City unable to pay the $62 million it owes casino company The Borgata gambling company in Atlantic City moved quickly on Monday after the city defaulted on a tax refund payment due Sunday, filing a request that the courts enforce an earlier order for the city to pay a $62 million tax refund or face bankruptcy and the possible seizure...
$1,620,830 boost for poker pro's bank balance It's been a good Las Vegas weekend for poker pro Fedor Holz, who earned $31,611 for a 30th placing cash in the Five Diamond World Poker Classic at Bellagio, and went on to score another $1,589,219, along with a Hublot watch, and an Aurae solid gold Mastercard preloaded with $10,000 in the $100,000...
Vegas World Free Slots offers robust mobile multiplayer game Seattle-based online slot developer FlowPlay has launched Vegas World Free Slots, a robust six-slot multiplayer mobile social casino available for download in the Google Play store for Android devices and coming soon to iOS. The free-to-play games boast multiplayer and social functionality allowing players to chat with friends, share virtual goods,...
Las Vegas Review-Journal sold for the second time in a year The respected Nevada gambling publication Las Vegas Review-Journal and sister publications has been sold to News + Media Capital Group LLC, a newly formed Delaware-domiciled company backed by "undisclosed financial backers with expertise in the media industry." Michael Schroeder, the manager of News + Media, announced the sale to...
First two offerings are Gonzo's Quest and Starburst, now available at ResortsCasino.com and MoheganSunCasino.com Less than two months after inking a deal with Swedish online gambling software developer NetEnt, New Jersey-licensed online gambling operator Resorts Digital has announced the release of the first two NetEnt slots games, Gonzo's Quest and Starburst, on ResortsCasino.com and MoheganSunCasino.com. Mark Giannantonio, president and CEO...
But on issues like RAWA, most appear to favour the protection of states' rights Tuesday's televised Republican Party presidential candidates debate held in major party donor Sheldon Adelson's Venetian Casino (a point noted by Democrats) mainly and predictably focused on national security and foreign policy issues...apart from attempting to take front-runner Donald Trump down a peg or two … but...
Full hearing on legality of daily fantasy sports will take place early next year The ink was barely dry on New York judge Manuel Mendez's order restraining daily fantasy sports firms DraftKings and FanDuel from operating in New York state (see previous InfoPowa report) when the two companies launched appeals...and they were successful, with an appeals court lifting the temporary...
Virtual Gaming Technologies LLC has filed sixteen lawsuits in the USA Claiming that it holds patents originally granted to William Junkin, the chairman and CEO of FantasySports.com, a relatively recently registered and unknown Texas company has been stirring the daily fantasy sports sector up with a series of lawsuits citing top operators and game developers. The company's target list includes...
Speculation that virulently anti-online gambling land casino mogul is behind the recent acquisition of the distinguished Journal Spicing up the weekend was a speculative report in the Huffington Post claiming that Las Vegas Sands billionaire owner Sheldon Adelson - renowned for his fanatical opposition to online gambling - may be the power and the money behind the recent acquisition of...
Case will be heard by a full bench of 11 judges in the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals New Jersey has been successful in its petition that the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals should re-consider its sports-betting legalisation case that has been waged against US sports leagues and the Department of Justice for several years (see previous InfoPowa...
