Passes through House on motion to reconsider Mississippi House Bill 967, authored by Representative Richard Bennett, will move to the Senate following its passage through the House. The bill's passage was denied on a vote Wednesday last week, however, passed on the Thursday after a motion to reconsider was filed. Mississippi became the fourth US State in May 2016 to...
Protecting the lifeblood of the industry, the players Daily fantasy sports operator FantasyDraft will cover some of the owing FantasyAces' outstanding player balances following the company's filing for bankruptcy. InfoPowa readers will recall Fantasy Draft recently walked away from an acquisition proposal with Fantasy Aces following the completion of a due diligence process; shortly afterwards Fantasy Aces filed for bankruptcy....
January figures released this week show a 28.6 percent year-on-year improvement Figures for January released Tuesday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement show that Atlantic City's online gambling revenues have continued to trend upward, rising 28.6 percent year-on-year to $18.8 million and making a real contribution to land operator profits. The state government did not do too badly...
Address challenges of increased competition from other States while boosting State coffers As predicted Representative Rosita Youngblood, together with Representative George Dunbar, are making another run at gambling expansion in Pennsylvania with a wide ranging omnibus gaming legislation proposal they plan to introduce in the near future. The proposal will protect consumers, maintain and improve the competitiveness of Pennsylvania's casino...
Biggest career win to date The stars were certainly aligned for Daniel Weinman who won his first World Poker Tour title in the Season XV WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open $3,500 Championship on his twenty-ninth birthday. Weinman bested a record breaking field of 1,312 to win the life changing amount of $892,433, his biggest career win to date, pushing him...
That classify fantasy sports as skill-based games Texas State Representative Richard Peña Raymond introduced no less than three DFS-related bills into the Texas legislature this week proposing fantasy sports be classified as legal, skill-based games, going against Attorney General Ken Paxton's opinion which was handed down last year. HB 1418, HB 1422 and HB 1457 relate to the legalisation, reclassification...
NGCB report 7.9 percent increase in wagers Preliminary figures from the Nevada Gaming Control Board show Nevada's 196 sportsbooks took $138.5 million in wagers on the much-anticipated, annual NFL football championship, The Super Bowl, a 7.9 percent increase over 2016. Aside from wagering on the big result, it's estimated that bookmakers around the world offer an additional 600 to 700...
Mirrors Bonacic's S03898 Following discussions between New York Assembly gambling committee chairman Rep. Gary Pretlow and the neighbouring New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement regulator, A05250 was introduced to the Assembly earlier this week. The bill, sponsored by Pretlow, is described the "same as" S03898, a bill re-submitted earlier this month to the legislature by State Senator John Bonacic proposing...
Licensing extended to include new head office in Vancouver The Nevada Gaming Commission has awarded a Geolocation Service Provider license to GeoComply covering its new, expanded headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia. "We are pleased that the Nevada Gaming Control Board has extended our license to include our new, larger Vancouver head office," Anna Sainsbury, chief executive officer of GeoComply, said....
New official professional esports league in the making US professional sports league, the National Basketball Association (NBA), is set to debut the NBA 2K eLeague in 2018, in collaboration with Take-Two Interactive Software. The NBA 2K eLeague "will bring together the best basketball gamers in the world," and marks the first official eSports league operated by a U.S. professional sports...
