There’s a new entry into the legal US online casino market PlayLive!. The PlayLive! brand will make its debut in the Pennsylvania market, courtesy of the Cordish Gaming Group, a division of The Cordish Companies.
An Illinois bettor who missed out on a nearly $32,000 horse racing betting payout due to a horse that tested positive for a banned substance received a $20,000 settlement last month from a lawsuit initiated against the horse’s trainer and owner.
Nearly five years ago, during the whole, PokerStars dismantles its Supernova Elite program” fiasco, I wrote an article that equated the online poker ecosystem to gyms. Five years later, the online poker ecosystem remains an unsolved riddle. Little has changed, and the same debates are still raging.
The US greyhound racing betting industry has experienced a dramatic decline since its peak in the 1980s. Today, West Virginia is the only state where greyhound racing still occurs. Most of the nation’s greyhound race tracks closed for financial rather than legal reasons, and the sport is still legal across much of the United States….
Learn about EPIC Risk Management, a UK-based company focused on raising awareness of the social harms caused by gambling.
One of the most significant non-COVID developments in 2020 is the unification of DraftKings and SBTech into a single company. The reverse merger saw the daily-fantasy-sports-turned-sports-betting-company go public with a multi-billion-dollar valuation.
Last week the National Council on Problem Gambling hosted its annual symposium, but like every other major industry get-together, the 2020 iteration of the NCPG symposium took place virtually.
In 2018, Senators Orrin Hatch and Chuck Schumer introduced a federal sports betting bill called the Sports Wagering Market Integrity Act. The key goals of the bill were: Ultimately, S.3793 did not gain much traction in Congress and never made it to a vote. The US online sports betting industry and some lawmakers opposed parts…
Sports betting, and particularly online sports betting, is the gambling product du jour, but it’s not the only item on the menu. Another fast-spreading product that gets far less attention is online lottery.
New research by the American Gaming Association (AGA) points to legality as one of the core issues on bettors’ minds when they choose to place bets.
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