Location: Idaho

Next month, a new casino will open in northern Nevada for the first time in over 20 years. Red Rock Casino, Resort & Spa in Las Vegas will also have newly announced enhancements. Record-breaking numbers from Del Mar racetrack and a massive jackpot from an Idaho casino are also featured on Friday Five.

Idaho man won $830 million on Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing. No one won the big jackpot, so Friday's drawing is worth at least $1.02 billion. It's the third time since 2018 that the jackpots for this particular lottery eclipsed $1000 million. There were "Match 5" tickets worth $ 1 million sold in California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, NY, and Ohio. A "match 5 + Megaplier" ticket worth $3 million was sold in Ohio, which is the most recent win.

Idaho Lottery became the first in the world to offer new Scratch FXtra lottery tickets in May. The new instant win games incorporate the classic scratching action with holographic images.

The Clearwater River Casino & Lodge is an Idaho casino. It offers card games, craps, slots and slots. Recently, people are winning millions at the casino and it's a good place to spend some extra cash.

Linda Jorgensen won a jackpot of $1,541,533.11 on the Wheel of Fortune Cash Link Video Game Machine at the Clearwater River Casino. It's the largest jack pot ever won in the Casino's history. The maximum jackpots reset to $500,000 immediately after the win.

The Mega Millions jackpot for Tuesday, July 19 is $530 million. The winning ticket will be worth more than half a billion dollars. Idaho Lottery's archives list the 15 Luckiest Lotteries Locations in Boise and the surrounding areas. If you win, call the station tomorrow morning to celebrate with them.

New York Times quotes Jonathan Krutz on the effect of casinos on cities. Krutz retied from Boise State in 2021 having taught business communication since 2011. He found that local economies with casinos did not experience faster growth in retail sales than those without casinos.

Free casino credit is any wagerable denomination of money that was not supplied by the account holder. Free casino credits can be obtained by playing online casino games or at sweepstakes casinos.

Arkansas Scholarship Lottery's revenue and amount raised for college scholarships in April slipped from a year ago. The average price of regular unleaded gas in Arkansas reached $3.99 a gallon Wednesday. Lotteries director Eric Hagler says record fuel prices, higher ring in the grocery lane and rising interest rates have all combined to create unusual headwinds. In April 2021, the lottery's revenues reached $65.5 million and the net proceeds for scholarships hit $12.2 million. The lottery started selling tickets Sept. 28, 2009. It's helped raise money for Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarships for more than 30,000 students during each of the past 11 fiscal years.

Circa Resort & Casino is set to become the first Las Vegas resort to debut an NFT to the blockchain. The Nft will pay homage to Vegas Vickie, a 20-ft. blonde neon sign who made her mark on the world-famous Fremont Street Experience in 1980. Jason Borbet painted the neon portrait of Vegas. Circa is downtown Las Las. Vegas' first resort-casino built from the ground up in four decades, opening during the pandemic, on October 28, 2020. The details surrounding the N FT tiers, real-life utility functions and mint date will be announced in the coming weeks.

Circa Resort and Casino is the first casino in Las Vegas to introduce Non-Fungible Tokens to the crypto blockchain. The NFT art collection at Circa includes a neon Vegas Vickie sign painted by Jason Borbet. Circas was one of Vegas's first casinos to accept Bitcoin. There is a chance Circans will start accepting altcoins like Ripple. There are increasing popularity of crypto casinos that offer Ripple payments or Ripple casino sites. It is possible Circains will offer these services. They are popular with Ripple holders. For more information, visit Circasses.com. for details.

WynnBET has joined the Louisiana sportsbook offerings. It is the seventh sportsbooks that is now operational in the state's online gambling market.

18 Idaho Lottery Scratch tickets with top prizes still remain on sale. The information is regularly updated on the IdahoLottery's website. The website shows the percent of each game sold and how many top prize are remaining. It's a good tool to help you decide which ticket to buy.

Tracy Morgan will be at the Shoshone-Bannock Casino Hotel the first week of May.

Gambling.com has announced a new partnership with The McClatchy Company, a news media company. Gambling is one of the biggest online gambling affiliates on the internet. The company has a reach of over 65 million unique visitors per month. The Telegraph in the UK has already partnered with Betting Expert to share betting tips and stories. If the new deal works out well, you can expect to see more of these types of deals in future.

18 people were arrested in connection to an illegal gambling scheme in Seminole County. The operation involved eight game centers, which were run by mostly seniors. They were operating in strip plazas with no markings or misrepresentation of what they were. Some of the customers complained they weren't getting their winnings. The other suspects are in the John Polk Correctional Facility without bond. None of them will be charged.   “We have absolutely no desire to prosecute people who were in there as customers just putting your money in a machine. We want to help you”

Anthony Talladira won a $110,000 Cash 5 jackpot on August 25. He bought his ticket at Murphy USA on Blowing Rock Boulevard in Lenoir. Cash5 tickets cost $1 each. Tuesday's jackpots are $169,00. The odds of winning a Cash Five jack pot are 1 in 962,598.

The Thrive Cannabis Marketplace has been approved for a marijuana dispensary in Jackpot, Nevada. The business could open by Monday. It interviewed nearly 60 people for the position. Most of them are Jack Pot residents. Thriving had been shooting for mid-September opening of the $1.4 million dispensary.

Idaho Lottery is fun and cheap. Cactus Petes Resort Casino is a good choice for a weekend stay. The variety of slot machines and table games is impressive. Hotel rooms are comparable to those in Vegas casinos. The cafe with cheap food and gift shop with ridiculous but cool items is also a must. Cocktail servers bring free drinks while you play. You need to tip. It's not as fancy as Vegas. There's no big lobby with sculptures and art. A good playlist is available.

Carla Caldwell of Kannapolis, North Carolina, won a $110,000 Cash 5 jackpot. She bought a ticket at Jiffy Quik on Sloop Avenue in Kannaapolis. The odds of winning a Cash5 jack pot are 1 in 962,598.

Bill would authorize video lottery terminals and direct the state lottery commission to permit bars, restaurants and convenience stores to install up to 10 machines. Supporters say it's time to regulate them as efforts to eliminate shadowy machine parlors often fail. Opponents say the bill doesn't eliminate the machines that are already there. The bill's sponsor estimates the number of legal video gambling machines envisioned by the law could be 70% fewer than the current illegal ones. The Sheriffs' Association opposes the measure. It's based on questions about how the share of profits would be distributed. "It just adds a large number to continue to prey on our citizens," says the group's president.

Diane Clark of Hickory bought a $1 Cash 5 ticket and won a jackpot of $155,902. She claimed her winnings Friday at lottery headquarters in Raleigh.

Jackpot marijuana dispensary expected to open mid-September. The dispensary’s building was set down in its new location Tuesday afternoon. It is expected that the dispensary will be open 24/7, 365 days a year with in-store shopping and a drive-thru. Elko County commissioners approved an ordinance in November allowing sales.  The management hopes it will greatly benefit the community.

Retired truck driver wins $311K lottery jackpot. J. Ned Paffile worked as a long-haul trucker for his family's produce farm all his life. He won the jackpots on the Idaho Cash game drawn on March 21. Pafile will use the money to fix his house and buy an old-fashioned lever action rifle.

Nearly 30 lawsuits filed over Google's casino-style apps will be transferred to the Northern District of California. The lawsuits allege that the apps constitute unlawful gambling. The apps operate like slots, poker, blackjack and bingo.

More casinos will bring back parking fees in Las Vegas.

Jennifer Hall of Chubbuck, Idaho, won $1,253,701 on a Wheel of Fortune slots machine at the Westgate Las Vegas hotel at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday. She spent less than four minutes at it. Hall and her husband arrived in Las Las on Monday.