Lawrence Ho’s Melco Crown Entertainment is reportedly stepping up its technology game to prevent banned players from re-entering its casinos.

The casino operator is the first in Asia’s gaming hub to install a specialized face recognition technology developed by German biometric firm Cognitec. The system, called FaceVAC-VideoScan, is capable of detecting people’s faces in live video streams, which are then compared to databases of banned persons.

If there’s a match between the information collected and the photos in the casino’s system, it will immediately send real-time alerts to the security staff who will deny the detected player entry into the casino.

The company also said its software “also allows to compute demographical information, client behavior, people movement in time and space, and frequent visitiors.”

Total income of state-owned Philippine gaming regulator PAGCOR reached nearly $1 billion in 2015, thanks to its strong gaming revenue.

According to financial statement posted on its website, PAGCOR’s gaming revenue, which accounts to 90% of its earnings, is up 45% to PHP 43.39 billion ($914 million).

Other income increased by 36% to PHP 2.05 billion. However, income from other related services is down 79% to PHP1.77 billion. Related services includes regulatory fees that it collects from licensed casinos and income share from other gaming activities such as e-games, commercial bingo and poker.

Total income reached PHP 47.21 billion ($994m), up 18% from the previous year.

Total income of state-owned Philippine gaming regulator PAGCOR reached nearly $1 billion in 2015, thanks to its strong gaming revenue.

According to financial statement posted on its website, PAGCOR’s gaming revenue, which accounts to 90% of its earnings, is up 45% to PHP 43.39 billion ($914 million).

Other income increased by 36% to PHP 2.05 billion. However, income from other related services is down 79% to PHP1.77 billion. Related services includes regulatory fees that it collects from licensed casinos and income share from other gaming activities such as e-games, commercial bingo and poker.

Total income reached PHP 47.21 billion ($994m), up 18% from the previous year.

Steve Wynn’s Wynn Resorts is gearing up for another round of legal battle, one that could potentially delay the opening of the casino giant’s $1.7 billion casino project in Everett.

The Las Vegas casino operator just recently came out from a bitter fight with the city of Boston. Last week, gambling regulators in the state of Massachusetts approved the deal that would see the casino giant compensate the city for traffic and other expected problems associated with the casino in exchange for Boston City Mayor Martin Walsh agreeing to stop filing lawsuits against Wynn Resorts.

Now, another Boston suburb is challenging Wynn Resort’s planned casino development in Everett.

State media outlet WCVB.com reported that the city of Somerville filed an administrative appeal last Thursday that questions the environmental permit that the casino operator received from the Department of Environmental Protection early this year.

Steve Wynn’s Wynn Resorts is gearing up for another round of legal battle, one that could potentially delay the opening of the casino giant’s $1.7 billion casino project in Everett.

The Las Vegas casino operator just recently came out from a bitter fight with the city of Boston. Last week, gambling regulators in the state of Massachusetts approved the deal that would see the casino giant compensate the city for traffic and other expected problems associated with the casino in exchange for Boston City Mayor Martin Walsh agreeing to stop filing lawsuits against Wynn Resorts.

Now, another Boston suburb is challenging Wynn Resort’s planned casino development in Everett.

State media outlet WCVB.com reported that the city of Somerville filed an administrative appeal last Thursday that questions the environmental permit that the casino operator received from the Department of Environmental Protection early this year.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu continues chasing his dream of finally opening a casino in Israel.

Netanyahu is reportedly planning to sit down with his transportation and tourism ministers to assess the viability of opening a tourist-only casino in the southern city of Eilat, located close to a proposed international airport, according to Israeli news outlet Haaretz.

Quoting the Prime Minister’s Office, the news report said “the meeting was only a preliminary one, and that no concrete plans were drawn up yet.”

Netanyahu has been pushing for a casino in the country, initially during his first term as prime minister and then again as a finance minister several years later. Last year, the prime minister tapped two of his cabinet members—Ministers Yisrael Katz and Yariv Levin—to conduct feasibility studies on opening a casino in Eilat, a city on the Red Sea coast.

3-Barrels of value from the Global Poker League as Daniel Negreanu airs his views on the recent contract complaints; PokerNews Editor-in-Chief, Donnie Peters, asks why more of the Global Poker Index Top 25 didn’t sign up; and Draft Lottery will be shown live on Twitch.

With the Global Poker League (GPL) Draft less than a fortnight away, we bring you two opinions and one fact to get your teeth into.

We will start with one of the most famous faces in poker: Daniel Negreanu. The PokerStars figurehead dabbed some ink over his personal blog this week; most of it splashed over his opinion on the contract disharmony that has broken out over Twitter this week, and I think he pretty much nailed it.

“The “fairness” of a contract issued to a player is in the eye of the beholder.” Wrote Negreanu before continuing to remind players that they are effectively getting a free roll by the GPL and if they are not happy with that, then don’t sign the contract.

3-Barrels of value from the Global Poker League as Daniel Negreanu airs his views on the recent contract complaints; PokerNews Editor-in-Chief, Donnie Peters, asks why more of the Global Poker Index Top 25 didn’t sign up; and Draft Lottery will be shown live on Twitch.

With the Global Poker League (GPL) Draft less than a fortnight away, we bring you two opinions and one fact to get your teeth into.

We will start with one of the most famous faces in poker: Daniel Negreanu. The PokerStars figurehead dabbed some ink over his personal blog this week; most of it splashed over his opinion on the contract disharmony that has broken out over Twitter this week, and I think he pretty much nailed it.

“The “fairness” of a contract issued to a player is in the eye of the beholder.” Wrote Negreanu before continuing to remind players that they are effectively getting a free roll by the GPL and if they are not happy with that, then don’t sign the contract.

eSports outfit Natus Vincere (Na’Vi) has lit a fire under the ass of the eSports sexism debate after claiming that ’women’s emotional vulnerability’ is one of the impediments to professional success.

Poker and eSports have a few things in common.

A new one emerged this week.

Sexism.