Connecticut bettors lost $2.3B gambling in 2025
People play high-stakes Bingo at Foxwoods Casino in Ledyard, Conn., March 2002. (Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images) Portland Press Herald/Getty Images It was a sunny Saturday in 1986 — 40 years ago Sunday — when the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation cut the ribbon on its first bingo hall. The hall would soon welcome busloads…

