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
Premier Winnings costs $100 and prints four top prizes of $10 million at odds of 1 in 2,250,000. The game’s prize table pays out about 80 cents of every dollar if all 9.2 million tickets sell. Overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 3.49, and the smallest prize is $150. The game procedures … Read more
Texas lottery education funding is a small slice of the school budget, not the windfall the myth promises. See where the money goes and who really pays.
Gary Grief was indicted again on May 13, 2026 over the 2023 Lotto Texas drawing an offshore syndicate gamed for $95 million. The former Texas Lottery Commission chief is due in the 167th District Court the morning of June 26. The reindictment came two weeks after the first one was dismissed within a day.