Casino owners across the world are, understandably, interested in re-opening their shuttered facilities as soon as it is safely possible to do so. In many cases, they're getting ready to open their doors sooner rather than later using new governmental safety guidelines such as those recently published by the Nevada Gaming Control Board. But while…
Nevada gaming regulators are giving casino operators a glimpse at what re-opening will look like in the form of new guidelines that were released this week. Under the new plan, gamblers will be very spread out and the days of the raucous, jam-packed casino floor will be the thing of the past. But, at the…
As land-based casinos begin planning what their operations will look like when the COVID-19 the Station Casino chain in Nevada issued a stark warning regarding layoffs - expect layoffs. The casino chain's blunt message is one that workers across Nevada, and likely the world, will be facing when they emerge from quarantine. Word of potential…
MGM Resorts CEO Jim Hornbuckle spoke this week with investors about the current state of the company and what casino re-openings might look like in Nevada and Macau. Hornbuckle, who has only been with MGM Resorts since March, painted an optimistic picture and spoke freely of casinos re-opening and travelers walking through their doors, even…
The US Small Business Administration (SBA) recently had a change of heart regarding small American casinos and their ability to access COVID-19 relief funds. Late last week the SBA shifted its existing, and overly moralistic, policy of preventing businesses that derived more than half their revenue from regulated gambling. Under the new terms, small casinos…
Finland is joining the parade of European countries that are imposing new limits to help curb a potential epidemic of problem gambling during COVID-19 lockdown. The country's Ministry of the Interior, which oversees gambling regulations, is imposing new loss limits for online players, and is halting lottery draws entirely. These new measures are set to…
The gambling operator members of the UK Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) are voluntarily suspending all of their advertising, including all radio and TV ads, for the duration of the COVID-19 lockdown. It's an unprecedented move that shows the value of the UK trade group and its ability to stay a step (or two) ahead…
The Swedish gambling regulator Spelinspektionen is looking to limit wagers on top-tier football matches as part of a larger plan to curb match-fixing. It's a dire solution to a problem that has vexed professional soccer in all parts of the world for a very long time. Soccer is one of those sports that's uniquely vulnerable…
DraftKings is set to become the first publicly traded sportsbook in US history today when its stocks go public on the NASDAQ stock exchange. The little daily fantasy sports operation that once eschewed any notion that it was involved in sports betting is now poised to dominate the burgeoning US sports wagering market and make…
Las Vegas Mayor Carol Goodman wants her town's casinos to re-open as soon as possible and is willing to use casino workers and guests as subjects in a mass epidemiology experiment to do so. Goodman aired her unusual ideas yesterday in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper that's garnered plenty of attention for the heretofore…
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