Another member of the Japan national team has come clean about entering a casino, local media reported.

Last week, ace badminton player Kento Momota lost his spot at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics after he and his teammate Kenichi Tago admitted to gambling at a casino. Now, the Nippon Badminton Association said a third member of the badminton team has confessed to entering a casino.

According to the Japan Times, the player—whose name has been withheld—told the association he went to a casino twice last year, but did not wager. In a hearing, the player said “he attended twice but left after about 20 minutes, while asserting he did not gamble.”

Association chief executive Kinji Zeniya said the third player will also be given “some kind of discipline” like Momota and Tago because he is also a member of the national team.

Another member of the Japan national team has come clean about entering a casino, local media reported.

Last week, ace badminton player Kento Momota lost his spot at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics after he and his teammate Kenichi Tago admitted to gambling at a casino. Now, the Nippon Badminton Association said a third member of the badminton team has confessed to entering a casino.

According to the Japan Times, the player—whose name has been withheld—told the association he went to a casino twice last year, but did not wager. In a hearing, the player said “he attended twice but left after about 20 minutes, while asserting he did not gamble.”

Association chief executive Kinji Zeniya said the third player will also be given “some kind of discipline” like Momota and Tago because he is also a member of the national team.

Australia-listed casino investor Frontier Capital Group has appointed a former employee of Genting Group as its new executive chairman.

The company said in a filing with the Australian Stock Exchange that Henri Ho joined Frontier Capital effective April 15.

A veteran with more than 17 years of experience in the gaming and hospitality sectors, Ho was a certified public accountant and had trained at KPMG Peat Marwick Malaysia before joining Genting Group. At Genting, Ho “obtained vast knowledge in setting up and operating of casinos and integrated resorts.”

Ho’s appointment came just as Frontier Capital is finalizing its plans to take over a gaming property in the Philippines. Back in January, shareholders greenlighted the company’s proposal to acquire Stotsenberg Leisure and Hotel Corp. for a total consideration of US$26 million.

Australia-listed casino investor Frontier Capital Group has appointed a former employee of Genting Group as its new executive chairman.

The company said in a filing with the Australian Stock Exchange that Henri Ho joined Frontier Capital effective April 15.

A veteran with more than 17 years of experience in the gaming and hospitality sectors, Ho was a certified public accountant and had trained at KPMG Peat Marwick Malaysia before joining Genting Group. At Genting, Ho “obtained vast knowledge in setting up and operating of casinos and integrated resorts.”

Ho’s appointment came just as Frontier Capital is finalizing its plans to take over a gaming property in the Philippines. Back in January, shareholders greenlighted the company’s proposal to acquire Stotsenberg Leisure and Hotel Corp. for a total consideration of US$26 million.

Wong Sio Chak, the man in charge of security in Macau, is the newest member of the government’s Gaming Commission, Reuters reported.

The secretary for security will join the eight other officials, including the current head of the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ), Macau’s chief executive and the secretary for economy and finance, who are currently on the commission’s board. Prior to his appointment, Wong served as a representative of the security body in the commission.

According to a GGRAsia report, four out of Macau’s five government secretaries are members of the commission.

Created in 2000, the Gaming Commission was instrumental in the liberalization of the former Portuguese colony’s gaming industry, which opened its doors to foreign operators such as Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn.

I love getting in the middle of a union catfight. Red Rock Resorts, formerly Station Casinos, filed for an initial public offering last week with the SEC to sell close to $500M in shares to the public. Blasted all over the paid news wires is a website full of research reports badmouthing the IPO, research funded by UNITE HERE!, a typically annoying and obnoxious name in all caps and exclamation point for a labor union, this one focused on the gaming industry obviously. They represent 270,000 workers, fighting for higher and higher minimum wages so independent workers cannot legally compete with them. I’ll do them a favor and add in some bold, italics and underline in case all caps is not loud enough. And I’ll also add an extra exclamation point free of charge.

UNITE HERE!! doesn’t like Red Rock because Red Rock likes labor unions as much as your local Wal Mart. From the IPO filing:

None of our owned casino properties are currently subject to any collective bargaining agreement or similar arrangement with any union… However, union activists have actively sought to organize employees at certain of our casino properties in the past, and we believe that such efforts are ongoing at this time.

So these union people decided to go on a media blitz, tearing apart the Red Rock IPO limb from limb as a way to leverage Red Rock into hiring its workers. There was probably some back door non-collective bargaining going on with UNITE HERE! before the IPO filing threatening to badmouth the IPO unless Red Rock became more amenable to unions. Red Rock did not oblige. I don’t think Red Rock cares all that much about a union whining about their IPO. But I’ll take their side by coincidence, at least partly, not because I think their motives are pure or anything close to it. If Red Rock had acquiesced to hiring them, they’d be praising the IPO today do doubt.

The Global Poker League will increase its visibility in the Chinese market after inking a long-term strategic partnership with the online sports platform Sina Sports.

Followers of Alex Dreyfus will remember that he used to have the Great Wall of China as his Facebook profile picture.

Now we know what he was doing there.

The Global Poker League (GPL) has inked a long-term strategic partnership with the Chinese online sports platform Sina Sports.

Sheldon Adelson’s long dormant anti-online gambling group has shown signs of life just days after Congress announced it was holding a hearing into online gambling.

On Monday, The Hill reported that the Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling (CSG) had hired The Keelen Group to promote its anti-online agenda on Capitol Hill. The hiring marks the first time the CSIG has been heard from in many months, spoiling the hopes of those who believed it had gone the way of the dodo.

The CSIG hired high-profile lobbying firm Squire Patton Boggs last summer, back when Las Vegas Sands boss Adelson still had hope that his Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) might gain some traction in Washington.

But while RAWA is effectively DOA, last week’s announcement of a potentially pro-online gambling hearing by a House of Representatives subcommittee appears to have prompted Adelson to raise CSIG’s allowance. They may not be able to ban online gambling, but they may be able to delay its legalization a while longer.