On Monday, July 6, 2009, a video poker was the center of attention. Two engineers from Nevada’s Gaming Control Board showed up at the Silverton Casino Lodge. The off-the-strip South Las Vegas casino is best known for its mermaid aquarium, but the GCB geek squad wasn’t there to see swimmers in bikini tops and zip-on fish tails. They’d come to examine machine 50102, a Game King video poker unit on the casino floor that had been waiting for them, taped off like a crime scene, all weekend. Manufactured by International Game Technology – a gambling leviathan that boasts $2 billion…

From Daily Markets A Tucson, Arizona man became a new millionaire when he won a $1,135,558 jackpot on an International Game Technology (NYSE:IGT) Wheel of Fortune Double 3X4X5X Pay video slot machine on April 26, 2013 at Desert Diamond Casino.   OUR INTERVIEW WITH IGT ABOUT THE FUTURE:   Mohan N. celebrated his winning together with his son and daughter, and his son-in-law. The new millionaire plans to use his life-changing jackpot to pay off his children’s student loans and help his wife as she prepares to undergo surgery. IGT launched MegaJackpots® progressive product line in 1986 and has since…

From PR Newswire / SHFL Entertainment SHFL entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ Global Select Market: SHFL) (“SHFL” or the “Company”) announced today that it has begun the installation of its Video Lottery Terminals (“VLTs”) in New York. “Our first big rollout of VLTs in such an important market as New York is very exciting,” said Gavin Isaacs , Chief Executive Officer for SHFL. This is only the beginning of what we hope to be a very promising future for our slot machine segment in the United States. The rollout was made possible through a November 2012 agreement between SHFL and SPIELO International…

From NJ.com PokerStars, the online-gambling giant with its sights set on buying the Atlantic Club casino, has apparently missed its deadline to complete the deal, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal today. Based in the Isle of Man, PokerStars and several of its owners have been in talks since the fall to buy the casino from a California investment firm called Colony Capital. The deal is considered crucial to jump-starting New Jersey’s new online-gambling market and reviving Atlantic City. The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources, said one of the conditions on the deal was for PokerStars…