Inside Gaming: Summerlin hotel-casino adds food hall

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Plus, Spain’s 1-0 win over Argentina in Sunday’s World Cup Final resulted in record wagering on a soccer match at BetMGM and Caesars Sportsbook.

A casino edifice successful Summerlin announced the opening of 2 casual eating options arsenic portion of ongoing renovations astatine the property.

Suncoast hotel-casino has opened Quick Bites, a caller nutrient hallway featuring Steak ‘n Shake and Huey Magoo’s Chicken Tenders.

Steak ‘n Shake serves its signature Steakburgers, fries and hand-dipped milkshakes, portion Huey Magoo’s offers grilled and hand-breaded chickenhearted tenders, sandwiches, wraps, salads and sides. A caller Starbucks has besides opened nearby, operating regular from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Quick Bites is the latest successful a bid of upgrades astatine Suncoast, which has already reopened Du-par’s successful a remodeled space, renovated its beforehand desk, opened the Solstice ballroom, refreshed its bingo room, debuted William B’s Steakhouse, redesigned its sportsbook and upgraded its high-limit gaming area.

Additional projects stay underway astatine the Boyd Gaming-operated casino, including a caller halfway bar, renovated edifice rooms, an updated exterior and parking batch improvements.

Slow summertime commencement astatine Jersey Shore

Atlantic City casinos showed signs of a sluggish commencement to summertime successful June, portion New Jersey’s online gaming marketplace continued its record-setting surge. Atlantic City’s 9 casinos reported $257.3 cardinal successful brick-and-mortar gaming revenue, down 0.7 percent from June 2025. While authorities regulators noted it was inactive the second-best June effect for in-person casino triumph successful 14 years, the numbers item the increasing disagreement betwixt accepted casino play and net gaming.

Online casino gross erstwhile again carried the state’s gaming market, reaching $271 cardinal successful June, up 17.5 percent twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth and conscionable shy of the state’s monthly grounds acceptable successful May. Internet gaming has present surpassed Atlantic City’s carnal casinos successful monthly gross for 10 consecutive months, with year-to-date online casino gross up 15 percent compared with a 2.3 percent summation for brick-and-mortar casinos.

The displacement toward integer gaming has go 1 of the defining trends successful New Jersey’s casino market. James Plousis, president of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission, said net gaming “continued to amusement maturation potential,” noting that it surpassed $1.5 cardinal successful yearly gross sooner than successful immoderate erstwhile year. Meanwhile, Atlantic City’s casinos proceed to contend with inflation, contention and rising operating costs, helium said.

Sports betting provided the month’s biggest setback, arsenic gross fell 37.7 percent twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth contempt a 16 percent summation successful wagering volume.

Brian Tyrrell, module manager of Stockton University’s Lloyd D. Levenson Institute of Gaming, Hospitality and Tourism, said the diminution was driven by sportsbook clasp alternatively than a driblet successful betting activity.

“Patrons were luckier than the bookmakers,” helium said, arsenic favorable outcomes for bettors chopped into sportsbook revenue.

IGT woody successful Canada

Las Vegas-based IGT volition proviso 72 further Sierra27 video lottery terminals to the Western Canada Lottery Corp. successful 2026.

Terms of the woody announced Monday connected the terminals, which relation and look similar slot machines, were not disclosed for competitory reasons, according to the company.

The statement strengthens IGT’s presumption arsenic a starring VLT supplier successful Canada and marks the 2nd consecutive twelvemonth that IGT has been selected done WCLC’s competitory VLT procurement process.

“WCLC selected IGT done a competitory procurement process, and these further Sierra27 VLTs volition enactment our venue web with hardware and contented designed for the Canadian market,” said Eric Karmark, WCLC vice president of VLT gaming and operations. “IGT has been a longstanding supplier to WCLC, and we look guardant to continuing our enactment together.”

Macao gross down

July gaming gross is down successful Macao and an expert believes the World Cup shot tourney whitethorn beryllium partially to blame.

In a study to investors, equity expert Anne Ling of Jefferies Equity Research said gross gaming gross was down 11 percent successful Maca0 successful aboriginal July from a twelvemonth agone during the tallness of the World Cup shot tourney staged successful North America.

Ling indicated analysts whitethorn get a amended work connected Macao’s outlook arsenic companies study second-quarter net opening this week.

“With the World Cup concluded, capitalist absorption is apt to displacement toward second-quarter net releases and the year-over-year comparisons for the equilibrium of 2026,” she wrote successful a Monday report.

Wynn woos India

When Wynn Al Marjan Island opens its doors successful 2027, customers from India are expected to beryllium connected the database of prospective customers the institution hopes to attract.

In an interrogation with Robb Report India, Max Tappeiner, the president of Wynn’s $5.1 cardinal integrated edifice being developed successful the United Arab Emirates, said the adjacent proximity and the luxury vibe of the spot is apt to pull gamblers from India.

“The integrated edifice acquisition resonates powerfully with them due to the fact that it delivers each magnitude of escape, from entertainment, family, beach, dining, retail and wellness, each wrong 1 destination,” Tappeiner said successful the interview. “Multigenerational question is simply a large driver, and our accommodation mix, culinary extent and family-friendly infrastructure are designed with this successful mind. Indian travelers are astatine an inflection constituent wherever their hierarchy of needs is driven by personalization, curation and experiential depth.”

Las Vegas-based Wynn precocious said the resort’s opening would apt look a “modest delay” owed to the interaction of the ongoing Middle East conflict.

Record betting connected World Cup

Spain’s 1-0 triumph implicit Argentina successful Sunday’s World Cup Final resulted successful grounds wagering connected a shot lucifer astatine BetMGM and Caesars Sportsbook.

“The World Cup Final delivered the biggest shot betting lawsuit successful Caesars Sportsbook history,” Caesars shot trading squad said successful a release. “Interest was disconnected the charts earlier kickoff, with pre-match wagering already surpassing our erstwhile tourney record. By the last whistle, the lucifer had acceptable caller Caesars Sportsbook records for full handle, full wagers and unsocial bettors.

“Handle finished astir 65 percent higher than our erstwhile grounds game, underscoring the bonzer involvement successful soccer’s biggest lucifer and the unthinkable momentum we saw passim the tournament.”

At BetMGM, determination were much wagers placed connected the Spain-Argentina lucifer than each 2026 NBA Finals games, each 2026 NHL Stanley Cup Final games and each 2026 NCAA Tournament games.

At Hard Rock Bet, which doesn’t run successful Nevada, wagering connected the World Cup eclipsed each different sporting events, including the Super Bowl.

“This World Cup volition spell down arsenic the biggest betting lawsuit successful American past — we’re talking the equivalent of 10 Super Bowls,” Hard Rock Bet sportsbook elder vice president Neil Walsh said successful a release. “A athletics we were erstwhile told Americans would not clasp turned into 1 for the past books. The full state wanted in.”

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