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Odds Shorten on CG Technology Losing Nevada Sportsbook License After Regulators Reject Settlement
CG Technology is one step closer to seeing its gaming license withdrawn in Nevada after state regulators denied a proposed $250,000 settlement for the company's admitted violations. Earlier this month, the sportsbook company and the...
Wynn Resorts to Discover Fate From Massachusetts Regulators Next Month
Wynn Resorts continues to build its $2.5 billion integrated casino complex outside Boston without formally knowing whether it will be permitted to operate gambling once it's finished. Massachusetts Gaming Commission (MGC) Chairman Stephen Crosby said...
American Gaming Association Says US Commercial Casinos Won Record $40B in 2017
The American Gaming Association (AGA) reports in its annual review of the US gaming industry that commercial casinos won a massive $40.28 billion in 2017. That's a 3.4 percent increase on 2016, and marks the...
Anti-Online Gambling Op-Ed Penned by Ex-Pol Lobbyist Whose Firm Has Sheldon Adelson as a Client
Former congresswoman Blanche Lincoln (D), who represented Arkansas in both the US House of Representatives and the Senate, is calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to overturn a 2011 opinion on the 1961 Wire...
Downtown Las Vegas Goes Out on a Limb for New Treehouse Entertainment Complex
Downtown Las Vegas' Arts District will soon become home to what's being billed as an entertainment complex featuring a variety of social, dining, and event spaces that will be capable of hosting multiple happenings simultaneously....
Encore Boston Harbor, MGM Springfield Put More Women on Construction Site
Encore Boston Harbor and MGM Springfield are collectively investing nearly $3.5 billion to build two integrated casino resorts in Massachusetts, and the companies are entrusting a large percentage of female construction workers to get the...
East Windsor Casino to Break Ground This Fall, MGM Springfield Springs Into Action This Week
Tribal leaders building the East Windsor casino in Connecticut say they hope to officially break ground on the satellite gambling venue this fall. The Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes were granted approval from the state...
Pennsylvania Lottery and State Casinos Remain at Odds Over Games
The Pennsylvania Lottery debuted Xpress Football and Xpress Car Racing last week, and the two new games based on the outcomes of simulated sporting events have the state's 13 licensed commercial casino operators up in...
Incoming LVCVA CEO Steve Hill Says Las Vegas Must Better Understand Millennial
Steve Hill will take over the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) on September 1, and one of the first issues he plans to address after taking the reign is how the city can...
Practice of Banning Successful Sports Bettors Increasing in US
Sports bettors who win more often than most are becoming increasingly subjected to bans at casinos in the United States. As new jurisdictions regulate sports betting after the Supreme Court struck down the longstanding ban...
