Senior senator says gambling expansion bill has support and could be passed within the next two months Pennsylvania state politicians have wasted no time in getting back to work in the new legislative season, and there is renewed hope for a gambling expansion bill that includes online gambling and daily fantasy sports. The positive outlook comes from the new chairman...
Bill SB 8 is mainly about land gambling issues, but author Senator Bill Galvano seeks also to revive earlier attempts to clarify the status of DFS With the new year comes a new legislative season in Florida, and among the first bills to be introduced is SB8, a massive 112-page omnibus measure dealing with a variety of mainly land gambling...
State commission studying DFS met Tuesday One of the first submissions to a Massachusetts state commission tasked with studying the implications of legalised and regulated daily fantasy sports (and indeed online gambling generally) was from joint market leader DraftKings at a meeting Tuesday. The company was represented by former Massachusetts AG but now privately practising lawyer Martha Coakley, who said...
Third consecutive month of positive revenues Delaware ended 2016 on a high note, recording its third month running of positive revenue from licensed and regulated online gambling. Regulator the Delaware State Lottery released figures showing that intrastate i-gaming win came in at $229,987, a 29 percent year-over-year gain and the state's best month since August. The state's online gambling sites...
Monthly revenues from online gambling reach $18.4 million - a year-on-year rise of 31 percent Hot on the heels of the FY2016 Atlantic City numbers released Thursday by the New Jersey Division for Gaming Enforcement comes the news that December 2016 was another good month for online gambling. In December the sector delivered revenues of $18.4 million, a year-on-year increase...
State Senator Jennifer Flanagan beats State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg to the punch Whilst all eyes this year have been on Massachusetts State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg and her stated intention to introduce an online lottery bill, state Sen. Jennifer Flanagan has quietly been redrafting her own bill with a similar imperative, and this week she re-launched SD6, which seeks to "conduct...
Confirmation hearing reveals that AG nominee Jeff Sessions may be supportive of Adelson's RAWA ambitions The incoming Trump presidential administration in the United States has been the subject of endless speculation on how it may change the legal scene across a wide spectrum of issues in that country, with online gambling legalisation among them. This week a Senate confirmation hearing...
All proceeds would be exclusively allocated to educational initiatives in NY State New York State legislators introduced a new sports betting bill into the Senate earlier this week. Bill S1282, sponsored by Senator Anthony Avella along with four co-sponsors Senator Holyman, Sanders, Addabbo and Montgomery, proposes an amendment to section 9 of article 1 of the Constitution which would allow...
Milestone hands promo takes New Jersey cash game volume to highest level yet The festive season - and especially the milestone hand promotion, enabled Pokerstars NJ (New Jersey) to achieve its highest cash game levels yet, according to the publication Online Poker Report. Pokerstars NJ launched in March last year and produced results initially thought by many as disappointing in...
Democratic state Senator Jay Costa's proposal criticised by Republican senator Pennsylvanian state Senator Jay Costa's attempt to renew an intrastate online gambling legalisation bill is barely a week old and has yet to be formally introduced, but it has come under fire from Republican Senator Robert "Tommy" Tomlinson, who InfoPowa readers may recall recently wrote to fellow politicians urging caution...
