CPAC poll shows that 90 percent oppose attempts to impose federal bans on state-regulated online gambling The main driver and architect of legislation designed to largely ban online gambling in the United States, Sheldon Adelson, would be wise to heed the results of a poll taken among delegates to the recent Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which discovered that such...
Bill 2751 claims federal government has no authority to stop individual states from legalising sports betting beyond PASPA The federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act is under new threat this week following the introduction to the West Virginia House of HB2751 "Legalising Sport Pool Betting". Filed by House delegates Fluharty, Hornbuckle, McGeehan, Storch, Barrett, Sponaugle, White, Bates, Canestraro, Wilson...
American Gaming Association says a confluence of events could lead to wider legalisation of sports betting across the USA The American Gaming Association's CEO Geoff Freeman continued his campaign for the overthrow of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) as a "failed law" this week, and predicted that a "perfect storm" was forming for the wider legalisation of...
Quick flip for billionaire Carl Icahn Billionaire Carl Icahn, who bought the struggling Trump Taj Mahal land casino in Atlantic City amid litigation and union fights last year has done a quick flip on the asset, selling it on after just four months to the Hard Rock International group and two New Jersey investors for an undisclosed consideration. Jim Allen,...
Revenue rises 12 percent year-on-year The latest Nevada Gaming Control Board figures reveal that gambling revenues across the state grew 12 percent year-on-year in January, with Clark County leading on $925 million - a 14.3 percent y-o-y improvement. The Strip also prospered, delivering a 14.4 percent increase in revenue to $532 million. Total gaming win for January reached $1.04 billion,...
White paper claims state can generate $400 million in tax revenues from online gambling by 2022 A report by online poker legalisation action group Play Pennsylvania and the respected independent online poker information site Online Poker Report released Monday claims that the state could realise around $400 million in tax revenues by 2022 from the legalisation of online gambling. The...
Is Assemblyman Gary Pretlow on board at last? Optimism on the prospect of online poker legalisation in New York surged over the weekend following a television interview in which key Assembly lawmaker Gary Pretlow spoke encouragingly about the possibilities and revealed that he had filed a legalisation bill, supplementing that filed in the Senate earlier this year by Sen. John...
Rush Street is the first brick and mortar casino to launch NYX digital content via a single integration in both social and real-money US-regulated formats Game developer NYX Gaming Group is extending its reach in the US online gaming market with the delivery of digital content to Rush Street Interactive's online casino brand, SugarHouse Casino.com. Through a single integration with...
H967 has already passed through the state Senate Mississippi governor Phil Bryant has a daily fantasy sports legalisation bill on his desk today following the passage of H967 through the state House Wednesday and its earlier approval by the state Senate. The bill makes permanent a one-year "trial" bill passed last year and due to expire on July 1 2017....
Business development exec confirms persistent industry rumours Persistent industry rumours that MGM Resorts is planning a new online poker and casino brand launch in New Jersey have been confirmed by the group's business development exec, Tom Mikulich, albeit without disclosing a lot of detail or a timeline. The move follows MGM's assumption last August of full ownership of the Borgata...
