Lorcan Palaca 
Ricky Martin performs Friday, Oct. 23, at 8 p.m. at Lucas Oil Live, with doors opening 90 minutes earlier. WinStar returns 15% of combined electronic-game losses between $100 and $1,700 as bonus play on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The payback maxes out at $255, loads in $15 bonus-play increments and is valid the Tuesday and Wednesday … Read more
Lake Charles casino revenue for September 2026 reached $57,491,872, up 12.3%, with Golden Nugget Lake Charles up 14.3% to $25,093,697. Shreveport-Bossier casinos won $44,994,065, up 17.2%, and only one of its six casinos, Sam’s Town, declined, falling 18.0%. The two markets produced 70% of Louisiana’s $146.9 million in riverboat revenue and about 85% of its … Read more
Marvin Harrison Jr. debuts for Houston on Sunday, a week after the trade, and coach DeMeco Ryans plans a limited snap count. Houston, 1-4, is a 2.5-point underdog and +125 on the moneyline against 4-1 Jacksonville, with the total at 42.5. Jacksonville has outscored opponents by 53 points and Houston has been outscored by two, … Read more
The Texas Thoroughbred Association wants the simulcast signal exported again before Sam Houston Race Park opens in December. Sam Houston Race Park says its interstate handle fell from about $100 million in 2022 to about $10 million once exports stopped. The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority’s outside counsel says Texas tracks need no formal agreement … Read more
Dallas added Mike Pettine, 60, as a senior defensive assistant and sent coordinator Christian Parker up to the coaches’ booth. Dallas is a 1.5-point underdog at Green Bay, priced +105, with a 53-point total that is second highest in Week 6. The Cowboys defense allows 0.12 expected points per play, 31st in the NFL, and … Read more
The CFTC invoked Section 8a(9) emergency power Aug. 11 to keep Kalshi’s exchange operating nationwide. New York’s suit seeks at least $36 billion from Kalshi, an exchange whose publicly reported valuation is $22 billion. Texas is not among the nine states the CFTC has sued over event-contract enforcement. A Texas Senate committee is studying the … Read more
HOUSTON – Two of the last four World Series champions play in Texas, and this summer they are chasing October together. The Houston Astros and Texas Rangers are running side by side in the American League West, one of the tightest division races in baseball. The one thing neither team’s fans can do is legally … Read more
A Texas visitor won $1,896,388.88 on a $250 spin at Resorts World Las Vegas on Aug. 7. Texas Penal Code Chapter 47 makes it an offense to possess a gambling device to further gambling. The three tribes running gaming in Texas offer Class II electronic bingo, not slots or table games. Legal Texas gambling is … Read more
Two taxpayer groups sued Aug. 5 to void 2025 Wisconsin Act 247, the tribal-server model for mobile betting. Act 247 exempts a mobile wager from Wisconsin’s criminal code only if the server sits on tribal land. The third count calls the tribal-server requirement a racial classification barred by the 14th Amendment. Texas has never signed … Read more
Novig went live Aug. 4 in every state except Arizona, Michigan and Nevada, Texas included. Ludlow Exchange LLC, which Novig owns, won CFTC designation as a contract market on June 16. No Texas agency licenses Ludlow Exchange, reviews the contracts it lists or can switch it off. Texas Penal Code Section 47.02 makes a bet … Read more