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Bristol, VA. casino reports impressive opening-week numbers
July 27, 2022
The first fully-fledged casino to open in Virginia has reported brisk business through its first week of trading, with Hard Rock’s Bristol casino building on the positive vibes from its initial soft opening to take in upwards of $37.5 million in its first full week of trading. This news will have made particularly sweet reading for the state treasury, which is understood to have benefited to the
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Ontario averts casino strike with last-minute deal
July 25, 2022
North and South of the US-Canada border, July has been a month of brinkmanship between casinos and their unions. At the beginning of the month, Atlantic City’s casino workers called off a strike just ahead of the holiday weekend after striking a deal with the facilities where they worked. And now, with Ontario’s casino workers on the brink of taking industrial action on Saturday, July 23, the eleventh hour has been the moment for resolution o
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Developers eyeing NYC showpiece locations for new casinos
July 22, 2022 Gaming operators and commercial real estate developers in New York are looking at iconic locations for new casinos set to be authorised by the state’s gaming commission. Among the potential locations are sites at Times Square and Hudson Yards, while tourist haven Coney Island and Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets, have
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Ohio bars seek licenses to offer sports betting from 2023
July 20, 2022 The law passed in Ohio’s congress to liberalize the state’s betting laws kicked up a gear this past week when the licensing process for selected bars to become betting vendors began. of the 1009 premises considered to be pre-qualified for a license, 125 were understood to have submitted their applications by a count taken on Saturday, July 23rd. The licenses would permit each bar to host sports betting kiosks on their premises. The license
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Macau casinos re-open but business to be impacted
July 19, 2022 After more than a week of mandated closure, casinos in Macau opened again this weekend with a gloomy outlook for the immediate future. While the city state’s Covid control measures seem to have had the desired effect - Macau had just five new cases on Saturday compared to hundreds a day prior to the shutdown - business has been sluggish and is expected to continue that way for the moment. A major element of the problem is that, with quaranti
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Hard Rock opens temporary land-based casino in Bristol, VA
July 15, 2022 Friday, July 8, will go down in history among casino enthusiasts in Virginia, as the Hard Rock brand held the opening of its temporary Bristol Casino facility in the aforementioned city. The facility became the first brick-and-mortar casino to open in the state, and while all concerned recognized the temporary nature of the opening, the message was loud and clear: this is step one in a
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Rapper Drake wins, then loses $25million in a single night’s casino gaming
July 13, 2022
Canadian rapper Drake is well known for, among other things, being a keen online casino player, and in one night’s play earlier this month he experienced the highs and the lows of the casino player’s experience. The “Hotline Bling” hitmaker is well known as a member of the crypto-based online casino Stake, and on the 11th of July he popped in to
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California Sports Betting to go before voters in November
July 11, 2022 Of all of the states to have legalized or in some way facilitated online betting since the 2018 Supreme Court decision empowering states to do so, it may have come as a surprise to many that California was not one. As weeks go by and new information comes out about state legislatures’ decisions on the issue, California’s house and senate have kept their powder dry. Now, we have t
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White Hat Gaming takes first US steps with BetMGM in Michigan
July 9, 2022 One of Europe’s leading iGaming providers, White Hat Studios, caused a stir of interest earlier this year when it announced that it would be entering the US market and making its services available to Stateside betting sites. Now, it has announced its first partnership to go live, and it is a big one - White Hat is now working with BetMGM to deliver their iGaming services in the state of Michigan. There are definite benefits for both parties
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US Online casinos announce their 4th of July promos
July 7, 2022 There are certain customs in American gaming and sporting culture that are almost as much of a tradition as the thing they are meant to celebrate. For instance, while the winners of a Super Bowl are undoubtedly the main thing people will talk about the Monday morning after, there is a huge amount of attention given to the ads that are broadcast during the game. And in casino circles, while the 4th
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