With the year’s biggest races behind them, Kentucky’s largest tracks are now looking toward the future, and the view is a grim one. Profits have been slipping at the tracks for several years, and the recent economic downturn has hit this segment of the gambling industry especially hard. Kentucky has long been recognized as the […]

The Canadian Internet bingo software developer Parlay Entertainment has reported another disappointing quarterly result in its numbers for Q1 2009, with revenues declining to $1 million (Q1 2008: $2 million). However, the company managed to substantially reduce expenses from $2.5 million in the same period last year to $1.3 million in the first quarter 2009. […]

Police spokesman in Malaysia have revealed that over last weekend numerous officers carried out 107 illegal gambling raids, many of them to stamp out Internet gambling, confiscating 417 computers and arresting 31 people, against whom investigations continue. All the suspects, aged between 25 and 35, had been remanded for further investigation under the Common Gaming […]

The exemptions in US law that allow the horseracing industry to take bets over the Internet seem to be working well for the major Churchill Downs Inc track operator. So well, in fact, that it has attracted criticism from the press as distracting management from the core live racing business. The Louisville Courier-Journal reports that […]

Gaming Technology Solutions announced it had signed up for new games from the leading gaming machine manufacturer Bell-Fruit Games Limited. Under the contract, GTS will soon integrate these new games developed by Bell-Fruit into its Enhanced Gaming Engine or EdGE platform. In effect, anyone using the EdGE system will be able to access all the […]

Delaware is 14 votes away from becoming the first state east of the Mississippi River to allow sports betting. It would also be one of a handful to allow table games. After a strong push by Gov. Jack Markell in the House, the measure — legalizing table games, authorizing sports betting and increasing the state’s […]

The Seminole Tribe would be able to keep blackjack at its Tampa and Broward County casinos under a proposed agreement passed by the Senate. All seven of the tribe’s casinos would also be allowed slot machines under the proposed deal that passed Friday on a 31-9 vote. The House still needs to approve the agreement, […]