54 percent year-on-year rise in revenues reported The legalised online gambling market in the US state of Delaware delivered good results in August, according to figures just out from the regulator. Online casino gaming revenue rose 54 percent year-on-year to $244,387, although it should be noted that overall online gambling revenues in the state were lower than the sterling performance...
Research mandated by gaming laws shows that an estimated 1.7 percent of state punters could be classified as problem gamblers The Massachusetts Gaming Commission this week studied statistics from a problem gambling study mandated by 2011 state gambling laws and presented by UMass-Amherst professor Rachel Volberg. Volberg revealed that 1.7 percent of the state's adult population were considered problem gamblers...
Former basketball star Shaquille O'Neal will promote new Virtual Basketball Virtual sports games and technology provider Inspired has announced a global and exclusive brand relationship with retired professional NBA star and recent Hall of Fame inductee, Shaquille O'Neal. The agreement with the basketball legend includes his participation as the face of Inspired's new Rush Basketball Virtual Sports product group, due...
In a bid to attract younger demographic Newcomer LottoInteractive has launched Star Match, a new match-3 digital scratch card game powered by IGT's iLottery platform, for the Georgia Lottery. Described as a first for the Georgia Lottery, Star Match is a "Candy-Crush" type game in which players need to match three or more Hollywood icons to collect as many stars...
Limited window for legalisation bill when state legislature reopens on September 26 Online gambling legalisation observers are again focussing on Pennsylvania ahead of the state legislature's return to business for just three days on September 26. InfoPowa readers will recall that the much-amended House Bill 2150 has already been approved by the state's House of Representatives and even included in...
Daily fantasy sports is a wedge being used by online gambling industry, claims Stop Predatory Gambling New Mexico New Mexico anti-gambling activist Dr. Guy Clark of the Stop Predatory Gambling New Mexico has taken to the local media to urge state lawmakers to vote against the legality of daily fantasy sports, claiming that online gambling interests are using the vertical...
Rep. Richard Raymond plans to propose that DFS is a legal activity in his 2017 measure The Democratic Party Representative for Laredo in Texas, Richard Raymond, has announced his intention to introduce a bill in the state legislature next year that will declare daily fantasy sports to be a legal, skill-based activity within the borders of Texas. If he is...
Erik Balsbaugh will help land gambling trade body achieve changes in US sports betting legislation Erik Balbaugh, a PR veteran with experience in both Washington DC and Boston as a consultant, has been appointed as VP Public Affairs by the land gambling trade body the American Gaming Association. The former PR advisor to Democrat political leaders like Hillary Clinton and...
Brian Rast invites Sheldon Adelson to back up his statement that poker is not a game of skill Land casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson predictably ruffled a few feathers in the poker community last week when he claimed in a Yahoo interview that poker was not a game decided by skill and is therefore clearly gambling and exploitive (but not including...
Convicted businessman Jeremy Johnson repeats his online poker legalisation accusations against Senator Harry Reid The Utah television network KUTV has revisited a six-year-old high profile online poker scandal in which bribery allegations against a US senator were made, publishing a jailhouse interview with convicted businessman Jeremy Johnson over the weekend. InfoPowa readers will recall that back in 2010 Johnson was...
