Volatile markets may be causing Bitcoin valuations to dramatically shift in the blink of an eye, but still more and more industries are continuing to warm to the idea of accepting the cryptocurrency as a means of payment, suggesting that Bitcoin won’t be fading away anytime soon. In the...
June 7th, 2017 By Stephen Smith
After a decade of operating in the red, Atlantic City’s casinos finally returned to growth last year, with revenues higher by 1.5 percent at $2.602 billion in 2016, compared to the $2.563 billion collected in 2015. Nevertheless, those revenues derived from the state’s land-based casino operations actually declined by...
June 6th, 2017 By Shane Larson
Every year, Brazilians are believed to spend roughly $6.4 billion gambling illegally. Lawmakers are all too aware of this and are actively considering a major overhaul of the country’s highly restrictive gambling laws in order to make online and brick-and-mortar gambling legal throughout the vast South American nation. As...
June 5th, 2017 By Shane Larson
Free cocktails have long been a hallmark of the Las Vegas Strip. In decades past, casinos saw offering free drinks to everyone on the casino floor as a way of encouraging people to linger, with the idea being that if they remained and continued drinking then eventually they would...
June 3rd, 2017 By Charles Washington
Leaving the poker community amazed, the World Series of Poker announced that for the 2017 season its poker site called WSOP.com would be hosting three different online bracelet tournaments in Nevada this summer. While some people at the time expressed their belief that this sounded like an over-ambitious endeavor,...
May 30th, 2017 By Lucy Brown
For years, Poland was one of the many countries across the world whose gambling industry was considered a grey area for international online gaming operators. While online gambling was not officially legal, the government still allowed these online operators to accept Polish players with impunity, but upon realizing that...
May 29th, 2017 By Stephen Smith
In 1978, Atlantic City’s first legalized casino opened its doors for business, and soon after the New Jersey city established itself as a well-known destination to visit for East Coast vacationers wanting to try their luck at the slots and table games. Times have changed greatly since then, though,...
May 28th, 2017 By Lucy Brown
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