While two-thirds of the country now offers legal sports betting, only six states offer online casino gambling, confounding industry hopes that the rapid growth of sports betting would ...
19 April 2023
By Wayne Parry, Associated Press
Though the Ojos Locos Sports Cantina y Casino opened its doors a few months ago, the venue — the first of its kind in Southern Nevada dedicated to the Latino community — is the ...
17 April 2023
By Katie Ann McCarver
Japan’s government on Friday approved a controversial plan to open the country's first casino in the city of Osaka as it seeks to lure more foreign tourists. The casino resort is to include conference ...
14 April 2023
By Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press
Here's one baseball fans might not have bet on: At least one prominent oddsmaker thinks starting pitchers will go deeper into games this season. Eric Biggio, baseball lead trader for ...
31 March 2023
By Mark Anderson, Associated Press
The American Gaming Association on Tuesday announced updates to its guidelines for sports betting marketing, calling the changes — including enhanced protections and restrictions based on age — “the most significant to the Code since its inception.”
28 March 2023
By Katie Ann McCarver
The margins are so slim in sports betting, especially in an event as massive as the NCAA Tournament where the markets are highly efficient. ...
25 March 2023
By Case Keefer
New Jersey's casinos, horse tracks that take sports bets and the online partners of both types of gambling saw their revenue increase by 10.4% in February. But what the industry considers to be its core ...
16 March 2023
By Wayne Parry, Associated Press
The owners of Atlantic City's top-performing casino are renovating and renaming its stand-alone non-casino hotel. MGM Resorts International said Tuesday it is spending $55 million to renovate and rename ...
15 March 2023
By Wayne Parry, Associated Press
As co-chair of the Congressional Gaming Caucus, U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., aims to educate legislators across the country on the economic benefits of ...
13 March 2023
By Katie Ann McCarver
Tammy Brady began her career as an Atlantic City casino dealer at the age of 18. Now 55, she has stage 2 breast cancer. “While I'm not sure we will ever know the exact cause of ...
9 March 2023
By Wayne Parry, Associated Press
Commercial casinos in the United States won more than $60 billion from gamblers in 2022, the best year in the industry's history. Figures released Wednesday by the ...
15 February 2023
By Wayne Parry, Associated Press
When Patrick Mahomes rallied the Kansas City Chiefs to a Super Bowl victory, he also led a comeback for the sportsbooks. Kansas City's 38-35 win over Philadelphia on Sunday night meant the books were ...
13 February 2023
By Mark Anderson, Associated Press
As legal sports gambling proliferates, the number of Americans betting on the Super Bowl and the total amount they’re wagering is surging — although most of the action is ...
7 February 2023
By Wayne Parry, Associated Press
Jay Kornegay, the vice president of SuperBook Sports, sat down to reminisce with the Sun on a busy afternoon last week at the Westgate in preparation for booking Sunday’s Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles. We talked about ...
6 February 2023
By Ray Brewer
Casino and resort giant Las Vegas Sands has hired dozens of lobbyists and contributed millions of dollars to dozens of Texas lawmakers and legislative groups ahead of a renewed push to expand gambling ...
27 January 2023
By Aarón Torres, The Dallas Morning News (TNS)
