PokerStars has moved a step closer to its goal of reentering the US market, after announcing its has formed a partnership with a group of powerful gambling interests, including California’s Morongo Band of Mission Indians, the Commerce Club, the Hawaiian Gardens Casino and the Bicycle Casino. The coalition has...
April 24th, 2014 By Adam Brown
With an estimated fortune of $40 billion built on the back of his Las Vegas Sands casino business, many an analyst has observed the irony of gambling kingpin Sheldon Adelson preaching the sins of online poker to the rest of the American people. In fact, so pious has Adelson...
April 22nd, 2014 By Stephen Smith
Back in November 2012, the Russian supreme court made ISP’s responsible for blocking gambling sites inside the world’s biggest country. However, no serious efforts were made to enforce the ruling until last month when Maxim Ksenzov, deputy head of Russia’s federal telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor, reported that a “request came...
April 21st, 2014 By Shane Larson
Recently, Massachusetts emerged as a frontrunner to legalize online gambling in 2014, with some of the state’s chief advocates speaking out in favour of igaming expansion including State Senator Bruce Tarr, and State Treasurer and Gubernatorial candidate Steve Grossman. However, that is now unlikely to happen until next year,...
April 18th, 2014 By Charles Washington
According to the latest report published by Sweden’s gaming regulator Lotteriinspektionen, 64% of all the country’s TV gambling ad expenditure last year, equivalent to SEK 1bn ($152m), was spent by foreign, unregulated operators. The figure is even more astonishing considering those very same non-Swedish companies were not even licensed...
April 17th, 2014 By Adam Brown
On April 14th, France’s independent online gambling regulator (ARJEL) published its report on the state of the country’s online gambling market for the 1st quarter of 2014. According to the latest figures, France’s online poker industry shrunk by 10% to €65 million during the first three months of this...
April 16th, 2014 By Stephen Smith
When New Jersey introduced online gambling it was hoping the additional revenues generated would help counteract the continuing decline in its land-based casino industry. Five months on and the state Division of Gaming Enforcement has released its latest figures for March which, despite being up 15.2% compared to the...
April 15th, 2014 By Shane Larson
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