"Sports betting happens, whether it's legalized or not." Largely seen as a positive development, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred spoke about the contentious legalisation of sports betting issue at the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit in New York Wednesday, saying that he is "monitoring" the issue and "re-examining" the MLB's stance. "There is this buzz out there in terms...
Thirty-five seats selected through lottery process Thirty-five of the fifty-four players who registered to play in the 2017 Super High Roller Bowl at the Aria Resort & Casino were selected through a lottery process by Aria's director of poker operations, Monday. The $300,000 buy-in event, which is billed as the richest poker event of 2017, is due to run May...
Next iteration of the world's most prestigious poker tournament will see an increase in the number of online events The importance of the online medium for international poker has again been illustrated by the release of the latest World Series of Poker schedule, which sees the number of online events boosted to three. The next edition of WSOP starts in...
Senator Louise Lucas' SB1400 attracts equal support and opposition The Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, had to use his casting vote in the Senate this week to break a tie on state Senator Louise Lucas' SB1400, a bill that seeks to decriminalise poker tournaments as games of skill and take them out of the definition of gambling. Senators voted...
Joins eSports Integrity Coalition GameCo Inc., a US video game gambling machine manufacturer, has joined the growing number of advocates for eSports regulation by joining the eSports Integrity Coalition. The Coalition is campaigning for the booming vertical to regulate in order to protect participants as investment and betting volumes continue to rise. Among the organisation's initiatives are moves to improve...
Land casinos won $11.3 billion from punters in 2016 Figures released Tuesday by the Nevada Gaming Control Board show that casinos in Nevada won $11.3 billion from gamblers in 2016, marking a second consecutive year of gambling revenue gains, albeit missing the pre-recession record of $12.8 billion set in 2007. The state-wide amount that casinos took in was up 1.3...
Horse Racing, Dog Racing, Trotting, Velodrome and Speedway action now available The tribal online and land gambling company Pala has announced that its Pala Casino Spa and Resort in Northern San Diego County has added five new virtual sports games, Horse Racing, Dog Racing, Trotting, Velodrome and Speedway to its Pala Casino web site and Facebook. The games embed real-life,...
Senator Bonacic makes another run at legalizing online poker Senator John J. Bonacic has again thrown his hat into the ring with the introduction of an online gambling bill to the New York Senate's Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee, a committee Bonacic chairs. In summary, S3898 allows certain interactive poker games be considered games of skill rather than games of...
S-3898 seeks to permit online poker games New York state Senator John Bonacic has made good on his pledge to start 2017 with a renewed attempt to legalise online poker, filing Senate Bill S-3898 this week in the Senate Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee, which he chairs. Observers have noted that the bill is very similar to last year's S-5302...
New chairman and director of operations for Cafrino Poker In a press statement Tuesday the New York-based online poker tournament operator Cafrino advised top management changes. Haig Kayserian was named chairman and Joseph Conner director of poker operations at the site, which has been operational since 2011 and claims significant growth to a registered player base of 60,000, with over...
