Macau casino exclusion requests continue upward trend in 2Q19
Macau authorities received a total of 142 requests for exclusion from the city’s casinos in the three months to 30 June 2019, an increase of 23 requests on the 119 received in the same period last year according to latest...
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Scientific Games reveals extensive product installations at Wynn’s Encore Boston Harbor
Scientific Games Corporation has revealed it supplied more than 875 slot machines and 170 table games for the opening of Wynn Resorts’ newest integrated resort, Encore Boston Harbor. The slot machines included a range of cabinets such as the TwinStar...
Macau Court voids ruling against man claiming HK$17 million from Wynn-Dore junket theft
Casino operator Wynn Macau and junket Dore Entertainment could still be liable for HK$17 million stolen by a Dore employee in 2015 after Macau’s Court of Second Instance voided a previous ruling against a man claiming he had deposited money...
Donaco shareholders vote Joey and Ben Lim off Board of Directors
Donaco International founders Joey and Ben Lim have been voted off the board at an Extraordinary General Meeting held in Sydney on Thursday. The EGM was called after a group of shareholders led by Australian entrepreneur James Spenceley – who...
Hong Kong Jockey Club breaks betting turnover record in 2018-19
Hong Kong Jockey Club has announced a new record for racing turnover of HK$124.82 billion from the 2018-19 season, which came to a close on Sunday. The impressive result comes after a challenging season in which attendance and turnover fell...
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THE 13’s troubles lead South Shore Holdings to near HK$6 billion loss in FY19
South Shore Holdings Ltd, operator of THE 13 hotel in Macau, has announced a loss for the year of HK$5.84 billion (US$747.4 million) – up from a loss of HK$1.57 billion in 2018 and considerably more than the HK$4.70 billion...
Melco Resorts opens third Cyprus satellite casino
Melco Resorts & Entertainment has opened its third satellite casino in Cyprus, C2 Ayia Napa. The modest property sits on a land plot of almost 14,000 square meters although the casino itself covers just 367 square meters with 50 slot...
Germany’s Hossein Ensan wins 2019 WSOP Main Event
German poker pro Hossein Ensan has won the 2019 World Series of Poker and its US$10 million first prize after outlasting a massive field of 8,569 at the Rio in Las Vegas. The 55-year-old, who entered the final table as...
