About

This blog exists to report and analyze developments in casino gaming from Maine to Florida.   The Gaming Atlantic blog provides a forum for gaming professionals, researchers, public officials, regulators, analysts, students, journalists, casino patrons and other interested individuals. Gaming Atlantic allows web visitors to read and comment on current news and analysis on casino gaming, with an emphasis on the American mid-Atlantic region and east coast.

Gaming Atlantic is written and published by Dr. James Karmel, a Maryland-based economic historian, professor and gaming analyst. Dr. Karmel is the principal of Gaming Atlantic, a casino gaming consultancy.

His accomplishments include:

• book: Gambling on the American Dream: Atlantic City and the Casino Era
• “30 Years, 30 Voices” – an oral history project for the Atlantic City Free Public Library
• numerous articles, papers and presentations developed on various topics in casino gaming for entities such as the International Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking and the Gaming Industry Observer

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