Maryland’s casinos smashed their previous revenue record in the month of March, while its leading property also set a new personal best for the market.

On Thursday, the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Agency reported that the state’s six casinos generated revenue of just over $150m in March, up 6.3% from March 2017’s total and easily eclipsing the market’s previous high-water mark of $141.2m, which was also set in March 2017.

As expected, the state’s newest and biggest casino, MGM Resorts’ National Harbor, led all comers with revenue of $60.4m, a new individual property record for the state and besting National Harbor’s previous record of $56.6m set last December.

Interestingly, the UK’s Daily Mail media outlet reported that John McEntee, a longtime personal aide to U.S. President Donald Trump, was a major gambling whale at National Harbor. McEntee was unceremoniously turfed from the White House last month amid reports that his gambling habits made him a potential security risk.

France’s gaming regulator has approved two more companies for cross-border online poker liquidity sharing, including the local operations of PartyPoker.

On Friday, French regulator ARJEL published notices indicating that two of its online gambling licensees, B.E.S. SAS and Pari-Mutuel Urbain (PMU), had been granted authorization to share online poker liquidity with the three other European Union member states that have agreed to share their regulated market’s online poker players.

PMU is a French racing and sports betting operator, but it also operates its own online poker site via the Poker.pmu.fr domain. B.E.S. SAS is the local subsidiary of Bwin, the marquee sports betting brand of UK-listed operator GVC Holdings, which also controls the PartyPoker online poker brand. GVC previewed its cross-border liquidity plans in February.

While PMU has yet to establish a Spanish poker license, GVC operates both the Bwin and PartyPoker brands in Spain’s regulated online gambling market. Spain is one of the other three countries, along with Italy and Portugal, that joined France in the four-way online poker liquidity deal signed last summer.

As a precautionary measure, PokerStars is no longer offering free online poker to residents in the Washington state.

On Wednesday, the Washington State Gambling Commission announced that several social gaming websites including PokerStars “have proactively made the business decision to deny Washington residents access to their sites.”

The move comes on the heels of a U.S. federal appeals court decision, which ruled social casino games are considered illegal under the existing gambling laws in the State of Washington. Last week, the Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned a district court ruling that junked a 2015 case against Big Fish Games’ then-parent company Churchill Downs Inc.

The lawsuit sought to recover the value of Big Fish Casino virtual chips worth more than $1,000 which the complainant claimed represent “something of value” under the Washington Gambling Law. The virtual chips don’t have monetary value, but they’re needed to play in Big Fish Casino’s suite of games, which include slots, blackjack and roulette. If a player runs out of the chips, he will either need to purchase more or wait until the game offers free chips.

Profits of UK gambling operator Rank Group have taken a hit in the first three months of 2018 from the dwindling number of gamblers visiting its casino and bingo halls.

On Thursday, the UK-listed company released its Q1 report, which saw its like-for-like revenue drop by 2%. Rank’s Grosvenor casinos and Mecca bingo venues were also down 9% and 2% respectively, largely due “weaker than expected visits” made worse by two periods of cold weather. For Grosvenor chain of 54 casinos across Britain and two more in Belgium, the situation was compounded by the run of good luck among its high-rollers.

Rank’s UK digital unit remains to be the belle of the ball, with revenues rising 17% in the first 13 weeks of the year. That ray of sunshine, however, hasn’t stopped the group’s board from lowering its full-year operating profit from £84.5 million to between £76 million ($107 million) and £78 million for the year ending June 30.

“The Board is cautious about the UK consumer outlook and as a result expects the Group’s UK venues to continue to be impacted for the remainder of the 2017-18 financial year and into 2018-19,” Rank Group said in a statement.