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Rivers Casino Pittsburgh announced that it will break ground on a $60 million North Shore hotel later this summer.

Major commercial sports content providers have started to embrace the wagering industry in a major way, as evidenced by the recent spate of partnership deals with leading land-based and online sports betting operators.

When the tribal gaming industry convened at the national Indian Gaming Association’s annual convention in April, sports betting was at the top of the conference agenda.

Casinos on the Mississippi Gulf Coast won the second-highest monthly amount ever in March, boosted by betting on the NCAA basketball tournament, according to a report from the Associated Press (AP).

The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2018 decision in Murphy v. NCAA, declaring that certain provisions of the PASPA violated the Constitution’s “anti-commandeering” clause, is a potential boon for legal sports betting in the U.S.

Gaming Laboratories International has released the final published version of the “GLI-33 Standards for Event Wagering Systems V1.1,” for use by the sports wagering industry, coinciding with the one-year anniversary of the fall of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act.

Operators today have access to better data collection, storage and analytics platforms, and it is indeed allowing them a view of every single touchpoint a player has while in a casino resort. But it does not stop there.

Portland, Ore.-based iovation, a TransUnion company, has carved out a successful niche in the gaming marketplace by using advanced device intelligence and real-time risk evaluation to identify trustworthy customers and protect enterprises against fraud and abuse.

Sports betting conferences proliferate these days, makes sense because the category is very much a work in progress and operators are in information gathering mode. In that spirit, here are some excerpts from a session at this spring’s NIGA show.

AGS welcomes Michele Hannemann Colleen Coddington to its North American sales team; Alan Feldman joins UNLV’s International Gaming Institute (IGI) as a distinguished fellow in Responsible Gaming.