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Call it a partnership on spec, if you will. MGM GVC Interactive LLC announced on Monday that it has formed a sports betting partnership with the United Auburn Indian Community (UAIC) of California. The Tribe owns the Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Lincoln, just north of Sacramento. This could be big news, but “could” is… Read more »
CBC News has reported that two former dealers at River Rock Casino in Richmond, British Columbia were involved in an illegal gambling bust back in March. The raid was conducted by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit and Richmond RCMP, who in turn told the Gaming Policy Enforcement Branch of the B.C. government. Honestly, this… Read more »
PokerStars has been hyping the PokerStars Players NL Hold’em Championship (PSPC), a $25,000 buy-in live tournament, for what seems like forever. Everywhere you turn on the PokerStars website, you see information about Platinum Passes being awarded via online and live events. Aside from it taking place at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) in January 2019,… Read more »
One of the things I find both idiotic and painfully endearing about poker players is how they are seemingly willing to make prop bets on anything at any time. World Poker Tour television host Vince Van Patten was once one of these types of people and has co-written a feature film with Steve Alper called… Read more »
Last week, Gamblit Gaming announced that it will soon launch a pair of poker “skill game” machines on casino floors, Deal or No Deal Poker and Deal or No Deal Poker Special. The games were first unveiled at the Global Gaming Expo eleven months ago and will go live later this year. A Game of… Read more »
Cheating and dishonesty are generally frowned upon in civilized society. I know that might be a blazing hot take, but I put it out there. This is why I have always found it bizarre that a solid percentage of people – a majority, maybe? – think it’s perfectly cool to try to get one over… Read more »
“You can either run and hide or take a stand and I took a stand.” I am half the age of Denis O’Connor and I wish I was half the man he is. At 83-years old, O’Connor stopped an armed robbery at Bar One Racing, a bookmaker shop in Glanmire, Co Cork, Ireland. Calm in… Read more »
Gordon Vayo will have to wait a bit longer to see if his legal action against PokerStars can proceed. In May, the poker pro and 2016 WSOP Main Event runner-up filed suit against PokerStars, or more specifically, Rational Entertainment Enterprises Limited (REEL), in the U.S. District Court Central District of California Western Division after the… Read more »
The start of the NFL season took center stage in the sports and gambling worlds this weekend, but there is a little-known football (American football) league launching right after the NFL’s season ends in February: the Alliance of American Football (AAF). And according to an ESPN.com report, the league has embraced gambling in a way… Read more »
First reported by the UK’s Sky News Tuesday and confirmed by the involved parties Wednesday, book maker and online gambling company William Hill has inked a partnership with Eldorado Resorts to operate sports books in Eldorado casinos in the United States. The deal makes William Hill Eldorado’s sole partner for both brick-and-mortar and internet sports… Read more »
With the NFL season upon us this week, daily fantasy sports sites and participants alike are giddy for the most highly anticipated fantasy sports season on the calendar. What the DFS sites cannot afford is down time, which is exactly what happened about a month ago when DraftKings was the target of multiple Distributed Denial… Read more »
Oh wonderful. Look who’s back. On Monday, Jon Kyl, one of the men responsible for the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA), was named by Arizona Governor Doug Ducey as replacement for the late John McCain in the Senate. There isn’t anything going on in the Senate when it comes to online poker,… Read more »
The NFL is rife with hypocrisy. We know this. Whether it is the league’s attitude towards player safety, its handling of discipline, or its use of the military to promote the sport, the league is pretty much full of shit these days (but I can’t stop watching, Go Pack Go). Another issue in which the… Read more »
Last week, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) issued the first three sets of interactive gaming licenses in the state to Parx Casino, Harrah’s Philadelphia, and Mount Airy Resort Casino. Each spent $10 million to apply for all three available license types: online poker, online casino games, and online slots. In a recent press release,… Read more »
It was a bittersweet victory for the “little guy” last week as a trio of gaming equipment developers and distributors won a lawsuit against gaming giant Scientific Games. A Chicago jury awarded the group $105 million, but because it was an antitrust case, federal regulations trebled the damages to $315 million. Shuffle Tech Takes On… Read more »
After making two big announcements on Monday regarding online gambling and sports betting expansion, MGM Resorts International saved the big reveal for Tuesday: it will be the official sports betting partner of the NBA and WNBA. We are in a new era, people. Sports leagues have had a love/hate relationship with gambling essentially forever. Though… Read more »
Online gaming software developer GAN and Parx Casino have announced that they have agreed to a multi-year deal to offer sports betting both at the Bensalem, Pennsylvania casino and online. The two companies previously entered in a partnership to offer a “simulated gaming” product (read: play money gambling) in 2015; this is an extension of… Read more »
Let’s just say the optics of this are…not good. Per a report by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, MGM Resorts International has filed lawsuits in federal court against the victims of the tragic shooting at a concert outside Mandalay Bay in October. Yes, MGM, which owns Mandalay Bay and the Route 91 Harvest festival where the… Read more »
My colleague Earl Burton did an admirable job live-blogging the final table of the 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event, even if he was a pansy and couldn’t stay up past 3:00am ET Sunday morning to see it through to the end.* During his blog, he noted that it was announced that Mori Eskandani… Read more »
The Main Event isn’t the only news coming out of the 2018 World Series of Poker this week as the Poker Hall of Fame has announced the list of ten finalists for this year’s induction class. The finalists were determined by a public nominations process followed by a review by the Poker Hall of Fame… Read more »
The good news: Kentucky state Senators are trying to legalize sports betting in the state next year. The bad news: the taxes they propose will kill the industry before it starts. Senator Julian Carroll (D – Dist. 7) pre-filed BR 29, essentially getting it all set to go so that he can quickly introduce it… Read more »
The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) announced Wednesday that it has rebranded itself as the Poker Alliance and will now be led by Mark Brenner, billed as a “longtime business development and government relations executive.” What the Poker Alliance did not say in its news release today, though, is that this rebranding and new leadership is… Read more »
The United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UKGC) has fined gaming company 32Red more than £2 million for failing to properly implement problem gambling and money laundering controls. The issues stem from a player who both deposited much more money than he could afford but also showed problem gambling behaviors on nearly two dozen occasions. Player’s Communications… Read more »
Daily fantasy sports (DFS) industry leader DraftKings will be launching a New Jersey sportsbook when the time comes, as it has announced it has partnered with Atlantic City’s Resorts Casino Hotel as its licensing partner. It is expected that New Jersey will open its regulated sports betting industry very soon; licensed horse racetracks and Atlantic… Read more »
Tuesday was a momentous day in United States gambling history as Delaware became the first state outside of Nevada to offer legal, regulated single-game sports betting. The first bets were placed at the state’s three race racetrack casinos – Delaware Park, Dover Downs Hotel & Casino, and Harrington Raceway & Casino – at 1:30pm. The… Read more »
