Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has yet to make a decision as to whether or not he will approve a new casino plan put forward by the state's Menominee Tribe. The tribe is looking to build a Hard Rock-branded casino in Kenosha, a city the southern part of the state close
As fallout from the discovery by Massachusetts gaming officials that an investor tied to a Caesars project in Nevada has suspected organized crime connections continues to affect that company and its former partner in an East Boston casino development, Suffolk Downs, Bloomberg News reported this week that a Colorado casino
With only two online poker rooms currently up and running in the state of Nevada, it should come as little surprise that both are based in the state's gaming center of Las Vegas. That is set to change early next year, however, when the Siena Hotel Spa in that biggest
With Massachusetts gaming regulators set to make a decision as to which companies will - and won't - be receiving licenses to open Las Vegas-style resort casinos in the state early next year, jockeying among the competing companies has reached a fevered pitch, reports news web site MassLive.com. The state's
Casino expansion is hardly a new topic in the state of Florida, as the Sunshine State looks for ways to lure tourists to its pristine beaches and world-famous theme parks, it also is considering adding casinos that one might expect to see in Las Vegas, not Fort Lauderdale. As Florida
With exactly one month remaining before the launch of real money online wagering in New Jersey, it seems that the media and industry pundits are possibly more excited about the upcoming start date than are bettors from the Garden State. New Jersey became the third state in the U.S. to
Legislation proposed in the state of New Jersey could set the state up to become a center for the nascent U.S. Internet betting industry, says the Press of Atlantic City. New Jersey State Assemblyman John Amodeo said this week that he believes the bill may gain some traction next month,
Last Spring after a bill that would have put five new land-based casinos in the state of Illinois failed to come to a vote in the Illinois House of Representatives, proponents of gambling expansion in the Land of Lincoln said that the issue would be brought back up in the
With one month and four days left on the clock before real money regulated online betting officially gets underway in the Garden State, on Monday New Jersey gaming regulators awarded the fifth permit to operate an online gambling web site, with the Tropicana becoming the newest Atlantic City to have
It was a tumultuous weekend for Caesars Entertainment, which was forced to walk away from its plan to build a new casino in East Boston in conjunction with the Suffolk Downs racetrack, also the proposed location for the new $1 billion casino project. Gansevoort investor flagged by regulators At issue
With just a little over a month to go before the first real money online wagering web sites go live in the state of New Jersey, this week the New Jersey Department of Gaming Enforcement doled out three additional operating licenses, to the Golden Nugget, the Trump Plaza Hotel and
Last week New Jersey gaming regulators confirmed that real-money online betting would be ready to commence at 9 a.m. on November 26th, prompting a flurry of speculation as to which company would be the first to be handed a license by state officials. That speculation is now over, with word
