Casinos

With Alvin Chau’s official resignation from Hong Kong-listed Suncity Group, Macau’s VIP junket business has almost reached on the verge of its end as a junket operator. Just days after being taken into custody in Macau on allegations of conducting illegal cross-border gaming operations throughout China, Chau announced he would resign as chairman as well as executive director of Suncity Group. He officially resigned on December 1, 2021.

Sands China Limited, one of the largest casino operators in Chinese gambling hub of Macau, suffered a net loss of $423 million in the three months to the end of September (Q3) as business conditioned remained harsh due to turmoil caused by recurrence of Covid-19 health crisis.

MGM Northfield Park, a racino (racetrack plus casino) in Northfield area of Ohio, has announced that it will pay more than $15 million to Nordonia Hills City School District over a period of six years to settle a property tax dispute.

Laws in Ohio, a state in the Midwestern region of the U.S., allow public schools and other taxing authorities to contest values of assessed properties that have already been were determined by local officials. Nordonia Hills City School District used its powers to do the same.

A Canadian company called Moon World Resorts Incorporated is reportedly planning to build moon-themed casino resorts with a “lunar surface” in Las Vegas and at several other locations around the globe. According to the New York Post, Moon World Resorts is planning to build moon-themed casinos in Las Vegas, Spain, China, Spain, and the Middle East. Canada-based Moon World Resorts is an architectural design & intellectual property licensing firm.

White players are kept away from black workers and blacks are forced to hear racial slurs at London’s Aspinalls casino, a former dealer alleged during a testimony presented before the employment tribunal.

Macau’s pandemic-hit casinos have started seeing a ray of hope for their recovery as the world’s leading casino hub is slowly but surely easing some of its quarantine requirements on visitors.

Todd Blanken, alleged mastermind of “multi-million dollar” Chicago-based gambling ring, has avoided prison time as a district sentenced the 44-year-old to just six months in a community center.

U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall also allowed Blanken, a resident of Cary, Illinois, to work while staying in the community center. The judge also ordered him to remain on two years of probation.

The Macau Gaming Inspection & Coordination Bureau (DICJ) is reportedly going to increase the number of inspectors to regulate the gaming properties in the world’s richest casino hub. The Executive Council of Macau recently approved an amendment designed to allocate more funding to DICJ and improve its operational structure. The change will take effect in the near future.

The Lakeside Inn & Casino, which never reopened following Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak’s order to close last year due to COVID-19 pandemic, has been sold to not-for-profit health care provider Barton Health, which has plans to demolish and reutilize the property.

Atlantic City casinos’ collective gross gaming revenue (GGR) for the month of March totaled more than $184 million, representing the gaming industry’s strong recovery from the devastating impact of COVID-19 pandemic.