Las Vegas-based Affinity Gaming on Thursday reopened its St. Jo Frontier Casino riverboat in St. Joseph, Mo., which had been closed since June due to Missouri River floods.
The small casino, which has 11 table games and 550 slot machines, is one of two casinos the company operates in Missouri.
Affinity, formerly known as Herbst Gaming, has 15 casinos in Nevada, Missouri and Iowa.
Four lifelong friends from Indiana went 25-64-1 against the spread to finish last in the Circa Sports Million NFL handicapping contest and win the $100,000 booby prize.
When two entries in the Circa Million contest tied for first, they expected to win $750,000 each. But a tiebreaker neither entry was aware of gave one entry $1 million and the other half a million.
Henderson resident Bryan Boren went 33-12 against the spread in the first nine weeks of the Westgate SuperContest and finished 61-28-2 to win a total of $321,630.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board could make its first nomination to the state’s List of Excluded Persons since 2024.
On the heels of a summer visitation slump caused by a myriad reasons, including macroeconomic concerns, negative perceptions around pricing and a significant decline in international travelers, Las Vegas casinos responded with an array of budget-friendly deals and offers.
The win was one of several across the Las Vegas Valley.
The inventor of player tracking, progressive jackpots and instant bonuses also suggests that Nevada should embrace prediction markets and “tax the hell out of” them.
More investment is coming to Durango, Green Valley Ranch, Red Rock Resort, Sunset and Palace stations and Seventy Six Taverns as company closes in on 50th anniversary.
The Strip’s largest casino-hotel construction project is making progress toward its 2027 opening, with a significant portion of the new vertical structure now complete.
Since making a splash in Nevada in 2025, prediction markets could become a $1 trillion industry as they continue to grow, according to a recent report.
