PayPal announced this week it would stop offering customer protection services on online gambling transactions. The global payment processor announced the move with an updated terms and conditions page, a low-key way to announce a sweeping new policy. Gambling payments were not the only category of transaction added to the
Restore America's Wire Act (RAWA) received no traction on its own, but Sheldon Adelson's supporters in the U.S. Congress have tried to attack the anti-online gambling bill to a key appropriations bill. The U.S. Senate is preparing a major Appropriations Bill, which pays for what the government does. When an
Nyquist won the 142nd Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday, as many bettors assumed he would. Bookmakers had Nyquist as the favorite to win the world's most prestigious horse race. Nyquist finished half a body-length ahead of Exaggerator. It was the fourth time Nyquist has beaten Exaggerator in a
Eliot Jacobson says casinos make a mistake when they spend so many resources stopping lone card counters. Instead, Jacobson says casinos should train their staff to locate "lucky idiots", because their behavior masks a bigger danger for their business. A good card counter gains an advantage over the casino. But
Golden Nugget Casino in Atlantic City has signed a deal with Inspired Gaming to offer "virtual sports", which is going to be an entirely novel type of game in the United States online gambling market. The games are expected to be integrated into the gaming repertoire of the Spin Games,
Poker celebrity Dan Bilzerian is getting his own licensed online game. The game, titled "Save Dan", has the bearded Instagram star fighting zombies with his tell-tale cache of firearms. In the game, Dan Bilzerian has taken a trip to the Arctic Circle with a group of bikini models. As he
Charles Lightbody and two other defendants were acquitted in a trial stemming from the Everett casino land deal. Charles Lightbody and other investors in an old Everett industrial plant sold the property along the Mystic River to Wynn Resorts. The land is the site for the coming Wynn Boston Harbor
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell indicated in a radio interview this week that he is softening his stance on sports betting. The NFL is the richest of the American sports leagues, so it is a leader among the sports associations when it comes to championing the PASPA law and opposing sports
John L. Smith has written 5 columns a week for the Las Vegas Review-Journal for nearly 30 years, but he announced he would be leaving Nevada's biggest newspaper this week. Smith told NPR Radio he was told he could no longer write about two of the biggest names in Las
PokerStars New Jersey announced the schedule for its first-ever online poker championship in the licensed gaming market. The name of the event is the New Jersey Spring Championship of Online Poker, or NJSCOOP. NJSCOOP is going to follow the format of the SCOOP series held each spring by PokerStars for
Net Entertainment announced this week that its online games have gone live on TropicanaCasino Online, the Internet gaming portal of the Tropicana Casino in Atlantic City. Net Ent signed a licensing deal with Tropicana in November 2015, setting the stage for its entry into the New Jersey licensed gaming market.
Seven Massachusetts lawmakers have asked the commonwealth's Gaming Commission to delay licensing for a proposed casino in Brockton. If Massachusetts approves such a casino, then the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe would be exempt from paying state taxes on its own $1 billion casino which is under development at the moment. The
