Fertitta's $17.6B Caesars Bet Runs Through Every State Gaming Board. Pennsylvania Just Raised Its Hand.
Tilman Fertitta's all-cash acquisition of Caesars looks like a hospitality mega-merger on paper. But the real bottleneck isn't the deal structure... it's the state-by-state regulatory gauntlet that could drag this into 2027 and beyond, and the technology integration nobody's talking about yet.