectively.
The sponsors reportedly did so in reaction to betting [...]
Focus Information Agency, Bulgaria’s oldest privately held press service, reported Saturday that Brussels had begun pressuring Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev to reign in the new EU member state’s gambling scene.
The press agency charged that EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services Charlie McCreevy and others were impeding Sofia officials’ attempts to amend the [...]
Franklin County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Wingate again delayed a decision on whether 141 gambling-site domain names are forfeit to the Common- wealth of Kentucky Friday. Although Kentucky lawmakers originally sought a ruling at hearings last week, Wingate’s suspension now pushes any possible resolution in the case into early October.
The case is the result [...]
Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Bruner announced Friday that MyOhioNow.com had raised enough signatures to keep a gambling referendum on the Nov. 4 ballot. At issue is an amendment to the Ohio constitution that would allow casinos to operate in the historically anti-gambling state.
MyOhioNow.com, a limited liability company owned by Ohio residents Rick Lertzman [...]
