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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 »
The public nomination process for the 2018 Poker Hall of Fame is now open. Those of you who have participated in the process in prior years will be familiar with this year’s setup, as nothing has changed. We Can All Contribute Our Two Cents The journey to naming the newest Hall of Famers starts online… Read more »
Last week, Irish bookmaker and online gaming company Paddy Power Betfair agreed to acquire one of the two leading daily fantasy sports sites, FanDuel, in what appears to be Paddy Power’s effort to strengthen its footprint in the soon-to-be expanded United States sports betting market. Paddy Power likely isn’t all that interested in getting into… Read more »
Swedish online gambling company, Cherry AB, announced last week that Anders Holmgren has been terminated from his position as Chief Executive Officer after being arrested for “severe insider trading.” Gunner Lind, the chairman of the Cherry Audit Committee, has been named acting CEO. Holmgren’s firing was announced Friday after a series of press releases informing… Read more »
Have you ever heard of the Boomtown Casino Hotel in Reno, Nevada? Well, the casino execs probably wish you hadn’t right about now because they are in some shit. On May 15th, the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) filed a complaint against Boomtown’s parent company, BCH Gaming Reno, LLC for putting affiliate links on its… Read more »
The National Football League (NFL) has long tried to keep itself at arm length from sports betting. Everyone knows sports betting helps the league, but the league itself has never wanted to admit it publicly. With the reversal of PASPA by the U.S. Supreme Court last week, the NFL still hasn’t admitted to liking sports… Read more »
So this week has been an exciting one in the gambling world, hasn’t it? The United States Supreme Court deemed the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PASPA) unconstitutional, making it permissible for states to legalize and regulate sports betting. A handful of states, including the state we have to thank for this… Read more »
Last week’s big news in poker circles was the lawsuit filed by professional poker player Gordon Vayo against PokerStars in U.S. District Court. We covered it, every poker media outlet covered it (mainstream news site, Forbes, covered it before everyone), and the poker internet message forums are talking about it. On Monday morning, The Stars… Read more »
