We have a look at the Fortune Coin Slot Machine from our friends at IGT! It comes with an amazing progressive feature that gives players the chance to boost the bonus prize! This slot game comes with 5×3 reels which are using 243 ways to win! Fortune Coin is based on IGT’s best game globally and offers a ‘Coin’ feature that can award credit prizes, free games or the progressive bonus feature any time a coin lands on the reels! The Fortune Coin slot game is packaged on the CrystalDual 27 game cabinet. Fortune Coin is a Chinese themed game,…

Fan favorite and all around “good guy” O.J. Simpson has files a lawsuit against the Cosmopolitan hotel-casino in Las Vegas. This is the property that banned him in November 2017. Simpson alleges that employees defamed him by telling a news site he was drunk and disruptive. Simpson filed the lawsuit a few weeks ago, and it acknowledges that he received a notice from a security guard as they left whch prohibited him from returning to the Las Vegas Strip property. He says he was never given a reason. The Cosmopolitan has declined comment on the matter. You can read more…

We have covered casino skill games extensively here at This Week in Gambling. Now, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court has ruled that video game machines are considered slot machines under Pennsylvania law. Those games were manufactured and distributed by the company POM under the name ‘Pennsylvania Skill’. “With this decision, we urge the Pennsylvania State Police, the Office of Attorney General, police departments and District Attorneys across the state to enforce Pennsylvania law to halt the proliferation of thousands of illegal Pennsylvania Skill slot machines now in convenience stores, bars, restaurants and other establishments in communities across the state,” said Thomas…

Lawmakers considering sports betting in California are gathering witnesses for their first hearing of this year. Legal Sports Report reports that the legislature there would tentatively like to have those witnesses and other experts in Los Angeles to testify on November 20th. Though sports betting bills have been popping up in California for years, members of the General Assembly have taken nothing more than a cursory look. The state’s complicated gaming landscape and the ongoing feud between the state and tribal gaming make passing related legislation a tall task. The tribes have exclusivity over certain forms of gambling in California,…

A coalition of eighteen state tribes have put forth a proposal for legal California sports betting. Calling it the Sports Wagering Regulation and Unlawful Gambling Enforcement Act, the measure would be put to voters at the November 2020 elections. It also aims to amend the state constitution to legalize betting on sports at some locations, including Tribal casinos and licensed racetracks, and set a 10% gross revenue tax on licensees. Only in-person wagering would be permitted under the Act, and limited to those aged 21 and above. Minors are further protected by advertising controls, such as a prohibition on advertising…

Stop the presses and start making plans! Colorado legalizes sports betting! Voters have narrowly passed the measure that makes Colorado the 19th state to regulate sports betting, with the tax revenues earmarked for water conservation. This allows the parent companies of Colorado’s 33 casinos in Black Hawk, Central City and Cripple Creek to offer onsite and online betting on professional, collegiate, motor and Olympic sports starting in May. The ballot question had little opposition, but the election results were so close that the outcome could only be determined Wednesday as the final votes were tallied. Legal sports wagering has grown…