Business & Financial

PartyGaming, PartyCasino, Bwin Do Deal With Las Vegas Land Based Casinos

Submitted by Greg Tingle on, Tue, 02/15/2011 - 10:52

Last Chance Sports Book at Border Closes Down

By T.B. Beaudeau | San Diego Reader

Submitted by on, Mon, 02/14/2011 - 08:32

Las Vegas Sands Corp’s Sheldon Adelson Focus of Affidavit

Submitted by on, Sun, 02/13/2011 - 19:45

Greg Raymer No Longer With PokerStars

2004 World Series of Poker champion Greg “FossilMan” Raymer has confirmed rumors that he parted ways with the world’s largest online poker room, PokerStars.com.

Few details were offered related to the decision that Rayer, whose moniker comes from his love of collecting fossils, confirmed on the TwoPlusTwo.com website.

Submitted by Ace King on, Sun, 02/13/2011 - 11:49

Aussie James Packer Riding Wave Of Success

Submitted by Greg Tingle on, Fri, 02/11/2011 - 03:23

Nevada Gambling Revenue Rises, Atlantic City Falls

Submitted by on, Thu, 02/10/2011 - 21:35

Playtech Gains After Report of Talks With Ladbrokes

Submitted by on, Wed, 02/09/2011 - 15:31

New Jersey Loses Out On $87.5 Million

Submitted by C Costigan on, Tue, 02/08/2011 - 23:53

DoylesRoom.com Helps Boost Yatahay Profile With 150 Percent Growth

DoylesRoom.com hopes to find a permanent home with the Yatahay Poker Network and the later most certainly will do everything in their power to make sure Doyles sticks around.

For Doylesroom.com, this is the popular online poker room’s 4^th home in five years. Two previous networks pulled out of the US market while a third could not sustain Doyles growth.

The Yatahay Network is expected to provide DoylesRoom with all the tools to ensure substantial growth.

Submitted by Ace King on, Tue, 02/08/2011 - 21:27

$87.5 Million Bet On This Year’s Super Bowl in Las Vegas

Submitted by Jagajeet Chiba on, Tue, 02/08/2011 - 12:45

Some Vegas Sportsbooks Saved by Last Minute Steelers Surge

Some Las Vegas sportsbooks like The M, The Venetian, Hard Rock and Tropicana made out well this Super Bowl.

“We took a ton of Steeler moneyline bets,” Sportsbook Director Mike Colbert told the Las Vegas Sun. “I expected Steeler money to come in today and it did. It was a lot more than I expected. We really tried to balance the book, but it just so happened that the Packers were much better for us.”

Submitted by C Costigan on, Mon, 02/07/2011 - 11:00

Steve Wynn Macau Junket Spooks Investors

Submitted by on, Mon, 02/07/2011 - 10:14

888 Holdings Q4 Revenues Beat Expectations

Submitted by on, Mon, 02/07/2011 - 10:07

Queensland Floods Cost Tabcorp Millions In Lost Revenue And More…

Submitted by Greg Tingle on, Thu, 02/03/2011 - 19:26

Online Poker Traffic Falls Off 2.5 Percent This Week: Could Get Worse

With the troubles at the world’s two largest online poker rooms, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, continuing this week, traffic across the board has dropped 2.5 percent.

Submitted by Ace King on, Tue, 02/01/2011 - 19:48

Is Greg "Fossilman" Raymer Extinct From PokerStars?

Submitted by Ace King on, Tue, 02/01/2011 - 19:21

Gambling Domain Names No Longer a Hot Commodity It Seems

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Tue, 02/01/2011 - 15:05

Australian And Asia Pacific Gambling Tycoon News: February 1, 2011

Submitted by Greg Tingle on, Tue, 02/01/2011 - 00:12

Nevada Casinos Lose $3.4 Billion This Past Year

LAS VEGAS — (Associated Press) - Nevada gambling regulators say the state's largest casinos lost $3.4 billion during the fiscal year that ended last June 30.

Submitted by on, Mon, 01/31/2011 - 12:12

Year of the Rabbit Could Bring Record Numbers of People to Las Vegas

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Sat, 01/29/2011 - 23:06

Crown Casino Demands Aussie Govt Lift Game For Asian High Rollers

Submitted by Greg Tingle on, Sat, 01/29/2011 - 22:21

What The DoylesRoom.com Move to Yahatay Means for Poker Players

Submitted by C Costigan on, Sat, 01/29/2011 - 13:31

Breaking News: DoylesRoom.com Moves to Yatahay Poker Network

DoylesRoom.com announced Friday afternoon it will be moving off the Cake Network to the Yatahay Poker Network effective immediately.

Submitted by C Costigan on, Fri, 01/28/2011 - 14:38

Boyfriend of Disney Employee Traded “Insider Info” to Support Gambling Habit

The boyfriend of an ex-Disney employee was sentenced to two years and three months for trying to sell access to Mickey Mouse’s financial secrets.

Prosecutors contend that Yonni Sebbag, the boyfriend of former Walt Disney Co. administrative assistant Bonnie Hoxie, contacted dozens of hedge funds and investment companies in an effort to sell “insider trading secrets” as a means of supporting his gambling addiction.

The FBI was alerted upon learning that Sebbag offered $15,000 for the information.

Submitted by Jagajeet Chiba on, Fri, 01/28/2011 - 14:02

Bwin Investors Approve PartyGaming Tie-Up

Submitted by C Costigan on, Fri, 01/28/2011 - 12:40

Four Wives, Seventeen Children Involved in Ho Debacle

Just one day after announcing publicly that all was good in his family, the 89-year-old Macau casino magnate, Stanley Ho has filed suit claiming he got a raw deal.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Fri, 01/28/2011 - 05:43