New Casino at Atlantic City Showboat?
Showboat Atlantic City owner Bart Blatstein, through his company, Showboat Renaissance LLC, has submitted an application to the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA) to create “five new lots” at the site in order to “accomplish future conveying and financing of improvements,” according to the Press of Atlantic City. The subdivision seems to be Blatstein’s attempt […]
Hard Rock Investors Submit Illinois Application
On the October 25 deadline, representatives of the proposed $311 million Hard Rock Casino Rockford in Rockford, Illinois and its 53-member investor group submitted documents to the Illinois Gaming Board to apply for the license to operate a casino at East State Street near Interstate 90. The state has one year to approve the application; […]
Bobby Baldwin Named Chief Executive Officer of Drew Las Vegas
Witkoff has named Bobby Baldwin, renowned gaming executive, as Vice Chairman of Witkoff and Chief Executive Officer of Drew Las Vegas, a 67-story resort and casino in development on the Las Vegas Strip. Baldwin will assume his new role immediately. Partnering with a highly respected industry leader signals Witkoff’s commitment to the long-term success of […]
Wisconsin Tribe Fights Illinois Shut Out
The Forest County Potawatomi Community of Milwaukee, Wisconsin has filed suit against the city of Waukegan, Illinois, for rejecting its plan to build a casino there. Among four bidders for the local gaming license—part of Governor J.B. Pritzker’s statewide gaming expansion plan—the tribe says it scored No. 1 or No. 2 in almost every category […]
VICI Conquers Cleveland
New York City-based real estate investment trust VICI Properties Inc. recently announced an $843.3 million deal with Dan Gilbert’s JACK Entertainment LLC whereby VICI will purchase and then lease back the JACK Cleveland Casino and the JACK Thistledown Racino in North Randall, Ohio. Both properties will continue to operate under the JACK name. The transaction […]
N.Y. Senator Stumps Anew for Mobile Betting
New Jersey’s sports betting boom is offering plenty of ammunition for lawmakers in neighboring New York who believe the state is missing out on a goldmine by not expanding its own market to the internet. Senator Joseph Addabbo, the Queens Democrat who led last year’s abortive push for mobile betting in the Legislature, is ready […]
St. Joe’s Joins Villanova in Banning Sports Bets
St. Joseph’s University in eastern Pennsylvania last week became the second Philadelphia-area school to issue a statement banning sports wagering by students, faculty and staff. Last fall, Villanova University issued a similar ban. The moves are viewed as largely symbolic. Short of snitching or an expose of some larger match-fixing scheme, there’s no way to […]
SWIMA: On the Lookout for Suspicious Bets
Six months ago, sportsbook operators across the U.S. launched the Sports Wagering Integrity Monitoring Association (SWIMA) as a way for the industry to raise red flags over any potentially suspicious betting activity. Such concerns about unusual wagering have come up and been shared among sportsbooks multiple times just since April, the association’s top executive said […]
NCAA to Let Athletes Profit from Names, Images
Like all players on the team, Penn State star wide receiver and kick returner KJ Hamler does not have his name on the back of the uniform. But thanks to a new rule approved October 29 by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), as early as January 2021, Hamler and other college athletes can profit […]
Live! Philadelphia: Built to Last
The location is sweet. Stand at the epicenter of the site that next year will be Cordish Companies’ $700 million Live! Casino & Hotel Philadelphia, and you’re directly in front of Citizens Bank Park, home of Major League Baseball’s Philadelphia Phillies. Look in another direction, and there’s Lincoln Financial Field, the stadium of the NFL’s […]
California’s Hard Rock Opens with a Smash
The $450 million Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sacramento at Fire Mountain lived up to its name last week, opening October 30 with a guitar smash (the Hard Rock version of a ribbon-cutting) and kicking off a celebration that was planned to last through the weekend with a concert by Def Leppard at Toyota Amphitheater, […]
Want to Bet Like Bond? Baccarat’s Your Game
Of all the table games on the casino floor, baccarat may carry the most mystique. For one thing, it’s been immortalized in numerous James Bond movies (picture a tuxedo-clad 007 at the tables in Monte Carlo, usually accompanied by a gorgeous woman, who may or may not be an enemy agent). Baccarat is also the […]
