At the end of March, Delaware and Nevada enacted their interstate online poker compact which it was hoped would boost Delaware’s iPoker market and ultimately encourage other states to introduce legislation of their own. After an initial surge in traffic, however, April’s revenues eventually tumbled by 35% to $48,500...
June 26th, 2015 By Charles Washington
In 1997, supercomputer Deep Blue defeated Grandmaster Garry Kasparov in the second of their celebrated chess matches, and in so doing inspired other scientists to develop more and more sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) programs to beat their human opponents. It wasn’t long before computer scientists subsequently tried devising programs...
June 24th, 2015 By Adam Brown
On June 12th, the latest batch of results were released for New Jersey’s online gambling industry and while overall revenue results were positive in May and noted a 19.1% improvement to $12.5 million year-over-year, online poker, on the other hand, continued its disappointing run with revenues contracting by 15%...
June 22nd, 2015 By Stephen Smith
Over the past few years, the popularity of daily fantasy sports has grown exponentially in the US with the game attracting more and more players drawn to an unregulated industry where normal people can suddenly become millionaires. Needless to say, this situation has also started to attract the attention...
June 19th, 2015 By Shane Larson
This article is based upon research conducted by Dr. Jaclynn Moskow, which seeks to provide a detailed look at the psychology behind poker, and what scientists have discovered from studying this fascinating game of incomplete information. What Has Studying Poker Players Revealed? Poker games are very intense and most...
June 17th, 2015 By Lucy Brown
Gambling is very popular in Germany, and in 2012 the country replaced its Interstate Gambling Treaty (2008) with the Interstate Treaty on Gambling (ISTG). This particular piece of gambling regulation, however, attracted a great deal of criticism from the EU commission with one sticking point being that it basically...
June 15th, 2015 By Charles Washington
Poker may be a popular pastime amongst online gamers, but revenues from the game pale in comparison to the money generated by online casino sites. The same hold true in the social gaming world where casino apps are a more lucrative revenue stream than their free money poker equivalents,...
June 12th, 2015 By Adam Brown
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