Russian Online Poker Could Generate $150m In Annual Gaming Taxes
After years of clamping down on online poker and vowing to block international gambling companies from operating inside its territory, Russia now seems to be performing an about face and considering regulating online poker. The surprise news was announced after Russian business daily Kommersant reported that First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov had instructed the […]
888 To Sponsor New TV Show ‘Poker Night in America’
In the coming weeks a new TV show called ‘Poker Night in America‘ (PNIA) will run for 26 weeks on the CBS Sports Network. Following Black Friday poker shows nearly died out completely as sponsors shunned the advertising dollars of unwanted offshore sites, notable exception being the World Poker Tour. Now, however, the latest poker […]
Delaware Online Gambling Falls 27% In May
The Delaware Lottery has released its latest online gambling results for May, revealing a dramatic 27% drop in revenues to $175,601 compared to its record high of $240,496 in April. Worryingly, both online casino games and poker reported declines last month. Casino games down 47% In May, Delaware‘s online table games may have generated a […]
Nevada Online Poker Revenues Up 9% In May
In May, Nevada reported an 8.11% jump in gambling revenues to $970.3 million, compared to the same month last year. From that tally online poker generated $862,000 in revenues, an 8.8% improvement over April’s results. Helping to fuel the Silver State’s gambling industry in May was a welterweight world championship unification fight between Floyd Mayweather […]
New Jersey Legislature Approves Sports Betting Bill
One week after the US Supreme Court refused to review New Jersey’s sports betting argument, the state Legislature has gone on ahead and passed a bill that could pave the way for sports betting at casinos and horse-racing tracks across the state. On Thursday, both chambers of the New Jersey legislature voted in favour of […]
888 Poker Terminates Luis Suarez Sponsorship After World Cup Bite Incident
A month ahead of the FIFA World Cup kicking off in Brazil on 12th June, 888poker announced it had signed top striker Luis Suarez as its new brand ambassador. Half way through the competition, however, and the poker operator has decided to drop the 27 year-old Uruguayan footballer after he bit the shoulder of Italian […]
Supreme Court Declines To Review New Jersey Sports Betting Case
New Jersey‘s hope of overturning a federal law preventing legalized sports betting has been dealt a blow after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the state’s sports betting argument. The latest decision comes after Gov. Chris Christie’s efforts to overturn the 22 year old ‘Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act‘ (PASPA) was twice rejected […]
