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 of legal challenges from some of […]
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 in the US, was signed yesterday […]
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 producing overflowing balance sheets for the […]
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 on the issue, and that both […]
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 he attacked the whole premise of […]
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 long as the states in which […]
Last year, Florida paid independent research firm Spectrum Gaming $400,000 to produce a report on Florida’s gaming industry and the potential effects of expanded gambling on the state. The study is now being used to help draft a comprehensive bill amending Florida’s existing gaming laws, with the bill then expected to be introduced sometime after […]