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Las Vegas Nightlife Giant Hakkasan Gears Up for Entry into Hotel Business, But Sin City Unlikely Focus
Las Vegas restaurant and nightclub virtuoso Hakkasan Group plans to expand into the boutique hotel industry, but its vision doesn’t include the city in which it's grown its bottle service. Nor does it encompass a future in gaming. Despite controlling half of...
Tiger Woods Masters Odds Shorter Than Jordan Spieth, Jon Rahm, and Defending Champion Sergio Garcia
Tiger Woods is now just 10/1 to win next month's Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia. The four-time green jacket winner hasn't even played in the tournament since 2015 where he finished T17. But after a strong T2 performance at last weekend's Valspar...
Vietnamese Communist Regime Arrests Police Chief in Gambling and Corruption Bust
Vietnamese state-controlled media has announced the arrest of a former head of the country's High-Technology Police Department, on suspicion of organizing an international gambling ring. Nguyen Thanh Hoa, 60, was arrested on Sunday as part of an online gambling and money laundering...
Las Vegas Sands Resort Fees Jump to $45 a Day at Venetian and Palazzo, Joining Surcharge Bump Trend
Resort fees in Las Vegas keep going up and up, and Las Vegas Sands is the latest operator to jump on the raised surcharge bandwagon. At a $6 hike, from $39 to $45 a day at the company's two chichi properties the...
Pennsylvania Online Gambling Market to Launch Before Year’s End
Pennsylvania is on schedule to launch its online gambling market before the end of the year. That’s the latest from the executive director of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB), Kevin O’Toole, who told the House budget hearing?that applications for licensing would...
Florida Gambling Legislation Dead for 2018, Power Might Soon Be Delivered to the People
Florida gambling legislation is once again being shelved after Sunshine State lawmakers failed to come to new terms with the Seminole Tribe. Hundreds of millions of tax dollars are at stake, and a constitutional ballot referendum question will be put before voters...
Could Shinzo Abe Corruption Scandal Derail Casino Process?
Late last week, the Japanese lawmakers building a framework of regulation for the country’s future casino industry said they would petition the national government to speed up the legislative process. With a mid-April deadline looming, the ruling Liberal Democrat Party (LDP) task-force...
March Madness Odds Favor Virginia and Villanova, 24 Million People Expected to Fill Out Brackets
The 68-team bracket is set, but March Madness odds show that bettors believe only a handful of teams have a realistic shot at scoring the men's basketball NCAA national championship. Virginia and Villanova are the two heavy favorites, and Las Vegas oddsmakers...
The 13 Macau Owner Changing Name to South Shore Holdings, Hotel Targets April Opening
The 13 Macau casino saga continues. In a notice filed this week with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the parent company to the project says it's renaming its investment firm South Shore Holdings Ltd. Located south of the Cotai Strip in Macau's...
GVC Gets Shareholder Approval for Takeover of Ladbrokes Coral
GVC Holdings received nearly unanimous approval from its shareholders to proceed with a planned takeover of bookmaker Ladbrokes Coral, a transaction that will create one of the world’s largest gaming entities. GVC first announced its intention to add Ladbrokes Coral to the...