This Week in Gambling

Maine sports betting looking all but dead when the Governor recently vetoed the bill that would have regulated it. However, the state senate has now voted to override that veto, and now legislation is set to move forward and become law. The Senate voted 20-10 in favor of the measure and will now be put to a vote in Maine’s House, where it is expected to pass. Governor Mills vetoed the bill last month, arguing that the people of Maine are not ready for sports betting. Though she praised the bill’s intention in bringing sports betting away from the black…

The STRAT has debuted a cashless gaming in Las Vegas via the new ACS PlayOn payments technology.  The cashless system allows players to purchase casino chips with a debit card at table games and eliminates the need to stop by an ATM machine or cashier’s window. As reported in an article published by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, The Strat joins the D Las Vegas and various Station Casino properties — including the Palms — in offering this cashless system. ACS PlayOn said in a statement that the service is set to expand to the D’s sister property, Golden Gate, in…

At least one sports betting industry insider says that the delay in Washington DC sports betting cost the district as much as $500,000 in lost tax revenue by missing out on the biggest sports betting day of the year. Other experts say it’s difficult to estimate just how much the District lost by not having sports betting ready for the Super Bowl, because those figures are based on typical annual revenues and the D.C. program’s potential isn’t yet known. Chris Grove, a gambling industry analyst with Eilers & Krejcik Gaming, said a typical sports betting market would expect to see…

Residents looking for mobile sports betting can now find BetMGM in West Virginia. MGM Resorts’ sports wagering app has debuted in the Mountain State with exclusive promotions. BetMGM features in-app, live streamed sports events from around the world. “We are pleased to be operating in West Virginia and partnering with The Greenbrier, a historic grand hotel and one of the most storied landmarks in the United States,” said Scott Butera, President of Interactive Gaming for MGM Resorts. “Sports betting represents a significant opportunity for the MGM Resorts-GVC joint venture; we look forward to bringing our best-in-class mobile technology to additional…

We have a week full of online gambling news with headlines about online gambling in Michigan, sports betting in Kentucky, poker in California, and tribal gaming in Oklahoma! Hello friends and welcome to This Week in Gambling! Our last show before I take a week off to attend the International Casino Expo in London, England. So, I’m filming this early on Saturday, so if something happens… some major big gambling story breaks between now and Tuesday… don’t come yelling at me! This week’s stories begin in the state of Michigan, where online gambling news was good recently. Legislators had passed…

Things were looking good for Kentucky sports betting as we reported not long ago. It had easily cleared a House committee and was looking like an easy pass in the full House, but that may be as far as it gets. State Representative Al Gentry,a co-sponsor of the bill, says there are enough votes to pass the bill in the House, but “the senate is a different story” he says. Citing his organization’s informal polling, Family Foundation spokesman Martin Cothran issued a press release Wednesday declaring the bill to be “in trouble.” It is, at the least, in escalating doubt….