MGM Resorts International was selected by the leadership of Springfield, Mass., Tuesday to represent the state’s third-largest city in the race for a single casino project in western Massachusetts.
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ATLANTIC CITY — As a former dealer and pit boss on the Boardwalk, Mayor Lorenzo Langford is committed to seeing the city’s casino industry recover, despite his well-publicized disputes with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie over reforms implemented by the state that the mayor says cut him and other city leaders out of the process.
The first-ever legal pay-to-play online poker website in the United States is expected to launch this morning when Station Casinos-owned Ultimate Poker flips the switch on a new era in Nevada gaming.
With the jury waiting outside the courtroom, attorneys for Las Vegas Sands Corp. on Monday unleashed their sharpest and most personal attack on one-time consultant Richard Suen.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. parted ways with the company’s longtime outside auditing firm but analysts said Monday that investors shouldn’t speculate beyond the announcement.
How could Richard Suen have gone so long in his dealings with Las Vegas Sands Corp. without a final, signed contract?
Wynn Resorts Ltd. would make $30 million in advance payments to the city of Everett, Mass., and more than $25 million annually once a proposed casino opens for business, according to a host community agreement released Thursday.
Wynn Resorts Ltd. first-quarter profit rose modestly but enough to easily beat analysts’ expectations as the gaming company reported higher occupancy and improved revenues at its casinos in Las Vegas and Macau.
International Game Technology, a slot machine manufacturer and social gaming company, reported a modest increase in profit for its second quarter, helped significantly by growth in machine sales and social gaming.
Cantor Gaming signed a deal Thursday with the Atlantis casino in the Bahamas to provide the resort with mobile casino gaming and mobile sports wagering, as well as a new sports book. This is the first mobile wagering deal involving the Atlantis, according to the Las Vegas-based gaming company.
Ameristar Casinos shareholders on Thursday approved the company’s sale to rival regional gaming giant Pinnacle Entertainment on a nearly unanimous vote.
Richard Suen spent Wednesday afternoon on the witness stand recounting more aspects of his consulting work for Las Vegas Sands Corp. as the company’s lawyers again tried to highlight more perceived changes in his story.
Bally Technologies Inc., helped by record-setting revenues, on Wednesday reported an increase in profit for the third quarter.
ATLANTIC CITY — As chief regulator for New Jersey’s struggling casino industry, Matthew Levinson has an interesting balancing act.
Boyd Gaming Corp. posted a first-quarter loss Wednesday, reversing a profit in the year-ago period, as the gaming company added new casinos and incurred other one-time costs related to selling noncore assets to strengthen its balance sheet.
