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JACK Entertainment agrees to sell Greektown Casino-Hotel

JACK Entertainment LLC announced that it has entered into a contract to sell Greektown Casino-Hotel for $1 billion cash, pending regulato...

Eclipse Gaming names Tim Minard as CEO

Eclipse Gaming announced that gaming industry veteran Tim Minard has joined the company as CEO.

AGS names Glen Bullen commercial director for AGS Interactive

AGS recently announced that Glen Bullen has joined the company as commercial director for its AGS Interactive division.

Choctaw Casino & Resort – Durant announces expansion project

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma recently announced it will expand its resort property in Durant, Okla.

Incredible Technologies granted Alberta Gaming License

Incredible Technologies’ international expansion continues with the company’s latest gaming license approval in Alberta, Cana...

Mohegan Sun partners with Gillette Stadium and Mount Snow

Mohegan Sun recently announced new partnerships that allow for discounted and exclusive ticket access with Gillette Stadium and Vermont-b...

Caesars Entertainment becomes first founding partner of the Las Vegas Stadium

Caesars Entertainment Corporation recently announced an unprecedented 15-year partnership that will make Caesars Entertainment (Caes...

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Lisa Vanderpump and Caesars Palace are partnering to open Vanderpump Cocktail Garden, set to debut early 2019. …

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GAME BRAiN responsibly gaming show -- RGC

To help raise awareness of the risks of gambling to students across Ontario, The Responsible Gambling Council (RGC) is touring high schools for a fifth year, with its show - …

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Table game operators at the 2018 Cutting Edge Table Games Conference selected the Gold, Silver and Bronze winners of Casino Journal’s Best New Table Games competition at Paris Las Vegas last …

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HAWG platform -- SYNERGY BLUE

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A Stack of Technology Issues for the Marketing Department

Eric Holtzclaw

In the older days of marketing, back in the early 2000s, a few brave CMOs invested in some rudimentary tools designed to help better manage their campaigns and audiences. These hardy pioneers sought to organize, analyze and improve performance, and thus created the first marketing technology stacks.

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Operationalizing your Casino Brand

Julia Carcamo

Global Gaming Expo is upon us, which means it’s the time of year fraught with excitement and a temptation to gamble on capital purchases. We rush to the G2E tradeshow floor in Las Vegas to see the newest products and those we’ve somehow missed during the year.

Columns

It’s Time to Reimagine Player Loyalty Programs

Paul Gordon

This year has brought us the legalization of sports betting, the beginning of a resurgence of Atlantic City with two new casino openings, the expansion of casinos into Massachusetts and the hope for revitalization of the Catskill region and the infusion of funds to expand and improve existing properties.

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Underappreciated Casino Initiatives

Dennis Conrad

While the staunchly anti-gaming coalition would disagree with me, the casino industry has done numerous good things for its customers and the communities that it serves.

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Next Up for the American Gaming Association (AGA)

Charles Anderer

By the time you read this at G2E, I imagine we’ll know who has replaced Geoff Freeman in the top spot at the American Gaming Association (AGA). His replacement will have big shoes to fill, just as Freeman did when he replaced Frank Fahrenkopf, the AGA’s first CEO, in 2013.

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The really big picture for U.S. gaming

Paul Doocey

Two months ago, the American Gaming Association (AGA) released State of the States 2018, which reported that consumer spending on commercial casino gaming tallied $40.28 billion in 2017, a 3.4 percent increase of 2016 and record setting revenue return for the industry.

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2018 October

In this issue of Casino Journal, read about the latest stories from the gaming industry, take a look at stories from the Host Development Conference team challenge, table game and slots trends, and much more!

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2018 September/October

In this issue of Slot Management & Marketing, we take a look at some of the newest slot machine innovation, mobile marketing technology, the latest news in casino slot tournaments, and much more!

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