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Nevada Casinos Post Best October Ever, Win $1.3B From Gamblers
Nevada casinos maintained their winning ways in October, as gross gaming revenue (GGR) totaled more than $1.315 billion. It's the best October ever for the Nevada gaming industry and the sixth-best gaming month on record. Data from the Nevada Gaming Control Board...
MGM Unveils Empire City Overhaul in Hopes of Securing New York Casino License
MGM Resorts International unveiled Wednesday the company's vision for what its Empire City Casino might look like if the property is awarded one of the three downstate New York gaming concessions that would provide privileges for slot machines, table games, and sports...
Playtech Opens Live Dealer Studio in Pennsylvania for iGaming B2B Ops
Playtech has opened its third and largest live dealer table game studio in the U.S. The Isle of Man-based business-to-business gaming technology company opened its live casino studio in Pennsylvania this week. It's the company's third live casino studio state entry, following...
Oklahoma Tribes Concerned About Mark Cuban’s Dallas Mavericks Sale
Oklahoma tribal leaders who have a vested interest in Indian casinos are concerned about Texas billionaire Mark Cuban selling a majority interest in his NBA Dallas Mavericks to the largest individual shareholder of Las Vegas Sands. The worries were voiced on The...
Cordish to Break Ground on $270M Live! Casino Hotel Louisiana in Bossier City
The Cordish Companies will break ground on Live! Casino & Hotel Louisiana on December 13 at 11:00 a.m. local time. Cordish is embarking on its third commercial gaming state by way of Louisiana. Officials with the Live! casino operator says they'll spend...
Tiger Woods is Hero World Challenge Betting Favorite Despite Not Playing Since April
Tiger Woods is the betting favorite for this week's Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas despite not playing a competitive round of golf in nearly eight months. Credit the so-called "gamble-oholics" -- the swarm of golf fans who bet on him to...
ESPN Bet, theScore Secure NHL Sports Betting Partnerships
ESPN Bet and theScore are the newest "Official Sports Betting Partners" of the National Hockey League (NHL). In a statement provided Wednesday to Casino.org, the NHL announced that Penn Entertainment's ESPN Bet and theScore are the professional hockey league's newest partners. The...
Skillz Mobile App Lawsuit Against AviaGames Delayed Until February
Mobile gaming developer Skillz contends in federal court that rival AviaGames copied its products and duped consumers by using nonhuman "bots" in its money games. A judge this week granted an extension in the case to allow Avia to ready its defense....
Princess Cruises to Launch its Largest Casino Aboard $1B Sun Princess
Princess Cruises plans to set sail its newest ship, the $1 billion Sun Princess, early next year. Among the cruise ship's many attractions is the company's largest casino space ever built. Princess Cruises, a subsidiary of the Carnival Corporation, announced Tuesday that...
Nikki Haley Wins Koch Network Support for 2024 Republican Primary
Nikki Haley, the 29th United States ambassador to the United Nations and former governor of South Carolina, has gained the political backing of the powerful Koch network for her 2024 Republican Party primary run. In what's a major blow to Florida Gov....