Join CDC Gaming as we embark upon a road trip Inside America’s Casinos. For our fifth stop, we visit Bally’s Lincoln.
After wrapping up my visit to Plainridge Park Casino, it was time to head south to my next stop: Bally’s Lincoln in Rhode Island. It was less than an hour’s drive, but the two properties couldn’t be more different.
Massachusetts, a state of about seven million people, waited until 2011 to formally legalize casino gaming with its Expanded Gaming Act after decades of bans rooted in the state’s history. Rhode Island, with just over 1.1 million people, took a very different path. The RH lottery was established in 1973, followed by the introduction of electronic gaming machines in the early 1990s. It then went on to legalize igaming in 2023…