Washington, DC – The casino gaming industry supports 350,000 small business jobs nationwide and nearly 3,000 of them are in Maryland, the American Gaming Association (AGA) announced today at Eastern Food Services, Inc., a local food provider in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Today’s event, part of the AGA’s American Gaming Small Business Jobs Tour, highlights the […]
April 19, 2017 By Aaron Stanley The American Gaming Association kicked off the latest phase of its Get to Know Gaming initiative Wednesday morning at a location that bears a complete opposite resemblance to the standard casino floor. The group kicked off a national effort to highlight the gaming industry’s impacts on small business […]
By Richard N. Velotta April 18, 2017 The American Gaming Association is starting a series of road trips Tuesday to explain how commercial and tribal casinos help small businesses across the country. Representatives of the Washington, D.C.-based association will meet with Rep. Anthony Brown, D-Md., at Eastern Food Services in Laurel, Maryland, to raise […]
April 7, 2017 By Nancy Trejos MASHANTUCKET, Conn.—Michael and Diane Engel choose to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at Vue 24 at Foxwoods Resort Casino. The couple from Sayville, N.Y., aren’t just here for the view of the hundreds of acres of Connecticut woods belonging to the Mashantucket Pequot Native American tribe. Michael wants to […]
April 6, 2017 By Dustin Gouker A majority of fans of NFL teams said that they would favor a change to the federal sports betting prohibition that would allow states to decide whether to legalize wagering on games. That’s per new polling data commissioned by the American Gaming Association before the NFL voted to move the Raiders to Las Vegas. NFL fans on sports betting: Top-level […]
Washington, DC – American sports fans are poised to wager $36.5 billion on Major League Baseball (MLB) this year, according to an estimate by the American Gaming Association (AGA) released just days before opening day. Of the $36.5 billion that will be wagered, $35.4 billion – or 97% – will be placed illegally through illicit offshore websites and sports […]
By Alex Evans March 30, 2017 Sports gambling is a major industry and the numbers from the American Gaming Association just further prove that point. Sports fans in the United States are expected to wager $36.5 billion on Major League Baseball this season, according to an estimate by the American Gaming Association (AGA). Of the […]
Washington, D.C. – American Gaming Association (AGA) President and CEO Geoff Freeman released the following statement after NFL owners approved the Raiders’ move to Las Vegas today: “We congratulate the Raiders and the National Football League on today’s historic decision to place a team in Las Vegas. The second announcement of a major sports franchise to […]
March 14, 2017 By Luke Kerr-Dineen The subject of sports betting in the U.S. is a rather strange phenomenon. Because of an outdated rule based on a premise that people are less and less concerned by, the country is stuck in this strange, hypocritical middle ground: Sports betting is illegal, yet millions of people do it anyway. […]
March 17, 2017 By Daniel Roberts If you had a hard time choosing a champion when you filled out your March Madness bracket this year, don’t worry—the oddsmakers in Las Vegas weren’t sure either. At the time this year’s tournament tipped off, Vegas sportsbooks still had no clear consensus ‘favorite’ to win it all, ESPN reported. MGM Grand […]