It is back to the drawing board for MGM Resorts International after their intense lobbying failed to stop the Senate from approving a new satellite casino in Connecticut.

Voting 24-12, the state Senate gave Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes the thumbs up to build a casino in East Windsor, which aims to buffer the state from potential revenue losses when MGM Springfield opens in September 2018.

Hartford Courant reported that it took more than two hours before majority of the House Senate come to realize that they will be needing a new casino not only to help capture convenience gamblers headed north to MGM’s new casino in Springfield, Mass but also to create jobs in the state.

“This is a jobs bill at its core,” Sen. Tim Larson, D-East Hartford, said, according to the news report. “The Mohegans and Pequots have been excellent partners to our state and are the backbone of our tourism economy.”