Boston Globe – Anti-casino political campaigns across the state during the past year have eroded public support for casino gambling in Massachusetts, a potentially dangerous turn for the industry ahead of a possible campaign this fall to repeal the state casino law, political and casino specialists said Wednesday. Forty-six percent of likely voters approve of locating casinos in Massachusetts, while 43 percent disapprove, according to a new WBUR survey conducted by MassINC Polling Group. The poll, released Wednesday, shows a significant drop in support for the gambling industry in just the past two months. In a January survey, MassINC found…

Poker News – Full Tilt Poker is constantly developing new ways to keep online poker fun and exciting, and tomorrow the site will be launching a new, innovative form of poker tournaments that is sure to attract many players to action. On Wednesday, March 19, Flipout Tournaments will be introduced on the Full Tilt Poker client. These are tournaments that allow players to flip straight away to get the action started and send everyone that wins right into the money. That’s right, no more acting like a short-stack ninja on the money bubble or enduring countless hours of the most…

Australian Gambling – We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again – there’s a right way and wrong way to go about promoting your business to your customers. William Hill look to have gone about things the wrong way lately. The betting giant has caused outrage and attracted thousands of complaints after internet users found themselves being unwittingly directed to a William Hill app in the Apple App Store this past week. Websites such as The Mirror Online, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Sky Sports, Radio Times and even competitor’s like Betfair saw visitors directed to the page to buy…

Las Vegas Review Journal – It’s been eight years since Macau surpassed the Strip in annual gaming revenue. So it makes sense that the region — the only location in China with casinos — is creating more gaming industry billionaires than Las Vegas. The recently released Forbes 2014 List of the World’s Billionaires shows a large proportion of the wealthy who cite gambling, gaming or casinos as the source of their income also name Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Malaysia and other international markets as their country of citizenship. In years past, Los Angeles-based financier Kirk Kerkorian, founder of what is…

Daily Gazette – Every day, Tim DuFresne leaves his job cutting masonry for the city of Amsterdam and drives down winding back roads to his home in the rural town of Florida. “Making that drive,” he said, “it’s all farm fields and trees. For me, it’s like driving into heaven.” From the front door of his little house, the Mohawk Valley opens in a sprawling vista. He loves that view. But now, with talk of a possible casino development at a site just two miles from his home, he’s worried the views and relative privacy afforded by country living will…

iGaming Business – US oil giant Chevron has been given the go-ahead to sue PartyGaming founder Russell DeLeon as part of a 20-year legal battle between the oil company and Steven Donziger, a US lawyer representing Ecuadorian nationals in a pollution case against Chevron. Bloomberg Business Week reports that a judge in Gibraltar, where PartyGaming (as it was then known) is licensed and DeLeon relocated to from the US in the early 2000s to run the business with co-founders (and ex-wife) Ruth Parasol, Anurag Dikshit and Vikrant Bhargava, has “ruled that Chevron can proceed with a lawsuit seeking unspecified damages…

In an effort to appeal to a younger generation, Australian poker machines are seeing changes to prizes, layouts and themes. According to a recently-released 2013 report from GamblingData.com, casinos and poker machine venues around the country are dealing with diminishing numbers from younger demographics. In an attempt to return boost their appeal, venues are changing prizes to include real products like Apple computers, as well as introducing machines with themes based on popular television shows and movies. Where is the younger demographic going? Internet and mobile gaming. International finance agency Credit Suisse has stated recently that both the Australian and…

10TV – The lists of people banning themselves from Ohio’s casinos and racinos have grown as the state’s gambling industry expands. The Plain Dealer in Cleveland (http://bit.ly/1p4DjUY ) reports nearly 750 gamblers from 11 states and Ontario excluded themselves from Ohio’s four casinos by last month through a voluntary program. That’s up from less than 550 in September. A similar program exists for the racinos, which feature horse racing tracks with slots-style video lottery terminals. About 80 people banned themselves from those facilities by September, when two racinos were open. Now four are open, and the list has nearly doubled….