This Week in Gambling

After months of waiting, Pennsylvania online sports betting is finally available! SugarHouse Casino began live testing of its mobile sports betting app product after receiving approval from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board The advent of Internet sports wagering in the state has been months in the making. SugarHouse becomes just the first of many coming dominoes to fall in the state. All eight of the current sportsbooks in the state are expected to offer Pennsylvania online sports betting by this summer. A ninth, Presque Isle Downs in Erie, is targeting June 1 as the kickoff date of its retail sportsbook….

We report this week’s gambling news from the Las Vegas Strip, plus interview the CEO and Owner of The D Casino and the Golden Gate, Derek Stevens! We also have headlines stories from PartyPoker and DraftKings.   Hello friends and welcome again to This Week in Gambling. I’m Jay Todd out here on the Vegas Strip. We’re gonna do things a little bit differently today as we’re shooting live as opposed to in my studio with that great green screen in back of me… so everything you see going on in back? That’s real! So I’m not responsible for any…

Las Vegas casino owner Derek Stevens has announced the introduction of Circa Sportsbook venture that will debut on Fremont Street in Las Vegas very soon. The Nevada Gaming Commission unanimously approved Stevens’ Circa Sports license. The new venue will be launching it’s first location at the Golden Gate Casino on June 1st, 2019, and will be open every day between 8am and 11pm. There are two promotions planned right now, including a “No Juice” promotion on June 1st at the Golden Gate, and the Million Pro Football Contest this fall! Following the launch at Golden Gate, Circa Sportsbook will introduce…

DraftKings is ready for the soft-launch a their sports betting app this week. The app should go live at the Hollywood Casino in Charles Town and bringing mobile wagering back to West Virginia. Local news outlet WV MetroNews reported on Wednesday citing information from state gambling regulators that the Lottery has tested the new wagering app with DraftKings this week and that the app has passed all the tests. This means that it can soon go live with Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races, DraftKings’ West Virginia casino partner. DraftKings announced that it has reached a licensing agreement with Hollywood…

The American Gaming Association has recognized Representative Dina Titus and Darin LaHood for her campaigns towards raising the threshold for reporting slot winnings tax from $1,200 to $5,000. Under federal law, casino patrons were previously obliged to report any slot machine winnings upwards of $1,200 or more, while the machine was removed from the casino and the patron signs a W-2G tax reporting form. Following the work of Titus and LaHood, the threshold of which patrons now have to report winnings would be pushed upwards of $5,000. Slot jackpots have gradually increased with inflation over recent years, however the $1,200…

A PartyPoker Nevada return looks to be in the cards as their parent company, GVC Holdings, received the state gaming commissioners approval on their license application today The online gaming portion of GVC’s application hints at the fact that the gambling giant could be gearing up to introduce its PartyPoker brand to the Silver State’s regulated market. PartyPoker was forced to leave the United States back in 2006 when the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was passed. However, a romance for PartyPoker Nevada will most likely not be a smooth ride. WSOP’s online poker site has cemented itself in the…