For years Atlantic City was the Eastern United States’ answer to Las Vegas, and New Jersey the second largest market in the country. Now Pennsylvania’s revenue numbers have pushed it into the runner-up spot, thanks in part to the newly-opened Valley Forge Casino Resort in southeastern PA. The state has 11 casinos, which pulled in [...]
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Pennsylvania is US’ second largest gambling market
Monday, April 9th, 2012US states starting online lottery sales
Thursday, March 29th, 2012The state of Indiana may follow in the footsteps of Illinois by offering online Lottery. This comes after the Department of Justice ruled in December that the relevant law, the Wire Act of 1961, did not apply to purchasing lotto tickets online. Michael Jones, Illinois’ Lottery Superintendent, says the website restricts sales to only state [...]
US government seizes Canadian gambling website
Monday, March 19th, 2012The US seizure of a Canadian gambling website may have widespread implications for internet gambling as well as other websites that do business internationally. Canadian billionaire Calvin Ayre and three others have been indicted by the US for money laundering and conducting an illegal sports betting operation, Ayre’s website Bodog.com. The site now displays a [...]
Changes unlikely for online gambling in D.C.
Thursday, December 1st, 2011US - D.C. Lottery officials do not plan to change the essential components of their controversial online gambling plan after holding nine community meetings to hear concerns and dispel myths about the program. The first-in-the-nation effort to bring online gambling to home computers and limited public areas within D.C. borders has received mixed reviews since it [...]
A Utah gambling loophole may close, and another open
Monday, November 28th, 2011US - Utah legislators are looking to close one loophole in Utah’s total gambling ban but may open another. They want to eliminate vague wording that some Internet cafes have claimed allows them to operate games of chance — as long as it isn’t their primary business — which made some look like casinos. Salt Lake Tribune.
Senate Hearing airs tribes’ issues with Internet gambling
Monday, November 21st, 2011US - A Senate committee heard concerns Thursday that legalizing Internet gambling could threaten the billions of dollars of casino revenues that have powered economic development on Indian lands over the past two decades. Glen Gobin, vice chairman of the Tulalip Tribes in Tulalip, Wash., told the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs that Internet gambling posed [...]
US Internet gambling round-up
Monday, November 21st, 2011US - Wolf Opposes Bill to Legalize Internet Gambling. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) today warned a House subcommittee that the legalization of Internet poker would enable the spread of gambling to every computer, iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, Android and Windows phone in the country. With today’s technology “it would be like having a casino at your fingertips [...]
Senator considers lottery is “predatory gaming”
Thursday, November 17th, 2011US - On the eve of the first official vetting of a proposal intended to allow three casinos in South Florida, the bill’s sponsor revealed a new wrinkle in her “strategic vision” for gambling — transforming the Florida Lottery department into the Florida Gaming Department. Casting the Lottery as “predatory gaming” that she’d like to see [...]
No Online Gambling for Massachusetts
Thursday, November 17th, 2011US - The drama is over and the curtain has fallen. There will be no online gambling for the American state of Massachusetts, at least not till someone starts a fresh initiative. And that is not likely to happen any time soon. The drama began when Representative Dan Winslow attached an online gambling legalization amendment to [...]
Online Gambling: A Good Bet for D.C.?
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011US - What’s your iGame — Texas Hold’em Poker, Black Jack, Bingo? Or maybe it’s E-Scratch, a virtual way to scrape your way to winnings. If you live in Washington, D.C., this may not just be an “iDream” and you could soon be living in the first jurisdiction in the country to allow iGaming. But it [...]
