Gambling News Archive Page 15

Indian gaming is big business here in the United States. Numbers just released totaling up 2006 indicates that segment of the gaming industry raked in an amazing $25.1 billion. That’s an 11 percent increase from 2005.

The House of Representatives of Florida is poised to approve a proposal to expand the availability of video gambling machines, devices similar to slot machines, at dog and horse tracks throughout the state.

The owner of The Plaza hotel in New York announced plans Wednesday to buy the New Frontier hotel-casino and develop a $5 billion multi-use complex on what it called "the last available prime parcel on the Las Vegas Strip."

It looks as if Trump is going to get trumped as the company moves inexorably toward a sale. It was a rough week for The Donald as his NBC show The Apprentice was not put on the fall 2007 schedule and now the vultures are starting to circle around the hobbled...

Last year, Steve Wynn got himself into hot water with his dealers when he implemented a new tip splitting policy and now its coming back to haunt him.

The Pennsylvania gaming industry was set up not only with the goal of adding $1 billion a year to the state’s coffers; it also had the added responsibility of trying to reinvigorate the state’s flagging horse racing industry.

Take me away to Margaritaville, the Margaritaville Casino that is. The famed singer songwriter has struck a deal with Harrah’s Entertainment to create the Margaritaville Casino & Resort. Though Buffet earned his fortune...

Powerhouse gaming company MGM MIRAGE is looking both north and south on the Las Vegas Strip as it stakes out territory for future development. The company announced this week that its investing in an already under...

Now that Columbia Sussex is the official owners of casino resort properties once operated by Aztar, from which it acquired two Tropicana resorts as well as others in January, it’s looking to change its corporate identity...

Trump Entertainment Resorts is still awash in debt as the company still can’t turn a profit in the United States’ second most lucrative gaming market.