This Week in Gambling

SiGMA Group has announced the launch of SiGMA-ICE Asia Digital, which will run June 8-10 2020 for 3 hours daily, from 10AM – 1PM GMT+1. Together with Clarion Gaming’s ICE Asia, the three-day conference will cater for both gaming and tech audiences, with free-of-charge content geared towards bringing the industry together in what has been a difficult time for businesses. Participants can expect land-based content on the 8th, while online gaming and emerging tech will cover the next two days respectively. Founder and CEO of SiGMA Group, Eman Pulis said, “It is now more vital than ever to stay informed…

The push for a specific date on a Las Vegas reopen has begun! Some casino operators want to open their doors in May, but Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman wants it done yesterday! But what would happen if we had a Las Vegas reopen tomorrow? We also cover news from Tribal Gaming as they deal with the Coronavirus closures, and say ‘thank you’ to an unlikely person. Hello friends! And welcome to week six of this global lockdown, shelter-in-place, end of the world pandemic we’re calling the Coronavirus! And I must say, I’m a bit disappointed. I mean we were…

We knew that Tribal casino closures were taking a tremendous toll on people and the economy, and now we have the numbers. The Coronavirus has put nearly 300,000 people employed by Tribal gaming out of work at a cost of over $4 billion in lost revenue. Meister Economic Consulting stated that following just the two week full closure of tribal casinos that $4.4 billion was lost in economic activity. That figure includes $969 million in lost wages, and $631 million in lost taxes and revenue sharing received by federal, state, and local governments. The stoppage of business also directly impacted…

There is no doubt that people are tired of being locked in their homes, but will casino players be willing to storm the doors when Las Vegas, Atlantic City and Tribal gaming open up again? Maybe not. A recent study of over a hundred slot and table game players in New Jersey found that only one out of ten plan to return as soon as casinos open. Most of them plan to proceed with some degree of caution. One stated they were “…ready to head back to the casinos, but I plan to wait a few weeks after the re-openings…

We’re checking out the exciting and innovative Criss Cross Poker casino game from our friends at PlayAGS! The objective is for the player to make a pair of 6’s or better going across and, separately, going down using the community cards and their two hole cards. The 5 Card Bonus bet wins with a pair of 6’s or better using just the five community cards! Plus, this game comes with the Bonus Spin Extreme feature! See our other AGS table game reviews for VEGA$ 3 Poker and Premium Hold ‘Em right here on our website! Criss Cross Poker is a…

How great is the danger to public health? Should Las Vegas reopen before it’s impossible to recover? The governor says things should stay closed, but the mayor believes it’s time to get Sin City up and running again. Carolyn Goodman, Las Vegas mayor, said that the non-essential business closures in the state are “total insanity” during a weekly City Council meeting. “I am asking: Open the city. Open Clark County. Open the state,” Goodman said. “For heaven’s sake, being closed is killing us already, and killing Las Vegas, our industry, our convention and tourism business that we have all worked…