Bloomberg – As President Barack Obama began his first term in January 2009, an Arizona Indian tribe saw a long-awaited opportunity to jumpstart a plan to build a 225,000-square-foot casino not far from the Cardinals’ football stadium. Five years earlier, through a special company, the Tohono O’odham Nation purchased land outside Phoenix, 160 miles north of the tribe’s Sells city headquarters on its Tucson-area reservation. Now, having waited out a freeze on casino construction on property distant from a tribe’s reservation by President George W. Bush’s administration, it submitted the project to Obama’s U.S. Department of the Interior — eight…

OnlinePoker.net – The Chinese gambling resort of Macau has recorded its second-highest ever monthly gaming revenue total, after collecting $3.8 billion from gamblers during August, up 18% from the same month in 2012. Last month’s figure was trumped only by the $3.92 billion that the resort’s casinos generated in March, this year. So far for the first eight months of 2013, Macau’s gambling revenues are now up by 16% over the same period in 2012, and are expected to grow by 17% overall relative to the record $38 billion generated for the whole of 2012. “We believe Macau fundamentals remain…

The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department busted an illegal gambling ring at a home on the 1200 block E. 15th Street. Detectives arrested and charged 10 people for their involvement in the illegal activity including an 83-year-old man. Detectives also confiscated a little over $4,400 in cash. Officers removed pull tab machines, 13 brown boxes, and some suspected cocaine. Investigators served a search warrant on the home on Tuesday. All of the suspects were transported to the Marion County Jail, except for 64-year-old Judy Buckner, who officers sent to Wishard Memorial Hospital for high blood pressure. Prosecutors have charged the suspects…

Times Union – A statewide vote to amend the constitution by allowing up to seven new full-gaming casinos in New York has been engineered in the Capitol over two legislative sessions, the culmination of years of debate touching on economic development, quality of life and the social costs of problem gambling. But with just seven weeks to go before voters decide the issue in November’s general election, the silence from advocates and opponents is deafening. That can be ascribed in large part to the recently ended primary campaign season that, upstate and down, included virtually no debate about the casino plan. “We’re just…

iGaming Business – Gerry Gionet, founder of GEObet Network, has confirmed that several Native American tribes have asked to join the organisation, which provides iGaming solutions to land-based casino operators. Gionet held private discussions with tribes from Northern California and Nevada last month. Joining GEObet would allow the tribes ultimately to launch online operations. While some tribes have previously used free-play iGaming sites as an entry point into the market, GEObet offers the opportunity to go live with real-money online poker, casino and sportsbook services. “The use of the airwaves and the practice of gambling on games and contest is…

Card Player – Despite a likely citywide ban on Google Glass inside Las Vegas brick-and-mortar casinos, the gaming industry will reportedly work with the search engine giant to provide views from the inside of casinos for Google’s indoor mapping of locations. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, on Tuesday at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors meeting, a marketing firm unveiled a plan that will allow potential visitors to check out what it feels like to be inside — and presumably move around — of the casino before ever visiting. Or for those who have already…