Atlantic CityMargaritaville Casinos
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Margaritaville draws rave reviews at soft opening in Atlantic City
(5/20/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Call it Parrot Deco. As Resorts Casino Horel transitions from its 1920s-era theme to the host of the Atlantic City branch of Jimmy Buffett's...
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First portions of Margaritaville expansion open in Atlantic City
(5/16/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- A line of rolling chairs waited Thursday outside the slot parlor at Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville, which has opened for customers ahead of its...
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Margaritaville-themed Expansion Ready for Memorial Day Opening
(5/6/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The Margaritaville-themed expansion at Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City is nearing completion. The $35 million project is on schedule to debut...
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PokerStars
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PokerStars Loses Bid To Save Atlantic City Deal [sub req'd]
(5/20/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars suffered a defeat in its quest to gain a toehold on the U.S. online gaming market when a New Jersey judge on Friday dissolved a temporary...
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Atlantic Club Free to Back Out of Sale Agreement to PokerStars
(5/18/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The Rational Group, parent company of PokerStars, lost its bid to keep its purchase agreement of the Atlantic Club casino in Atlantic City alive today.
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Online Poker Company Loses Court Battle over Right to Purchase Atlantic Club Casino
(5/18/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Rational Group gambled and lost as much as $11 million over the botched deal to purchase Atlantic Club (AC) casino for their online poker brand...
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PokerStars Dealt Setback in Bid to Enter U.S. Market
(5/18/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The online poker giant PokerStars was dealt a setback in its quest to enter the U.S.'s burgeoning regulated online gambling markets, when a New...
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The Atlantic Club Lawsuit: Pokerstars Risks More than Monopoly Money
(5/18/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- An expert on the American gaming scene, Maurice “Mac” VerStandig is well-versed in casino management from common issues of fraud and theft...
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Indicted PokerStars founder involved in Atlantic Club casino deal, court papers say
(5/17/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The indicted founder of an online poker company was involved in negotiations to buy a New Jersey casino despite promises to federal authorities he...
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Judge rules Atlantic Club casino can end contract with PokerStars and seek new buyer
(5/17/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- After paying an $11 million advance to a struggling Atlantic City casino it intended to buy, the parent company of the world’s largest online...
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Judge says Atlantic Club can reject PokerStars offer
(5/17/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Judge Raymond Batten has ruled Atlantic Club can walk away from its deal with Pokerstars. He is hearing arguments from Atlantic Club Casino Hotel and...
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Judge: Atlantic Club casino can seek new buyer
(5/17/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- A struggling Atlantic City casino is free to seek a new buyer after a judge ruled that it can scrap a deal to sell itself to the world's largest...
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PokerStars loses bid to keep deal to buy The Atlantic Club in place
(5/17/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- An Atlantic County judge on Friday ruled that The Atlantic Club was within its rights to walk away from a preliminary deal for sale of the casino to...
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PokerStars Loses Its Court Bid to Buy Atlantic Club Casino Hotel
(5/17/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars was denied its request to keep alive a $15 million offer to purchase the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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Atlantic Club Owners Aim to Sell Casino to Other Online Gambling Operators before November 2013
(5/16/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Colony Capital LLC, parent company of Resorts International Holdings (RIH), continues to thwart Rational Group’s bid to buy Atlantic Club casino...
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Judge to hear PokerStars-casino dispute Friday
(5/16/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- A New Jersey judge on Friday will hear an increasingly bitter dispute between the world's largest online poker web site and the Atlantic City...
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Atlantic Club brings out big guns in defending one fine point of the PokerStars lawsuit
(5/15/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The other documents filed by Colony Capital, Atlantic Club, et al on Monday in the Atlantic County Courthouse consisted of five experts who addressed...
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PokerStars responds to Atlantic Club’s bid for end to order preventing negotiations with other bidders
(5/15/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars has filed a brief on Wednesday “in further support of a preliminary injunction” that would maintain the prevention of The...
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BRENNAN: Excerpts from The Atlantic Club’s retort to PokerStars’ lawsuit
(5/13/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Defendants Colony Capital and The Atlantic Club struck back hard Monday in Atlantic County Court Monday against the lawsuit brought last week by would...
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PokerStars’ canceled deal with The Atlantic Club continues to intrigue
(5/13/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The recent lawsuit filed by PokerStars against The Atlantic Club and its current owners, Colony Capital, over a voided preliminary sale of the...
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Online Poker Company Files Lawsuit
(5/11/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars’ parent company, The Rational Group filed a lawsuit against Resorts International Holdings (RIH) and other defendants, last Monday in...
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PokerStars bid to buy AC casino scrapped
(5/4/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- A bid by the world's largest online poker website to buy an Atlantic City casino has gone bust. The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel announced Wednesday...
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PokerStars Hasn’t Given Up on Atlantic City Casino Dream
(5/4/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Earlier this week, the Atlantic City Casino put out a brief statement, saying that the conditional deal it had signed with online poker group, Poker...
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PokerStars still wants to buy casino
(5/4/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The British parent company of the PokerStars website says it still wants to buy an Atlantic City casino, even though a deal to obtain it fell through...
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Pokerstars’ Future in US Online Gambling Market
(5/4/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- It seems that Rational Group gambled on a deal to purchase Atlantic Club (AC) casino from its owner Colony Capital LLC, as the contract came with a...
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Internet gaming co still wants AC casino
(5/3/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- One day after calling off its planned purchase of the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel, the Rational Group has had a change of heart. The British parent...
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Online giant: Atlantic Club deal still on
(5/3/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The parent company of online global gambling giant PokerStars said it hopes to salvage its faltering deal to buy the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel.
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Revel Casino
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New leadership hopes to revitalize Revel in Atlantic City
(5/19/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The opening of the $2.4 billion Revel on the northern end of the Boardwalk in April 2012 was one of the most anticipated events in the market since...
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Casino Control Commission approves Revel restructuring plan
(5/15/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- New Jersey casino regulators today approved Revel's plan of reorganization, a key step toward the $2.4 billion megaresort emerging from Chapter 11...
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Revel admits mistakes in Atlantic City as restructuring plan gets OK
(5/15/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- In what amounted to a $2.4 billion mea culpa, Revel’s new executive team admitted Wednesday that the luxury megaresort misjudged the Atlantic...
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Revel casino recovery plan OK'd by NJ regulators; smoking ban abandoned
(5/15/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Revel was given a second chance Wednesday from New Jersey casino regulators, and now it’s seeking the same thing from customers.
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Gambling Business: Revel Casino Bankruptcy Approved
(5/14/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Revel casino, arguably Atlantic City’s most disappointing gambling joint ever, will soon emerge from bankruptcy with hopes of turning things...
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New Casino Bankruptcy Draws Eyes To Atlantic City’s Record-Setting Collapse
(5/12/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- A new casino bankruptcy hearing will take place on Monday to allow troubled Atlantic City mega-resort Revel to reduce its debt and secure new...
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New casino bankruptcy: Atlantic City's Revel sees 40% revenue drop in first year
(5/12/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- New Casino Revel in Atlantic City is the talk of the Jersey Shore, and not in a good way. The Casino is about to enter bankruptcy just over a year...
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Revel debuts new slots lounge and VIP club
(5/10/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Revel’s interim CEO Jeffrey Hartmann regards the newest attractions at the struggling $2.4 billion megaresort as a way of “reconnecting...
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Atlantic City's Incredibly Bad Gamble on the Revel Casino
(5/9/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- More than a year ago, Revel, the last casino to be built in Atlantic City in nine years, opened its doors to the public. At the time, Revel’s...
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Revel opening VIP slot lounge & players' club
(5/9/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Revel may have 99 problems, but the lack of a high-rollers' lounge is no longer one of them. Atlantic City's newest casino is trying to...
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Revel hires outside consulting firm in marketing shake-up
(5/8/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Revel overhauled its marketing department Wednesday in the latest management shake-up at Atlantic City's troubled $2.4 billion megaresort.
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Revel takes steps to restructure finances, ownership
(5/7/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Revel, the troubled $2.4 billion megaresort, is moving ahead with plans to overhaul its finances and ownership structure in U.S. Bankruptcy Court and...
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At Revel, a chance to perform - and possibly win
(5/5/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Nicole Curtis, of Barnegat, recently did one of the most anxiety-producing things a person can do to help ease her anxiety. As part of the "Revel...
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Atlantic City Revenue
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Atlantic City Recession Continues While Las Vegas Rebounds
(5/16/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Atlantic City posted another large decline in gaming revenue during April. Total casino win was down 12.1% for the month. Table game revenue declined...
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Atlantic City Places Another Bet on Summer 2013
(5/13/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- As Atlantic City boosters await the arrival of Memorial Day weekend, they’re trumpeting the start of yet-another new era for the beleaguered...
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April revenue drops 12.1% at A.C. casinos
(5/10/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The dozen casinos here experienced a 12.1 percent drop in casino revenue in April, compared to a year earlier - continuing a pattern of double digit...
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Atlantic City casino revenue falls 12 pct in April
(5/10/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Revel started off slowly last year , and things have gotten worse since then. A week before it is expected to emerge from bankruptcy court, Atlantic...
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Atlantic City casino revenue falls 12 percent in April
(5/10/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Atlantic City’s 12 casinos were looking for a recovery in their gambling revenue this spring following a dismal winter. They didn’t get it.
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BRENNAN: Stock market’s up, gas prices down, Atlantic City – not up
(5/10/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- What’s the forecast for southern New Jersey this summer? According to speakers at the Jersey Shorecast at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey...
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Atlantic City Mayor Says Christie Has Been No Help to Gaming
(5/10/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- As a former dealer and pit boss on the Boardwalk, Mayor Lorenzo Langford is committed to seeing the city’s casino industry recover, despite his...
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Atlantic City casinos continue their losing ways
(5/7/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Atlantic City's 12 casinos, which have struggled for years in the wake of heightened competition from neighboring states, suffered a setback in...
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Sandy Blamed for Drop in Casino Revenue
(5/7/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Hurricane Sandy is being blamed for New Jersey having the largest decline in casino revenue for 2012.
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Trump
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Icahn Holds Up Sale of Trump Plaza
(5/6/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Investor Carl Icahn is holding out for a better deal in the sale of Trump Plaza to the Meruelo Group. Icahn, who holds the mortgage on both the Plaza...
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Other News
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Battered Atlantic City seeks to reinvent itself as destination resort
(5/19/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The Atlantic City Alliance was created through Gov. Chris Christie's reform package in 2011 and is tasked with marketing the casino industry.
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Renovation of Golden Nugget Atlantic City spurs widespread praise
(5/19/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Landry’s Inc. paid $38 million two years ago to acquire the rundown, money-losing Trump Marina, and analysts immediately predicted the gaming...
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Atlantic City amenities a blend of clubs, casinos ahead of Memorial Day
(5/16/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Drinking, dancing, leisurely days at poolside and some fireworks at night. That, essentially, is what will be new at Atlantic City casinos this summer...
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Casino floor and gift shop open at Margaritaville
(5/16/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The doors are open for customers at part of Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville today. Waitresses were dressed as flappers as customers mingled to...
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Revel CEO says casino will allow smoking
(5/15/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Revel is dropping its one-of-a-kind non-smoking policy. The Atlantic City casino says it plans to allow patrons to light up on 25 percent of the...
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State Lotteries Highlighted at 2013 East Coast Gaming Congress & Hospitality Forum
(5/15/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- For the past 50 years, state lotteries have led the way for the successful expansion of legal gambling in the US. Now, at the dawn of online gaming in...
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Borgata guests still can gamble remotely from bedrooms using eCasino
(5/13/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Guests at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa can enjoy breakfast in bed — and betting in bed. In good news for bettors and couch potatoes alike,...
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Sewell man may have fallen from casino in Atlantic City, police investigating
(5/13/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Police are investigating the death of a Sewell man found unconscious near a casino this weekend.
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Daughter of Dennis Gomes shines spotlight on late father in new book
(5/6/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The late Dennis Gomes had a colorful & Hall of Fame-worthy 40 years of time in the - gaming industry.
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Vegas Wire: Wynn says gambling industry 'not healthy'
(5/4/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Gambling magnate Steve Wynn met behind closed doors with the governor and legislative leaders Wednesday, proclaiming in a brief interview that the...
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CRDA keeps no record of unsuccessful proposals
(4/28/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The Casino Reinvestment Development Authority has approved almost $157 million in Atlantic City projects over the past three years. They range from...
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Atlantic City could see $32M from Miss America
(4/26/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- For two decades the separation between Miss America and casinos was so strong that pageant rules barred contestants from pulling a slot machine lever...
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Fire at Showboat casino in Atlantic City forces partial evacuation, report says
(4/24/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Three floors of the Showboat casino were evacuated tonight when a fire broke out in a room on the fifth floor, according to a report by the Press of...
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Fire on Showboat casino's fifth floor quickly contained
(4/24/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Customers staying on three floors of the Showboat Casino Hotel had to be evacuated for about an hour Wednesday night due to a small fire on the hotel...
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Opinion: Could Atlantic City's 12 casinos be too many amid increased gaming competition?
(4/23/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- At a recent Pennsylvania Gaming Congress conference, a well-respected market analyst commented on the number of casinos operating in Atlantic City and...
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Golden Nugget’s New Interactive Slot Experience
(4/22/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Golden Nugget Atlantic City will be the first casino in New Jersey to offer a new Interactive Slot Experience offering a variety of enhanced bonus...
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To stay on top, Borgata spends to refresh its retail business
(4/20/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- It takes effort and money to stay No. 1. And Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, the top-grossing gambling palace here every year since its debut in 2003...
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Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA) Board approved several projects introduced by city and casino partners
(4/19/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Bolstering the Christie Administration's commitment to making Atlantic City a world-class destination tourism resort, the Casino Reinvestment...
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Pinky's Corner: Change may be near for Showboat
(4/18/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The Atlantic City rumor mill has been churning overtime with the latest talk of a possible change in casino ownership.
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Online Gaming to Be Discussed at the 2013 East Coast Gaming Congress & Hospitality Forum
(4/18/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The legalization and effect of Internet gambling brings a myriad of legal, regulatory and operational questions. Six nationally recognized industry...
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