If it ain’t broke: Florida Lottery extends decades-long deal with Scientific Games Peter Schorsch, Florida Politics · August 21, 2019 at 5:36 pm The Florida Lottery will be extending the state’s more than 30-year-long partnership with Scientific Games, the only U.S.-based full-service lottery supplier, sources told Florida Politics late Tuesday. A Lottery evaluation committee met in a public meeting last Monday and recommended Scientific… [continue reading]
Hoosier State focus: Two more Indiana casinos to launch sports betting by Sept. 1 Howard Stutz, CDC Gaming Reports · August 21, 2019 at 3:49 pm With football season looming, Indiana is becoming a sports gambling epicenter in the Midwest. Two Hoosier State casinos – Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg and Tropicana Evansville – said Wednesday they will launch sportsbooks by the beginning of September, when both college… [continue reading]
OPINION: Who needs a Chicago casino deal more: Lightfoot or Pritzker? Greg Hinz, Crain's Chicago Business · August 21, 2019 at 3:43 pm Who more badly needs the proposed Chicago casino and the taxes and other revenues it would spin off: Mayor Lori Lightfoot or Gov. J.B. Pritzker? Or is it both of them? Answer that question and you may figure the odds… [continue reading]
Illinois: Will Schaumburg lift video gambling ban? Eric Peterson, Daily Herald · August 21, 2019 at 3:42 pm Revisiting an issue raised during the election campaign in the spring, Schaumburg village board members Tuesday discussed ending their 7-year-old ban on video gambling as well as what lesser regulations might be put on it. Though progress was made during… [continue reading]
MSG Sphere at The Venetian to cost $1.2B plus Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal · August 21, 2019 at 3:35 pm The MSG Sphere at The Venetian will cost between $1.2 billion and $1.7 billion, and the venue, once complete, is expected to be busier than Madison Square Garden in New York. The price tag was disclosed for the first time… [continue reading]
Disgraced casino mogul Steve Wynn drops $43M on Palm Beach estate Katherine Kallergis, The Real Deal · August 21, 2019 at 3:35 pm Embattled casino mogul Steve Wynn paid $43 million for an oceanfront estate in Palm Beach, property records show. Emma Cisneros of 1960 South Ocean Blvd. LLC, part of the billionaire Venezuelan family that owns a media conglomerate, sold the eight-bedroom,… [continue reading]
First Oregon Sportsbook Set To Open Aug. 27 At Oceanfront Casino Chinook Winds Brett Smiley, US Bets · August 21, 2019 at 3:31 pm The first legal sportsbook on the West Coast is set to open the morning of Tuesday, Aug. 27 at the Chinook Winds Casino Resort, a Pacific Ocean-front property in Lincoln City, about 85 miles southwest of Portland. The lounge will… [continue reading]
Apple takes gambling apps off the table for kids Ed Hardy, Cult of Mac · August 21, 2019 at 3:29 pm In an email to developers today, Apple has announced that apps marked as having “Frequent/Intense Simulated Gambling” will be rated 17+ in all countries and regions sApple will soon allow parents to block children’s access to all games that include… [continue reading]
Boulder Station celebrates 25 years with music, food and fun Brock Radke, Las Vegas Sun · August 21, 2019 at 10:43 am Station Casinos has used a template to create success with its chain of neighborhood casino resorts sprinkled around the Las Vegas Valley. But while there are similarities between properties and their offerings and programming, each destination has its own style,… [continue reading]
Hong Kong airport blockade didn’t hurt Macau GGR, say analysts Inside Asian Gaming · August 21, 2019 at 4:46 am Macau’s gross gaming revenue reached MOP$14.8 billion for the first 18 days of August, including a daily rate of around MOP$870 million in the seven days from 12 to 18 August, according to analysts. That figure represents a significant increase… [continue reading]
$3 Million proposal would bring horse racing, casino to Southeastern Massachusetts Young-Jin Kim, NBC-10 Boston · August 21, 2019 at 4:05 am A group led by a high-profile developer on Tuesday announced a proposal to build a horse track, hotel and casino in Wareham, Massachusetts. If given the green light, the $300 million project would the bring southeastern Massachusetts its first casino… [continue reading]
Bankruptcy court approves sale of AAF gambling app to MGM Resorts Mike Florio, NBCSports · August 21, 2019 at 3:50 am The AAF has picked up another $125,000 to pay its debts. Which means that the AAF now has (calculator engaged) $125,000 to pay its debts. OK, I’m exaggerating. But the news, via Daniel Kaplan of TheAthletic.com, that a federal bankruptcy… [continue reading]
Five-pound notes and free pints used to lure students into gambling Josh Sandiford, The Guardian · August 21, 2019 at 3:49 am Students at prestigious UK universities are being recruited to promote betting apps on campus and, in some cases, are handing out free cash to entice others to gamble. An investigation by the Observer has found that students are being headhunted… [continue reading]
Madison Square Garden’s Vegas misadventure sends shares plunging Gerry Smith, Bloomberg · August 21, 2019 at 3:14 am Madison Square Garden Co.’s big Las Vegas bet has investors sweating. Shares of the New York live-entertainment company fell their most ever after it disclosed the steep cost of building a new venue in the gambling mecca. The stock fell… [continue reading]
Game manufacturer Synergy Blue relocates headquarters from California to Las Vegas Buck Wargo, CDC Gaming Reports · August 21, 2019 at 3:01 am Skill-based game maker Synergy Blue has relocated its corporate headquarters to Las Vegas as part of its next phase to manufacture and distribute its games in Nevada and nationwide. The relocation comes more than four months after the Nevada Gaming… [continue reading]
Co-mingling beer coolers could make running casinos easier, if councilors allow it Joe Sneve, Sioux Falls Argus Leader · August 21, 2019 at 2:47 am Councilors Tuesday evening will consider a proposal to change the city’s alcohol rules to allow separate bars, restaurants and casinos operating under one roof to share cooler space and access points. For years, Commonwealth Gaming and Holdings (CGH), a Sioux Falls… [continue reading]
Nevada casino workers fight an uphill battle to get – and keep – their unions Michael Sainato, The Guardian · August 21, 2019 at 2:27 am Michael Wagner has worked as a bartender at the Green Valley Ranch Casino Resort in Henderson, Nevada since it first opened in December 2001. Wagner and other workers at the casino voted to form a union in November 2017, with 78% of… [continue reading]
Bleacher Report CEO Howard Mittman talks ambitions, strategies, gambling content, B/R Live plans Shlomo Sprung, Forbes · August 21, 2019 at 2:21 am With a fully stocked bar cart behind him in his Midtown Manhattan office on a scorching Tuesday morning in July, Bleacher Report CEO Howard Mittman appears comfortable at the six month-mark since he was promoted to his new post. Mittman… [continue reading]
U.S. casino operators seeking to get in on Japan’s nascent gambling resorts Japan Today · August 21, 2019 at 2:03 am A year has elapsed since the approval of the law permitting the creation of so-called integrated resorts, which will incorporate Japan’s first legal gambling casinos. Expectations are high that the new IRs will contribute to tax revenues and provide new… [continue reading]
Illinois gambling expansion poised to revive Fairmount Track Eric Schmid, St. Louis Public Radio · August 21, 2019 at 1:39 am Fairmount Park Racetrack is filled with spectators on most Tuesdays and Saturdays, eager to watch horses fly down the dirt track. But with just 41 live racing days this year, the stands at the Collinsville track remain empty far more… [continue reading]
Del Lago casino sets date to open sports betting Don Cazentre, NYUpstate · August 21, 2019 at 12:37 am Legal sports betting comes to the Finger Lakes Friday with the opening of the DraftKings Sportsbook at del Lago Resort Casino just off the New York State Thruway. Del Lago’s sports betting lounge will be the fourth to open in… [continue reading]
Arkansas Racing Commission opens new window for casino applicants Jeannie Roberts, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette · August 21, 2019 at 12:15 am The Arkansas Racing Commission on Monday opened a 90-day window for accepting fresh applications for a casino license in Pope County. The move came four days after a Mississippi company filed a lawsuit against the commission for refusing to reconsider… [continue reading]
Billion dollar Las Vegas Convention Center expansion 45 percent complete Jeff Gillan, KSNV-Channel 3 · August 20, 2019 at 10:38 pm It wasn’t just any piece of steel, all 60 feet in length and 90,000 pounds in weight, which sat waiting to be hoisted. It carried the signatures of hundreds of construction workers, who have been working for months on land… [continue reading]
Pagcor pauses fresh online permits, joining Cambodia GGRAsia · August 20, 2019 at 9:26 pm The Philippines has stopped accepting applications for online gaming licences providing services aimed at offshore customers, report multiple news outlets, citing an announcement from the head of the country’s gaming regulator. “We will no longer, at this time, accept any… [continue reading]
Bold plan for New Zealand Gaming Industry Asia Gaming Brief · August 20, 2019 at 9:25 pm New Zealand’s fledgling gaming industry is pushing a plan for government assistance to help it become a billion dollar export earner in the worldwide gaming industry currently worth $258 billion. A report on the state of the industry released yesterday… [continue reading]
