Louisiana Moves Closer to Sports Betting
State Senator Ronnie Johns represents the 27th District in Louisiana, an area that includes Lake Charles and its suburbs in the Southwest corner of the state. L’Auberge Casino Resort Lake Charles sits smack dab in the middle of the district. So it’s no surprise that Johns championed a bill to bring sports betting to the […]
Pennsylvania ‘Skill Games’ Still Defying Shutdown
Unregulated, unlicensed gaming machines were a problem in Pennsylvania before the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the casino industry, prompting the Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers and the American Gaming Association to launch a campaign in February urging authorities to treat the machines, which multiplied at gas stations, convenience stores and even laundromats, as illegal gaming […]
Evolution, Golden Nugget Partner on Live Casino
Evolution Gaming and Golden Nugget, Inc. announce a new partnership to bring Evolution table games to the Golden Nugget’s “Live Casino” studio in Atlantic City, which streams live table games to several online gaming sites in New Jersey. The agreement will also see Golden Nugget’s existing online offering further enhanced in New Jersey, and potentially […]
Danville, Virginia and Caesars Discuss $400 Million Casino
The city of Danville, Virginia is in talks with Caesars Entertainment Corporation to develop a $400 million casino resort at the site of the former Dan River Mills industrial complex in Schoolfield. The complex would offer a casino floor with 2,000 slot machines, 75 table games, 16 poker tables and a sportsbook, plus multiple food […]
PA iGaming Soars During Shutdown
With online gaming the only game in town amid the industrywide Covid-19 shutdown, Pennsylvania predictably recorded a huge jump in iGaming revenues for April, the first entire month of the casino closure. Online slot machines, table games and poker logged $27.3 million in revenues for April, a 73 percent jump over the $12.9 million generated […]
AGA Targets Slot Reporting Threshold
Last week, President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for the reform of regulations that could hamper the nation’s economic recovery. The American Gaming Association saw an opening to right a decades-old wrong. The AGA and other gaming industry representatives have called repeatedly for a modification of the IRS reporting threshold on slot-machine jackpots. […]
With No Opening Date, AC Casinos Play A Waiting Game
Memorial Day weekend was expected to draw big crowds up and down the Jersey Shore. As early as Friday, throngs strolled the boardwalks in Ocean City, Atlantic City and elsewhere, as if there were no such thing as the coronavirus. “The last thing any of us wanted was for summertime down the shore to be […]
Opening American Casinos
Face masks. Temperature checks. Socially distant gaming floors, dining facilities and public areas. All are part of the new casino experience, at least for now. After a 10-week lockdown, many casinos in the U.S. reopened last week. And gamblers looking for some fun and camaraderie lined up to enjoy them. ARIZONA Indian casinos opened last […]
Roulette by the Numbers
So, you want to play roulette? Before you get started, it’s essential to know how the numbers work. Traditional roulette can encompass a table full of bets with up to 39 numbers. But the payoffs are usually the same. For a “straight-up” bet—that’s a chip on any single number—the player gets paid 35-1 if it […]
Playing Online at Borgata
In Atlantic City, home of nine casino resorts, there’s no mistaking Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa—a gleaming gold tower in the city’s Marina District. Not surprisingly, BorgataOnline.com—which includes the digital casino, mobile sportsbook and online poker room—has a sleek, sophisticated look to match. Lucky for online bettors, it’s also packed with entertainment value. A joint […]
This Week in Horse Racing
Get used to the bumpy ride. Sports bettors in general and horse-racing gamblers in particular are becoming familiar with the on-again, off-again nature of the games. Fortunately for them, horse racing is essentially “on again.” Stakes races and lucrative carryovers await gamblers, who can become part of the action via TwinSpires.com in most of the […]
New Game Review: Red Hot Tamales! and Texas Hold’em Plus
Red Hot Tamales! This Mexican-themed game adapts one of IGT’s most popular mechanical reel-spinning games for the online space. Red Hot Tamales! features classic game play with three reels and 27 paylines. When yellow 7’s or red 7’s fill the nine reel spots, they trigger “Blackout Wins” that can rise into the thousands of dollars. […]
