The number of facilities which the entity owns, manages or has an ownership interest in as of the balance sheet date.

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Percentage of voting equity interests acquired at the acquisition date in the business combination.

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Percentage of voting equity interests acquired in a business combination achieved in stages, including equity interests in the acquiree held by the acquirer immediately before the acquisition date and acquired at the acquisition date.

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The percentage of ownership of common stock or equity participation in the investee accounted for under the equity method of accounting.

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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Significant Accounting Policies - Segment Information (Details)	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023 facility segment	Aug. 08, 2023	Feb. 17, 2023
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of reportable segments	5
Kansas Entertainment
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Ownership interest	50.00%
Barstool Acquisition
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Ownership interest before acquisition			36.00%
Business acquisition, percentage of voting interests acquired			64.00%
Ownership interest after acquisition		100.00%	100.00%
Jackpot, Nevada
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of facilities the entity owned, managed, or had ownership interests in \| facility	2
Number of operating segments	1