2017 Gambling News

• Hyderabad, India – High Court bans cockfighting during the Makar Sankranti Hindu festival – 3rd of January 2018
• West Warwick, Rhode Island – An elderly woman falls victim to a lottery scam – 26th of December 2017
• Biloxi, Mississippi – A woman is accused of stealing money from guests at the IP Casino – 23rd of December 2017
• Australia’s gambling addiction problem – 19th of December 2017
• Florissant, Missouri – Woman wins lottery twice on the same day – 10th of December 2017
• Niagara Falls, New York – A man is robbed after losing consciousness at Seneca Niagara Casino – 26th of November 2017
• Cleveland, Ohio – Authorities arrest a man who threatened mass shootings at a Las Vegas casino and a church – 19th of November 2017
• San Fernando, California – Police bust a drug deal in a casino car park – 13th of November 2017
• Henderson, Nevada – A pastor is accused of robbing the M Resort casino 3 times – 8th of November 2017
• Simcoe, Ontario – A senior citizen is scammed out of $152,000 – 1st of November 2017
• Sparks, Nevada – Wolf Pack assistant coach crashes car into the Nugget Casino Resort – 29th of October 2017
• Gambling websites ordered to remove ads of games that appeal to children – 23rd of October 2017
• Detroit, Michigan – An attempted sexual assault in the Greektown Casino parking garage -16th of October 2017
• Las Vegas, Nevada – Stephen Paddock would’ve triggered alarm bells at Wynn Las Vegas – 10th of October 2017
• Las Vegas, Nevada – Gunman kills 58 and injures 527 near the Mandalay Bay Resort – 2nd of October 2017
• Battle Creek, Michigan – A mother allegedly leaves her 3 year old son home alone and goes to Firekeepers casino – 26th of September 2017
• Detroit, Michigan – A high school teacher uses school funds to plays the slots at MGM Grand Detroit casino – 25th of September 2017
• Las Vegas, Nevada – A casino security guard is charged with rape – 17th of September 2017
• Newburgh, New York – A free casino dealer school opens in Orange County – 11th of September 2017
• Sioux Falls, South Dakota – The Crown casino robbery suspect is arrested – 10th of September 2017
• Joliet, Illinois – A woman is banned from Harrah’s after stealing another woman’s purse – 7th of September 2017
• San Bernardino, California – An abandoned scratch lottery ticket wins $600K – 4th of September 2017
• Islandia, New York – Teenage babysitter abandons infant at a casino – 31st of August 2017
• Las Vegas, Nevada – A man throwing away $100 bills almost causes a riot – 29th of August 2017
• Gambling behaviour in Great Britain in 2015 – 27th of August 2017
• A Massachusetts woman wins the $758 million Powerball jackpot – 24th of August 2017
• Detroit, Michigan – A mother is charged for leaving two young children unattended in the MGM Grand Casino car park – 22nd of August 2017
• Baton Rouge, Louisiana – Trio are accused of using “dice sliding” to steal nearly $56,000 from the Baton Rouge casino – 20th of August 2017
• Atlantic City, New Jersey – A man commits suicide at the Tropicana Casino & Resort – 15th of August 2017
• Las Vegas, Nevada – A player wins $11.8 million on a Megabucks slot machine at Fremont Hotel and Casino – 13th of August 2017
• Muskegon, Michigan – A Muskegon man wins a $1 million Mega Millions prize – 10th of August 2017
• Las Vegas – A homeless man stabs a security guard at Palazzo on the Vegas Strip – 10th of August 2017
• Fullerton, California – Police seize illegal gambling machines from two video game businesses – 8th of August 2017
• Reno, Nevada – One person is shot at Peppermill Casino – 6th of August 2017
• Las Vegas, Nevada – New code for responsible gambling – 4th of August 2017
• Thomasville, North Carolina – Car problems lead to a $400,000 lottery win – 30th of July 2017
• Manila, Philippines – Police arrest 45 “kidnap for ransom” suspects who preyed on gamblers – 26th of July 2017
• Long Beach, California – A $5 million lottery winner is denied his winnings – 23rd of July 2017
• Detroit, Michigan – A Motor City casino winner is robbed at knife point in the restroom – 19th of July 2017
• Japan to significantly lower the maximum amount that a Pachinko player can win – 16th of July 2017
• Bethlehem, Pennsylvania – The Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem is fined $150,000 – 12th of July 2017
• Las Vegas, Nevada – A leaking pipe floods Planet Hollywood Casino – 9th of July 2017
• Atlantic City, New Jersey – Own a piece of the former Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort – 6th of July 2017
• Ballston, New York – A teenager wins $1m from a Cashword scratch-off ticket – 2nd of July 2017
• Des Moines, Iowa – A computer programmer masterminds a lottery fraud scheme – 29th of June 2017
• Bay St. Louis, Mississippi – A man fires a gun at the Hollywood Gulf Coast hotel after being told to leave – 27th of June 2017
• Las Vegas, Nevada – A car thief is arrested after a 4 hour stand-off with police in the Cosmopolitan casino-hotel parking garage – 25th of June 2017
• Maryland Heights, Missouri – Father leaves 6 year old daughter in van while he gambles at Hollywood Casino – 20th of June 2017
• An indebted gambler is kidnapped, but escapes and flags down a police car – 18th of June 2017
• Santa Fe County, New Mexico – A father is arrested after leaving young children in car while he gambled – 13th of June 2017
• New York – Thieves steal $100K from a 76 year old woman – 11th of June 2017
• Los Angeles, California – A man is followed out of a casino in Gardena, shot and robbed – 8th of June 2017
• Manila, Philippines – The man who torched the gambling tables at Resorts World Manila was a problem gambler – 4th of June 2017
• Manila, Philippines – A gunman storms into the Resorts World Manila, fires shots and torches gambling tables – 2nd of June 2017
• Watertown, South Dakota – A Blackjack dealer scams Dakota Sioux Casino out of $10,000 – 30th of May 2017
• Harris County, Texas – Authorities bust an illegal gambling ring – 28th of May 2017
• Bitcoin casino gambling is exploding – 24th of May 2017
• Fairbanks, Alaska – An elderly woman is assaulted and robbed of her Bingo winnings – 21st of May 2017
• New York – A Bronx bartender wins $7 million after scratching a Cash Blowout lottery ticket – 17th of May 2017
• Wichita, Kansas – Wichita Police seize 80 illegal gambling machines – 14th of May 2017
• Liverpool, New York – A lucky man wins $10 million in scratch-off game – 11th of May 2017
• Atlantic City, New Jersey- The former $1.2 billion Trump Taj Mahal casino is sold for $50 million – 9th of May 2017
• Niagara Falls, New York – A security guard dies after subduing a man at Seneca Niagara Casino – 7th of May 2017
• Sioux Falls, South Dakota – Crown Casino is robbed at knifepoint – 3rd of May 2017
• Las Vegas, Nevada – A New York man wins a $160.5 million lawsuit against Las Vegas Cosmopolitan Hotel and Casino – 30th of April 2017
• Mashantucket, Connecticut – An off-duty police officer assaults an elderly bathroom attendant at Foxwoods Resort Casino – 28th of April 2017
• Niagara Falls, New York – A woman is arrested & charged after winning $1,400 at Seneca Niagara Casino – 25th of April 2017
• Poker champion Travell Thomas is sentenced to 8 years in prison for $31 million debt fraud – 22nd of April 2017
• Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina – Six people are arrested for illegal gambling operations – 21st of April 2017
• Fort Lauderdale, Florida – A slot machine winner is denied the jackpot because his friend pushed the button – 18th of April 2017
• Ridgefield, Washington – ilani Casino Resort is scheduled to open on the 24th of April – 16th of April 2017
• The NFL may fine players who participated in the Pro Football Arm-Wrestling Championship at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino – 11th of April 2017
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – A priest steals $500K to fund gambling addiction – 9th of April 2017
• A Canadian couple win the lottery for the third time – 6th of April 2017
• Bell Gardens, California – Federal agents raid the Bicycle Hotel and Casino – 4th of April 2017
• Phil Mickelson paid off nearly $2 million gambling debt to professional gambler Billy Walters – 2nd of April 2017
• San Antonio, Texas – Woman wins $27 million Texas lottery jackpot – 31st of March 2017
• Ridgefield, Washington – Michael Jordan’s Steak House is set to open at the Ilani Resort casino – 29th of March 2017
• Stateline, Nevada – A man falls to his death from the parking garage of Harveys Lake Tahoe Hotel and Casino – 27th of March 2017
• Las Vegas, Nevada – Masked men armed with sledgehammers rob a jewelry store inside the Bellagio Hotel and Casino – 26th of March 2017
• Schenectady, New York – Rivers Casino & Resort is fined $6,000 for underage gambling – 23rd of March 2017
• Detroit, Michigan – Authorities bust a cockfighting, gambling ring – 21st of March 2017
• Rudy Youngblood, the star of Apocalypto is arrested for drunkenness at Miccosukee Resort & Gaming in Miami – 19th of March 2017
• Lawrenceville, Georgia – Gwinnett County police bust up an illegal gambling operation – 17th of March 2017
• Colombia to block access to 325 gambling sites – 15th of March 2017
• Artificial intelligence has finally beaten professional Poker players at Poker – 14th of March 2017
• Poughkeepsie, New York – A couple win a $10 million scratch-off lottery ticket jackpot – 9th of March 2017
• Atlantic City, New Jersey – Two people are stabbed at the Xhibition Bar at Harrah’s – 5th of March 2017
• Wayland, Michigan – Gun Lake Casino is looking to hire 100 team members – 2nd of March 2017
• Is the Italian mafia using Bitcoin casinos for money laundering? – 28th of February 2017
• Upper Arlington, Ohio – An elderly woman is followed out of Hollywood Casino and robbed – 26th of February 2017
• A study by the University of British Columbia (UBC) finds a positive correlation between problem gambling and the slot machine – 20th of February 2017
• “At times it feels like winning the lottery has ruined my life” said Britain’s youngest Euromillions winner – 16th of February 2017
• Las Vegas, Nevada – A bill to lower the legal age of gambling to 18 – 12th of February 2017
• Las Vegas, Nevada – A Pennsylvania man wins $1 million at the Cosmopolitan on Super Bowl Sunday – 7th of February 2017
• Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania – Mount Airy Casino Resort is fined $25K for serving a gambler 27 drinks in 9 hours – 3rd of February 2017
• Tyre, New York – del Lago Resort & Casino is scheduled to open on the 1st of February – 1st of February 2017
• Queens, New York City – A man wins $5 million on his birthday – 27th of January 2017
• Oakland, California – 20 people arrested, and weapons and drugs are found in an illegal casino and prostitution parlor – 24th of January 2017
• Las Vegas, Nevada – Las Vegas Sands Corp pays nearly $7 million to settle a corrupt practices investigation – 20th of January 2017
• Punta del Este, Uruguay – A businessman wagers $35K on the Roulette wheel and wins $3.5 million – 16th of January 2017
• Fort Smith, Arkansas – An elderly man is followed out of Choctaw Casino and robbed at gunpoint – 13th of January 2017
• Halifax, Nova Scotia – Atlantic Lottery winner dreamed of the winning numbers 28 years ago – 9th of January 2017
• Madison, Wisconsin – A casino winner is arrested for heroin possession at Ho-Chunk Gaming Madison – 7th of January 2017
• Hammond, Indiana – A mother and son are beaten and robbed after being followed home from the Horseshoe Casino – 3rd of January 2017