The UK certainly does appear to have an ingrained gambling culture, and being a country that has some fairly relaxed gambling laws and regulations, there are certainly plenty of online sites and land based venues for people to gamble at. In fact, as a report just released by the UK Gambling Commission indicates, revenues in the gambling sector in the…
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Ponca Tribe to Open Prairie Flower Casino Despite Legal Challenges
The doors of the new Prairie Flowers Casino over at Carter Lakes are going to be swinging open on the 1st of November 2018, and the owners and operators of that new casino venue are confident it will prove to be popular with visitors, thanks in no small part to its location. It is the Native American Ponca Tribe that…
Read MoreCasino Visitors Advised to Pay Attention to their Safety by the LVMPD
As the weather finally turns somewhat cooler in Las Vegas, visitor numbers are about to increase, and in a timely reminder from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, they are advising everyone to pay careful attention to their own personal safety as they move from casino to casino. Whilst Las Vegas is as safe a city as many others, there…
Read More12% of Canadian Teenagers Play Casino Games Online
There are of course some very strict laws and regulations in place in Canada regarding gambling, however, it has always been the case that online gambling is highly unregulated, so it wasn’t too surprising to discover a report highlighting the fact a very large number of teenagers play casino games online. In fact, the report by those researchers found that…
Read MoreMini Casino Could be Coming to Shippensburg
There is the very real chance that a brand new mini casino could be opening soon, and as soon as 2020 in western Cumberland County near Shippensburg, for with papers having just been delivered and filed with the Gaming Control Board by the company that owns Parx Casino in Bucks County, it may not be long before permission is granted…
Read MoreCaesars Entertainment Turn Down Golden Nugget Merger Offer
It must have been a very tempting offer for the board of Caesars to consider, the one put forward by the owner of Golden Nugget that being Tillman Fertitta, for he proposed a potential merger between both companies, and as Caesars are eager to expand he may have thought there would be a very good chance of them taking him…
Read MoreMerger on the Cards with Affinity Gaming and Full House Resorts
They do say that it’s the survival of the fittest and when it comes to casino mergers and acquisitions. We have seen plenty of them over the last year or two as various economies of the world are improving. It would appear that another merger may just be on the cards and that is between Affinity Gaming and Full House…
Read MoreTorfaen Lifts Ban on Casino Applicants
You may never have heard of the county borough of Torfaen, for it is an area of Gwent in South Wales in the UK, and like many other places across Great Britain it is one that has had some rather archaic laws in place regarding land based casinos. In fact, up until recently any casino operator that wanted to apply…
Read MoreProposed Conversion of Bristol Mall into a Casino Facing Opposition
If there is one type of property that has sadly been on the increase in recent years, it is vacant and abandoned shopping malls, and it is true to say that no matter which US State you venture into you are going to find empty and no longer used shopping malls. So one would imagine that any proposal to bring…
Read MorePrairie Band Casino and Resort Initial Remodel Complete
The Prairie Band Casino and Resort in Mayetta was beginning to show its age, and thanks to the completion of the initial stage of a huge remodelling program the casino has a fresh new look and feel to it, and one that visitors are likely to appreciate. There has been some major changes put into place over the last few…
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