Democrat says he will introduce bill in the state legislature next year Democratic Party Representative Joe Atkins of the Minnesota Legislature has announced that he is drafting a bill for the regulation of daily fantasy sports in his state and plans to launch it in the House early next year. The bill will recognise daily fantasy sports betting as a...
Lobbyist Dave Hoppe works for CSIG Representative Paul Ryan, the Republican politician who is widely seen as the front runner for the post of House Speaker, has tapped 64-year-old Washington DC insider Dave Hoppe as his chief of staff … a move that is not likely to be comforting news for the online gambling industry. Whilst his political and management...
Ron Paul defends states' rights The chairman of the US Campaign for Liberty, former congressman Ron Paul fired a broadside at Representative Jason Chaffetz this week, accusing him of attacking the rights of states guaranteed under the constitution with his Restoration of America's Wire Act federal proposal. Paul reminded Chaffetz that online gambling regulation is the sole prerogative and jurisdiction...
Independent and external control board planned to oversee the booming industry Probably motivated by the current legislative and enforcement storm that has generated so much generally negative mainstream coverage over the past month, the Fantasy Sports Trade Association is pushing ahead with plans to create an independent and external control board to oversee the burgeoning industry, apparently basing its concept...
FanDuel legal counsel says daily fantasy sports games cannot implicate amateur status of college sportsmen and women In what appears to be a response to a NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) demand that it should cease offering fantasy games based on NCAA athletes, legal counsel for daily fantasy sports operator FanDuel has informed the Association that it will not make...
Chaffetz dodges DFS questions The current furore around daily fantasy sports put Utah Republican Representative Jason Chaffetz on the spot Wednesday at a sparsely attended Washington DC press conference called by the Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling. Chaffetz was trying to breathe some life into the languishing Restoration of America's Wire Act he is sponsoring in Congress, and was asked...
Three-month dip ends as revenues climb 1.5 percent year-on-year to $916.3 million Figures for September from the Nevada Gaming Control Board show that gambling revenue rose in Clark County including 2 percent on the Las Vegas Strip to $504.8 million and 9 percent in the downtown Fremont Street corridor to $47.5 million, ending a three-month slide for the gambling state....
But can the CSIG even spell "implementation?" It looks as if supporters of the Adelson-inspired and drafted Restoration of America's Wire Act are poised for another push on the controversial online gambling ban bill, currently languishing at committee stage in Congress (see previous InfoPowa reports). On Tuesday the main campaign vehicle for the bills, the Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling...
Rumoured to be on the verge of announcing purchase of Major League Gaming According to conservative news and opinion network Breitbart News, Yahoo! is rumoured to be in acquisition talks with New York-based professional eSports organisation Major League Gaming (MLG) as it looks for a piece of the eSports pie. "The talks are quite advanced and are about 95% complete,"...
E-sports companies beat a hasty retreat - for now E-sports firm Vulcun has informed customers of its exit from Nevada and Florida State markets in the U.S. following the Nevada Gaming Control Board's determination on the legality of daily fantasy sports. A statement on Vulcun's blog said: "Effective immediately, Vulcun users residing in Nevada can no longer participate in paid...
