About gamblingohio.com and How It Records Venues
gamblingohio.com is a reference on legal gambling in the state of Ohio. It records what each of the state's eleven land-based venues is licensed to offer, where each one is, and which regulator oversees it.
The site publishes no odds, runs no promotions and carries no operator advertising. Venue details are recorded from each venue's own published information and from the two Ohio regulators, the Casino Control Commission and the Lottery Commission.
Street addresses, coordinates, floor areas and opening dates are then cross-checked against two independent references, OpenStreetMap and each venue's Wikipedia entry. Each venue page links its Wikipedia entry and names OpenStreetMap where the address came from it. Where those sources disagree on a figure, the page withholds it and names the disagreement instead of picking a side. Today one gaming-floor figure is withheld on that basis, and the venue page says which detail and why.
Where a detail cannot be confirmed, the page says so instead of estimating. That produces some blank entries, which is the honest outcome.
The photographs on this site are generated images, not photographs of the venues. Each one shows a scene of the right kind: a saddling paddock, a row of video lottery terminals, a poker room between hands. None of them depicts a specific building, floor plan or interior. They illustrate the subject; they are not a record of it.
Nothing here is gambling advice. The minimum legal age at every Ohio casino and racino is 21.
Where the venue data comes from
- Licence classThe two Ohio regulators
- Operator and licenceEach venue's own published material
- Address, coordinates, floor areaCross-checked, OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia
- Sources that disagreeWithheld and named on the page
- Unconfirmed detailsLeft blank, never estimated
- ImageryGenerated, illustrative, not the venues