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Massachusetts Casinos Set Another Revenue Record, October Win Totals $96M
Massachusetts casinos have done it again. Encore Boston Harbor, MGM Springfield, and Plainridge Park combined to win $95.98 million in October, which is yet another monthly revenue record for the state gaming industry. Massachusetts' three casinos set their previous all-time best gross...
Melco Resorts Studio City Expansion in Macau Aims at Leisure Tours, Family Activities
Melco Resorts yesterday celebrated the topping out of the second expansion phase of its Studio City integrated casino resort on Macau's Cotai Strip. Melco reps, including the company's billionaire founder, chairman, and CEO Lawrence Ho, were on hand in Cotai to divulge...
Outgoing NJ Senate President Stephen Sweeney Pushes Atlantic City Casino Relief
New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D) has been a loyal ally of Atlantic City casinos during his nearly 20-year run as a state Senator in Trenton. Now a lame duck, Sweeney's swan song could be a major concession to the current...
Final Arkansas Casino License Issued to Cherokee Nation, Dallas Cowboys’ Jerry Jones Firm
More than three years after Arkansas legalized commercial gambling in four counties, the final license has at long last been issued. Following years of legal contentions, the Arkansas Racing Commission (ARC) last Friday issued the gaming permit allocated for Pope County to...
New Jersey Online Casino Players File Lawsuits Against iGaming Firm
New Jersey online casino players who gambled on an interactive slot manufactured by American Gaming Systems (AGS) are demanding compensation for a tech glitch that wrongly told them that they had won big. Plaintiff Lisa Piluso, a suburban Philadelphia resident who works...
Cherokee Nation Ready to Begin Construction on Arkansas Casino in Pope County
Oklahoma's Cherokee Nation is hoping to soon begin construction on its proposed $225 million Arkansas casino resort in Pope County. Legends Resort & Casino was presented to state and local Pope County officials in 2019. The project targeting Russellville comes from the...
US Casinos Win Nearly $14B in Q3, Gaming Industry Having Best Year Ever
Casinos in the United States have more than rebounded from the deepest shallows of the COVID-19 pandemic. The American Gaming Association (AGA) reports that commercial casinos experienced their best quarter ever July through September. Gross gaming revenue (GGR) in the 31 states...
Rivers Casino Des Plaines Gambler Claims He Was Robbed After Winning $40K in Cash
A 34-year-old Arizona man claims that after visiting Rivers Casino Des Plaines in Illinois, two assailants robbed him at gunpoint and stole some $40,000 in cash that he had just won while gambling. The alleged victim, Cordero Supe, told police that a...
Fontainebleau Las Vegas Owners Say Longstanding Strip Eyesore Will Open in 2023
The new owners of Fontainebleau Las Vegas committed yesterday to bringing the Strip's notorious 67-story idled eyesore to completion in two years. Fontainebleau Development and Koch Real Estate Investments, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, acquired the unfinished casino resort from New York...
Rhode Island Casinos in Lincoln and Tiverton Begin Bally’s Rebranding
Rhode Island's lone casino operator -- the recently formed Bally's Corporation -- has begun the rebranding process of its two casinos in the state. Formerly Twin River Worldwide Holdings (TRWH), the group changed its corporate identity to Bally's following its acquisition of...
