Delaware Casino Relief Bill Introduced as Revenues Plummet
Delaware’s online gambling market generated a tiny $2.4 million in revenues for the whole of 2017, with that figure representing a steep 18% decline compared to the previous year. By comparison, New Jersey with a population of 9 million people, or almost ten times that of Delaware (952k), generated online gambling revenues more than a […]
Investors Lose Billions after Crown Resorts and Melco International Part Ways
Australian gaming group Crown Resorts – owned by James Packer – recently finalized its split from Melco International, with the company subsequently collecting around $3 billion from the offloading of its 34% stake in Melco Crown. According to Packer, the money will be used to help pay off debts accrued by Crown Resorts, and help […]
Chris Moneymaker Offers New Players Coaching Lessons
Anyone familiar with poker has heard the name Chris Moneymaker, who in 2003 helped kick off the poker boom after wining the World Series of Poker Main Event for $2.5 million. What made his WSOP victory stand out so much is that he earned his way through to the $10,000 tournament via an $86 satellite […]
New Jersey Voices its Opposition to RAWA
It seems as though politicians have ramped up their efforts to ban online gambling in the United States, with some members of Congress having sent a letter in support of the Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) to the US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on December 19th. Nevertheless, the letter was not discovered by […]
PokerStars Launches French and Spanish Shared Liquidity
It was at the end of December 2017 that France’s gambling regulator AIUEL said that it would be sharing poker liquidity with Spain in just a few short weeks. On January 16th, PokerStars subsequently announced that it had become the first online poker room to allow players from both Spain and France to compete at […]
How Did New Jersey and Pennsylvania’s Casinos Fare in 2017?
Pennsylvania and New Jersey represents the USA’s second and third biggest casino markets respectively, with the former having supplanted the latter back in 2013. Since then, the gap in revenues between the two markets has remained intact, as clearly demonstrated by the annual results just released by the two neighboring states. Pa Worth $3.22BN in […]
Esports Arena Las Vegas to Open March 22nd
In June 2017, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval approved a piece of legislation called Senate Bill 240 which was designed to make eSports legal in Nevada by the start of the following month. In so doing, Sandoval demonstrated that he had foresight to understand the lucrative opportunity presented by the industry, and that he had the […]
