This year is shaping up to be the worst for the Atlantic City casino industry in the last 22 years. Figures released Wednesday by the state Division of Gaming Enforcement show the city’s 12 casinos are on a pace that would see them take in less than $3 billion from gamblers for the first time since 1991. For the first six months of the year, the casinos won $1.38 billion, down 10.7 percent from the same period last year. The casinos’ revenue fell 12.6 percent in June, to $240.2 million, and every one of the casinos posted a monthly revenue…

The country’s first strip-club-in-a-casino will open in August. Scores, the New York-based franchise, will open its $25 million entertainment complex in the Trump Taj Mahal in August, according to a company spokeswoman. The site was about two years in the making and will be 36,000 square feet of adult entertainment, the company said in a release. Scores will be located on the second floor of the Trump casino, in a space that was formerly occupied by three restaurants. There will be eight distinct areas – including a main showcase area, a sports bar, a nightclub, a lounge, a cabaret and…

From iGaming Business All twelve of the land-based casinos in Atlantic City have now notified the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement regarding what intra-state online gambling deals they have made or intend to sign. According to a report from the Reuters news service, the Borgata Hotel, Casino and Spa, which is co-owned by Boyd Gaming Corporation and MGM Resorts International, along with operator Caesars Entertainment Corporation were among the first to meet a deadline set last month. Caesars Entertainment operates the Showboat Atlantic City, Bally’s Atlantic City, Caesars Atlantic City and Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City venues and is to…

From Press of Atlantic City Casino cheaters have come a long way since the days of using loaded dice or concealing an ace up their sleeve. New Jersey regulators fear that high-tech gadgetry could take cheating to the next level, so they have given Atlantic City’s casinos the authority to ban Google Inc.’s newly developed computerized eyewear from the gambling floor. Known as Glass, the spectacles are equipped with a tiny Web camera and wireless computer. They can take pictures, shoot video and surf the Internet. And they could give cheaters the ability to spy on someone else’s hand during…