For the third time in as many years, the Midwestern state of Illinois is pushing to expand its gambling industry, and included in Rep. Bob Rita’s gambling bill to authorize five new casinos, and allow slot machines at racetracks, is legislation which would allow casino license holders to apply...
February 28th, 2014 By Charles Washington
At the end of last year, concerns were raised that Singapore would soon seek to prohibit all types of remote gambling after its Second Minister for Home Affairs (pictured) spoke strongly in favour of introducing anti-internet gambling policies. However, the Singapore government could open itself up to all sorts...
February 27th, 2014 By Shane Larson
Delaware and New Jersey have moved a step closer to forming an integrated internet poker market after signing an interstate online poker agreement designed to establish the legal framework necessary to allow both states to share their player liquidity. The historic online poker deal, the first of its kind...
February 26th, 2014 By Adam Brown
Despite initial predictions over the huge payoffs a regulated online poker industry would offer the US, early indication reveal enacted Internet gambling laws are so far failing to generate the financial windfall that many analysts had forecast. US online gaming markets off to slow start In fact, instead of...
February 25th, 2014 By Lucy Brown
Nevada Senator Dean Heller expects a federal bill to be introduced to the Senate next month banning all types of regulated casino games from the internet, with the exception of online poker. Furthermore, the Republican Senator says that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) has lent his full support...
February 24th, 2014 By Charles Washington
Six years ago, Piyush “Bobby” Jindal ran for State Governor promising to campaign against the expansion of gambling in Louisiana. The Republican governor then reiterated his determination to stop its spread in Louisiana, last week, after penning a guest op-ed for the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report, in which...
February 21st, 2014 By Shane Larson
Gaming isn’t new to Native American culture, and in order to help promote economic self-sufficiency amongst the tribes the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act was passed by Congress in 1988, recognizing “the right of Indian tribes in the United States to establish gambling and gaming facilities on their reservations as...
February 20th, 2014 By Lucy Brown
Monthly Archives best Poker News
