Beleaguered former casino boss Steve Wynn #MeToo problems are far from over.

On Tuesday, a woman claiming to be Wynn’s manicurist filed a lawsuit in a Las Vegas state court against the casino mogul who she said sexually harassed and assaulted her.

In her lawsuit, the woman accused Wynn of holding his hand “over his genitals” so the manicurist would “contact his genitals through his pants.” The businessman also allegedly demanded the woman sit close so her knee would touch his crotch, in addition to rubbing her arms or legs during those manicures.

When the woman objected, Wynn became angry and agitated, according to the lawsuit.

In spite of zealous enthusiasm by the New South Wales (NSW) government, the reported caps placed on gaming machines are being blasted by gambling opponents.

Problem gambling, according to critics, is at an all-time high, and the caps do little to bring things under control. The critics claim that there are “more machines than the whole of Tasmania,” and that the new rules don’t go far enough in lowering the statistics.

Under the new regulations, Fairfield, a popular migrant area, will be what the government calls a “no-go” zone for pokies. Fairfield falls under the jurisdiction of the western Sydney council, and last year saw more than US$6.2 million gambled in machines. Gaming machines, or “pokies” to the locals, will be capped at the current levels.

NWS Minister for Racing Paul Toole was quoted by SBS News saying that the controls, introduced to parliament Tuesday, were “the most significant changes to gambling regulation in NSW for a decade,” noting that “these reforms follow extensive consultation and represent a reset of the way gambling is regulated in NSW.” Communities that have been signaled as “high risk” areas will be off-limits for the installation of additional pokies.

Japan’s legislators continue to wrestle with the details of their casino legislation, even as the clock continues to tick away on the current legislative session.

On Tuesday, Bloomberg Politics quoted Kiyohiko Toyama, the casino point person for the conservative Buddhist-backed Komeito party – the junior partner in the Liberal Democratic Party’s governing coalition – saying his members wanted the government to authorize no more than three casinos, at least to start.

Last week, a vocal faction in the LDP’s Integrated Resorts (IR) Project Team advocated the approval of four to five casinos in the initial round, with a further 10 gaming venues possibly to follow. But Toyama said this larger initial number would make garnering the approval of Komeito members “extremely hard.”

Toyama insisted that Komeito wasn’t saying three casinos should be “the limit forever,” and that if Japanese society is still standing after the first three IRs have been operating a while, “we could increase it a bit.”

888Live round-off another outstanding series after Andrei Racolta and Ana Marquez win the two big tournaments in Bucharest, and Itai Freiberger writes to the Pennsylvanian Gaming Control Board asking for some skin in the game.

I wonder who determines the number 1, 2 and 3 largest online poker rooms in the world?

Is there a Poker God somewhere, a crushed cigarette underneath a giant whorled and torn thumb, deciding the fate of the Big Three? If there is, partypoker got a smack on the bum this week, and 888Poker got a hi-five.

While partypoker had to suffer the ignominy of a server problem during their $10m KO Series finale on Sunday, 888Live was wrapping up another successful event, this time in Romania.

Lee Davy talks about his personal experience as a customer of Stan James during the recent migration to Unibet, focusing on Bernadette Jiwa’s fortune cookie principle.

How about this for a gritty drama?

An evil circus owner convinces a beautiful Mermaid to leave her salubrious sealike surroundings so that he can provide her with a nightly audience she can make weep with her beautiful voice.

The Mermaid falls for his charms.

Greek gaming regulators have shut down the Club Hotel Casino Loutraki, strongly suggesting that the government isn’t taking a recent court defeat as the final word on the subject.

On Monday, the Greek Gaming Commission ordered Casino Loutraki to close its doors to the public after the casino’s operator failed to remit a €250k gambling revenue tax payment. The casino is required to pay 35% tax on each day’s gaming revenue, but no payments have been made since the month began.

Local media outlet Parapolitika reported that the casino was under the impression that the €44m tax refund (€36m plus interest) the casino was awarded last month by the Tripoli Administrative Court of Appeal negated the casino’s requirement to maintain its usual tax payment schedule, at least until the government actually paid its bill.

Not so, said Gaming Commission chair Evangelos Karagrigorou, who claimed that it was not the Commission’s responsibility to “make the set-off required by the casino.” Karagrigorou also noted that court decisions on tax refund court decisions aren’t final until two months after the ruling is issued, and the government is reportedly planning to appeal the ruling.

partypoker has successfully held their first Latin American Poker Championships after 1,137 entrants meeting the $1m Guarantee in Uruguay and a Brazilian Olympian ditches volleyball for poker.

With the sirens of the emergency services heading to partypoker’s online servers wailing in our ears, the brand got back to what they’re great at – operating a successful live tournament.

partypoker (minus the LIVE and MILLIONS monikers) erected a few thermometers in the Enjoy Conrad Resort & Casino in Punta Del Este, and the results were boiling.

The $1,1000 Latin American Poker Championships attracted 1,137 entrants, ensuring partypoker soundly beat the $1m guarantee. If it was an experiment, it was a success. The Uruguayans seem to like poker as much as Enzo Francescoli.

Maryland’s six casinos enjoyed improved gaming revenue in February, while one casino can’t wait for warmer weather to test out the state’s first major outdoor gaming area.

Figures reported Monday by the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Agency show the state’s casino operators generated gaming revenue of just under $136.6m in February, up from $127.8m in January and 6.1% higher than the same month last year.

As always, MGM Resorts’ National Harbor venue claimed top honors with revenue of $53.1m, a 16% year-on-year improvement but well back of the property’s all-time best of $56.6m set last December.

Also as usual, Cordish Gaming’s Live! Casino & Hotel venue made do with second place at just under $47m, a modest 1.5% year-on-year gain. Caesars Entertainment’s Horseshoe Casino Baltimore ranked third with $21.4m, down 2.7% year-on-year.

US-facing online sportsbook BetOnline was knocked offline last weekend by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, as the scale of these attacks grows to previously unimaginable heights.

On Friday, BetOnline account holders began reporting that they could no longer access the site. While BetOnline’s official Twitter feed insisted the company’s IT team was working to remedy the “network issues,” the site remained offline for a couple days, leaving the site’s customers venting all manner of expletives in gambling forums.

On Monday, BetOnline management shared a statement with the SBR forum, indicating that the outage was the result of “an attempt by a third party to disrupt traffic and site access,” confirming many account holders’ suspicions that the site was undergoing a sustained DDoS attack.

Online gambling sites, particularly sports betting sites that depend on time-specific events, have long topped the list of targets favored by DDoS attackers. Poker sites’ well-publicized tournament schedules are also tempting targets, and while we take PartyPoker at its word that its unplanned downtime last Sunday was due to a ‘server malfunction,’ one may never know for sure whether or not the issue was the result of external actors.

Online bookmaker Pinnacle has instituted Bitcoin as a new deposit and withdrawal option for its Euro account customers.

Last week, the Malta-licensed Pinnacle sent emails to its Euro account customers confirming that they could begin using the cryptocurrency as a method of payment via the Atlanta-based Bitpay payment processor. Pinnacle isn’t yet allowing punters to maintain Bitcoin account balances, as all wagering will continue to be conducted in fiat currency.

Bitcoin-based account deposits are free but limited to €8k per 24-hour period. Customers are allowed one free Bitcoin-based withdrawal per month, while additional withdrawals will cost €12 and are limited to €2k per 24-hour period. That said, failure to roll-over deposits at the required 3x level will result in an additional 3% charge on the deposit value.

Bitcoin deposits are expected to be confirmed within one hour, while withdrawals are broadcast to the Bitcoin network daily, usually around noon GMT, at which point the prevailing Bitcoin value will be used for conversion purposes.

Erstwhile Chinese online sports lottery operator 500.com has inked a deal to develop land-based lottery sales channels on the Chinese mainland, while ditching the company’s online social poker holdings.

On Tuesday, the Shenzhen-based, Nasdaq-listed 500.com announced a deal to cooperate with the China Sports Lottery Administration Center on the development of “physical channels to sell sports lottery tickets.”

With the national Sports Lottery overseer’s support, 500.com plans to enter into deals with provincial sports lottery centers to install and maintain lottery terminals “to enhance the convenience of sports lottery ticket purchases, enlarge customer base and optimize user experience for lottery purchasers.”

Until March 2015, 500.com was one of only two companies approved by Chinese authorities to participate in a “pilot program’ for online lottery sales. But Beijing imposed a “temporary suspension” of online sales three years ago after national audits exposed widespread fraud at provincial lottery administration centers.