An interesting perspective on performances by market analyst Using numbers from the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, a Press of Atlantic City op-ed piece over the weekend concluded that at 31.7 percent the year-on-year rise of Atlantic City online gambling win in H1-2016 eclipsed the 0.6 percent delivered by land casinos in the same market, and probably did so...
TriStar Pictures plans a major studio film on the rise and rise of daily fantasy sports US entertainment media reports indicate that daily fantasy sports will soon be the subject of a major movie studio production, noting that TriStar Productions has recently secured movie option rights on an upcoming book on DFS titled "The Big Game: Daily Fantasy And The...
Is the Pechanga's latest lobbying hire too close to Assemlyman Gray for comfort? Questions have arisen in California over possible relationship conflicts between the latest lobbying hire by the Pechanga tribe and Assemblyman Adam Gray, the main driver of the current online poker legalisation bid presently bogged down on a 'bad actor' clause. The Pechanga tribe is one of the...
Punters in sports bars, restaurants and fraternal lodges can now participate The predominantly online and mobile nature of fantasy sports is about to change following the announcement this week by US-based EagleStrike Fantasy Sports that it is ready to launch a new daily fantasy sports platform offering short-term fantasy sports contests via proprietary Fantasy Sports Terminals located in sports bars,...
No last-minute reprieve for Assemblyman Gray's doomed legalisation bill For the ninth year running the legalisation of online poker has been denied to Californian poker fans. On Wednesday night members of the Legislature worked late in trying to pass last-minute measures before the midnight shutdown for this session, but Assemblyman Adam Gray's AB2863 bill was not among those presented. Despite...
Irate Adam Gray responds to newspaper criticism of AB 2863 Earlier this week the Sacramento Bee newspaper published a largely negative op-ed piece on internet poker legalisation titled "Gray's internet poker bill is a losing hand," prompting a clearly irritable riposte from California Assemblyman Adam Gray, who has - so far unsuccessfully - invested a significant amount of time in...
AB 2863 currently in limbo as legislative adjournment nears The apparent withdrawal of California Assemblyman Adam Gray's online poker legalisation proposal AB 2863 from the Assembly agenda Monday has left the bill in apparent limbo, with no mention so far of its status in Assembly notes and records. Plagued by disagreement over a controversial late amendment inserting a 5-year or...
Annual study and report conducted by Rutgers University's Center for Gambling Studies The results of the annual study of gambling by Rutgers University's Center for Gambling Studies, conducted with responsible gambling funds from New Jersey operators, have been released and can be accessed here: http://www.nj.gov/oag/ge/2016news/2016ResponsibleGamingInternetGamingReport.pdf One of the potentially more controversial conclusions is that the risk of problem gambling appears...
Social casino gaming to benefit from partnership Behavioural marketing platform provider Cataboom has signed a collaborative deal with the US social casino gaming company Ruby Seven Studios which will enhance the latter's service to two of its major gaming clients, Tropicana Entertainment and Delaware North. In a statement Thursday the companies claim that the $1.5 billion social casino gaming industry...
Repeated shutdowns, an expired security certificate and less marketing are not good signs Less than three years after its launch by South Point Casino in February 2014, it appears that Nevada's third licensed and regulated online poker operator, Real Gaming, is in trouble. Sector observer John Mehaffey reports that the website has been down for most of the last 45...
