Caesars Entertainment will tap the Montreal market for gambling customers by combining hotel packages with new charter flights between Atlantic City and upstate New York. Service from Plattsburgh, N.Y., to Atlantic City International Airport will begin April 23 and run through August using jets operated by Republic Airways, which handles air charters for Caesars’ casino hotels across the country. Garry Douglas, president of the North Country Chamber of Commerce in Plattsburgh, noted that the summer charter flights will extend Caesars’ reach into the potentially lucrative Montreal metropolitan market consisting of 3.5 million people. “We are Montreal’s U.S. airport,” Douglas said…

Press of Atlantic City – Three of the five municipalities where people are spending the most time logged on to some Internet gambling websites are within an hour’s drive of Atlantic City, but operators say these gamblers are not the same clientele who frequent the resort’s casinos. As Internet gambling continues in New Jersey, operators are trying to learn more about where their gamblers are coming from and what can be done to access untapped markets. Caesars Interactive Entertainment, which has captured a 31 percent of the state’s online gambling market since its November launch, is seeing more log-in time…

New York Daily News – It was only a pipe dream. Workers cleaning a clogged sewer pipe at an Atlantic City casino may have thought they landed a $2.7 million windfall when they found more than 500 poker tournament chips. But the chips were counterfeit. The Harrah’s Resort and Casino employees unearthed the chips in the room of poker competitor Christian Lusardi, 42, of North Carolina, according to The Press of Atlantic City. Lusardi was taken into custody Friday at an Atlantic City motel, investigators said, accused of stuffing the chips into the pipe. The bad act spurred the cancellation…

Trump Entertainment’s two Atlantic City properties have been issued online gambling permits, with more permits for other Atlantic City properties likely on the way. Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort and Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino both obtained permits as of Thursday, according to a list on the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement’s website. They are the third and fourth casinos in New Jersey permitted for online gambling operations. “We are very pleased to acknowledge that Trump Plaza and Trump Taj Mahal have received the third and fourth Internet gaming permits in the state of New Jersey. This is very…

The East Coast gambling hotspot of Atlantic City, N.J., is not likely to give its desert rival Las Vegas a run for its money anytime soon, Caesars Entertainment Chairman and CEO Gary Loveman told CNBC on Thursday. “There are two offsetting forces at the moment,” Loveman said in a “Squawk Box” interview. “The business has been contracting over the last few years as a result of so much new competition. [And] it makes it hard for people to invest in that market.” The American Gaming Association said that gambling revenues in Atlantic City totaled $3 billion last year—down 42 percent…

The advent of Internet gambling in New Jersey has left a British online gambling firm placing a bet on Atlantic City with plans to build or buy a resort casino. London-based 2UP Gaming PLC is in negotiations to purchase an Atlantic City casino. If that’s not possible, the company is prepared to build anew, said Vincent Crandon, who will oversee 2UP Gaming’s American expansion. The company announced its intentions Friday, saying an Asian investment firm is prepared to contribute $330 million to the project. “I don’t count New Jersey out by any means,” Crandon said, speaking about the decision to…