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Duke Enters NCAAM Season as Title Favorites, Bettors Like Michigan State
The top-ranked Duke Blue Devils are the consensus favorite among college basketball analysts to be the team to beat for the 2017-18 NCAAM season. After being upset by South Carolina in the round of 32 during March Madness, the Blue Devils return...
Raiders President Advises Las Vegas on Prospects for Landing Super Bowl, NFL Draft, World Cup
The Oakland Raiders are three years away from playing in their new $1.9 billion stadium just off the Las Vegas Strip, but the team’s president is already thinking about how it could host future Super Bowls and World Cup events. Marc Badain...
Czech Republic Casino Owner Leon Tsoukernik Countersues Aria and Matt Kirk in Dispute Over $3 Million Poker Table Loan
After remaining mostly silent about losing $3 million in a high-stakes poker game to Matt Kirk in May, King’s Casino owner Leon Tsoukernik has decided to let his lawyers speak for him. In a lawsuit counterclaim filed Wednesday against the Aria in...
Stars Group Eyes Pennsylvania after Strong Third Quarter
The Stars Group reported large year-over-year increases in both revenues and earnings in the third quarter, allowing the company to reconfirm its previous financial estimates for the 2017 fiscal year. The results sent the company’s stock rising on Thursday, as traders responded...
OJ Simpson Banned by Cosmopolitan on Las Vegas Strip, Sportsbooks Could Resume Parole Odds
OJ Simpson and a group of friends were removed from a bar inside the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas sometime around midnight Wednesday night or early Thursday morning. The casino resort did not say why security escorted Simpson off the premises, but those...
Paradise Papers Show German Banks Flouted Law to Process Online Gambling Payments
Several German financial institutions have been caught up in the Paradise Papers leak after reports that they have been illegally processing payments to online casinos that are not allowed to operate in the country. According to a report by German newspaper Süddeutsche...
Golden Entertainment Eyes Expanded Gambling Opportunities in Pennsylvania
Recent Las Vegas Stratosphere casino buyer Golden Entertainment is now considering options across the country in Pennsylvania. Under the auspices of its Golden Route distributed gaming division, the operator is ready to jump into the newly expanded gambling scene in the Keystone...
Idaho Casino CEO Arrested for Battery after Allegedly Attacking Brother
Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort Hotel CEO Francis SiJohn was arrested on Tuesday morning on allegations of battery. According to a report in the Spokesman-Review, police say that the victim of the attack was his brother, former Coeur d’Alene tribal police Chief Cody...
Matthew Levinson Reportedly Out as New Jersey Casino Control Commission Chair
Matthew Levinson, the chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission (CCC) since 2012, reportedly won't be reappointed to the position. That's according to ROI, a business news source that covers New Jersey. Levinson's five-year term was due for renewal in August,...
Las Vegas Casinos Changing ‘Do Not Disturb’ Policies in Wake of Shooting
After the October 1 shooting at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas, one point of speculation was that shooter Stephen Paddock may have been able to more easily prepare his attack by leaving a “do not disturb” sign on...
