The High Limit Jackpot Party on Saturday, Nov. 7, draws ten hourly $5,000 prizes and a $25,000 grand prize for the advertised $75,000. Candy Cache Lane draws seven winners every Sunday from Nov. 8 through Dec. 27, or 56 winners over eight Sundays. The Sunday grand prizes pay $20,000 and $5,000, rising to $40,000 and … Read more
South Lake Tahoe casinos won $26,458,775 in September, up 12.5%, while Laughlin’s win fell 16.8% to $33,766,970. Slots drove both swings, rising 15.3% to $22.87 million at South Lake Tahoe and falling 17.5% to $30.94 million at Laughlin. Laughlin slots kept 7.46 cents of each dollar played, down from 8.82 cents a year earlier, while … Read more
The casino opened at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, a day before its scheduled grand opening, and runs 24 hours a day for guests 21 and older. The floor runs 2,400-plus slot machines and 40 tables, among them blackjack, three card poker, roulette, baccarat and pai gow. Manzanita Steakhouse, Clubhouse 99 and a Food Hall … Read more
Picayune’s amended complaint seeks to vacate the NIGC’s approval of North Fork’s management contract with Red Rock Resorts. California’s Supreme Court denied North Fork’s petition for review in April, finalizing a ruling that the required governor’s approval was void. Red Rock has advanced $117.1 million toward the casino and stands to collect a 30% management … Read more
CNIGA Chairman James Siva rejected a CFTC offer of tribal market access as a divide-and-conquer tactic that changes nothing. The rejection followed a Ninth Circuit ruling one day earlier that found sports-event contracts meet the definition of Class III gaming. Tribal leaders including Siva met CFTC officials Sept. 14 and afterward called on the agency … Read more
CNIGA’s letter asks the Senate to bar federally designated commodity markets from listing sports and casino-style event contracts. California voters rejected sports betting twice in 2022, yet Kalshi, a federally regulated exchange, still sells sports contracts to residents. Three California tribes have a related appeal against Kalshi pending at the 9th Circuit, argued in July … Read more
The Assembly deleted SB 1235’s Gambling Control Commission oversight language on Aug. 18 and replaced it with three tribal gaming compacts. The deleted section would have required the governor to notify two legislative committees whenever he removes a gambling commissioner. The new text ratifies compacts with the Picayune Rancheria, Fort Mojave and Pechanga, executed between … Read more
The commission has run without an acting or permanent chair since Jan. 13, when Sharon Avery’s term ended. It approved two gaming ordinance amendments nationwide in 2026, neither in California, down from 19 in 2025. California’s most recent approval went to the Soboba Band of Luiseno Mission Indians on Nov. 24, 2025. Compacts, land into … Read more
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a 25-year compact Aug. 4 raising the Yurok Tribe’s machine cap from 99 to 349. California drops its 10% to 25% cut of the tribe’s net win for a share of regulatory costs. At 349 devices the tribe stays a Limited-Gaming Tribe drawing $275,000 a quarter from the state fund. The … Read more
Bowyer says he saw Mizuhara’s problem gambling inside 30 days, then kept raising his betting limits. Prosecutors say the illegal book ran at least five years and at times had more than 700 bettors. Mizuhara placed at least 19,000 bets and finished about $40.68 million down, the sentencing record shows. Bowyer sent at least $9.3 … Read more