Caesars Entertainment will tap the Montreal market for gambling customers by combining hotel packages with new charter flights between Atlantic City and upstate New York. Service from Plattsburgh, N.Y., to Atlantic City International Airport will begin April 23 and run through August using jets operated by Republic Airways, which handles air charters for Caesars’ casino hotels across the country. Garry Douglas, president of the North Country Chamber of Commerce in Plattsburgh, noted that the summer charter flights will extend Caesars’ reach into the potentially lucrative Montreal metropolitan market consisting of 3.5 million people. “We are Montreal’s U.S. airport,” Douglas said…

iGaming Business – Land-based gaming operator Caesars Entertainment Corporation and gaming products designer and manufacturer International Game Technology (IGT) are to join forces to launch the first multistate progressive jackpot network in the US. Powerbucks, a multistate wide area progressive jackpot network, has been developed by IGT as an add-on to its MegaJackpots theme that enhances the jackpot pool from one gaming region to another. Under the partnership, Powerbucks will be deployed by Caesars properties in approved jurisdictions, starting with the US states of New Jersey and Nevada. Gamblers in the two states will now be able to access the…

Motley Fool – Macau’s gaming market is now seven times the size of the Las Vegas Strip and outgrew the Sin City 18.5% to 4.8% in 2013. So, we should at least be pondering if there’s an upper limit to how large the market can grow. It’s the growth of Macau’s overall market that will really drive Las Vegas Sands, Wynn Resorts, Melco Crown, and MGM Resorts over the next few years. Other than trading market share between one another and the other two concessionaires, SJM and Galaxy, that’s the only way to grow. First, let’s look at the size of…

New York Times – People have different reasons for making visits to a casino part of their entertainment regimen. The one incentive common among them is the hope of winning money. For some, winning money means hitting a jackpot. For others, it means just coming out ahead. As a rule, the higher you set your expectations the less your chances of walking out the door happy. Jackpots are not easy to hit. Chasing them is a recipe for disaster. Knowing that there is always next time is the one rule of thumb casino goers should always remember. It’s a far…

Park City Daily News – On Kentucky Derby night 2012 someone murdered Adan Perez. The groom’s body was found in a backside barn at Churchill Downs. No arrest has happened, and almost two years later the case has grown cold. This sad and unresolved situation is symbolic of so much in thoroughbred horse racing now. Despite plenty of positive (as chronicled in a preceding column) there are several serious problems that prevent racing from reaching its full potential and returning to its past position in the pantheon of America’s most popular sports. One stark reminder of racing’s darker side is…

Telegraph & Argus – Bradford has some of the highest concentrations of betting shops in UK, according to a study. An analysis commissioned by the Campaign for Fairer Gambling and carried out by geographic information specialists, Geofutures, put the city among nine areas with the highest density of betting shops in the country. The analysis revealed that when measured against other shopping areas, a 500 square metre area around the central part of the city centre near Market Street in Bradford has some of the highest densities of betting shops anywhere in the country. With 12 betting shops in just…