$31.5 billion bill includes gambling expansion provisions With just hours to spare before the start of the new financial year on July 1, the Pennsylvanian Legislature has reportedly approved a $31.5 billion budget bill that includes online gambling legalisation provisions and sent it to Governor Tom Wolf for signature within the next 10 days. The bill passed on a vote...
Gambling firms see new revenue possibilities in burgeoning vertical Nevada, and specifically Las Vegas, stands ready to embrace the burgeoning eSports vertical beyond mere hosting of its events... gambling groups are reportedly seeing the potential of regulated and licensed betting on the video-gaming contests that have so captured millennial demographic attention. The publication CDC Gaming reported over the weekend that...
But it was a tough comparison month Figures released late Thursday by the Nevada Gaming Control Board revealed that Nevada gambling revenue in May 2016 was $958 million - slightly down on the billion dollars of the comparison period last year, when Las Vegas visitation numbers were higher thanks to the Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao fight, and the Rock...
US pro triumphs in $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship event US poker pro Brian Rast (34) has added another victory to his already glittering professional poker career, earning his third World Series of Poker bracelet and $1,296,097 main prize after taking down the prestigious $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship Eight Game Mixed event. In doing so he became only the...
After playing professionally for only a year, Safiya bests a stellar field to score her biggest win yet Safiya Umerova (28) is clearly a singularly focused woman, admitting that having discovered the game of poker she has devoured every book on it that she can find, listened attentively to advice from other players, and taken part in as many cash...
US poker pro delighted to have removed this monkey from his back Online and live tournament poker pro Andrew "Lucky Chewy" Lichtenberger (28) from New York has the respect of most of his peers and has been successful in many tough competitions since 2009, but the monkey on his back has always been his inability to secure a World Series...
Online gambling exec warns Pennsylvania on slow build up and discouraging operators with high costs With the legalisation of online gambling a definite possibility, an industry exec has warned state lawmakers not to expect an immediate surge of tax revenue, and against making Pennsylvania too costly to encourage operators. Matthew Katz, the chief executive of industry services suppliers CAMS and...
Canada Day made more special with a $290,768 first prize for Kristen Bicknell... and her second WSOP bracelet This weekend's celebration of Canada's national day will be more memorable than usual for Canadian online and live tourney player Kristen Bicknell (29)...she became this series' first woman event winner after taking on a star-studded field of 2,158 in the $1,500 buy-in...
Main prize of $888,888 won by Vietnamese immigrant now living in Ohio The fourth of July will be memorable for Vietnamese immigrant Hung Le as not only America's Independence Day, but his own in financial terms after winning $888,888 in the $888 buy-in No Limit Holden "Crazy Eights" event at the World Series of Poker. Now living in Dayton, Ohio...
Maryland player claims first bracelet and $212,128 in cash With the schedule for the current World Series of Poker now well past the halfway mark, fifty-year-old Maryland player Jiaqi Xu has claimed the main prize of $212,128 and his first WSOP winners' bracelet in the thirty-ninth event of the tournament - the $1,500 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha competition. Xu's chances did...
