Schuetz: David McKee, A True Hero In Gaming Journalism David exists in that hard-scrabble world of sacrifice and struggle. He is about real people, not images, and reality, not spin.

30 years of muckraking summed up. www.casinoreports.com/schuetz-davi...

If BALY won a NYC casino license today, it would have insufficient cash on hand to pay his $115 million "gaming event fee."

Midwest flexes, ESPN Bet folds Illinois casinos were booming in October, up 21% … or 7.5% once second-place Wind Creek Southland and last-place Fairmont Park were subtracted to make an apples-to-apples comparison. The head…

So long, ESPN Bet. www.lasvegasadvisor.com/blog/midwest...

Election Special It’s always too soon to celebrate the demise of smoking in Atlantic City. However, clean-air advocates (and customers) have reason to feel guardedly optimistic today. Ally Mikie Sherrill (D, …

What last night's elections meant for gambling (more than you might think). www.lasvegasadvisor.com/blog/electio...

Out Like a Lamb Barry Jonas called it. His report on MGM Resorts International’s 3Q25 earnings was headlined “The Summer the Strip Turned Pretty … Bad.” Ouch. But true. He kept a “Buy…

Karma catches up with Sin City. www.lasvegasadvisor.com/blog/out-lik...

Foul Play Be careful what you wish for, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, you are liable to get it. Silver wanted sports betting and, over the last seven years, has seen the consequences come home to roost in hi…

... and how Donald Trump could get juiced into a NYC casino license. Stranger things are happening. www.lasvegasadvisor.com/blog/foul-pl...

"Illegal gambling" is used to justify a Nazi-style roundup of Latinos in Idaho. www.lasvegasadvisor.com/blog/and-the...

Shocker from MGM See that fancy-schmancy vision of an upgraded MGM Empire City? Well, it ain’t happening. In the shocker of the year, MGM Resorts International yanked its New York City casino bid from conside…

Trump's $115 million Bronx grift appears likely to pay off. www.lasvegasadvisor.com/blog/shocker...

G2E: Tribal leaders assail prediction markets in fiery session Whither tribal gaming? That was the topic posed by pechanga.net publisher Victor Rocha at the top of a Global Gaming Expo panel entitled “Sustaining Success: Tribal Leaders Talk Gaming, Growth and Cha...

Native American leaders let Trump cronies have it. cdcgaming.com/g2e-tribal-l...

Torch lured business in Missouri with illegal video games, federal jury finds • Missouri Independent Slot machines in locations across Missouri violate state gambling laws, a federal jury found Monday in a verdict that Torch Electronics.

How Torch Electronics bought off the Missouri political establishment—but couldn't buy 12 honest jurors. missouriindependent.com/2025/10/07/t...

Bally's Shares Details of Delusional Fever Dream, Everyone Falls for It | Vital Vegas Bally's Corp. recently shared a new rendering of its plans for the Tropicana site. It is easily the most unhinged, delusional, whimsical folly we have

Well-merited ridicule for Bally's Las Vegas. www.casino.org/vitalvegas/b...

ANALYSIS: Bally’s catches the car October’s first week brought a dramatic pivot for Bally’s Corp. It received 5-1 approval from its Community Advisory Committee (CAC) for its Bronx casino proposal. And company Chairman Soo Kim popped ...

Bally's Corp. tries to dazzle us with pretty pictures, but I'm not buying it. Are you? cdcgaming.com/brief/analys...

U.S. economy worsening, analysts say Sentiment amongst United States consumers continues to spiral downhill, according to a team of Jefferies Equity Research analysts. Their monthly findings were published in an October 1 investor note. ...

Saddam Insane claims we're living in an "economic golden age." Says who? cdcgaming.com/u-s-economy-...

A Desert Mirage? Surprisingly few victory laps were taken after Las Vegas Strip gambling revenues spiked 5.5% in August, helped by tighter hold. Perhaps it was the simultaneous, inconvenient disclosure the visitati…

Things in Las Vegas aren't as good as they superficially appear. www.lasvegasadvisor.com/blog/a-deser...

Pretty Pictures and B.S. It’s the easiest thing in the world to build a casino megaresort if you don’t plan on paying for it. We learned that from Sheldon Adelson, who erected The Venetian out of other people&#…

We're not falling for the latest wave of Bally's Corp. hype. www.lasvegasadvisor.com/blog/pretty-...

MGM, Genting Advance in NYC Right off the top, let’s congratulate Genting Group and MGM Resorts International for both being tapped—unanimously—by their community advisory committees. Both now advance to Albany for the …

Two casinos finally prevail in the New York City selection process. www.lasvegasadvisor.com/blog/mgm-gen...

Freedom Plaza Fails See that weird-looking collection of high-rises above? Yeah, it’s not happening. Freedom Plaza, the something-for-everybody, New York City megaresort proposal of Soloviev Group and Mohegan Su…

Manhattan is where casino proposals go to die. www.lasvegasadvisor.com/blog/freedom...

No Future for Avenir “Avenir” means “the future” in French. For The Avenir casino project in New York City, the future ended two days ago. It’s done, finito, cooked, canned, vetoed. The sl…

Another NYC casino bid bites the dust. www.lasvegasadvisor.com/blog/no-futu...

Shocker in New York City Then there were seven … again. In a stunning reversal of fortune, Caesars Entertainment’s plans for a Times Square casino have been ashcanned by the relevant Community Advisory Committe…

Two NYC casino bids bite the dust. www.lasvegasadvisor.com/blog/shocker...

Congress to You: Drop Dead Time to blow raspberries to the House Rules Committee. While permitting literally a thousand other amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act, it struck down Rep. Dina Titus’ FAIR B…

Gamblers get the shaft yet again from the GOP. www.lasvegasadvisor.com/blog/congres...

Jumping the Shark Whilst vigorously pretending that Everything Is Better Than Ever in Sin City, Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority CEO Steve Hill has been busy behind the scenes. He gone back to the LVCVA…

Las Vegas drinks its own bathwater. www.lasvegasadvisor.com/blog/jumping...

Indian Givers What doth it profit a tribe to gain a casino but forfeit its birthright? The Dry Creek Rancheria of Pomo Indians just made a Faustian pact with Wall Street, for the sake of underwriting a Caesars R…

Prediction markets sow chaos in Indian Country. www.lasvegasadvisor.com/blog/indian-...

Grinning Bandits See that guy? He’s the single most overpaid CEO in Big Gaming. We’re talking about Jay Snowden, helmsman of Penn Entertainment. As revealed by the Nevada Current, the Institute for Poli…

Casino industry CEOs are robbing workers and shareholders blind. www.lasvegasadvisor.com/blog/grinnin...

Good Guys & Bad Guys See that fella? It’s certified Bad Guy Sen. Mike Crapo (R) and he’s grinning because he stuck it to you big time and looks to get away with it. To steal from Vital Vegas author Scott Ro…

The GOP is persecuting gamblers big-time. www.lasvegasadvisor.com/blog/good-gu...

Analyst: Casino growth “hard to come by” Gambling’s growth potential lies in the digital sphere, as demonstrated by MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment. That was the take of Jefferies Equity Research analyst David Katz, as ou...

Las Vegas is stagnating. cdcgaming.com/analyst-casi...

Strip Snaps Slump After months of the bow planes being locked in “Dive,” the submersible U.S.S. Las Vegas Strip finally righted itself, at least for June. Gambling grosses nudged upward 1%, nabbing $765 …

For denialism, you can't beat the casino industry. www.lasvegasadvisor.com/blog/strip-s...

Smoking Gun; Motown Mayhem We promised to stay on the case of the phantom rebranding of the Tropicana Atlantic City. Above you see the official evidence. There’s nothing sinister afoot. Caesars Entertainment simply got…

$MGM tolerates hate crimes on its doorstep. www.lasvegasadvisor.com/blog/smoking...

Surge in Atlantic City As consumers breathed a sigh of relief over tariffs that were more rhetorical than real, Atlantic City casinos spiked 5% in June. Boardwalk casinos grossed $259 million. It would have been even lar…

The Epstein scandal reaches the casino industry. www.lasvegasadvisor.com/blog/surge-i...

Is Cannabis Tourism In Las Vegas A Chimera Or A Cash Cow? “Once the casinos can have it inside, it’ll be something we can blast to the world," said Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom.

If casinos can't cash in on cannabis, they'll try to smother it. www.casinoreports.com/cannabis-tou...

Then There Were 7 … Take a long look at that rendering for Bally’s Bronx. You might never see it again. The project got smothered in the crib by the New York City’s governing council, which voted 26-9 to d…

It looks like Donald Trump won't be collecting that $115 million kickback from Bally's Corp. www.lasvegasadvisor.com/blog/then-th...