{"id":77796,"date":"2018-05-16T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=77796"},"modified":"2018-05-16T14:02:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T21:02:02","slug":"louisiana-riverboat-casinos-to-move-onto-dry-land-but-sports-betting-dead-in-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/louisiana-riverboat-casinos-to-move-onto-dry-land-but-sports-betting-dead-in-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Riverboat Casinos to Move onto Dry Land, Sports Betting Still Dead in The Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s land ahoy for Louisiana’s riverboat casinos, after lawmakers in the Pelican State voted to approve a bill<\/a> that will allow the floating casinos to crawl out of the water.<\/p>\n

The House voted 54-41 Tuesday to send State Senator Ronnie Johns\u2019 (R-Lake Charles) SB316 to the governor\u2019s desk.<\/p>\n

\"Louisiana
Louisiana\u2019s river boat casinos may be coming ashore, but its lawmakers are not on board with sports betting, prompting Senator Danny Martiny to claim the state was now the laughing stock of the country. (Robin May\/The Independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Johns\u2019 bill will also remove the 30,000-square-feet cap on casino floor space, replacing it with a limit of 2,365 gambling positions: literally, the seats in front of slots. The casinos must restrict all gambling activities to within 1,200 feet of their licensed berths.<\/p>\n

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A statute that requires each facility to have an operational paddle wheel will also be jettisoned, along with the paddle wheels themselves, which serve no purpose, since the floating casinos are permanently docked.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Johns had argued his bill would modernize the state\u2019s casino sector<\/a>, allowing it to host bigger, more cutting-edge slots, which will help it to compete with the casinos of Oklahoma and Mississippi.<\/p>\n

Martiny Rebukes Colleagues<\/strong><\/h2>\n

However, they will not be offering sports betting \u2013 at least not yet. Senator Danny Martiny\u2019s sports betting bill was rejected by the Senate Finance Committee earlier this month, handing the advantage back to Mississippi, which passed its own sports betting bill last year. Mississippi and its casinos hope to roll out newly legal sports books as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, one day after the US Supreme Court overturned PASPA, Martiny (R-Metairie) berated his colleagues for rejecting his bill — and the governor for refusing to include the issue in a special session next week.<\/p>\n

Louisiana was \u201cthe laughing stock of the country,\u201d claimed Martiny.<\/p>\n

Advantage Mississippi<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u201cEven Mississippi\u2019s way ahead on this. So, in our quest to be Number 50 in everything, here\u2019s another one,\u201d complained Martiny. \u201cWe can\u2019t fund our necessary services in this state, but we\u2019re making sure gaming doesn\u2019t expand.<\/p>\n

“I wasn\u2019t surprised. I knew it wasn\u2019t going to happen,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s the only industry that we do everything to thwart their success and they are one of the biggest money generators in the state.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Martiny vowed that his bill would be back next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnybody who thinks that killing my bill is going to stop sports betting, you can go right now on your phone or on your computer and place a bet. We\u2019re just not going to get any of the money from it,\u201d he said, branding the situation \u201ca joke.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s land ahoy for Louisiana’s riverboat casinos, after lawmakers in the Pelican State voted to approve a bill that will allow the floating casinos to crawl out of the water. The House voted 54-41 Tuesday to send State Senator Ronnie Johns\u2019 (R-Lake Charles) SB316 to the governor\u2019s desk. 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