Sentences with phrase «state gambling license»
Rensselaer Mayor Dan Dwyer told the Albany Business Review the developers of the Hard Rock are still in a strong position to win a state gambling license even without support from the City of Albany.
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Meanwhile, Nevada regulators moved on Thursday to reclassify DFS as gambling, requiring FanDuel and DraftKings to either obtain gaming licenses or cease operations in the state.
Last month, Nevada's Gaming Control Board ruled that daily fantasy sports operators (including Yahoo and all the smaller players too) are gambling operators and that, as such, they must obtain gambling licenses to continue offering paid contests in the state.
The state says the fantasy sports leagues can't do business there without obtaining gambling licenses.
The legislation from Republican Sen. John Bonacic would amend state gambling laws to license up to 10 operators to offer online poker games, specifically including Texas Hold «em.
The state's gambling commission has voted to allow failed applicants for casino licenses in eastern or western Massachusetts the opportunity to compete for the sole license in southeastern Massachusetts.
Finger Lakes Gaming and Raceway filed a lawsuit arguing that the state casino location board hadn't taken into account how the license awarded to the Lago casino project in Seneca County would affect existing gambling venues.
The decision as to which developer and casino company will receive the licenses comes as the casino and gambling industry in the northeast has apparently cooled in part to a high concentration of casino sites in neighboring states.
Schneiderman says daily fantasy sports are not licensed by the state which means they're engaged in illegal gambling.
Rank and file legislators fear a repeat of the 2010 bid rigging scandal over gambling at the Aqueduct that cost the State Senate's Democrats their majority, but don't want to be shutout of the dealing on the lucrative casino licenses.
But after a state board recommended this month that licenses for three casino resorts be approved, gambling analysts, urban planners, politicians and rival developers are giving the outcome decidedly mixed reviews.
Ultimately, in an acknowledgment of the increasingly crowded gambling market, the state board wound up awarding three licenses, not four: a $ 300 million casino in Schenectady, north of Albany; a $ 450 million resort in the Finger Lakes town of Tyre; and, in the Catskills - Mid-Hudson area, a $ 750 million project near Monticello.
Smaller gambling developments proposed in economically strapped areas should be able to compete with resort projects proposed by big - name companies in more affluent areas, the head of the state Gaming Commission said of the contest to win up to four casino licenses upstate.
The Senate also voted for the first time to legalize gambling on online poker in the state, a historic expansion of gambling, passing a bill 53 to 5 to allow the state's 11 racetrack casinos to apply for 11 licenses to hold online poker games.
The state's top gambling regulators on Monday will consider the final approval of three casino licenses for upstate projects recommended a year ago, according to an agenda released late on Thursday night.
Four years after Cuomo promised a jolt to the upstate economy with the expansion of state - sanctioned gambling, state regulators gave licenses to three for - profit operators to open full - blown casinos in regions from the Finger Lakes to the southern Catskills.
The Gaming Facility Location Board chose Empire Resorts» proposal for the Montreign Resort Casino, at the former Concord hotel site in the town of Thompson, as the lone applicant in the Catskills - Hudson Valley region that will be allowed to receive a gambling license from the state.
State officials have barred the group from receiving its gaming license, following weeks of corruption rumors surrounding Governor David Paterson's selection of the group for the racetrack and gambling development contract.
ALBANY >> Dealing the final blow to those hoping for gambling at the former Nevele hotel in Wawarsing, the state's Gambling Facility Location Board has said it will consider only Southern Tier applicants for New York's last available casino gambling at the former Nevele hotel in Wawarsing, the state's Gambling Facility Location Board has said it will consider only Southern Tier applicants for New York's last available casino Gambling Facility Location Board has said it will consider only Southern Tier applicants for New York's last available casino license.
Genting backed out of the convention - center project after the state refused to commit to its holding an exclusive gaming license in the New York City area if casino gambling is legalized.
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