Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) betting has come under increasing fire over the past few months, as the aggressive marketing strategies of sites such as FanDuel and DraftKings, and their partnerships with professional sports leagues and sports networks, has got lawmakers questioning the legality of the industry. Debates about daily...
November 30th, 2015 By Shane Larson
Nevada may be the gambling capital of the USA, and the first state to embrace regulated online poker in 2013, but the future of its iPoker industry was thrown into doubt this week after Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt (photo) said that that he was prepared to lend his...
November 27th, 2015 By Lucy Brown
On November 24th, South Australia Senator Nick Xenophon introduced his Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill (2015) into the Senate, a piece of legislation that is based upon the findings of Financial Counselling Australia (FCA), and its influential report entitled “Duds, Mugs and the A-list“. If it eventually passes, the bill...
November 26th, 2015 By Charles Washington
While the interest in some types of gambling games are showing a downward trajectory, the social casino games sector, whose key platforms are slots, bingo and poker games, continues to surge in popularity. Already the size of the social casino game niche has reached $3.4 billion, and currently accounts...
November 25th, 2015 By Stephen Smith
In October, Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz (photo) of Utah abandoned his bid to become the Speaker of the House, but since then he has doubled down on his goal of cracking down on online gambling. After months of no news on Chaffetz’s Restoration of America’s Wire Act bill, the...
November 24th, 2015 By Shane Larson
In 2011, Black Friday resulted in the shutdown of multiple online poker sites in the United States, including PokerStars which has since been shut out of the country’s online gambling market. Now, the company is finally poised to make a comeback stateside after being granted a license to operate...
November 23rd, 2015 By Adam Brown
As daily fantasy sports (DFS) sites prepare to take on regulators in a number of US states currently working on legislating the industry, it seems that they also need to be concerned with the increasing level of scrutiny aimed at their businesses by the federal government. One area of...
November 20th, 2015 By Charles Washington
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