Caesars Sportsbook will take over operation of the Westgate SuperBook in Las Vegas pending Nevada Gaming Commission approval, the operator confirmed this week, with the transition slated to complete before the start of the 2026 NFL season.

The most famous standalone race and sportsbook in the country is coming under new management, while the new parent company itself sits in the crosshairs of a multibillion-dollar takeover. As of late April 2026,Caesars Entertainment is navigating exclusive, high-stakes acquisition talks with billionaire Tilman Fertitta. Fertitta, the Golden Nugget owner who already holds a significant stake in Wynn Resorts, has reportedly floated an $18 billion offer to roll Caesars into his Fertitta Entertainment empire. If the takeover goes through, it would represent one of the largest consolidations in gaming history.

In the meantime, Caesars is moving aggressively to shore up its Las Vegas footprint. By pulling the SuperBook under its umbrella, Caesars secures a legendary venue and a professional betting brand just as its own corporate future hangs in the balance.

The SuperBook keeps its physical home at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino on Paradise Road. What changes is who is writing the lines, taking the action, and managing the risk at this sports betting site.

End of an Era at the Westgate

The SuperBook has been a Las Vegas fixture since 1986, when the property opened as the Las Vegas Hilton. Its 30,000-square-foot floor, 350-seat amphitheatre, and 220-foot 4K video wall made it the largest dedicated sportsbook in the world, and its annual SuperContest handicapping tournament has been a tentpole event for the professional handicapping community for nearly four decades.

For a generation of bettors, the SuperBook was the room where the Las Vegas line came from. That run as an independent operation now ends. The brand survives, but the line-making, the bankroll, and the operational decisions move to Caesars.

What Caesars Gets

For Caesars, the prize is the brand, the SuperContest, and a new flagship physical book in a market where it already operates the books at Caesars Palace, the Flamingo, Paris, Planet Hollywood, and Harrah’s. Folding the SuperBook in gives Caesars a Strip-adjacent venue with cult status among professional bettors and a tournament product no other US operator has been able to replicate.

The move also adds the SuperBook’s existing market share in mobile to Caesars’s Nevada handle figures, which had been trailing William Hill’s old positioning in the state since the Caesars-William Hill integration finished. Whether the SuperBook brand survives on the Caesars Sportsbook app or gets absorbed into the parent app has not been disclosed.

Football Season Deadline

The NGC’s approval is procedural rather than contested, and the parties have publicly committed to a transition wrapping before the first NFL kickoff. That gives Caesars a tight window to migrate the operating systems, bring SuperContest registrations onto its own platform, and avoid running two competing books inside the same building during the busiest betting weeks of the year.

For Westgate, the casino keeps the floor space rent and steps out of the sportsbook-operator business entirely. For the broader regulated US sportsbook market, it is another consolidation move in a year that has already produced major REIT-driven transactions and a wave of state-level prediction-market enforcement.

The SuperBook brand walks away with one of the most recognised names in US betting still attached. The room stays. The numbers will say “Caesars” by September.