The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas gained the backing of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, putting the hotel-casino one step away from gaining a gambling license. The casino is set to open on December 15th. The $3.9 billion property has taken up residence between the Bellagio...

Could online gambling’s bigger foe be turning into one of its strongest allies? According to a report by the New York Times, many casinos are now moving towards supporting certain forms of online gambling, after years of resisting the legalization of what seemed like a t...

The Casino at Delaware Park in Wilmington, Delaware opened a second poker room this week, creating the area’s first dedicated tournament poker room.

Delaware Park began offering poker this summer, when they opened a 20-table poker room on June 18. The room was used to...

Over 80,000 players who received birthday mailings from Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. are entitled to $100 in damages, thanks to a class-action lawsuit filed by Debra Smerling. The case started when Smerling took a trip to Harrah’s Atlantic City on Saturday, A...

A massive bad beat jackpot that was shared between several Atlantic City casinos was hit Thursday, earning one Floridian $163,343. Sheryl Wallace, who hails from Auburndale, Florida, was playing poker at Caesars Atlantic City Thursday morning, when she found herself sta...

New laws that have allowed expanded poker in Florida seem to be paying off for the state’s poker rooms, which showed an immediate 35% increase in their month over month revenues from June to July. Florida’s poker rooms took in about $11.3 million in July, compa...

Talk about a bad beat! Sothea Sinn, a 28-year-old man from New Zealand, was excited to win 60,000 New Zealand dollars (or $44,000 US) by winning the progressive jackpot on a Caribbean Stud Poker table at the Skycity Casino in Auckland. However, his celebration soon turn...

Atlantic City casinos, once thought to be strongly opposed to legalizing online gaming in the state of New Jersey, are now saying that they would be reading and willing to take advantage of a regulatory framework that allowed New Jersey residents to gamble online. This positio...

PartyGaming and bwin, two of the industry leaders in online gambling, have agreed to terms on a merger that should make the new company the largest online gaming business in the world. The new company, which is yet to be named, will be listed on the London Stock Exchange.

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The French online gambling market continues to attract new operators. The latest player to enter the market is a joint venture between Microgaming and 888, which joins operators such as iPoker, PokerStars, PartyGaming, Everest Poker and bwin in the newly opened French sector. ...