May 25, 2013
| Edition Nº2240 / Year
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Profit drops 17 % on expenses
United States
| 23/04/2013
(US).- Penn National Gaming said Thursday that its net income fell 17 % in the first quarter as expenses rose. But it pulled in more money from people gambling and buying food and drinks, lifting revenue 8 %. The casino operator raised its full-year per-share earnings forecast but trimmed its revenue outlook.
It was performed against lottery industry leading standards
United States
| 23/04/2013
(US).- GLI and its Global Professional Services division have successfully completed a security audit for the California State Lottery. GLI was engaged to provide a highly important security audit to meet the lottery’s biennial regulatory security requirements.
Rational Group US Holdings
United States
| 22/04/2013
(US).- Rational Group US Holdings, the parent company of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, has completed its application for a state gaming license according to the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement.
This week
United States
| 22/04/2013
(US).- Optimal Payments announced that it is a VIP sponsor of the 12th Global iGaming Summit & Expo (GIGSE), which will take place at The Westin San Francisco Market Street in San Francisco, California. The Summit will also enable attendees to network and create strategic partnerships with other organizations.
On convergent land-based and online casino operations
United States
| 22/04/2013
(US).- Svante Liljevall, COO at Evolution Gaming, is to speak at GiGse as part of the ‘Flip the Switch’ agenda on the opening day, April 23. The theme of this year’s speaker-panel day focuses on how operators must get their strategy and investment right to maximise emerging opportunities in the re-regulating US market.
The commission decided to begin soliciting bids
United States
| 22/04/2013
(US).- The state gambling commission voted unanimously last week to allow commercial developers to move forward with proposals for a casino in Southeastern Massachusetts, providing a potential fallback in case the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe is not able to clear all the legal hurdles it faces to build a tribal casino.
In Michigan
United States
| 22/04/2013
(US).- Players around the US keep winning with Aristocrat’s “Tarzan Lord Of The Jungle” slot. Now one lucky player has hit the game’s top progressive jackpot for us$ 310,648.26 while playing at Saganing Eagles Landing Casino in Standish, Michigan.
May 7-9, 2013 in Biloxi, Mississippi
United States
| 19/04/2013
(US).- Now NEWave is bringing its award-winning software solutions to Southern Gaming Summit/Bingo World. The firm has a long-standing and wide-spread presence throughout the South, where more than 55 casinos rely on NEWave software to guarantee compliance, increase efficiencies and eliminate wasteful expenditures of time and resources.
Next June 11, in Las Vegas
United States
| 19/04/2013
(US).- The Gaming Standards Association (GSA) will hold its first annual Open Forum on June 11 at Treasure Island in Las Vegas, Nevada. The forum will present GSA’s latest updates for its standards, technical initiatives, internal processes, as well as invaluable information on new developments from the Operators Advisory Committee.
From Nevada Commission
United States
| 19/04/2013
(US).- The Nevada Gaming Commission cleared this week Station Casinos to develop and operate its own Internet poker system after getting assurances there will be no money laundering or underage betting.