Mississippi

Caesars Sportsbook Launches New Mobile Sports Betting App in Harrah’s Gulf Coast in Mississippi

The industry giant Caesars Entertainment, Inc. is expanding its operations to Harrah's Gulf Coast, Biloxi, Mississippi, where the company’s sportsbook went live on April 20, 2024. All the players who want to pl...

Choctaw Resort Development Enterprise Names New Travel Plaza In Winston County, Mississippi: “Crystal Sky”

After breaking ground in April 2023, the Choctaw Resort Development Enterprise (CRDE), owned by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, has decided the official name of its soon-to-be-opened travel plaza is "C...

Mississippi House Approves Bill to Legalize Online Sports Betting

Online sports betting is about to be legalized, and the most recent step brought the final outcome closer than ever. On Thursday, February 1, the Mississippi House approved a bill that would lead to the legaliz...

Two Online Sports Wagering Legislations Submitted In Magnolia State

As Mississippi Rep. Casey Eure projects to officially lead a sports wagering charge in Mississippi, rest of the lawmakers are setting things in motion. Over the past week, Democrat Rep. Cedric Burnett, offic...

MGM And Caesars Face Class-Action Lawsuits on Data Protection Failure Allegations

The stream of unpleasant events continues for two top tier gaming and entertainment operators. Having restored their online operations after separate cyberattacks, Caesars Entertainment and MGM Resorts Internat...

Seven State Regulators Urge Federal Government to Combat Illegal Gambling

Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) and six other state regulators referred on April 28 to the federal government with the appeal to terminate illegal offshore and online gambling activities. The initiative of N...

Choctaw Resort Development Enterprise To Build A $25 Million Project In Louisville

Yesterday, the Choctaw Resort Development Enterprise (CRDE), owned and operated by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for a new travel plaza to be located on South Church ...

Tilman Fertitta Acquires Lake Tahoe Casino Resort to Expand in Northern Nevada

Tilman Fertitta, the owner of the Golden Nugget brand, announced the acquisition of the Hard Rock hotel-casino resort at Lake Tahoe to expand the brand further in Northern Nevada. The Houston billionaire did no...

Mississippi Gaming Commission To Hold Hearing To Approve South Beach Casino Site

On Thursday, March 23, the developer of South Beach Casino and Resort will have a location approval hearing from the Mississippi Gaming Commission. On that note, South Mississippi may have one more competito...

MGM Resorts Finalizes Sale of Gold Strike Tunica; Churchill Downs Incorporated Sells Arlington Heights Property To Chicago Bears

On February 15, MGM Resorts International, a leading internationally recognized hospitality and entertainment company based in Las Vegas, Nevada, reported that it has completed the sale of its subsidiary Gold S...

Casino Queen Marquette Gets Approval From Iowa Regulator To Move Ashore

On Thursday, its St. Louis-based owner, Queen Casino and Entertainment, publicly announced that Casino Queen Marquette, one of Iowa's boathouse casinos, received approval from the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commiss...

U.S. gambling hit record $54.9 billion in revenue in 2022

The American Gaming Association (AGA) reports that the US gambling revenue for the first 11 months of 2022 exceeded the record set in 2021. As for sports betting, the end of the year 2022 saw New York as th...

VICI Properties acquires Foundation Gaming’s properties for $293 million with 8.3% capitalization rate

Real estate investment trust, VICI Properties Inc., has purchased the real estate assets of the Fitz Casino & Hotel (“Fitz”), located in Tunica, Mississippi, and the WaterView Casino & Hotel (“WaterView...

Litigious lift for southern Mississippi’s envisioned Long Beach Harbor Resort

The plan to bring a 13th casino to the Gulf Coast region of Mississippi reportedly received a massive boost last week when the southern state’s highest court ruled in favor of the developer behind the envisione...