New Jersey opened its first legalized casino in 1978, and by the end of 2013 internet gambling was added to the state’s range of gambling options. Since 2006, however, New Jersey’s gambling industry has continued to languish in the doldrums, and so NJ Governor Chris Christie and his gambling...
March 11th, 2014 By Shane Larson
Last week, Wellington Webb, National Co-Chair of the Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling, commended Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley after she lent her support to the group’s ongoing battle to ban Internet gambling in the United States. Coming out in opposition to online lottery sales in the northeastern state...
March 10th, 2014 By Adam Brown
A survey released on February 3, 2014, has found most people are against a federal ban on online gambling and are overwhelmingly in favour of the current state-by-state approach on the issue. The Coalition for Consumer and Online Protections (C4COP) released survey claims three-quarter of voters believe individual states...
March 7th, 2014 By Stephen Smith
At the end of February, the Governors of Delaware and Nevada signed an interstate online poker agreement that will allow the two states located on opposite sides of the US to work together and combine their player pools. However, initial excitement over the landmark agreement has subsided slightly after...
March 6th, 2014 By Charles Washington
Almost seven years after the US government accused Neteller of running afoul of the UIGEA and forced the online payment processor to withdraw from its marketplace, the UK-listed company is now looking to make a big return to the States after Optimal Payments Plc, the parent company of Neteller,...
March 5th, 2014 By Shane Larson
At the end of February, South Point Casino launched RealGaming.com in Las Vegas, in so doing becoming the third regulated website to offer online poker in Nevada. However, early indications show the online poker platform has so far failed to excite the state’s nascent internet poker market. RealGaming poker...
March 4th, 2014 By Lucy Brown
Since New Jersey released its second full-month of online gambling results, it has become obvious that Governor Chris Christie’s initial projections of how much the state would generate were grossly overestimated. While working to get the whole project off the ground, Gov. Christie (photo) forecast full-year online gaming revenues...
March 3rd, 2014 By Stephen Smith
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