Only two states really remain in play for legalizing online poker in the United States this year. Illinois has a slim chance, while Pennsylvania remains closer than ever before. Everything points to Pennsylvania doing the deed. The state’s casinos support online gambling, as New Jersey’s success with the burgeoning industry
Online gambling is still on the table in Pennsylvania. The state legislature did fly by a deadline on June 30 and depart to enjoy a long holiday weekend. However, despite the official state calendar showing the legislative session over on June 30, members will be returning in July to hash
United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions will recuse himself from the issue of online gambling. This includes any activity surrounding the 2011 Department of Justice ruling that reinterpreted the 1961 Wire Act to allow states to legalize and regulate online gambling. Bloomberg reported the news on June 30, barely weeks
Earlier this week, Illinois was in the spotlight for online poker players and fans. An online gambling bill was not only in play, but Poker Players Alliance Executive Director John Pappas was asked to testify before the House Executive Committee. Hope lived. However, days later, online gambling supporters are back
Weeks have passed since any significant update on a gambling expansion bill in Pennsylvania that will legalize and regulated online poker and casinos. Action is expected in some form this week, however, as deadlines loom for the state legislature. hello Pennsylvania was on a solid track in 2017. A gambling
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear arguments in the New Jersey sports betting case. At heart of the case is New Jersey's challenge of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) of 1992. Arguments in the case begin in October, when the Supreme Court's next court
The online poker community has put a great deal of focus on states like Pennsylvania and New York in 2017, as they have shown the most promising indications of legalizing and regulating online gambling. Meanwhile, however, Illinois was working on some bills of its own. Illinois crashed the party in
A Manhattan judge recently dismissed a lawsuit filed by MGM Resorts against the State of Connecticut. The lawsuit involved the licensing of a tribal casino in the Hartford suburb of East Windsor. The Manhattan court's ruling prompted the mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts to criticize the process which led to the
Reuters recently conducted an independent investigation into "transaction laundering" websites and released a report on its findings. Transaction laundering is a growing trend in online gambling transactions, in which websites pretend to be online vendors which sell everyday products. In its months-long investigation, Reuters found a network of online dummy sites which
The iDevelopment and Economic Association [iDEA] formed this month to back online gambling legalization efforts throughout the United States. IDEA is an industry group of like-minded gaming companies, including some of the biggest names in land-based casinos and online gambling. After three states first legalized online gambling in statewide initiatives in
A woman is suing a Queens, New York casino for nearly $43 million in damages, claiming the casino did not pay a slot machine jackpot. Instead, the woman claimed, they offered her a $2.50 prize and a steak dinner. Katrina Bookman was playing the slots in Resorts World Casino New
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), along with the attorney generals of the State of California and the District of Columbia, filed a lawsuit in a federal court to temporarily stop the merger of FanDuel and DraftKings today. Officials at the FTC said the merger would create an illegal monopoly. Tad
