Nevada casino regulators have learned the hard way that, given the opportunity, most people will not act in their best interest. Bearing that in mind, the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) is issuing a new mandate requiring table game players and spectators to wear masks in an effort to combat the spread of COVID-19. Las…
The glittering casinos of the Las Vegas Strip are (mostly) open for the first time in 78 days. The latest incarnation is one where masks are encouraged, temperatures are taken, and the crowds are sparse. But that appears to be the new reality for the forseeable future as the casino industry attempts to make some…
Is it safe to head back into a casino? That's a question that Mississippi casino operators are set to answer this week when they reopen their businesses for the first time since the COVID-19 lockdown began. Operators in the southern state got the OK from the Mississippi Gaming Commission (MGC) to resume operations on Friday,…
When land-based casinos began shutting down as part of the worldwide effort to mitigate the deadly COVID-19 virus a ripple effect on casino-related businesses was all but inevitable. Last week, two major casino technology and service providers illustrated that impact in a pair of grim earnings calls to investors. Both PlayAGS and TransAct Technologies hosted…
How long will it be before land-based casinos can re-open and what will their business models look like when they do? That's the billion dollar question that's being asked all across the world and it's one that Detroit mayor, Mike Duggan has an unpleasant answer for. In a press conference earlier this week, Dugan suggested…
The US Small Business Administration (SBA) recently had a change of heart regarding small American casinos and their ability to access COVID-19 relief funds. Late last week the SBA shifted its existing, and overly moralistic, policy of preventing businesses that derived more than half their revenue from regulated gambling. Under the new terms, small casinos…
Las Vegas Mayor Carol Goodman wants her town's casinos to re-open as soon as possible and is willing to use casino workers and guests as subjects in a mass epidemiology experiment to do so. Goodman aired her unusual ideas yesterday in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper that's garnered plenty of attention for the heretofore…
Wynn Resorts CEO Matt Maddox has an ambitious plan for getting his company's Las Vegas casinos back in business by the middle of May. Maddox's post-COVID-19 lockdown Wynn will look a lot different from any casino Vegas has ever seen and may present a few challenges for the security-minded business. And even his most timid…
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman is calling on her state's governor to re-open the casinos and put her city back to work. Las Vegas, America's long-time gambling capitol, has been under a 30-day shutdown order that ends on April 30 (though that date could easily be extended). Goodman, a political independent, is joining a growing…
Caesars Entertainment is furloughing approximately 90 percent of its workforce as the corona virus crisis keeps the world's casinos shuttered. It's a brutal blow for the furloughed staff and had to be an extraordinarily difficult decision for company officials to make. But that, unfortunately, seems to be the reality of life in 2020. News of…
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