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 July 28, 2021 As the situation in Las Vegas becomes delicate, word has come that MGM casino workers will have to pay for weekly COVID testing if they cannot provide proof that they have been vaccinated. Authorities are still struggling to cope with the new variants of Coronavirus, so this move doesn’t seem too unreasonable considering the cost of a weekly test is just $15. And that is only for those employees who (for whatever reason) have not received the vaccine. The MGM Resorts policy on this matter went into effect on Monday, and has an interesting provision: Those who…

Sports Bet Montana is now offering every Olympic event, including table tennis and handball A s the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games go on, Sports Bet Montana has decided to offer betting lines for the international sports event.  According to KRTV, communications manager for the Montana Lottery and Sports Bet Montana, Jennifer McKee, spoke about the process of bringing in betting lines on the Olympic games.  “There’s a process to it, but it’s actually not that complex. Our trading desk does global lines on everything and they were going to do global lines on the Olympics for us and everyone else…

D espite the pandemic, the Massachusetts Lottery has set a new record in the fiscal year that ended last month as it set new standards for revenue, profit, prize payouts, commissions and bonuses for retailers, scratch ticket sales, and Keno sales. The agency announced on Tuesday that the Lottery generated an estimated profit of $1.105 billion to be used for local aid from $5.827 billion in revenue while paying out $4.283 billion in prizes and handing out $333.3 million in commissions and bonuses in fiscal 2021. The previous records were $1.104 billion in profit from $5.509 billion of revenue while…

Now independent from FanDuel Sportsbook app, it is also available in Pennsylvania and West Virginia F anDuel Group announced on Tuesday that it’s expanding its FanDuel Casino offerings in New Jersey and Michigan. The group announced the official launch of its FanDuel branded, standalone FanDuel Casino product in New Jersey on iOS, Android, and desktop. In Michigan, FanDuel Casino customers can now play live dealer games from Evolution. FanDuel Casino was initially offered exclusively within the FanDuel Sportsbook app in New Jersey, but the standalone FanDuel Casino product is now available to customers living in or visiting New Jersey. It…

B oyd Gaming on Tuesday reported second-quarter 2021 revenues of $893.6 million, up from $209.9 million in the same period of 2020. The company reported net income of $113.7 million, or $1.00 per share, compared to a net loss of $108.5 million for the year-ago period. During the second quarter of 2021, all three operating segments set all-time records for operating margins, while the Las Vegas Locals and Midwest & South segments also achieved all-time records for Adjusted EBITDAR. Of the company’s 26 open properties, 25 grew Adjusted EBITDAR at double-digit rates from the second quarter of 2019. Companywide margins…

B Gaming’s Lucky Lady Moon slot title has recently paid out more than AUD 20,100 to a player from PlayAmo casino in two minutes. Starting with an 11 AUD bet, the player caught 4 Scatter symbols on the reel that triggered 15 Free spins, which were re-triggered two times. One of the Free spins brought a combination of 5 Scatter symbols. It would pay x500 in the main game but during the Free spins round all winnings are tripled, so the player hit Super Mega Win and multiplied the bet by 1500 ($16,500 AUD). After that, another series of Free spins…

W here is SUZOHAPP’s focus in the Americas today? Has this seen any change since the company decided to separate its gaming and amusement business from its cash handling business? The American market of gaming has shifted quite radically since the pandemic. We’ve seen the rise of electronic table games (ETG’s) as well as new regulations in many states expanding either sports betting, or gambling or lottery options in some form. Since separating from our sister company PayComplete that is focused on cash handling, our team is hyper focused on not only redeveloping some of those relationships with our core…

Interview with Evert Montero Cárdenas, president of Colombian gaming industry trade body Fecoljuegos T he number of greetings on the Fecoljuegos website, the Colombian Federation of Chance and Luck  Games Businessmen, seem to be a good balance of the role that the entity managed to earn in Colombia. How do you assess these 20 years? In these 20 years, Fecoljuegos has played an important role in increasing the professionalism, modernization, and reactivation of the sector, especially in recent times where we have experienced such a difficult situation; I believe that the place the gambling industry has gained in Colombia and…

W ith a player registration rate of 1,000 a day, software platform provider and owner of Mexico-based interactive regulated casino, Gaming Technologies, also known as Gametech, announced Monday that it has surpassed more than 75,000 registered players on Vale.mx.  Gametech teamed up with Mexico-based Big Bola Casinos, to launch Vale.mx, a regulated interactive online casino and sports betting entertainment brand in Mexico, in March 2021. It has more than 700 new online premium casino games, which can be played either on their mobile or desktop presentations. Players can receive promotions and play live roulette and blackjack, or high-definition slots from software…

It plans to announce a partner in the “next couple of weeks”, in time for football season C onnecticut’s launch of sports gambling for the football season is moving forward as the Connecticut Lottery Corp. is in final negotiations with a vendor to run the operation. At least four vendors were finalists for the sports-wagering operation, according to the lottery board minutes of earlier this month, as reported by CT Insider. The new market launch still needs approval from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs, and completion of state rule-making. Both tribal casinos in the state…

As Chicago, Hawaii and some California’s counties are warning residents against traveling to Vegas A s several U.S. jurisdictions are advising residents to avoid traveling to Las Vegas as the highly transmissible COVID-19 Delta variant fuels rising case counts in Nevada, Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is working with casino resorts and an advertising agency to encourage and facilitate vaccination. As of July 23, cases across the state had risen 23% over the previous week, while hospital admissions rose by 7%. Clark County, which includes the city of Las Vegas, has specifically been added to the White House’s list…

Things had slowly been getting back to normal in America, and the Las Vegas recovery was pushing forward at a record pace! But then came the COVID Delta variant, and now the situation for Sin City has changed. Casino workers are now required to once again wear masks, but how will this affect travelers to Vegas? Are there more restrictions coming? Where do we go from here? Hello players, and welcome to This Week in Gambling, where we are once again following stories out of Nevada related to Coronavirus. And that is this week’s big story. We’ve been watching the…

G reentube, the NOVOMATIC Interactive division, has introduced its newest slot Twin Spinner Sizzling Hot deluxe. It is the company’s first Twin Spinner title, with the addition of a new twist to an old favorite. The classic fruit slot is a 5×3 reel set, with five win lines on each reel set. Should five Seven symbols land on a win line, the top prize on offer is 1,000 times the bet placed. In addition, the game features a special Star symbol as a Scatter symbol, which pays in a combination of three or more in any position. The Bet Balancer…

i iGaming website builder BetConstruct introduced updated design system SpringBuilder X to facilitate and speed up the construction of an online casino and sportsbook, and improve UI/UX. According to the company, this new generation improvement covers the integrity of the sports and casino elements, from initial to accent colors both for the desktop and mobile versions. It brings a suite of traditional CMS tools, and simultaneously allows for flexibility and autonomy in design, with the use of simple drag and drop technology, backed with React.Js.  The builder introduced betting and casino widgets. These elements – betslip, odds display, account element…

G annett, a Virginia-based media holding company and the largest newspaper chain in the United States, announced on Tuesday an exclusive agreement with Tipico USA Technology, the US division of German sports betting provider Tipico Group. The USA TODAY NETWORK covers local papers published in 46 states and over 200 sports websites consisting of more than 250 daily local sites including The Indy Star and Detroit Free Press, and its USA TODAY Sports Media Group. Product integrations are expected to begin in August to complement the start of the NFL season. USA TODAY Sports Media Group audiences across digital platforms…

H ard Rock confirmed Monday that Ray Stefanelli, former Borgata executive, will serve as Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City Vice President of Online Gaming.  Stefanelli will direct online casino and sports marketing strategies, customer service, risk and payments. According to his LinkedIn biography, the newly appointed Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City Vice President of Online Gaming is the former director of operations and poker for BetMGM. Prior to that, he held the title of executive director of Online Gaming Poker and Casino Product at Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa.  Ray Stefanelli graduated from Lynchburg College. His…