This Week in Gambling

Sin City has been able to secure both NHL and NFL teams over the past few years. And now, a Las Vegas MLB team is a step closer. Rumors have been flying about a professional baseball team in Vegas for years, and perhaps even an NBA team, ever since professional baseball and hockey both found new homes in the desert. One major obstacle to this has been a “relocation fee” that Major League Baseball normally charges teams to relocate. That fee can easily have been hundreds of millions of dollars. However, according to a story in the Las Vegas Journal-Review,…

We visit Bally’s in Las Vegas and speak with two-time Bracelet Winner Mark Seif about the World Series of Poker and amateur players at the event. There are plenty of low buy-in events for recreational players, starting with as little as $400 to play! Plus, the WSOP offers cash games with buy-ins as low as $100 for 1-3 No Limit! There are plenty of events at the World Series of Poker that amateur and recreational players can buy into on the cheap. The fees range from $400 to $500 for the smallest, with a few hovering around $1,000. There are…

Just as things were going so good, an Atlantic City casino strike threatens to completely derail the huge 4th of July weekend for the popular New Jersey resort town. If the workers do walk off their jobs, tourists can still expect the resorts to remain open, although service may be somewhat lacking. Employees from some of the most popular resorts in the town, including the Borgata, Harrah’s, Caesars, and the Tropicana, are set to walk off their jobs Friday morning if their demands for new contracts with “significant” pay increases are not met.If that’s the case, employees from the Hard…

Kansas sports betting was passed less than two months ago, but that has not stopped Governor Laura Kelly from setting some aggressive goals for the launch. After signing the legislation into law last week, we said that she hoped to see bets being accepted as early as the upcoming NFL season. Governor Kelly stated that “Legalizing sports betting is a common-sense solution that will keep Kansans’ money in Kansas”. And while her hopes on a September roll out may optimistic, state regulators are required to have guidelines in place for a launch of operations no later than January 1st, 2023….

This week’s gambling news comes from Sin City, where there is talk of closing the Las Vegas Strip to cars, trucks, taxis, and buses… at least a few times each week. And believe it or not, they’ve already tried it and tourists loved it! Plus we speak to poker pro Mark Seif about amateurs playing at the WSOP for the experience… and maybe more! Hello friends! J.Todd coming to you from the Las Vegas Strip. I’m standing in front of Bally’s… soon to be the Horseshoe. I’m down here to get some b-roll shots of The Strip itself… film with…

Info-Tech Research Group has published a new industry trends report about crypto, NFT’s, and online gambling, and how they effect the future of casinos and their need for digital transformation. The report is timely, as the effects of the pandemic are still apparent to casino operators, most notably with a shortage of labor and skilled labor, health and safety concerns, and the prominence of online gaming and its effects on brick-and-mortar casino floors. Info-Tech’s findings reveal that the casino industry is at the precipice of significant change. Operators need to consider what is happening in the external environment that directly…