Gambling
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Gaming and Leisure Buying Virginia Casino Real Estate in $467M Deal
Posted on: October 27, 2025, 06:01h. Last updated on: October 27, 2025, 06:01h. GLPI is paying $27 million for the land, extending financing of $440 million The casino is located in Petersburg, Va. and will be operated by Cordish and Bruce Smith Enterprise Gaming and Leisure Properties (NASDAQ: GLPI) said today it is acquiring the real estate of the Live!…
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Chicago Outfit ‘Video Poker King’ Arrested for Burglarizing Wealthy Restaurateur
Posted on: October 20, 2025, 07:23h. Last updated on: October 20, 2025, 07:23h. Outfit-connected burglary suspects include Casey Szaflarski and Paul Koroluk Kane County charges follow 2012 federal conviction for illegal gambling Prosecutors say burglary crew stole cash and jewelry from restaurateur A man once pegged as the Chicago Outfit’s video gambling “kingpin” has landed himself back in court, this…
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Robinhood Could Be on Prowl for Prediction Market Acquisitions
Posted on: October 13, 2025, 08:42h. Last updated on: October 13, 2025, 08:42h. Company currently has prediction markets presence via Kalshi partnership Executive says Robinhood is open to prediction market acquisitions He also implied company could look inward on that front With prediction markets booming, one of the space’s most recognizable participants may be on the hunt for acquisitions. A…
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Is LeBron James Retiring? Likely No, Decision 12.0 an Amazon Ad
Posted on: October 6, 2025, 06:33h. Last updated on: October 6, 2025, 06:33h. LeBron James has teased another “decision” Decision 2.0, however, is likely just an ad for Amazon LeBron James has the internet in a stir after the four-time NBA MVP teased on his social media channels that “the decision of all decisions” will be handed down tomorrow, Oct.…
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Station Casinos Reopening Poker Room Near Vegas
Posted on: September 29, 2025, 06:55h. Last updated on: September 29, 2025, 06:57h. Las Vegas is getting one of its poker rooms back. Station Casinos announced Monday that live poker will return to the Green Valley Ranch in Henderson, a 15-minute drive from the Strip. Green Valley Ranch will soon become only the first Las Vegas poker room closed during…
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Will Other Canadian Gaming Jurisdictions Partner with the AGCO?
Posted on: September 22, 2025, 08:02h. Last updated on: September 22, 2025, 08:02h. Exact date of Alberta igaming launch not known Which Canadian provincial jurisdictions will follow Alberta? Will other jurisdictions partner with Ontario’s AGCO for a faster igaming market launch? As summer turns into fall, storylines on the Canadian igaming start to take shape. The launch of a new,…
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Elton, Celine & the Creeping Threat of AI-Fabricated Entertainment News
Posted on: August 25, 2025, 07:21h. Last updated on: August 25, 2025, 10:49h. On Aug. 25, a 68-year-old woman from Henderson, Nev. shared a heartwarming social media story about three Las Vegas music legends who came together at the Colosseum Caesars Palace three days earlier to perform. Celine Dion and Elton John supposedly help a wheelchair-bound Neil Diamond to a…
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Brazil’s Mobbed Up ‘Animal Lottery’ Battered by Online Gaming
Posted on: January 13, 2025, 05:52h. Last updated on: January 13, 2025, 06:19h. Brazil’s new online gambling market appears to have achieved what a century of public prosecutors have failed to do – smash the country’s Mafia-controlled numbers rackets. Brazilian police officers during an anti- organized crime operation in Rio de Janeiro. The “animal game,” a street lottery long controlled…
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Pace-O-Matic Can’t Get Kansas Courts to Say ‘Dragon’s Ascent’ is Legit
Posted on: January 6, 2025, 06:12h. Last updated on: January 6, 2025, 06:12h. Gaming machine manufacturer Pace-O-Matic’s efforts to have its dragon-shooting game “Dragon’s Ascent” declared a contest of skill by the Kansas Supreme Court has been shot down in flames. A screenshot from Dragon’s Ascent, above. Can no one in the entire state of Kansas explain to Pace-O-Matic whether…
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Family of Man Allergic to Shellfish Sues Vegas Eatery for his Wrongful Death
Posted on: December 30, 2024, 05:00h. Last updated on: December 30, 2024, 05:01h. Abraham Williams told his server at Beauty & Essex, an upscale restaurant at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, that he was allergic to shellfish when he ordered spaghettini with pesto sauce one evening last year. But shellfish is what he got, according to a wrongful death lawsuit…
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