FanDuel will soon open a Sportsbook lounge inside Chicago’s famed United Center. The lounge provides Illinois bettors and sports fans another way to place wagers and enjoy unfolding action while present at Bulls and Blackhawks games.
Cardplayer Lifestyle will be running its first-ever branded live event festival October 4-7 at the Westgate Las Vegas Hotel and Casino. PokerStars is sponsoring the event, which features three days’ worth of low-stakes Dealer’s Choice cash games, culminating in a $200 HORSE Main Event, which will also award a Platinum Pass to the PokerStars Players…
A new effort is afoot to remove barriers preventing federally recognized tribes from offering online gambling products. According to the title of the new bill, HR 4308, it seeks “to remove Federal barriers regarding the offering of mobile wager son Indian lands when the applicable State and Indian Tribe have reached an agreement.”
TransUnion, one of the nation’s three major consumer credit reporting agencies, announced Wednesday its plans to enter the US gambling market. According to a press release, its subsidiary, TransUnion Gaming Services LLC, will provide identity, fraud, and marketing solutions to various operators across the country.
With legal sports betting spreading across the country, a federal excise tax placed on legal sports wagers in the 1950s could be going by the wayside. The quarter-percent “handle tax” on legal sports wagers (and 2% on illegal wagers) was initially enacted “to facilitate the enforcement of state criminal laws against gambling.”
After being the subject of numerous lawsuits that date back more than five years, DraftKings is putting some longstanding legal issues behind it.
Editor update: The North Dakota Senate voted unanimously to fail the North Dakota online poker legislation effort described in this post. We will continue to follow future efforts to legalize online poker in ND as they develop. US online poker scored another small victory earlier this week as the North Dakota House of Representatives passed…
A new and somewhat surprising candidate to be Pennsylvania’s second legal online poker room has emerged, GGPoker. As first reported by PokerFuse.com, NSUS Group, Inc., the parent company of GGPoker, previously applied to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) for an online gambling license. The application was approved on Wednesday, granting them an Interactive Gaming…
Sports betting is a hot topic in the US. Obscured within the bawdy revenue numbers and seemingly never-ending legalization efforts is the industry’s darker side, the social harms that gambling leaves in its wake.
This weekend’s Super Bowl LV between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be a record-setter in the sports betting world. According to the American Gaming Association (AGA), 23.2 million Americans plan to bet $4.3 billion on the game, and nearly one-third of bettors (7.6 million) plan to do so through online sportsbooks.
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