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When voters agreed to allow casinos into Ohio in 2009, advocates projected that the four locations would generate $1.9 billion in revenue before taxes.

When the Supreme Court issued a ruling in May that effectively legalized sports gambling, venture capital firm SeventySix Capital wasted no time getting in on the action.

The two biggest hotel-casino giants on the 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÃâ·ÑApp Strip could soon become one. There is speculation that MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment could merge.

Just four months after launch, New Jersey's legal sports-betting industry is off to the races.

With more than $1.6B (yes, billion) in the Mega Millions jackpot and over $620M in the Powerball jackpot, lottery fever is at an all-time high. Yet, your chances of winning were only a truly miraculous 1-in-302.6 million for the Mega Millions, and your chance of winning Powerball is something around 1-in-292 million. And the chance of winning both lotteries? Something like, 1-in-88 quadrillion, according to CNBC.

You would think that a 50-year run in 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÃâ·ÑApp would be cause for celebration. Not so for Circus Circus, the hotel-casino along the 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÃâ·ÑApp Strip that promised a new type of theme-driven entertainment when it opened Oct. 18, 1968.

It opened up in the Year of the Monkey and closed in the Year of the Dog — a two-year stretch of bad fortune for a casino that once had designs on being the go-to place for an authentic Asian experience in Vegas.

The Lucky Dragon Hotel is now closed. Tuesday was the last day for hotel employees.