For launch of Rapid Games in-venue mobile games platform Nektan's US operating subsidiary Respin Games LLC has clinched its first major contract with an unidentified Tier-1 U.S. casino operator to launch a real money in-venue mobile games solution into the US casino market. The company will launch its Rapid Games in-resort Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) mobile platform into the...
HB801 has echoes of last year's unsuccessful attempt authored by former Representative (now Senator) Mario Scavello Heating up the Pennsylvania online gambling legalisation discussion this week is the introduction of an anti-online gambling bill by five Republican representatives, led by Thomas Murt - Representatives Matthew Baker, Robert Kauffman, Craig Staats and Will Tallman. HB801 seeks the prohibition and criminalisation of...
Little more than a slap on the wrist for two California men Two men accused of promoting a nation-wide US online sports betting ring shuttered by enforcement officials in 2015 received relatively light "conditional discharge" sentencing this week after pleading guilty. The men, Julio Alvarenga and Andres Arriaga, were part of a $32 billion gambling ring associated with the now...
All major operators expected to apply The State of Mississippi has become the first state to legalize daily fantasy sports (DFS) in 2017 following the signing of House Bill 967 by Governor Phil Bryant. Regulations, which explicitly legalise fantasy contests with an entry fee, will be controlled and overseen by the Mississippi Gaming Commission. License requirements, valid for three years...
LiveMGM.com accused of using the company's trademarks, including its famous lion logo, in its presentations Whoever owns or operates the online gambling brand MGMLive.com (and it's by no means sure who that is) should proceed with caution...major US land and online gambling giant MGM Resorts International has you in its sights. On Thursday MGM Resorts filed suit in a Nevada...
One of the United States' biggest betting events is being used by the AGA to promote the idea of more widespread legalised sports betting The American Gaming Association is using the growing excitement around this years' National Collegiate Athletic Association men's basketball tournament - better known perhaps as March Madness - to add momentum to its national campaign for the...
More hot water for Eddie Tipton Eddie Tipton (54), the rogue Iowa-based Multi-State Lottery Association employee who allegedly engineered a giant lottery game fixing scam several years ago that impacted the lottery games across 37 US states (see previous InfoPowa reports) is facing more charges this week. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced that he has filed charges against Tipton...
February figures show that online performance made a difference overall Figures for February released by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) Monday show that once again online operations made a significant contribution to land operational performances. The seven casinos and their online partners won a total of $205.4 million, an increase y-o-y of 0.3 percent in February...but stripping...
Online poker legalisation hopes strengthened by budget addition Hopes for online poker legalisation in New York rose this week on the news that the state Senate has included the potential revenue from licensing and taxing the vertical in its draft budget for the forthcoming fiscal year. The draft is still subject to finalisation. A similar move last year died when...
State senator joins other lawmakers in seeking to legalise DFS There are now four daily fantasy sports (DFS) legalisation bills in the Texas state legislature following the news this week that state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst has filed proposal S.1970. The new bill joins three House bills - H 1457, H 1422 and H 1418 - that are also at committee...
