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Gulfport Call it a trifecta day for South Mississippi as the ribbon was cut Thursday morning on the new Beach Casino at Island View Casino Resort just as the Gaming Commission adopted rules for sports betting to begin in Mississippi in 30 days. The new casino opened to the public at 2

Gulfport “Light, bright and airy” aren’t words typically used to describe a casino, but that will change when the new $75 million Beach Casino addition at Island View Casino Resort opens by the end of June. “Everywhere there’s actually windows looking out

Three Choctaw Indian casinos will soon offer sports betting. Pearl River Resort and Bok Homa Casino, which are owned and operated by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians will soon offer sports betting. On Thursday, May 31, 2018, during a special called Tribal Council Meeting, the c

It was a memorable week in Biloxi in early May as the Southern Gaming Summit (SGS) returned with a new vigor and enthusiasm and featured the inaugural class of the Mississippi Gaming Hall of Fame (see page 61). The conference was held for the first time under the sole ownership of the

Get ready to bet legally on the Saints or the Rebels this football season, now that the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down the federal law that permitted sports betting only in Nevada and a handful of other states with grandfather status. Mississippi legislators passed a law in

 

he State of Mississippi could establish one of the most profitable sports betting markets in the US. US.- Mississippi could be one of the most profitable markets to set legal sports betting operations after the resolution of the US Supreme Court, which is expected to release a resolut

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While state leaders continue their decades-old hemming and hawing over a lottery, folks could be legally betting on sports and horse racing in Mississippi casinos by this coming football season. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule as early as next week (or as late as June 25) o