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Resorts World Catskills, Tioga Downs, Rivers, and Del Lago are all underperforming in terms of gross gaming revenue (GGR) compared to premarket forecasts. The venues are required to share 37-45 percent of their slot win with the state, much higher than the Senecas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The $1 billion Resorts World Catskills \u2013 the most expensive of the four commercial casinos \u2013 reported a nearly $140 million operating loss in 2018.<\/p>\n
Del Lago fell short $100 million in GGR in its first year. Property spokesman Steven Greenberg said the casino resort faces a “blatantly unfair competitive disadvantage” due to the Seneca’s guest promotions and incentives.<\/p>\n
DOI Intervention<\/b><\/h2>\n
Armstrong argues that the arbitration’s determination effectively amended the Seneca Nation’s gaming compact, and under the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA), any such change must be reviewed by the DOI.<\/p>\n
The Interior Department has made plenty of negative headlines in recent years, especially in the gaming industry.<\/p>\n
Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke refused to comment on Connecticut’s amended compacts with its two Native American tribes that sought to allow them to jointly build a satellite casino on non-sovereign land. The Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Indians finally received approval from the federal agency last month, but the long delay allowed MGM Springfield just across the Connecticut-Massachusetts border to open last August with a much larger regional monopoly on casino gaming.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe tribes are building their mini-casino in East Windsor, CT, in an effort to slow gaming dollars from flowing out of the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Seneca Nation in upstate New York is requesting a federal review by the US Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Indian Affairs regarding an amendment to its gaming compact with the state. Earlier this month, a legally binding arbitration panel ruled that the Native American tribe must pay the State of New York […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":103239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,18456],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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