PPA says Chaffetz is planning another hearing for December 9 The lull in activity on Sheldon Adelson's Restoration of America's Wire Act - a bill designed to federally ban online gambling in the United States - could be interrupted soon with another heavily biased hearing driven by Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz. John Pappas, executive director at the Poker Players...
Recent content agreement comes to fruition A content provision agreement between online gambling games and software supplier NetEnt and Caesars Interactive Entertainment (see previous InfoPowa report) has come to fruition with the first games going live this week on CIE's online casino site in New Jersey, USA. Backed by a recently granted transactional waiver from the regulator and completed integration...
Politician and land casino operator comment on proposed legalisation initiative The rhetoric on a proposal to legalise online gambling operated through Massachusetts land casinos ramped up this week with an article in the Sun Chronicle, which interviewed a senior member of the state Senate and a spokesman for a land casino operator licensed in the state. Republican leader in the...
Sen. Bruce Tarr actively lobbying for legalisation The state of Massachusetts may yet join Delaware, New Jersey and Nevada in legalisation online gambling, according to reports in the Gloucester Times, which note that state senate Minority Leader, Sen. Bruce Tarr is actively lobbying for regulation and licensing of the genre under the oversight of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. Tarr proposes...
For launch of two new casinos brands Gaming Innovation Group Inc. (GIG) announced its eighth platform agreement with Luna Entertainment Limited for the launch of two new casino brands on GIG's iGaming Cloud platform during the first quarter next year. Michigan-based venture capital firm Luna Entertainment currently holds investments in US terrestrial casinos Red Dolly, Kiowa, and Running Creek along...
Replaces existing proprietary offer GameAccount Network plc (GAN) has launched simulated gaming for The Cordish Companies MaryLand Live! via its MarylandLiveCasino.com or livecasino.social sites. The new offer will replace Maryland Live!'s existing free-to-play website with online accounts already having been successfully migrated and game play integrated with Maryland Live! Casino's loyalty programme. The deal marks GAN's fifth major US land-based...
Daily fantasy sports operator sues payment processors regarding their withdrawal of services DFS market leader DraftKings has launched litigation in a Boston court against payment processing firms Optimal and Vantiv, accusing them of breach of contract. The two companies withdrew their services to DraftKings and other DFS operators following the issue of a cease and desist warning by the New...
For a $336,331 payday Brooklyn poker pro Mike Dentale emerged victorious from a field of 557 hopefuls after three days of play in the 2015 Borgata Fall Poker Open Championship. Dentale's win of $336,331 is his largest career cash to date pushing his lifetime earnings to over $1,000,000. Final table results were: 1 Mike Dentale $336,331 2 Jason Paster $189,102...
Judge expected to waste no time in ruling on New York AG's application for an injunction The daily fantasy sports industry in the United States is anxiously awaiting a ruling by a New York Court on the legality of daily fantasy sports in the state following an application for an injunction against DraftKings by state AG Eric Schneiderman (see previous...
Political and enforcement attention motivates different strategies among DFS companies In an article published Monday the Associated Press news agency takes a look at the effect of the increased attention being paid to daily fantasy sports in the United States by political and enforcement interests. The article reports that CBS's SportsLine DFS venture appears to have "quietly withdrawn" from the...
