This has been a weird, unpredictable college basketball season, but what has been predictable is that Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale placed yet another whopper of a bet. And with just four teams remaining in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, he has a chance to win big. The furniture store owner known for making massive bets… Read more »
No workarounds needed It is starting to get easier to download real money gambling apps to Android devices. Recently, BetMGM became the first real money online poker app to make an appearance in the Google Play store, simplifying the process for poker players in New Jersey to hit the felt on their mobile devices. It… Read more »
Dollar signs in their eyes Flutter Entertainment confirmed rumors Monday that it is considering an initial public offering for sports betting and daily fantasy sports arm FanDuel. Other than that, Flutter, which also owns PokerStars and several other big gaming brands, did not say much. The company’s stock price closed up nearly 6 percent on… Read more »
Murphy’s Law rears its ugly head The growth of the US sports betting industry is exciting for casinos and bettors alike, but with that growth comes the inevitable growing pains. On Super Bowl Sunday, the biggest betting day of the year, several sportsbooks ran into technical problems, mostly stemming from the volume of wagers they… Read more »
Daily fantasy sports, too DraftKings has announced partnership with the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation for both sports betting and daily fantasy sports in Connecticut. DFS will launch on Sunday, December 13, while sports betting will have to wait until the pastime is actually legalized in the state. State Rep. Sean Scanlon, who will soon be… Read more »
Well, that was your first mistake This is a lesson about not letting anyone use your online gambling accounts, or anything connected to your financial accounts, for that matter. As reported by the Naples Daily News, Andrew Moste filed a lawsuit in Collier County (Florida) Circuit Court earlier this year against Oakes Farms, company owner… Read more »
It used to be that, to bet on sports, the only option available was to head to Nevada and the casinos there (and, in particular, Las Vegas). Since 2018, however, that has begun to change. In fact, the sports betting industry in the States of America are welcoming the newest addition to the fraternity, the… Read more »
Neither side loses! The Big Ten’s college football season finally began this past weekend and with it came a controversial ending to the game between the eighth-ranked Penn State Nittany Lions and the Indiana Hoosiers. Because of how the game ended – Indiana won 36-35 — DraftKings Sportsbook decided to refund all bets on the… Read more »
Just a few million, no biggie Per a report from ESPN, a DraftKings customer placed the bet of the decade, perhaps the century. Apparently extremely confident, this bettor placed a three-team futures parlay: the Green Bay Packers to take the NFC North, the Georgia Bulldogs to win the SEC East, and the Alabama Crimson Tide… Read more »
Fantastic Four DraftKings, best known as one of the market leaders in daily fantasy sports and its growing sports betting vertical, launched its online casino in West Virginia on Wednesday afternoon. It is the first such product in the Mountain State, making West Virginia just the fourth state to have an online casino industry, behind… Read more »
For more than a decade, the state of California has looked at regulating online poker. The three major players in the gaming industry in the state – the powerful Indian casinos, the equally strong poker rooms and the major horse racing facilities – have long had animosities against each other. Those old grudges have raised… Read more »
As the decade comes to an end, on era in New Hampshire has just been born. On Monday, legal sports betting went live in the Granite State. Governor Chris Sununu was the first to place a wager, using the DraftKings mobile app. Naturally, considering his constituency, he bet $82 on the New England Patriots to… Read more »
Penn National Gaming announced a blockbuster sports betting deal with a number of operators on Wednesday, setting it up to be a major player in the online sportsbook field. It also gives the operators – DraftKings, PointsBet, theScore, and The Stars Group – much needed entry into several states. A press release issued by Penn… Read more »
Online poker has been around in New Jersey since they passed legislation in 2013. But its casino counterpart has constantly been the success story of the Jersey online gaming industry, bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars while online poker brings in a pittance. Now there is another player on the block that is threatening… Read more »
