No one wants to talk about it, but another Vegas casino closure in a huge concern for Nevada business owners. The number of Coronavirus cases are climbing again across the state and country. Nevada’s COVID-19 response director, Caleb Cage, said the state’s upswing isn’t yet due to a “second wave” and is likely a result of increased testing access. Neighboring Arizona and Utah are also in the midst of a surge in COVID-19 cases a couple of weeks after relaxing business restrictions. A county health official in Arizona expressed concern that more testing wasn’t the sole factor for the spike….

Despite the fact that betting on sports in California was recently shot down, there is a renewed hope for Tribal sports betting in the state. After making sure the latest legislation to regulate the activity failed, Native American interests have begun the push for their own referendum. The Tribes sued the state for time to gather needed signatures for their own sports betting bill, and a California Superior Court judge decided to allow a coalition of federally-recognized tribes 90 more days to collect those signatures. If successful, the referendum that would go on the November ballot. “With these unprecedented times,…

There have been 111 Las Vegas Coronavirus violations of the Declaration of Emergency Directive put in place before casinos reopened in Nevada on June 4. The regulators have not specified where the violations took place, citing confidentiality rules. The Enforcement Division of the Nevada Gaming Control Board has conducted 1,453 inspections and observations of non-restricted licensees, and 6,008 in smaller gaming operations under restricted licenses. The violations that fall under the Declaration of Emergency Directive include face coverings for employees, which was extended to more widespread use on June 24, and several rules that apply to sanitation practices and social…

You can stop holding your breath now, as California sports betting will once again fail. There has been a small glimmer of hope for the legislation as it was scheduled for a vote with the state’s Senate Appropriations Committee this week, but it was removed at the last moment. Even if it had been included in the vote, it would have needed to advance through both legislative branches by this week’s deadline to earn its place on the November ballot. Its sudden removal now means that advocates could be looking at years instead of months before sports books can legally…

Despite earlier announcements to welcome guests back on July 6th, the Borgata delays reopening their property indefinitely. Their decision stems from the decision of New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy to postpone the resumption of indoor dining and banned drinking and smoking at Atlantic City’s casinos. The MGM Resorts International’s luxury resort and casino originally planned to reopen to the general public at 10 a.m. on Monday, 6 July and also planned to hosted an invitation-only event ahead of the public reopening. But on Monday afternoon, the property issued a statement saying that the Borgata delays reopening in response to the…

The cashless technology for slot machines has been around for decades, and now cashless casinos may be the new normal in a post Coronavirus world. The Nevada Gaming Commission will now consider changes to regulations covering the electronic transfers of money to games or gaming devices. Currently, regulations allow customers to transfer money from a debit card to a game or gaming device, but very few properties have the licensed systems in place. Gaming Control Board Chairwoman Sandra Douglass Morgan said the language changes codify what already exists. The cashless systems are also subject to additional requirements in the board’s…