How casino companies’ geographical strategies have diverged in the online gambling era

There has been a sharp strategic split between US casino companies that have embraced online gambling and those that have resisted it, leading many of the holdouts to focus on international markets. Soon, United States residents may not have to look abroad to see the divide, though. They may only have to cross a state line to see a very different landscape when it comes to gaming.

Companies like the Las Vegas Sands Corporation and Wynn Resorts are moving to carve out fiefdoms of a sort in places where the regulation of online casinos seems unlikely. They are doing so by choosing such places as targets of investments into physical properties.