Trends, News & Interesting Reads

Downtown Las Vegas is neglected no more. The area, which now sees most of its revenue coming from welcome bonus casino activity, is experiencing a number of positive changes resulting from casino owners’ investments in the area. Analysts say that the changes are noticeable – data from the Nevada Gaming Control Board showed that in July 2019, gaming in downtown Las Vegas rose 5.83 percent over 2018 even while it fell 0.3 percent on the Strip.

The 2019 football season is the second NFL season in which Vegas casino online sports betting is legal in the United States. The industry is growing and, much to the NFL’s dismay, the division of the sports betting industry that is growing the fastest is the online betting sector.

Tribal gaming in the United States is booming. According to the National Indian Gaming Commission, Indian gaming, including Indian online casinos, brought in a total of $33.7 billion nationwide in 2018.  That’s an increase of 4.1 percent over 2017.

This November, Colorado voters will be asked to make the Rocky Mountain state the 20th U.S. state to legalize land-based and online casino sports betting.  If Proposition DD is approved, it will mark the first major expansion of gambling in Colorado since 2008.

It’s still early enough in the Vegas casino football season for you to put together a great team and plan out your campaign for the 2019 season. Here are some tips for you to succeed: 

The Philippine casino industry has had some shaky starts and stops over the last few years.  President Rodrigo Duterte held up the granting of a license for Landing International’s license in Entertainment City, Manila and banned the construction of new casinos on Boracay.  He declared war on online gambling and tried to crack down on the iGaming industry soon after became president in 2016 which caused hundreds of eGames parlors to close.

Football is America’s favorite sport. Many football fans enjoy betting on the games but up until last year, betting could only be undertaken in an informal or illegal framework.  Today sports betting is legal in 10 states and by the end of the year, sports betting should be legal in another dozen states.

In March 2018 the Chinese government put a freeze on granting approval for new video games. The complete freeze ended in early 2019 but Chinese games companies are still feeling the aftereffects.  Luckily this does not refer to games found at a welcome bonus casino - like Grande Vegas - but rather your run of the mill video games.

MGM Resorts has gone ahead with its threatened suit against the Department of the Interior over the department’s approval of the development of a tribal land-based and Vegas casino online gaming venue in East Windsor Connecticut.  The company, which is trying to get its nearby Springfield MA mega-casino off the ground, claims that DOI officials didn’t follow proper protocols. It is suing to have the project halted. 

The Illinois Gaming Board (“IGB”) recently released the Chicago Casino Feasibility Study which was commissioned to address the feasibility of approving a Chicago City casino and offering online casino gambling. Copies of the study, which were prepared by Union Gaming Analytics (“Union Gaming”), have been delivered to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Governor JB Pritzker, House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton.