6738 stories by Devin O'Connor
New Jersey Judge Sides With Atlantic County in Casino Tax Dispute
New Jersey Superior Court Judge Michael Blee this week upheld a lower court's ruling that found the state's new payment-in-lieu-of-tax (PILOT) arrangement with the nine casinos in Atlantic City violated a 2018 consent order. Superior Court Judge Joseph Marczyk fielded Atlantic County's...
Macau China Labor Day Holiday Subdued, Enclave Counts Only 92K Visitors
Macau welcomed around 92,400 visitors during the first three days of China's annual Labor Day holiday. The 2022 May 1 holiday celebrating the working class was lengthened from its traditional three-day period to five days by the People's Republic government. Macau kicked...
Rivers Casino Philadelphia Maintaining Indoor Smoking Ban
Rivers Casino Philadelphia has voluntarily decided to eliminate indoor smoking from its gaming floor. The ban brings the Fishtown casino into harmony with Parx, another Philly-area casino located just north of the city proper in Bensalem, Pa. Pennsylvania's Clean Indoor Air Act...
Atlantic City Casino Smoking Ban Would Hurt Gaming Revenues Up To 25 Percent, Analyst Projects
An Atlantic City casino smoking ban would have a devasting consequence on gaming revenue, or so says an analyst at CBRE Equity Research. John DeCree, a senior analyst at Union Gaming, a subsidiary of CBRE since 2021, projects that a complete ban...
Elaine Wynn Wall Street Journal Exposé Paints Billionaire in Positive Light
Elaine Wynn was featured in a profile published over the weekend in The Wall Street Journal. The exposé was much kinder to Wynn than the media outlet's January 2018 report on her former husband, Steve Wynn. The WSJ was first to report...
Adele Reportedly Moving Las Vegas Show from Caesars Palace to Planet Hollywood
It's apparently "Water Under the Bridge" for Adele and Caesars Entertainment. Celebrity gossip site TMZ recently broke the news that Adele's relationship with Caesars Entertainment is apparently not strained beyond repair. Caesars Entertainment and Adele are reportedly nearing a deal to relocate...
Macau Casino Revenue Posts Worst Month Since September 2020
Macau casino revenue totaled just MOP2.68 billion (US$331.2 million) in April of 2022. It was the worst monthly outcome for the six casinos operating in the Chinese gambling enclave since September of 2020. With incoming travel remaining limited to the mainland, Hong...
Atlantic City Casino Unions Split on Indoor Smoking, as Dealers Call on Tobacco Ban
The Atlantic City casino unions that represent the roughly 22,000 workers employed by the nine resorts have differing opinions when it comes to indoor smoking. The United Auto Workers (UAW) first ventured into the Atlantic City gaming industry in 2007 after it...
Las Vegas Visitors Returning, March 2022 Numbers Highlight Ongoing Recovery
Las Vegas is bustling once again, and numbers released this week show that the world's most famous casino market is approaching pre-pandemic visitor levels. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) revealed in its March 2022 Executive Summary that more than...
Missouri Sports Betting Bill Stalled Via Filibuster by Republican Sen. Hoskins
Missouri sports betting legalization odds lengthened greatly this week after state Senator Denny Hoskins (R-Warrensburg) filibustered two pieces of relevant legislation. Hoskins has long been a supporter of Missouri legalizing sports betting. But he wants to do so with the additional expansion...
