New Jersey wants to be the centre of iGaming innovation in the US and is keen to hear the industry’s thoughts on the future of the sector at GiGse Totally Gaming later this month. Eric Weiss, chief of technical services bureau and slot laboratory at the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (NJDGE)...

Washington, DC (December 20, 2012) – The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide, today commended the passage of the Internet gambling bill, A2578, by the New Jersey State Senate. The legislation, which passed 33 - 3, would allow for Internet gambling, including the game of poker, within the state.

Mount Laurel, New Jersey (AP) - Not only gambling revenue is falling at Atlantic City's 11 casinos. The resort city's casinos are making less from food, lodging and other amenities, too, according to a report issued Thursday by the state Casino Control Commission.

Atlantic City - The New Jersey Casino Control Commission today extended the sale deadline of the Tropicana casino here until April 30. The commission also gave the casino's trustee and a group of lenders until March 30 to make final an agreement that would clear the way for a bankruptcy auction of the casino. Gary Stein, Tropicana trustee and a former New Jersey Supreme Court justice, has been trying to sell the casino since December 2007...

The former owners of the Tropicana Casino & Resort "lacked financial integrity and responsibility, as well as business ability," and deserved to be stripped of their casino license, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled unanimously last week. The decision, coming just eight days after the court heard oral arguments in the case, clears the way for a state-appointed trustee to sell the troubled gambling hall in a Bankruptcy Court auction.

Atlantic City, New Jersey (AP) - Hoping they can convince at least one more city council member that a temporary ban on smoking in the casinos is working, casino workers are pushing to make the ban permanent. The council voted 5-4 last week to delay the ban for one year due to the economic crisis. But with a final vote scheduled for Monday on the council's stated intent to delay the ban...

Atlantic City, New Jersey (AP) -- Never one for understatement, Donald Trump offers a bleak view of current events: "The economy is horrendous, the worst since 1929." The free-market capitalist strands of his DNA hate the idea, but he said Friday that he saw the need for Congress to bail out the financial system. Meanwhile, his Trump Entertainment Resorts gambling company is orchestrating what it hopes will be a rescue of its own in Atlantic City...

The former operator of the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City intends to petition the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to retake control of the resort, Newsday reported this week. Tropicana Entertainment filed papers on September 5 in US Bankruptcy Court in Delaware informing the court of its intention to petition for control of the Tropicana on the grounds that William Yung III, a former officer of Tropicana Entertainment, stepped down from his position...

New Jersey's casino industry has been the subject of much sensationalistic gloom and doom in some recent media accounts. We believe a longer-range perspective is important to bring balance that appears to be missing. While it is true that we have experienced revenue declines over the past year and a half, let's not lose sight of the fact that New Jersey's casino industry is far larger and more important to our state's economy than its original advocates projected.

Newark, New Jersey - (AP) -- Any hope for a turnaround at Atlantic City's casinos evaporated in the July heat. Summer is usually a hot time for the 11 gambling halls, but not this year. Revenues fell 6.6 percent this July compared to a year ago, increasing the likelihood that the city's industry will have its second consecutive down year. The casinos took in USD 438.7 million in July, compared to USD 469.6 million a year earlier...

Atlantic City, New Jersey - A new casino on the outskirts of Atlantic City's Route 30? Don't bet on it. That's the message from a city councilman who says a proposal to build a casino on the White Horse Pike - away from the existing casino zones on the Boardwalk and the marina district - has only a limited chance of happening. Penn National Gaming wants to build a casino on the 23-acre property.

New York (Reuters) - Casino regulators in New Jersey agreed on Wednesday to reject all bids received for the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City, and to restart the process for a buyer. The New Jersey Casino Control Commission said in a statement it gave the trustee overseeing the sale process, retired state Supreme Court Justice Gary Stein, another 120 days to find a buyer for the Tropicana.