Colorado casinos generated a record $185,178,613 in gaming taxes in fiscal 2026, up 4.27% from fiscal 2025. June slot coin-in fell 5.24% year over year to $994.25 million while slot hold rose to 8.22%. Taxes grew faster than adjusted gross proceeds, lifting the state’s effective take to 16.07% from 15.95%. Colorado limited gaming paid nearly … Read more
Lucas Jumalon, 22, of Spokane, Wash., won $10 million and became the second-youngest World Series of Poker champion. The 9,208 entries put up $92.08 million, and $85,634,400 of that went back to the field as prize money. Cashing paid at least $15,000, one and a half times the buy-in, and everyone out earlier lost the … Read more
Act 247 adds one paragraph to state law, exempting mobile sports wagers from Wisconsin’s criminal definition of a bet. The three-count complaint asks the court to bar Gov. Tony Evers from negotiating compact amendments implementing the law. A third count calls the law’s tribal-server requirement a racial classification barred by the 14th Amendment. Each defendant … Read more
Just 34 of the 4,973 machines Light & Wonder shipped in the U.S. and Canada went to new or expanding casinos. Replacements made up 4,939 of those shipments, and new-opening units fell from 293 in the first quarter. Overseas casinos took 342 new-opening units, up from 74, so the construction slowdown is American rather than … Read more
Democrat Amy Acton and Libertarian Don Kissick back online casino legalization; Republican Vivek Ramaswamy did not respond. Acton would direct new gambling tax revenue to public schools, childcare and property-tax relief. Ohio’s two iGaming bills have sat in committee since May 2025 without reaching a floor vote. House Bill 971 would go the other way … Read more
New Hampshire’s charitable game rooms reported $42,374,820 in June revenue, up 31% from a year earlier. Video lottery terminals generated $21,643,774, more than half the total, in their first June in service. Historic horse racing revenue fell 56% to $10,343,417, losing its place as the state’s top machine game. State revenue rose 51% to $7,143,220, … Read more
A federal judge denied the CFTC’s emergency bid to halt New York’s gambling case against prediction market Kalshi. The order reached the docket Aug. 3 and found the agency showed neither likely success on the merits nor irreparable harm. New York seeks $100,000 for each unauthorized sports wagering offer plus a penalty of three times … Read more
The state’s attorney general wants Kalshi barred until it holds a gambling license and stripped of what it earned from New Yorkers. Within hours, federal regulators went to court to stop her. NEW YORK – The price New York has put on evicting Kalshi is eye-catching: no less than $36 billion. On Friday, Letitia James, … Read more
Nabers ran routes at full speed in individual drills but is not yet a full practice participant. He is 10 months removed from a torn right ACL and a second cleanup procedure this spring. The Giants are +7000 to win Super Bowl LXI at DraftKings as of July 28. Nabers is +1300 for Comeback Player … Read more
Churchill Downs is marketing nine regional casinos in eight states and has engaged Macquarie Capital to assist. The gaming segment holding those casinos added $4 million of revenue in the quarter, against $34 million for racing. Second-quarter net revenue set a company record at $980 million, with adjusted EBITDA at a record $477 million. Proceeds … Read more