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While two-thirds of the country now offers legal sports betting, only six states offer online casino gambling, confounding industry hopes that the rapid growth of sports betting would also bring internet casino betting along with it.

In-person betting began at the end of January, but mobile betting is expected to quickly become the dominant method of sports wagering here.

The topic of sports betting, which is about to explode across Massachusetts this week with the onset of mobile wagering, barely came up Wednesday during a presentation at the Public Health Council by the Office of Problem Gambling Services. Massachusetts over the past decade has grown increasingly reliant on revenues from casino wagering and slot machines, which add to state…

WWE is in talks with state gambling regulators to legalize betting on high-profile matches.

Sports betting is now legal in two-thirds of the country, and more Americans than ever before have an opportunity to place a legal bet on Sunday’s Super Bowl.

The Mass. Gaming Commission is set to face a request Thursday to reconsider its already-fraught staggered launch plan and let both in-person and mobile betting start at the same time. But the ask doesn’t come from an eager betting public, it comes from one of the industry’s largest players that’s based in Boston. DraftKings sent a letter to the commission two...

The road that leads to a late January start of in-person sports betting is coming into clearer view for the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. The next month will produce even more crucial information for the commission. Now armed with responses to a survey it asked all prospective applicants to fill out, the commission is starting to get into a regulation review…

More than four years after the U.S. Supreme Court said that states could legalize sports wagering, Massachusetts did just that when Gov. Charlie Baker signed a sports betting bill Wednesday afternoon, shifting public attention onto the Gaming Commission’s rollout of the newly legal activity. The sports betting bill was one of 17 that Baker acted on on Wednesday — he…

Massachusetts has officially legalized sports betting, with Gov. Charlie Baker approving legislation.

Will Massachusetts legalize sports betting by the time the legislative session expires July 31? Place your bets now because the conference committee that will try to hammer out a compromise bill will meet Thursday to get down to business. Reps. Jerald Parisella, Aaron Michlewitz and David Muradian and Sens. Michael Rodrigues, Eric Lesser and Patrick O’Connor are due to huddle…

Inflation may be soaring, supply chains are snarled and the coronavirus just won’t go away. But America’s casinos are humming right along.

The Massachusetts Senate is debating a bill to legalize betting on sports as neighboring states have done.

Senate tees up sports betting bill for vote this week

As casino executives and gaming regulators prepared to mark the official launch of the PlayMyWay program at MGM Springfield on Thursday afternoon, about 200 gamblers had already enrolled to use the voluntary gambling budget tool. The program that’s been available to players at Plainridge Park Casino since 2016 allows gamblers to set a slot machine budget for themselves and then…

The new project, from Tim Leiweke’s Oak View Group, aims to be ready for an NBA team if one ever comes to Las Vegas.

FanDuel CEO Amy Howe and Entain’s chief, Jette Nygaard-Andersen, are making the gambling industry rethink some key issues.

The initial onset of Covid-19 sent shocks through U.S. markets in 2020. Here’s what investors can still take from that experience today.

“In the meantime, we’ve just got to keep doing our thing and hopefully the market will catch on,” CEO Jason Robins told CNBC on Friday.

In the middle of Super Bowl LVI, while Americans wagered approximately $7.6 billion on the Super Bowl, Gov. Charlie Baker published a tweet voicing his frustration over the stalled status of a bill in the Massachusetts State House that would legalize sports betting. “MA is losing out to neighboring states on this, especially during big games,” Baker wrote. Every state…