Plus, Atlantic City casinos and New Jersey online casinos both contributed to a record-setting year in 2025, with the latter making history in the Garden State.
David Danzis
Casinos and Gaming Reporter
Email: ddanzis@reviewjournal.com
Phone: 702-383-0387
David Danzis joined the Review-Journal in July 2024 as a business reporter covering casinos and gaming. Before moving to Las Vegas, he covered Atlantic City casinos and legal online gaming in New Jersey for Catena Media. Previously, David worked at The Press of Atlantic City, covering the resort’s casinos and local government, and at the New Jersey Herald as a political reporter. David is an honors graduate of Rutgers University. He currently lives in Summerlin with his wife and two children.
As it prepares to celebrate six decades on the Strip, an iconic hotel-casino is upgrading its high-end room offerings for its top-level guests.
“This is, literally, the birthplace of hotel tourism and casino as we know it today in Las Vegas,” Jeff Victor, vice president of operations for Circa Hospitality Group, said Thursday morning.
The growth of prediction market platforms “flies in the face of existing federal laws and regulation intended to protect consumers and the integrity of our nation’s financial markets,” the AGA and IGA said.
Plus, Maine is set to become the eighth state with legal online casinos after Gov. Janet Mills allowed a tribal-exclusive iGaming bill to take effect without her signature.
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 emphasis was less on far-off science fiction and more on practical systems designed to improve how people live and work right now.
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.
Plus, Casino Collectibles Association has added a tool to its website to help casino chip collectors find chips to add to their collections.
Las Vegas enters 2026 from a position of strength, even as questions about affordability and long-term sustainability persist.
Plus, Atlantic City casinos won more than $236.8 million from gamblers in November, a year-over-year increase of 5.7 percent, according to state regulatory data.
Throughout the year, our local coverage focused on how casino operators, regulators and visitors navigated a changing landscape.
A long-awaited update to slot jackpot tax reporting included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will take effect in 2026, the Internal Revenue Service confirmed this week.
A high-stakes gambler claims a Las Vegas casino allowed him to gamble and take out $75,000 in credit while incapacitated, allegedly after being drugged, before being detained by security and later charged with felony fraud.
Gambling industry officials and tax professionals argue that the change unfairly targets professional gamblers and high-stakes players, who will now be required to pay taxes on unrealized earnings.