A couple of California card rooms are fighting against a tribal initiative that aims to give them the exclusive right to offer sports betting, dice games, and roulette.

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Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan (D) says the city’s financial outlook would be much different without legal internet gaming and mobile sports betting. But with the expanded gaming options, the city’s budget is forecast to be whole, despite substantial losses caused over the past two years by the COVID-19 pandemic. Appearing before the Detroit City Council […]

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The Norfolk Boxing and Fitness Center, located inside Harbor Park, could become the site of the Virginia city’s first commercial casino. Norfolk is one of five cities that qualified under 2020 legislation to consider a commercial casino development. Virginia decided to end its decades of prohibiting nearly all forms of gambling in an effort to […]

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A raft of new bills in Alabama seek to legalize sports betting, a state lottery, and commercial casinos.

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The “2021 Las Vegas Visitor Profile” details how COVID-19 and the pandemic changed travel behaviors throughout the US as it relates to Southern Nevada. Commissioned by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) and conducted by California-based GLS Research, a marketing analysis firm, the 2021 report reveals that Las Vegas visitors were younger and […]

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Certain sounds just have meaning in your daily life. Repetition allows us to memorize sounds in a fast, practical, and long-lasting way. We are able to immediately recognize familiar and often complex sounds through experience, such as the voice of a loved one or a sound we’ve heard repeatedly while playing a game.

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Federal legislation introduced today by leaders of the Congressional Gaming Caucus would greatly increase the amount of money needed to be won on a slot machine spin to trigger an IRS report. Creatively named the SLOT Act — or “Shifting Limits on Thresholds Act” — the bipartisan legislation comes from US Representatives Dina Titus (D-Nevada) […]

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Peru is beginning to see the end of its fight with COVID-19. This is going to clear a path for the country’s casino industry to launch a return to pre-pandemic operations. Many countries, as well as individual cities like Macau, are still reeling from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Those jurisdictions that have relied […]

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Now for those of you that consider yourself an aficionado of land based casinos and the slot machines that populate them, then no doubt you will have encountered many a time the  Novomatic cabinet hosting the popular Book of Ra slot. With the Egyptian themed Indiana Jones-Esque slot proving to be one of the most […]

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West Virginia senators lent their support today to legislation seeking to expand the state gaming industry. Senate Bill 100 was introduced last month by state Senator Eric Nelson (R- Kanawha). The statute would allow each of the five commercial casinos in West Virginia to extend their gaming license to a smaller, so-called satellite casino. SB100 […]

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Lawmakers in Kentucky and New York are looking to legalize sports betting and iGaming respectively after introducing new bills.

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