Casino Wars Heat Up Between Maryland, Neighbors
The introduction of table games in Maryland is positioning the state to win back gamblers after they spent millions of dollars in West Virginia and Delaware.
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The introduction of table games in Maryland is positioning the state to win back gamblers after they spent millions of dollars in West Virginia and Delaware.
History is made in Maryland. For the first time ever, Las Vegas-style table games are open for business.
Gamblers can start playing table games for the first time in Maryland beginning this week.
Rolling the dice. Maryland is just weeks away from its first-ever casino table games. Hollywood Casino in Perryville will have craps, poker and blackjack as early as March.
There could soon be another way to pass your time while waiting for a flight at BWI if some Maryland lawmakers have their way.
Sports fans bet a record $98.9 million at Nevada casinos on the Super Bowl, the Nevada Gaming Control Board said Monday.
Gambling interests are high up on a list for spending on lobbyists in Maryland this year.
A casino operator that lobbied against expanded gambling in Maryland is now considering a bid to operate a new casino in Prince George's County.
Maryland's economy is expected to get a major boost with the news that casinos will be allowed to stay open 24 hours a day.
Campaign finance reports show more than $93 million was raised in the campaign to expand gambling in Maryland, a record amount.
The chairman of the Cordish Cos. says he's considering building a hotel with conference facilities next to the Maryland Live! casino in Anne Arundel County.
Maryland voters have spoken! There will be expanded gambling in Maryland, including a new casino in Baltimore. Now Caesars Entertainment is talking about its plans.
The CEO of MGM Resorts International said Friday that if Maryland voters agree Tuesday to expand legalized gambling, his company would build a luxurious and architecturally unimposing casino and hotel near the nation's capital, not a blocky neon-lit behemoth.
The onslaught of ads over gambling expansion has been like no other in a Maryland political year, subjecting residents to rapid-fire television spots for and against Question 7. The barrage began long before ads for other ballot questions this year and has remained frenetic.
If you've watched any television the last few weeks, you've seen them: a barrage of campaign ads.
The slot machines at Newport Grand chirp just like the ones in Vegas. The winners exult and the losers shrug just as they do in Atlantic City. But ask for the blackjack tables and you'll be directed to a video game screen with a smiling, virtual dealer. The nearest table action is 50 miles away in Connecticut.
Massive amounts of money are being poured into the casino controversy. Expanded gambling is now the most expensive political battle ever waged in the state of Maryland.
Gov. Martin O'Malley on Wednesday fired back against television advertisements opposing the state's proposed gambling expansion, contending the casino company behind them is simply trying to protect its large operation in West Virginia from losing Maryland gamblers.
The Washington Redskins on Tuesday urged their fans to support a ballot question in Maryland to expand gambling, a high-profile endorsement for efforts to allow a casino in the Maryland county where the team plays its home games near the nation's capital.
Players in the campaign to pass or fail expanded gambling in Maryland are stepping up their game.
There are new voices in the controversial expanded gambling debate. Groups in Prince George's County are in a tug-of-war over putting a new casino at National Harbor.
In just a few months, crews will break ground on what's to become a Harrah's casino in downtown Baltimore.
MGM Resorts International has spent about $8.4 million for advertising to support an expansion of gambling.
Two groups say the bidding process for a casino license in Baltimore should be reopened now that lawmakers have paved the way for the casino to have more gambling options and lower taxes than under the previous bidding.
Millions in advertising. Maryland may not get a lot of national attention in the presidential election, but the state's plate is full when it come to ballot issues.
