The Pennsylvania gaming industry is now on a three-month revenue slide after posting record revenue in November. Gross gaming revenue (GGR) last month totaled a little more than $375.6 million, which represents a 4.4% month-to-month decline.
In-game betting is increasingly popular in the sports world. It’s taking a step backward in Portugal, though, following the introduction of a new regulation restricting where sportsbooks can publish their odds.
Last year, BetMGM took a small amount of wagers on New Jersey college basketball teams. But the state prohibits bets on games involving local universities, leading to a fine for the gaming operator.
A Rapid City, SD hotel that threatened to ban Native Americans from booking rooms and visiting its casino bar is facing a class-action lawsuit from an indigenous activist group.’
New South Wales was the first to go after Crown Resorts before Victoria followed. Now, Western Australia has completed its inquiry into the casino operator’s past and has issued its verdict.
Chile could become the latest country to ban sports betting advertising in sports events. A legislator with the Independent Democratic Union Party hopes his initiative will lead the way.
One woman was in custody, and another appeared to be on the loose after a Sunday night holdup at Magic Diamond Casino. It is located in Billings, Montana.
A federal judge is temporarily halting Maverick Gaming’s suit against the state of Washington. That action alleges the state is permitting a tribal gaming monopoly over regulated sports betting there.
Authorities in the Philippines have charged or are in the process of charging 13 people with crimes linked to the disappearances of at least 34 stakeholders in the country’s fledgling e-sabong (online cockfighting) market. Among them are five serving police officers.
Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson have eight green jackets between the two of them, so the betting enthusiasm behind the two World Golf Hall of Fame members for next month’s Masters isn’t exactly surprising. What is surprising is that substantial wagers continue to roll in on the two, despite little chance of either teeing it up April 7-10 at August National.