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Can the Coast casinos have best year since the Great Recession?

Casino revenue was down 4 percent across Mississippi last month, but the 12 Coast casinos topped $1 billion in total gross gaming revenues in November and are on track to have their best year since 2008. November was only the second month this year — along with March — in which the Mi
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MGHA Partner for SGS, BNP Media, Acquires Hotel F&B Magazine

I am pleased to announce that BNP Media has acquired Hotel F&B, the voice of the $36.7 billion North American hotel foodservice industry. Hotel F&B has a strong print and digital presence and a loyal, responsive subscriber base, as it reaches nearly 50,000 hoteliers and more t
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Alabama Gov’s Council on Gambling Hears from Lottery Experts

There was plenty of advice Thursday for how the state of Alabama should run a lottery – if it ever decided to establish one.   Officials from lotteries in Louisiana and New Hampshire told the Governor’s Advisory Council on Gambling Thursday that any future lottery could ben
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Hard Rock Opens New Gaming & Dining Space

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:    Crystal Cagle                                                                     Lauren Harrison / Daniella DelaOsa Advertising & PR Manager / Hard Rock Biloxi                            The Zimmerman Agency                            crystal.cag
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Gaming will soon shift $300 million a year from Virginia to Maryland

By Scott Surovell and Louise Lucas Next month, Virginians will hear a large sucking sound coming from our northern border. It won’t be our tax dollars going to Washington, D.C., but millions of Virginians’ dollars crossing the Potomac River and flowing into Prince George’s County scho
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Treasure Island to launch Greentube-powered social

The free-to-play product is scheduled to be released in the first quarter of 2017, on a custom platform designed by Greentube’s social subsidiary BlueBat Games and powered by the Greentube Pro social marketing solution. Treasure Island becomes Greentube’s second tribal gaming pa
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Surviving Operators in Atlantic City Doing Fairly Well

As it continues to spiral towards bankruptcy, Atlantic City is facing a very real crisis. But this isn’t the first crisis AC has faced. The city has proven to be resilient several times over. The story of Atlantic City is one of periods of boom or bust. The sometimes prosperous resort
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Bermuda passes revised gaming legislation with no objections

Bermuda, Casino proposals, Gaming Law & Legislation, Latest Casino and Gambling News, New Hotels, Online gambling regulation On Monday Bermuda‘s House of Assembly passed revisions in gaming law that will finally allow casinos to open. After a lengthy and tumultuous debate the Casi
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Mississippi joins fight for legal sports betting

Geoff Pender , The Clarion-Ledger 4:50 p.m. CST November 17, 2016 Mississippi and four other states have joined New Jersey’s fight to legalize sports betting in a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court. Attorney General Jim Hood signed onto the brief submitted by West Virginia
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