MTR Gaming, a prominent racetrack operator, has withdrawn its candidature for operating a slots casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. MTR is the second slots license hopeful who has dropped out of the bidding.
Although some gamblers still prefer traditional slot machines dispensing real coins, numerous casinos across the U.S. have already switched to coinless slots. Nowadays, many lucky winners receive bar-coded paper tickets instead of coins.
It was recently reported that a woman gambler hit an astonishing jackpot of more than CAD$3 million playing a slot machine at Casino Niagara, a gaming venue operated in Niagara Falls, Canada.
It was recently reported that the Nevada Gaming Commission invalidated a prior decision made by its investigative arm, the state Gaming Control Board, and rejected the "Chinny Chin Chins" slot machine theme proposal submitted by Konami Gaming, a Las Vegas-based slots manufacturer.
St. Landry Parish of Louisiana has been collecting great sums of money from slots taxes payed by the Evangeline Downs Racetrack and Casino, a local gaming venue.
Throughout 2005, Belle Rock Entertainment, a prominent operator of online casinos, payed out as much as $8,632,880.56 in progressive slots jackpots across its online gaming sites. The progressive games have continued to produce increasing jackpots, constantly attracting more and more slots players.
Penn National Gaming, Inc., a prominent slots gaming operator, and UCH Venture Capital, a Philadelphia-based investor, are currently considering the option to acquire a 15-acre lot adjacent to Queen City Airport in Allentown, Pennsylvania...
Slotland.com, a leading all-slots Internet site, recently had another heavyweight jackpot winner. ULLKNIGHT hit an outstanding slots jackpot of $111,976. The lucky gambler had been visiting the Slotland.com website on a regular basis for the past two years.
Winward Gaming Group, one of the Internet's leading gaming companies, recently launched a newly developed online slots site, SlotsVillage.com. The new real-money gaming website features a large variety of slots games, including video slots.
After an almost year-long debate and a fierce fight about legalizing slot machines, both legislative houses in Florida, the House of Representatives and the Senate, have finally passed a resolution to allow the operation of slots at existing gaming venues across Broward County.
According to Morale, Welfare and Recreation officials, several casinos on foreign U.S. Naval bases are currently switching to “coinless” slot machines in an attempt to enlarge MWR budgets.
Gambling venues in Broward county, Florida, are now closer than ever to getting Las Vegas-style slot machines. On Monday, the House Business Regulation Committee approved a bill under which each slots parlor will be allowed to install as many as 1,000 such machines.
According to Tim Gallagher, Assistant District Attorney in Dallas County, Texas, since county officials started prosecuting gaming venues and confiscating video slot machines five years ago, it has become almost impossible to find any slots parlors operating out in the open.
Expert online gamblers are now offered a new tool to track progressive slots jackpot information at www.jackpottracker.com. Jackpot Tracker is a new website providing online punters with free and all- inclusive progressive jackpots data updated every five minutes.
According to a report recently publicized by the Louisiana Office of State Inspector General, Anne L. Neeb, Pennsylvania's top slots gambling regulator, has allegedly been involved in payroll fraud. The report demonstrated that Neeb was paid for hours she did not work, while serving as executive director of the Louisiana gambling control board.
