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Shares of Flutter Entertainment (NYSE: FLUT) traded lower by nearly 2% in Tuesday’s after-hours session after the FanDuel parent lowered its 2024 earnings and revenue guidance, citing unusually weak results on NFL wagers. The Flutter logo at a corporate office. Citing customer friendly outcomes on NFL games, the gaming company cuts its 2024 guidance. (Image:…

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Forget Sin City, a casino, harness track, and 60,000-square-foot sports complex could be coming to “Soy City,” aka Decatur, Ill., “the Soybean Capital of the World.” As well as authorizing horse racing in Macon County, the bill is expected to set a deadline for the Hawthorne Race Course, pictured above, to build a racino of…

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Crypto.com is rapidly adding to its sports event contracts lineup, today announcing the addition of more games for clients to wager on beyond the Super Bowl. Crypto.com Arena, home of the Los Angeles Lakers. The brokerage firm expanded its menu of football event betting contracts. (Image: Los Angeles Magazine) The cryptocurrency brokerage firm said today…

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The Connecticut Lottery has started to sell scratch-off tickets which promote the many national championships won by UConn basketball teams. Paige Bueckers, pictured above. The UConn women’s basketball star is one of many well-known players on the women’s and men’s teams. The state lottery recently began offering a game honoring the teams. (Image: UConn WBB…

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Rivers Casino Philadelphia has acknowledged that its computer systems storing sensitive information on employees were compromised last fall. An aerial view of Rivers Casino Philadelphia with Camden, N.J., in the background across the Delaware River. The Philadelphia casino was recently subjected to a cyberattack that resulted in employee data being stolen. (Image: Rivers Casino Philadelphia)…

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Many musicians and comedians placed their stamp on pop culture without Las Vegas’ help. Others did perform here in their early years, but their acts weren’t even remembered by the audiences they performed for, since their sets were only opening acts. Did you know that everyone mentioned below had a Vegas past? Bob Marley was…

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The plan by Related Cos. and Wynn Resorts to bring a casino hotel to the Upper West Side of Manhattan suffered a blow after Manhattan Community Board 4 (MCB4) late Monday voted unanimously to reject the zoning changes needed to move the project forward. Renderings of Hudson Yards West, a proposed $12 billion development that…

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The 17-year-old girl whose body was discovered on Sunday in the desert in Henderson, Nev. passed away after shooting herself, according to a news report. Jennaleah Hin, pictured above. Her identity was confirmed and an autopsy was performed. (Contributed photo via Henderson Police Department) The cause of her passing was suicide, the Clark County coroner’s…

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Virginia is the latest state to see a statute to authorize online casino gambling filed in its capital. Virginia Sen. Mamie Locke is leading the legislative crusade in 2025 to bring legal iGaming to the commonwealth. Her bill presumably faces long odds of passing and being signed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R). (Image: The Virginian-Pilot)…

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MGM Resorts International acquired the Empire City Casino and Yonkers Raceway in 2019 for $850 million. Since then, the gaming giant has generated more than $5 billion for the State of New York. A gambler at Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway plays a video lottery game. MGM Resorts says it’s generated more than $5…

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Legislation to authorize online casino gambling in Maryland was filed this week by the same House lawmaker who last year unsuccessfully fought for internet casinos and table games. Maryland Del. Vanessa Atterbeary (D) is pushing to legalize iGaming for a second consecutive year. State voters would have the final say through a ballot referendum. (Image:…

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An estimated 57 workers escaped from Cambodia’s O-Smach Resort on Sunday after enduring months of hostile work conditions at the casino, according to news reports. O-Smach, Cambodia, pictured above. The site is the location of a casino where workers escaped from after enduring hostile work conditions, news reports claimed. (Image: Green Era Travel) The workers…

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Britain’s best-paid woman, Bet365 CEO Denise Coates, cut her pay by almost half last year. But the billionaire businesswoman still took home £150 million (US$188 million) in salary and dividends, according to the company’s latest accounts. Denise Coates, above, is Britain’s highest-paid woman, but she opted for a pay cut last year as Bet365 revenues…

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California announced a plan on Monday to connect the Brightline High Speed Rail line, currently under construction from Las Vegas to LA, to San Francisco via a new high-speed rail it proposes in the Mojave Desert. But that’s only if a long-delayed bullet train from the City of Angels to the City by the Bay…

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UFC President and CEO Dana White is one of three new appointments to the Meta (NASDAQ: META) board of directors, marking the first time the UFC boss has joined a corporate board. UFC CEO Dana White. He’s joining the board of Facebook parent Meta. (Image: MMA Fighting) White, widely viewed as the architect of UFC’s…

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