Station Casinos recently announced that their sports books will once again start accepting bets on the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) 205 event which is scheduled to take place in the iconic Madison Square Garden in New York on November 12. The Ferrita brothers along with Dana White sold the UFC to WME | IMG for over $ billion and from then onwards stopped accepting bets.

The Ferritas own a controlling interest in Station Casinos parent company Red Rock Resorts and as a result Nevada gaming regulators asked Station Casinos to stop accepting bets on UFC events. Jason McCormick, sports book director at Red Rock Resort said the ban hurt the profits of Station Casinos as a number of their guests wanted to place bets on weekly UFC events but had to be turned down due to the restr…...