Overshadowed by its prominent neighbors Harrah’s and the Borgata, the newly rebranded Golden Nugget has struggled to find its footing in Atlantic City’s ultra-competitive marina space. Formerly known as the Trump Marina, the least profitable of Trump Entertainment’s triumvirate of Atlantic City casinos was sold to Landry’s in 2011 for the meager price of $28 million. Landry’s would dump nearly $150 million into an extensive renovation process; an effort that up until this point has fallen flat, as the Nugget […]

Caesars Atlantic City is one of four Atlantic City establishments controlled by the gaming, hotel, and resort company Caesars Entertainment. Over the course of the past 10 years, the boardwalk-based relic has been expanded and renovated several times. Yet despite the improvements, Caesars was hit harder by the economic downswing and the emergence of new gambling markets in Delaware and Pennsylvania than most other Atlantic City casinos. Over the course of one month in 2013, Caesars revenues dropped a staggering […]

For the better part of a decade, PokerStars dominated New Jersey’s online poker scene. Then Black Friday happened, and in one felt swoop the gaming behemoth’s presence in the Garden State, and the rest of the United Stated for that matter, went from omnipresent to virtually nonexistent. Since then, PokerStars and its parent company the Rational Group have been plotting ways to reestablish themselves in New Jersey; this time in accordance with regulations dictated by the New Jersey Division of […]