Atlantic City’s Ocean Resort Granted New Jersey Casino License

The Ocean Resort on Atlantic City’s Boardwalk—formerly the Revel casino—has been granted a New Jersey casino license. The license, however, came with 26 conditions recommended by the state’s Division...

Podcast with Frank Leone, CEO, Ocean Resort

With Ocean Resort opening June 28 in Atlantic City, we sat down with the casino's CEO, Frank Leone, to see what's ahead for the former Revel and what it...

Atlantic City Casino Revenue Declines in May

Atlantic City casinos saw a 5.1 percent decline in revenue for May to $217.6 million. The loss was attributed to bad luck at the tables, but also continued a...

Atlantic City’s Ocean Resort Races to Make Opening Date

The Ocean Resort (l.) in Atlantic City—formerly the Revel casino—is working to make its announced June 28 opening date and will receive a special licensing hearing before the New...

Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa Leads the Way as New Jersey Enters New Era of Sports Entertainment

Borgata Casino becomes first Atlantic City casino to accept sports wager as basketball legend Julius Erving makes history (again)

Delaware Takes First Sports Bets

Delaware was the first state to begin sports betting after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a federal ban, beating New Jersey. Delaware Governor John Carney (l.) made the...

New Jersey Passes Sports Betting Bill

New Jersey has unanimously passed bills to regulate sports betting, allowing Atlantic City casinos and Garden State racetracks to take bets. After a brief delay, Governor Phil Murphy signed...

Moody’s: Sports Betting Revenue will be Modest

Moody’s Investors Service predicted in a report last week that states will only get a small revenue boost from legalized sports betting even under the most generous scenarios.

N.Y. Poised for Sports Betting? Not So Fast

Finally, the Assembly has a regulatory bill to go with one introduced earlier in the Senate. It’s a big step forward. But nothing is easy in the Empire State...

Pennsylvania Opens Petitions for Sports Betting

Pennsylvania regulators are officially accepting petitions for sport betting licenses, and is in the middle of a 90-day window for online gaming applications, but the state’s law may stymie...

Atlantic City Settles Casino Beating Case for $650,000

Atlantic City will pay $650,000 in a court settlement of a case charging that a city police officer clubbed a man during a 2012 casino melee. The case was...

Mohegans Want to Overturn Wynn License

The Mohegan Tribe, which has challenged the decision by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission to give a casino license to Wynn Resorts instead of it, has amended its complaint. Now...

Feds Approve 3rd Connecticut Casino

The Department of the Interior has finally published a notice in the Federal Register acknowledging the amendments to the tribal state gaming compact of Connecticut’s Mohegan tribe. When a...

Rhode Island Casino Announces September Opening

The Tiverton Casino Hotel will open a month earlier than anticipated, on September 1. Twin River Management Group Chairman John Taylor (l.) made the announcement last week.

Florida Campaign Promotes Ending Greyhound Racing

The "Protect Dogs—Yes On 13" campaign held a kickoff supporting Amendment 13, which would end Florida greyhound racing by 2020. The campaign spotlights the "inhumanity" of the sport. The...

2018 WSOP Begins

The 2018 World Series of Poker is underway in Las Vegas and before it is finished will include 78 high-stakes card tournaments including four online tournaments that will welcome...

Four Regulators Issue Sports Betting Manifesto

States should proactively decide to implement sports betting, but the federal government should not take the leading role. That’s the conclusion of a statement made by four state gaming...

Delaware to Launchs Sports Betting

The First State has become the first state to offer full-scale sports betting. Delaware, by virtue of being grandfathered by PASPA, already has a sports betting law and regulations...

NBA Defends Right to ‘Integrity Fee’

The National Basketball Association issued a statement defending its right to a cut of the action in the form of a royalty or integrity fee in state or federal...

License Renewed for Sands Bethlehem

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board renewed the license of Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem for five years after a routine hearing that made no mention of the property’s impending sale.