The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has taken Paul Phua and Darren Phua into custody. The father and son at the heart of the Caesars Palace illegal gambling ring had been free on bail in Las Vegas, awaiting an early August court date. Paul Phua is a known professional poker
In one of the oddest-sounding negotiating ploys in recent casino gambling history, Wynn Resorts has offered to use more than 250,000 live oysters to clean up the contaminated Mystic River. The oyster plan would be enacted if Wynn Resorts wins the licensing rights for a proposed $1.6 billion casino in
Former Buffalo Sabres left wing Thomas Vanek appeared in a Rochester court this week to testify in an illegal gambling case. Prosecutors in the case pointed out that he is not accused of any crime, but was called to give testimony. The case involves an illegal gaming operation run out
Russia plans to get up a gambling zone in the newly-annexed Crimea. The Crimean region has been a resort destination for decades, hosting Russian tsars and Soviet premiers through the generations. Now that Russian leader Vladimir Putin has seized the region over the protests of Ukraine (and the west), he
Jubreal Chahine, one of the most notorious gambling cheats in the country, was arrested on Saturday in Pennsylvania. Mr. Chahine was arrested in the Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem, a suburb of Philadelphia. While he was gambling inside the casino, Sands surveillance agents spotted him and made a positive identification
Irina Walker, 61, pleaded guilty to charges she ran an illegal gambling ring this past Wednesday. Irina Walker, who lives in Oregon, is also a Romanian princess. Walker and her husband pleaded guilty to running an illegal gambling operation, but had other counts dropped in a plea bargain arrangement. The
Bwin.Party announced on Tuesday that an additional 10 million Euros of cost cuts would help the gaming company meet its yearly targets. The compayny has come under pressure from activist investor Jason Ader to boost its financial performance. Since Ader and Bwin.Party came to an agreement last month, speculation has
The World Series of Poker Main Event November Nine is an international group. The final table has 6 nationalities, so it's much in keeping with the international flavor of 2014, with major global events like the Winter Olympics and World Cup. While Mark Newhouse of the United States will get
The 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event has reached the final 27 players. June 15 will pare the field down to a final table: the November Nine. It is an incredible feat for the 27 players to have reached this point. The event began with 6,638 entrants and has
Former U.S. Representative from Florida, Connie Mack IV, is now a paid lobbyist for Sheldon Adelson. The main focus of Mack's lobbying effort is to ban online gambling on a nationwide basis. "The Restoration of the Wire Act" was introduced to the U.S. Congress a few months ago. In the
The Nevada Gaming Control Board handled its first case involving medical marijuana on Thursday. The Gaming Control Board told a Las Vegas restaurant it needed to find a new operator. The reason they were ordered to do so is to avoid connections to the medical marijuana business. The Control Board
A current initiative in the U.S. Congress might simplify laws to make it easier to recogize Native American tribes. The law would lower standards for recognition, lowering the time a tribe has been recognized by the U.S. government by a significant margin. If this happens, local states like California could
