Gamblers standing shoulder-to-shoulder laying bets while a crowd gathers around to see a hot dice-thrower make point after point would be a relic of the past, if proposed new health and safety benchmarks for casinos are ratified this week by the Nevada Gaming Commission.
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South Point Hotel Casino has taken a unique approach to allowing registrations while ensuring they comply with standing social distancing protocols. The casino now offers a “registration drive-thru” for those who want to sign up for online gambling.south-point-launches-first-sports-gambling-related-drive-thru-in-vegas The drive-thru, which opened yesterday, is only for registrations – not for placing bets, although who’s to say that option couldn’t be added in the future.
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Guidelines released by the Nevada Gaming Control Board on Friday require casinos to prevent customers from congregating in groups in race and sportsbooks after the facilities reopen.
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Instead of hosting throngs of visitors for one of the busiest seasons of the year, with March Madness drawing swarms to sportsbooks, or the now-scuttled plan to host the NFL draft this weekend, ferrying players in boats to a red carpet stage on the Bellagio lake, Las Vegas is trying to survive.
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The 2020 NFL Draft was supposed to take place in the city of Las Vegas, but the coronavirus pandemic forced the league to hold a virtual draft instead. The city is suffering through a major financial crisis, but there should be some relief coming at some point in the future. The NFL has promised the city to hold a future draft in Las Vegas, and that date was set on Thursday night.
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The deliberations have included potentially allowing small businesses off of the famous Strip to open first, so that locals could get back to work, according to people familiar with the talks. The executives have also discussed opening facilities nearby so that all casino workers -- and perhaps even tourists -- could get tested for the coronavirus.
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While the SBA originally blocked from a loan any business that derived one third of its annual revenue from legal gambling, the SBA guidelines were revised on Tuesday to allow “small casinos” to qualify for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans as long as gaming revenue made up less than half of total business revenue and was less than $1 million. But the change still leaves most gaming businesses, such as Malone’s, without help.
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The Nevada gambling and betting regulator announced on Tuesday that would allow all licensed books to post and accept wagers on three major electronic sports events. These include the Overwatch League, League of Legends European Championship and the North America League of Legends Championship
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Inside the glittering casinos that line the Las Vegas Strip, the slot machines were turned off and the sportsbooks were dark. On what would have been the biggest Monday of the year for bookies, not a dollar changed hands.
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The Nevada Gaming Control Board announced on Friday that sportsbooks can accept bets on the 2020 eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series starting this weekend. Now that Nevada has paved the way for betting on NASCAR’s virtual races, other states and eSports may follow.
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Nevada became the first state to legalize betting on esports earlier this week when gaming regulators approved sportsbooks to accept wagers for season 11 of the Counter-Strike ESL Pro League.
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Governor Steve Sisolak announced the creation of the COVID-19 Response, Relief & Recovery Task Force (RRR), which will mobilize the private sector’s efforts to assist state agencies and the Nevada Health Response Center, on a Facebook Live stream Sunday afternoon. Murren has been tabbed to lead the task force.
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