Illegal sports betting will soon be replaced in many states by legal sports betting. Or will it? Maybe the better question is, how much illegal sports betting will now become legit? Those are among the many questions swirling around betting… [continue reading]

Despite Connecticut’s deep roots in Puritanism, which generally frowned upon frivolity, the Constitution State is poised to shun its priggish past in order to boost its stagnant economy by legalizing sports betting and recreational marijuana — potentially generating hundreds of… [continue reading]

The Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Murphy v. NCAA dramatically altered the landscape for sports betting in the United States by declaring that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) is unconstitutional. As a result of this decision, States… [continue reading]

When sportscaster Scott Van Pelt was given the keys to the midnight edition of SportsCenter on ESPN, he saw no reason to pretend that gambling didn’t exist. He introduced a segment on the show called “Bad Beats” — essentially highlighting… [continue reading]

We were ready to dish out a healthy dose of criticism to Pennsylvania’s licensed casino operators for their beef with the state. The casinos are complaining the state’s new iLottery games available online compete with what the gambling houses offer… [continue reading]

They’ve been taking action for two weeks now in New Jersey, where basketball great Julius Erving helped kick things off with a $5 bet on the Philadelphia Eagles to repeat as Super Bowl champions. Sports betting is here, and it’s… [continue reading]

Legislators in Japan’s lower house passed an integrated resort (IR) implementation bill on Tuesday, then extended the legislative session to July 22 to enable upper house consideration of this final step toward casino legalization. Casino companies from across the world… [continue reading]

In the midst of the national hoopla around the legalization of sports betting, a minor, but intriguing, story from the Las Vegas Strip appeared. On June 7th, Wynn and Encore Resorts announced an end to parking fees for hotel guests… [continue reading]

I learned early about sports betting. Before high school on Wednesday mornings during football season, I’d head for my dad’s gray metal lunch pail on the kitchen counter. The betting slip for that weekend’s games would be inside. Every NFL… [continue reading]

When CDC Gaming Reports first received the news regarding Geoff Freeman’s upcoming departure as President and CEO of the American Gaming Association, I was angry. I was concerned that Geoff was bailing on what has become a very productive working… [continue reading]

Back when I worked security in an Atlantic City casino, patrons would often ask me, “Which slot machine is the one that’s going to hit?” My usual response was, “If I knew that, I wouldn’t be working here anymore,” followed… [continue reading]

The recent Supreme Court decision on sports gambling has been hailed by many politicians, including our own Gov. Gary Herbert, as a victory for states’ rights, by opinion writers such as George Will as a way to decriminalize gambling, by… [continue reading]

Less than two years ago, many wondered if Macau’s casino revenue would ever prosper again. Now, May’s 12% increase stands as a disappointment. Just a quick wander around Cotai reveals just how well Macau is doing right now and, as… [continue reading]

Towards the end of each month, the Nevada Gaming Control Board releases the Gaming Revenue Report. This 48-page publication is the cornerstone for much analysis of the state’s gaming industry, since it has indicators for how well casinos performed. You… [continue reading]

Gaming nearly took another giant leap forward in Illinois.  According to the Chicago Tribune, “It is something of an unofficial tradition in Springfield: As lawmakers inch closer to the end of the spring legislative session, a proposal to expand gambling… [continue reading]

Chicago White Sox players were so vulnerable to corruption in 1919 for one main reason: their salaries. “I needed the money. I had the wife and kids,” said White Sox pitcher Eddie Cicotte, who got $10,000 — more than his… [continue reading]

Game companies now lean heavily on loot boxes to monetize their products. Legislators around the world are threatening to impose regulations on the boxes, claiming that they’re gambling. Industry groups, however, insist that the boxes are not. I play games… [continue reading]

In response to a salvo about the “integrity fee” from a New Jersey senator on Wednesday, the NBA and MLB (the “Leagues”) made it clear that they will not quietly give up the fight for a percentage of all legal… [continue reading]

High atop the list of gaming companies to keep an eye on is Eldorado Resorts, a Reno company that has become a force in the regional casino industry. Eldorado Resorts made a splash last month by announcing the acquisition of… [continue reading]

On Monday, May 14th, the United States Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) of 1992.  The law prohibited sports betting except as conducted by the lottery in Oregon, Delaware, Montana and in casinos in… [continue reading]

So-called “integrity fees” were a topic of conversation even before the Supreme Court ruled on May 14 that the federal law limiting sports gambling was unconstitutional. The NBA, in particular, seems to think it should get a cut of the… [continue reading]

New Jersey, one of the most impecunious states in the union, was behind this week’s Supreme Court ruling overturning a federal ban on sports gambling. Not sport fans or sport leagues: It was the work of a leading avatar of… [continue reading]

This was a momentous week for the gaming industry as the United States Supreme Court struck down the failed Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) of 1992. This victory would not have been possible without the commitment and leadership… [continue reading]

In the early 1940s, two trailblazing discoveries were made in Chicago that continue to shape the modern world. On Dec. 2, 1942, scientists at the University of Chicago working on the U.S. government’s Manhattan Project created the first controlled, self-sustaining… [continue reading]

On May 26th, Resorts, the first casino in Atlantic City, will celebrate its 40th anniversary.  As if to celebrate that event, two new casinos are scheduled to open on June 26th.  Actually they are not new casinos, rather reincarnations of… [continue reading]

LAS VEGAS (AP) – Jimmy Vaccaro has seen just about everything in 40 years of taking money behind the counter at sports books in this gambling city. Until Monday. He had never seen a day like this. Sports betting is… [continue reading]

Thanks to those who were able to join our call on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) earlier this afternoon. An in-depth legal analysis on the Court’s ruling is available here. See an excerpt below: This… [continue reading]

Monday’s decision by the United States Supreme Court to overturn the federal ban on sports betting should set off a celebration in the highest offices of Gaming Inc. that makes the Mardi Gras look like a church picnic. It wasn’t… [continue reading]

In an important states’-rights decision announced Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed New Jersey to permit sports gambling, both by private casinos and through state-run lotteries. The case, Murphy v. NCAA, has important constitutional consequences – and could have… [continue reading]

The Supreme Court has struck down the federal law prohibiting states from authorizing or licensing sports betting. The Court announced its 6-3 ruling today in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, the challenge to the federal Professional and Amateur Sports… [continue reading]

Keep an eye on the line. There’s potential action in the uncertainty. The U.S. Supreme Court could strike down federal restrictions on sports wagering outside of Nevada, and a decision in New Jersey’s suit against the NCAA might come down as soon… [continue reading]

Notwithstanding opposition within the government itself, Norway’s parliament approved a set of new measures and regulations concerning gambling on Monday May 7th, which had been proposed back in April by a coalition of opposition parties. None of these laws make… [continue reading]

Other than my daily commute on I-285, I’m not fond of gambling. Or am I? I buy a lottery ticket every week. For $2, it’s a cheap source of hope. The Georgia Lottery provides a more practical type of HOPE… [continue reading]

It is earnings season again and the casino reports from Macau are good.  Wynn, Sands, MGM, SJM and Melco all reported double digit increases in revenues and profits for the first quarter. The total gaming win for the city was… [continue reading]

The prevailing belief is that the United States Supreme Court — sometime before the end of its term in June — will rule in favor of New Jersey and eliminate Congress’ 1992 law banning full-fledged sports wagering outside Nevada. The… [continue reading]

For nearly two decades from the mid-1990s, Tokyo-listed Tanseisha was more or less dead to investors. Who, in a land of deflation and downsizing, would bet on a specialist designer of museums, trade shows, luxury hotels and high-end boutiques? Since… [continue reading]

The Las Vegas you know and love (or hate) is in the midst of a reinvention. More than $5 billion worth of construction investment has poured into “Sin City” recently-resulting in such flashy ribbon-cuttings as the $375 million T-Mobile arena… [continue reading]

Japan has a problem with pollution, and it does not relate to issues of waste disposal. Rather, the rising numbers of visitors from afar have led to tourists themselves being viewed as pollutants, according to a May 5 article in… [continue reading]

I was in Macau recently to look at the premises of Galaxy. Since there are different interpretations of what it is I feel obliged to give an eyewitness report. The Galaxy Macau is hardly a billionaires’ playground. It is a… [continue reading]

For many people, being suspended 550 feet off the ground in a glass-enclosed pod would produce a state of panic, but for me it brought on a state of zen. Of course, the soothing music being piped into my headset… [continue reading]

Eldorado Resorts, Boyd and Penn National are extending their footprints across the nation at every new opportunity.  But for the next tier up, the mega-casino companies – Caesars, Wynn, Sands and MGM – there are not enough of those opportunities… [continue reading]

It’s a question many in the gaming industry must be asking, if only privately: Given the tumultuous start of 2018, how does the troubled powerhouse Wynn Resorts keep focused on the business at hand? The departure of its co-founder and… [continue reading]

While state leaders continue their decades-old hemming and hawing over a lottery, folks could be legally betting on sports and horse racing in Mississippi casinos by this coming football season. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule as early… [continue reading]

The gambling world is waiting with bated breath for the United States Supreme Court decision that could result in an expansion of sports betting. The decision could be announced anytime between today and the end of June. Since I teach… [continue reading]

In one day in April, Eldorado Resorts Inc added eight casinos to its portfolio; seven came from buying Carl Icahn’s Tropicana Company and the other, a casino in Illinois purchased from Caesars. Those purchases are the latest move in the… [continue reading]

On Tuesday morning I went to a Golden Knights practice and a Vegas variety show broke out. Luxor prop master Carrot Top, members of Cirque du Soleil productions (I believe I spied a Spermato from “Mystere”), drumming legend Vinnie Paul… [continue reading]

A few pages into William C. Rempel’s informative and entertaining new biography of the late casino king Kirk Kerkorian, you might find yourself wondering if such a success story would even be possible in today’s gaming industry. In a business… [continue reading]

Just because Steve Wynn has stepped down from his leadership positions at Wynn Resorts Ltd., has sold all the shares he owned in the company and settled legal differences with his ex-wife, Elaine, don’t think for a minute that gaming… [continue reading]

This is one so rich with irony I’m having a difficult time staying seated. Proving that they are beyond shame when it comes to sports betting, the NBA and MLB engaged New Jersey officials in recent months to discuss how… [continue reading]

Casino gambling in the U.S. outpaced the general economy in 2017, according to information from RubinBrown, an accounting and business-consulting firm. Total commercial gaming revenues in 2017 were $39.9 billion, a 4.1 percent over 2016, while Native American casinos collected… [continue reading]

VizExplorer is in the information business, and the easiest illustration of what it can do is visible at a blackjack table. The company, in partnership with ARB LABS, has created a solution to an eternal problem: How to track how… [continue reading]

Five years ago, the American Gaming Association (AGA) membership was largely comprised of large commercial casino operators. Those entities founded the organization in 1994, and defending their interests in Washington – or better yet, keeping Washington out of their business… [continue reading]

Ten days ago Hyatt Hotels Corp. and AC Ocean Walk announced that the redeveloped Ocean Resort Casino in Atlantic City would be part of Hyatt’s Unbound Collection of international hotels. That might turn out to be the year’s biggest Atlantic… [continue reading]

In these days of political polarization, very few voters trust any government official.  Actually it is a long-term trend; Forbes has been doing a poll for 16 years on the most and least trusted professions in the country.  Nurses, military… [continue reading]

The U.S. Supreme Court has not yet ruled on lifting a federal ban on legalized sports betting. Such a ruling is expected later this year. If the court favors broadening the availability of legalized sports wagering, as expected, the decision… [continue reading]

The NBA, MLB and now the PGA Tour have engaged in a sprint since January, lobbying for sports betting legislation favorable to their collective financial interests. This multi-pronged effort in over a dozen states eyeing legal sports betting has involved… [continue reading]

Less than seven years after a tornado ripped through Springfield, the city continues to grow in ways even optimists could not have imagined in 2011. According to Chief Development Officer Kevin Kennedy, public and private investment since the tornado totals… [continue reading]

Resorts World Catskills, New York’s fourth commercial casino opened on February 9, 2018.   It cost $1.2 billion to build and has 2100 slot machines, one hundred and thirty table games and one hundred hotel rooms.  New York is a rather… [continue reading]

After the gambling industry took over the state a generation ago, politicians were all eager to assure the public that its tentacles would extend no further. After the lottery, casinos and video poker had been legalized, there would be no… [continue reading]

The progress of Japan’s Integrated Resort enabling legislation is being dragged to the altar like a couple in a shotgun marriage. The IR initiative, a child of Premier Shinzo Abe for over four years, is amidst a personal political firestorm… [continue reading]

March had some shocking moments for the gaming industry. In separate events two industry giants suddenly walked off, if not into the sunset, at least into the clubhouse.  Both were evolutionary moments; in the blink of an eye, the gaming… [continue reading]

As the date of the announcement of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act draws near, just about every stakeholder in the decision seems to be in agreement on the most… [continue reading]

A U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn the federal government ban on sports betting would trigger expansion of all forms of online gaming in Asia, industry experts say. Opinions differ on how fast U.S. legalization might alter Asia’s gaming landscape… [continue reading]

Genting Bhd. Chairman Lim Kok Thay has never quite gotten over losing out on a Macau casino license. The Malaysian gambling and resorts group failed to win a permit when the territory opened its casino market in 2002, and an… [continue reading]

Another earnings season has come and gone, and Southern Nevada’s Big Six casino companies had mostly positive news to report as they wrapped up 2017 and plotted their respective courses for 2018 and beyond. For Southern Nevada’s dominant publicly traded… [continue reading]

In mid-February, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver publicly weighed in on the ongoing multi-state tug-of-war over the direction and contours of legal sports betting legislation in the U.S. The battle? The leagues want money and control over an annual multi-billion dollar… [continue reading]

YES Eileen M. Donoghue, State senator, Lowell Democrat Eileen M. Donoghue More people are playing daily fantasy sports, which has become an exciting new part of our innovation economy. It flourishes worldwide, with 59 million people playing last year in… [continue reading]

There’s a lot of talk about how quick Las Vegas is to throw out its history. (“Las Vegas” being used as shorthand for the resort operators who make many important decisions about the region’s most prominently built environments.) What’s missing… [continue reading]

The return of March Madness is a reminder that perhaps the most common of all the unenforced laws in America — after changing lanes without using turn signals — is the ban on sports gambling. An estimated $10 billion is… [continue reading]

This week, the AGA released our annual estimate on how much Americans will wager on March Madness, again topping $10 billion this year. Due to the failed Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), a staggering 97 percent of total… [continue reading]

Gov. Brian Sandoval’s Gaming Policy Committee, in record time last week, approved a resolution affirming the state’s stance on the use of marijuana in gaming establishments in what was likely the last policy group assembled under his watch. Committee members… [continue reading]

Six weeks after the New York State Senate held a hearing on the potential of New York sports betting, Chairman of the Committee on Racing, Gaming and Wagering, John Bonacic (R-42nd District), introduced Senate Bill S7900, which would legalize sports… [continue reading]

Japan is embarking on a casino adventure and it is carving its own unique path. In December, the Japanese Diet passed initial enabling legislation. The law as it stands is too vague and could not be implemented without more structure…. [continue reading]

CDC Gaming Reports has matured over the last 15 years. It has grown from being the distributor of a single report, the Adams Daily Report, to a news outlet that five days a week publishes the early morning Flash, mid-day… [continue reading]