When will Nevada's glittering casino archipelago reopen in its entirety? That is to say, when can you waltz into Caesar's Palace without a mask and expect the place to be packed to the rafters? We don't know exactly when that glorious day will arrive but, according to Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak, corona virus inspired capacity…
DraftKings has announced a new deal with the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation (MPTN) - operators of the Foxwoods Resorts Casino in Connecticut, which positions them to be a major player in the East Coast regulated sports betting market. But what the deal accomplishes today is merely an opening act for a much bigger move down…
Can Nevada's casinos survive on just 25 percent capacity? The glittering palaces of the Las Vegas Strip and the constellation of small, independently-owned casinos across the Silver State are about to find out. Late last week Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak announced a series of new business restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the corona…
Regulated sports betting in Colorado is still relatively new but, like most US regulated markets, is setting new records every month. In September 2020, Colorado's regulated sportsbooks pulled in $207.6 million in wagers. That's pretty impressive for the first the full month that included football, though Colorado bettors threw money at a variety of sports,…
Iowa gambling regulators recently hit DraftKings, and several other operators, with fines and warnings for failing to properly maintain legally mandated self-exclusion lists. But the big-time national sports betting operator and its fellow self-exclusion slackers suffered only a slap on the wrist for their failure to comply with Iowa rules and regulations. DraftKings' Iowa trouble…
Caesars Entertainment is currently readying a bid to purchase UK operator and US sports betting giant William-Hill for $3.7 billion. It's a massive deal that would shift the tectonic plates of the US gambling market and would likely have a ripple effect in the UK as well. On Monday, officials from Caesars confirmed that they…
It's 2020 and the casinos of Las Vegas Strip are creaking back to life after a brutal three month shutdown due to the worldwide COVID-19 breakout. So it's also the perfect time to open up a brand new casino on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas, right? The owners of the newly approved Circa Casino…
Should voters in Nebraska be able to determine whether or not the state expands gambling in 2022? That might seem like a no-brainer for anyone with a child's working knowledge of US politics, but for Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen, it wasn't quite so cut-and-dry. Sec. Evnen is scared of the will of the…
Regulated sports betting would cause certain chaos for Massachusetts colleges and universities, according to a recently published letter from those same schools. The letter, which was published in the Harvard Crimson, is an impassioned plea to halt the spread of regulated sports betting because of the potential damage it could cause to student-athletes. It also,…
It's hard to believe that there was a time when the idea of regulated sports betting in the United States seemed about as likely as reality-TV star becoming President, or the whole world shutting down to help mitigate an out-of-control virus, but here we are. Just two years after the Supreme Court put the decision…
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