The InterContinental Hotels Group has taken legal action against James Packer‘s casino group for using the name Crown Resorts.

According to the hotel group, Packer’s Crown Resorts is named similarly to Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, which it counts as one of its hotel brands.

InterContinental wants Packer’s casino company to change its name in order to avoid confusion among customers of Crowne Plaza.

The UK-based hotel group is also throwing legal shade on Crown Resorts’ properties, including Crown Sydney, Crown Perth, Crown Hotels, Crown Spa, and Crown Poker.

The New York Gaming Commission has opened bidding to any operator looking to score a casino license in the Southern Tier.

Applications are due in July but so far only Tioga Downs, a harness racing track and electronic gambling facility based in Nichols, New York, has announced plans to bid for the license.

Tioga Downs lost out on the first three casino licenses given out by the commission but was undaunted by the rejection. According to owner Jee Gural, the company has worked hard trying to improve its application.

Binghamton Mayor Richard C. David told the Bellingham Herald that there’s some “interest” in pursuing a casino license in his town, although he’s unsure a second bidder will enter the fray.

This is a multi-part series of articles meant to be a resource for current and future writers in the gaming space. This is not all inclusive to poker writers, as there are plenty of workers out there grinding it out writing sports or casino copy. That said, my main experience and strengths of this type of entertainment writing come from a poker bias.

The top 20 gaming writers in the world, the crème de la crème, may laugh at these articles. But they shouldn’t. The topics jump around, but worth a chuckle. Gritty real talk.

I’m kicking it off with these three concepts below.

Part 1 – Psychology and Industry Pitfalls

Gibraltar-licensed online gambling firm Mansion Group will have a new CEO as of April 1.

Mansion issued a statement this week saying longtime CEO Guy Gussarsky will step down at the end of the month. Assuming the CEO’s reins will be Sagi Lahav, Mansion’s current chief operating officer. Both execs have been with Mansion for the past eight years.

Gussarsky isn’t completely going away, having decided to take a seat on Mansion’s board of directors. Shelly Hadad, a seven-year Mansion veteran and the company’s current biz-dev director, will assume the COO role.

Mansion said it’s “very happy with the changes as it provides continuity to the management of the business at such an important time for the company’s development plans for this year and for the future, and in managing the ongoing challenges facing the Industry as a whole.”

A long-stalled casino project in Vietnam has new life after Macau junket operator Suncity Group and Hong Kong property developer Chow Tai Fook Enterprises signed on as partners.

VinaCapital Group, Vietnam’s leading investment banking firm, had originally teamed with Malaysian conglomerate Genting on a proposed $4b resort casino project in Quang Nam province. Genting withdrew from the project in 2012 and it wasn’t until last October that VinaCapital began hinting that it had finally found a suitably deep-pocketed replacement in Chow Tai Fook.

This week, Vietnam Investment Review reported that VinaCapital’s new partners include not only Chow Tai Fook but also Suncity. The report claimed the Chu Lai Economic Zone Authority of Quang Nam would issue a revised investment certificate for the project reflecting the new makeup of the development team.

Earlier this month, Suncity expressed an interest in developing its own casino on Vietnam’s Phu Quoc island. It’s unclear whether this interest has waned as a result of the Quang Nam project.