6075 stories by Devin O'Connor
Virginia Skill Gaming Company Sued for Using Late Sen. Yvonne Miller’s Likeness
Virginia skill gaming manufacturer and distributor Queen of Virginia Skill & Entertainment is the subject of a lawsuit filed in Portsmouth Circuit Court. The litigation was brought by the estate of the late state Senator Yvonne Miller. Miller, who was the first...
Missouri Sports Betting Bill Advances, Senate to Consider Gaming Expansion Measure
Missouri sports betting efforts have failed in each state legislative session since the US Supreme Court in 2018 repealed the sports gambling federal ban and gave such powers to individual states. Four years later, Missouri is only now moving closer to joining...
Tilman Fertitta Las Vegas Rumors Intensify, as Billionaire Reportedly Acquiring Strip Frontage
Billionaire Tilman Fertitta is reportedly inching close to acquiring property on the Las Vegas Strip. The Golden Nugget casino owner is already invested in downtown Las Vegas. But Fertitta, who also owns the NBA Houston Rockets and Landry's hospitality and entertainment empire,...
Club Pro Guy ‘Lynx’ Up With betPARX Sportsbook and Online Casino Platform
Club Pro Guy (CPG) and online sportsbook and iGaming platform betPARX are partnering up. The satirical character, who depicts a fictional version of a local professional club pro online, has amassed a large following on social media. betPARX, the digital sportsbook unit...
Macau Easing Testing Again for Zhuhai Entries as Labor Day Approaches
Macau is extending the validity of negative COVID-19 test results for travelers arriving from nearby Zhuhai. Yesterday, Macau's Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Center announced that people from Zhuhai seeking entry to the casino hub can now present a negative test completed...
Barstool Sports Founder Dave Portnoy Glad Elon Musk Buying Twitter
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy -- the "El Presidente" of the sports betting and pop culture social media empire -- is ecstatic that billionaire Elon Musk is taking Twitter private. Portnoy, 45, appeared on Fox News last night to express his support...
Steve Wynn Finally Finds Buyer for Las Vegas Mansion on ‘Billionaire’s Row’
Steve Wynn disassociated from the Las Vegas gaming industry in early 2018. That was following a career-ending report published in The Wall Street Journal that detailed numerous allegations of sexual misconduct committed by the casino magnate. But only recently is the 80-year-old...
Bally’s Tiverton Casino Seeks Property Tax Reduction, Cites COVID-19 Pandemic
Bally's Tiverton Casino and Hotel says the COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted the property valuation of its resort, and tax assessors got it wrong with their latest calculation. Northeast Revaluation Group, one of the two main property tax assessors used by numerous municipalities...
Massachusetts Sports Betting Bill Finally Set for State Senate Debate
After much delay, a Massachusetts sports betting bill is finally scheduled for debate in the state's upper chamber. The Massachusetts House of Representatives passed House Bill 3933 in July of 2021. The act seeks to allow the state's three commercial casinos and...
Greektown Casino Renamed, as Penn National Continues Hollywood Expansion
Greektown Casino-Hotel in Detroit will be known as Hollywood Casino at Greektown effective Sunday, May 1. Penn National Gaming (PNG) and Caesars Entertainment's real estate investment trust VICI Properties jointly purchased the downtown casino in May of 2019 for $1 billion. VICI...
