As 30th casino gaming anniversary looms, time for assessment? For those who were present at the creation, it may be a bit jarring to realize that December 8 will mark 30 years of legalized riverboat gambling in the State [...]
OTY win up aided by TH; Wind Creek, Bally’s CHI hurt us Until the pandemic hit in 2020, we had traditionally presented you a July deep dive into the mid-year casino numbers, detailing how things had progressed through the [...]
Gambling loss cap to cost taxpayers directly; operators upset, too No members of the Hoosier congressional delegation have made any public statement about the surprise change the One Big Beautiful Bill Act made to the 100% deduction for gambling [...]
Mega jackpots absent; instant ticket sales slow – not just us? Hoosier Lottery revenues face “challenges” from a lack of mega-draw game jackpots and a “softening” in the lottery’s traditional bread-and-butter product, scratch-off tickets, lottery staffers acknowledge at the [...]
No iGaming, some charity gaming, some tweaks, no tax hikes Following what was effectively a three-year interregnum in which gaming legislation was leges non grata thanks to an ongoing set of federal investigations which imprisoned three former legislators on [...]
Could a Penske Rolling Stone casino at IMS qualify? Editor's note: This story was originally published in the April 4, 2025 issue of Indiana Gaming Insight. We’re racing closer to a casino in Indianapolis . . . and we [...]
Fourth-biggest Hoosier Lotto $42.5M jackpot hit in Tell City A single ticket sold in Perry County wins the $42.5 million Hoosier Lotto jackpot on Wednesday, March 12. The winning ticket was purchased at On the Fly #822, a four-pump [...]
Relatively strong performance held back by lack of iGaming Final commercial gaming revenue numbers are in nationally, and the American Gaming Association, which collects the data, also massages it to detail key data by state and region. Among the [...]
$14.7 billion in Indiana charity gaming revenue in 30 years As with virtually everything else in the Hoosier economy, the pandemic extracted its toll on charitable gaming revenues in fiscal years 2020 and 2021. The pandemic shutdown ended June [...]
Your detailed look at what’s moving, what isn’t, and why Following a three-session moratorium on gaming legislation due to fears of the optics of considering such legislation in the midst of a stealthy federal grand jury investigation into the [...]