"...giant Ameristar Casinos Inc. revealed it has just signed a $16 million deal to buy a site in Springfield. It said it will seek to win the license for the casino earmarked for the four western counties of the state..."
"...The Ameristar plan emerges as new competition for the Mohegan Sun owners' longstanding plans to build a hilltop casino on 150 acres in Palmer, right at the exit 8 off-ramp from the Massachusetts Turnpike. Hard Rock International is also eyeing a 100-acre site in Holyoke, but the city's newly elected mayor opposes casinos..."
Worcester seems to be in no-man's land neither Eastern or Western Mass.
One in Boston metro, one for the Wappanaug's near Cape and one for western mass. And then there's the one Racino (suffolk downs?). Think if the Wappanaug tribe doesn't get a taste then there will be a 4th casino. The casino's are ~10 years away. The racino much quicker.