Wynn Resorts Ltd. on Thursday announced the company’s earnings for the second quarter and they were far higher than in the same quarter last year. The company more than tripled their earnings from last year with $272 million. That is $2.42 per share. Last year their earnings were only at $.82 per share with a [...]

The Poker Players Alliance which now has over 1 Million poker members and has become a very powerful non-profit membership organization. The Poker Players Alliance mission is to establish favorable laws that provide poker players with a secure, safe and regulated place to play.
“Our membership consists of enthusiasts from around the United States who have [...]

Blackjack and baccarat are among the table card games now available at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.
One of the hotel’s competitors, the Isle Casino in Pompano Beach, filed a lawsuit earlier this month alleging the games and a compact with Gov. Charlie Crist allowing them are illegal.
The Pompano casino says the agreement between [...]

Two popular Miami ships have ceased operations now that local officials have negotiated with existing dog and horse racing tracks to permit them to open on-shore casinos rather than sailing three miles out into international waters where the law allowed unrestricted casino gambling.
And now the Seminole Tribe of Florida has expanded the Hard Rock Casino [...]

The controversial Massachusetts bill that would allow three resort-style casinos while criminalizing online gambling was defeated by a House vote of 106-48 on Thursday. But it turns out that the provision to criminalize online gambling may have played a pivotal role in the bill’s defeat.
Defeating the proposed bill by Governor Deval Patrick, had become the [...]

Microsoft, Yahoo and Google - the three largest Internet companies agreed on Wednesday to pay a combined $31.5 million to settle federal civil allegations that they had accepted ads for illegal internet gambling.
The companies said they stopped taking the ads years ago. The settlement was announced by Catherine L. Hanaway, the United States attorney for [...]

London-based software development firm BetXTech has signed a deal with Regency International Casino to develop a bespoke Voucher Redemption Terminal (VRT). The software will support Regency’s cashless gaming and TITO slot machines at its newly opened venue in Romania and existing casino in Tirana Albania.
The new slot ticket redemption system will be processing [...]

The American Indian gambling industry has reported a slowdown last year. Indian gaming revenue grew 11 percent in 2006 to about $25.5 billion, slower than the average annual pace of 15 percent in the past decade, fewer facilities also opened, a report showed.
Gambling operations on native reservations hire more than 320,000 people, led to $80.7 [...]

New UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is reportedly about to dismiss plans to allow gaming companies to advertise on television and radio, according to reports from the UK’s Times newspaper.
The u-turn in policy was indicated by new culture secretary James Purnell in response to pressure from Church leaders and opposition groups warning that gambling advertising [...]

Gordon Brown announced government plans to produce a review of gambling in Britain to be published in September, as well as breaking with Tony Blair’s previous policy on super casinos by saying that regeneration is an alternative to the establishment of Las Vegas-style casinos.

The announcement was made in response to a question from Andy Reed MP (Labour) who speculated that supercasinos would increase gambling addiction. Following PMQs, a Whitehall source was widely quoted by the British press as saying that plans for regional casinos are now “effectively dead in the water.”

The first super casino was to be built in Manchester, a decision which created some controversy [...]