The $47 million covers 594 rooms and suites across 22 floors, about $79,000 a room. Crews start in October and work three floors at a time, finishing in December 2027. Ontario stripped casino exclusivity in Niagara on Aug. 13 and will seek new operators this year. New York sets no statewide blackjack payout, and a … Read more
PENN Entertainment will spend about $195 million to move Boomtown ashore and rename it Hollywood Casino New Orleans. The landside floor would hold about 875 slot machines and 45 table games, against more than 700 and 33 today. The Louisiana Gaming Control Board and the Jefferson Parish Council must both approve, and the casino would … Read more
Saturday’s drawing is the 42nd of a run that began after the jackpot was last won May 2. The advertised $856 million is an annuity estimate; the cash option is $372.0 million. At true odds, a $2 ticket on a 1-in-292.2-million outcome would return about $584 million. The run has produced 36 Match 5 winners, … 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
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