VICI nixes $2B Centaur property options well before year-end deadline Following a lengthy courtship process that appeared a bit awkward at times, VICI Properties formally reveals that it will not seek to exercise its real estate purchase option on [...]
Win down over the year despite TH addition, HP renovation Until the pandemic hit in 2020, we had traditionally brought you a July deep dive into the mid-year casino numbers, detailing how things had progressed through the first half [...]
Business world: tax add-back ruling anticompetitive for Indiana We’ve been following for you the saga of PENN Entm’t, Inc. v. Indiana Dep’t of State Revenue, No. 22T-TA-00015, the Indiana Tax Court tax add-back case. After the parties were unable [...]
School ass’t principal helped run multi-million $ Central IN club A three-year investigation sparked by a complaint to the Indiana Gaming Commission from someone who claimed to have lost $50,000 in an online poker club culminates in multiple felony [...]
Strong multistate game sales outweigh scratch-off weakness Thanks in large part to five multistate jackpot runs so far this fiscal year – in July, August, October, March, and April that each topped $1 billion (there were three jackpots that [...]
Strong launch for Terre Haute casino in short, hotel-free The first set of revenue numbers are in for the Terre Haute Casino Resort, and it is the solemn duty of your favorite gaming newsletter to analyze them in all [...]
Terre Haute casino might be gamechanger for smokefree casinos Other casinos are taking notice that the effective smoking ban at the Terre Haute Casino Resort (no smoking is permitted on the main casino floor. An outdoor covered patio offering [...]
First quarter of 2024 doesn’t match up to 2023, but . . . Through the first three months of 2024, statewide win of $594,238,266 at Indiana’s 12 commercial casinos properties is down by $38,434,527 (- 6.08%) from $632,672,793 during [...]
Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues. . . . but that could change We’ve been telling you about the betting equivalent of baby steps being taken in recent months by the president of the Indianapolis-based National Collegiate Athletic Association, [...]
Final night of session revives push for oversight of Gameboys While it seemed as though language restricting funding flexibility for the Indiana Gaming Commission – and no other state agency – was dead after Rep. Jeff Thompson (R) of [...]