Jackpots: Flamingo Las Vegas Casino Player Wins $465K, Linq Player Wins $114K

Two lucky players at Caesars Entertainment gaming properties in Las Vegas have much to be thankful for just four days before Thanksgiving. Brent Weiss of Las Vegas won $465,945 while playing a Mississippi Stud poker game at the Flamingo Las Vegas Casino on Sunday. It was a mega progressive jackpot. He won with a royal […]

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Peninsula Pacific Entertainment Focused on Iowa After Churchill Downs Buy

Peninsula Pacific Entertainment (P2E) is without physical casino assets after most of the company’s portfolio was acquired by Churchill Downs earlier this month. The $2.75 billion acquisition closed on November 1. The deal included Del Lago Resort & Casino in Waterloo, NY, the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Sioux City, Iowa, and the Colonial […]

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FIFA World Cup: USA, Wales Tie As The Rule Book is Rewritten

In professional tournament soccer, there are two periods of 45 minutes each, plus a little extra for any stoppages. FIFA apparently decided to create its own version of a clock with the World Cup, showing that the soccer organization seems happy to make up the rules as it goes along. The US and Wales drew […]

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Washington State’s Muckleshoot Casino Site of Alleged Voyeurism, Judge Questions Case

An alleged voyeur was charged last month after at least one woman claimed he looked at her in a restroom at Washington State’s Muckleshoot Casino. But the case ran into some challenges in a local court, according to a report this week. The incident began when Ezra George Nelson, 38, of Auburn, Wash., allegedly entered […]

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$2B Powerball Jackpot Produces $100M for New York Schools, Lottery Retailers

A New Yorker didn’t win the $2 billion Powerball drawing earlier this month, but according to the New York State Gaming Commission, the state’s schools and lottery retailers became big winners from the buzz surrounding the record-breaking jackpot. The NYSGC reported Monday that it sold $224.5 million Powerball tickets during the 41 drawings that took […]

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Federal Judge Unruffled by Bid for Cockfighting Carveout in US Territories

A lawsuit that sought a carveout from a federal ban on cockfighting for Guam and other US territories has been dismissed by the US District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands. Judge Ramona Manglona declined to overrule the previous decision. She wrote that the need to regulate interstate commerce, ensure the humane treatment of animals, […]

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New York City Casino Pitched Near United Nations, 9 West Billionaire Behind Bid

The New York City casino race has another entrant. Billionaire Stefan Soloviev. He is one of the nation’s largest landowners, with more than half of a million acres under his ownership, and has prepped the latest casino scheme targeting Manhattan. Soloviev, 47, inherited much of his fortune after his father, Sheldon Solow, died in 2020 […]

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Showboat Atlantic City Owner Targeting Bader Field for $3B Multiuse Development

Bader Field in Atlantic City closed in 2006 following 96 years of aviation use. The city, which owns the former airport, has for many years since then been shopping the property to potential real estate developers. Numerous companies have expressed interest in the roughly 143-acre property, including Penn Entertainment, which in 2008 proposed building a […]

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‘Monday Night Football’ Heads South of The Border to Mexico

The NFL features one of the most anticipated games today as Monday Night Football heads to Mexico. Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium plays host to the San Francisco 49ers and the Arizona Cardinals to close out a successful Week 11. Tonight’s duel is a rematch, of sorts, between these two teams. They were both part of […]

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PredictIt, Traders Seek Expedited Injunction Hearing to Block CFTC Ruling

Plaintiffs in PredictIt’s lawsuit against the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) say a decision must be made soon on an injunction that would allow the political futures exchange to keep operating after Feb. 15. On Friday, the plaintiffs filed another motion in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas. In it, they […]

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