Heather Alcorn Triumphs at 2018 WSOPC Southern Indiana Main Event
Heather Alcorn is turning heads in the poker world after making three final tables in a row at the 2018 WSOP Circuit Southern Indiana, including taking down its $1,700 Main Event for a whopping $129,654 payday. At a time when women comprise less than 5% of World Series of Poker fields, it’s good to see […]
Tribal Casinos See Annual Upward Climb in Non-gaming Revenues
Tribal casinos have increasingly been diversifying their non-gaming products in order to broaden the entertainment side of their businesses and offer their customers a more complete night out. This casino model started over a decade ago in Las Vegas, and has since become an essential focus for both commercial and tribal owned casinos in the […]
Maryland Casinos Post Modest 7% Gain in September
Maryland’s casino market continues to go from strength to strength, and in September reported a 6.9% revenue increase to $143.8 million, meaning all nine months of the year thus far have returned year-on-year growth. Furthermore, five out of six casinos noted improvements last month, with just Baltimore’s Horseshoe Casino seeing its revenue fall by 3.7%, […]
Liv Boeree Engages Audience at Her Second TED Talk of 2018
Liv Boeree has been an inspiration for women poker players for more than a decade now, and regularly shares her pearls of wisdom via social media, during television interviews, or in her many poker articles. In 2018, the UK poker pro has also taken her message to the popular TED talk arena, and in February […]
Moody’s Optimistic About VIP Spending at Australian Casinos
During the 2016-2017 period, Australia’s major casinos reported a dramatic fall off in revenues derived from their overseas high rolling customers. While analysts had anticipated its VIP market to continue shrinking in line with China’s ongoing economic slowdown, recent developments seem to have largely left Australia’s casino space unscathed. In fact, Australian casino giants Crown […]
Philippines Making Life Tough for Land-based Casinos
The Philippines has one of Asia’s fastest growing casino markets after Macau and Singapore, with dozens of gambling venues spread across the country, including four integrated casino-entertainment complexes. Last year, for instance, the sector generated a massive PHP152.55 billion ($2.92bn) in revenue, higher by 13.8 percent compared to the previous year. From that total, its […]
Poker Reporter Accuses WSOP Nevada of Responsible Gaming Failings
Nevada launched its online poker industry back in 2013, but its market is currently limited to just WSOP.com after the first site to launch, Ultimate Poker, folded its operation in November 2014, citing revenues far short of original forecasts. This has also discouraged other operators from entering the market, to all intents and purposes handing […]
