A reputed octogenarian New York Mafia capo was sentenced to two years in prison this week for shaking down a Manhattan restaurateur over a gambling debt. But his lawyer says Anthony “Rom” Romanello, 86, has “no regrets” about slugging the victim, reports The New York Post. Anthony “Rom” Romanello leaving a Brooklyn federal courthouse in […]
Former Resorts World Las Vegas and MGM Grand president Scott Sibella is now the subject of a complaint by the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB). The three-count formal complaint, filed Tuesday, alleges Sibella allowed illegal bookies to gamble large at the MGM Grand without questioning the source of their funds. Scott Sibella, above, invited bookies […]
Margaret Rudin, the Las Vegas woman convicted of murdering her husband in 1994, is suing the State of Nevada for wrongful conviction. Rudin, 80, whose conviction was vacated in 2022 after she already served 21 years in prison, filed her lawsuit on Thursday morning in Clark County District Court. It did not specify the damages […]
The Dutch gambling regulator has officially warned two gambling platform operators for using widely recognizable people in marketing campaigns. While Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) didn’t name the two offenders, it did provide a description of their transgressions. One of these companies was a sportsbook that used a well-known soccer player who plays in the country’s biggest professional […]
Alabama lawmakers have considered gaming expansion bills in nearly every legislative session over the past two decades without any new forms of legal gambling coming to the Cotton State. The odds appear to favor that trend continuing in 2024. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) wants state lawmakers to allow Alabamans to determine the fate of […]
The high-speed rail connection from Las Vegas to the Los Angeles area has chugged another step closer to reality. On Wednesday, Brightline West announced that Siemens Mobility will manufacture the trains. An artist’s rendering shows a Brightline West train traveling in the Interstate 15 median between Las Vegas and Southern California. (Brightline) Siemens invented the […]
Nitsche wins $1.8m In the wee hours of Thursday morning, an online tournament which was mired in controversy reached its denouement by crowning a champion in one of the all-time greats of the game. 5,045 players/robots ponied up $2,650 to play The Venom on Americas Cardroom (ACR), generating a whopping prize pool of $12,615,500. On […]
Heck of a first impression I’ve been to Malta several times for EPTs, the Battle of Malta, and Unibet Opens. This was, however, my first trip to the Malta Poker Festival, which everyone’s favorite passionate Latina in poker, Ivonne Montealegre, has gradually been building to what it has become and seems destined to become: not […]
Fake casino chips detected in a Macau casino led to local law enforcement arresting five individuals thought to be involved in the crime. A table game and gaming chips are seen at Grand Lisboa in Macau. Local law enforcement in the Chinese casino hub this week detected more than $740K worth of counterfeit gaming chips […]
Police in Hong Kong completed an 11-day operation aimed at dismantling organized crime enterprises across the region, arresting 142 individuals in the process. It took down seven gambling and 18 drug-related businesses, as well as an unlicensed drinking establishment and illegal sex work. The authorities arrested 72 males and 70 females, the youngest of which […]
