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From homegrown initiatives at the ballot box in rural America, to the fate of th six concessionaires in Macau as their licenses are set to expire betwwen 2020 nad 2022, to Asian marketplaces like Japan and Vietnam that are set to change the world casino landscape, you'll find all the news that's fit print here. Complementary sections include the over arching Gaming Industry News section as well as Licenses, Taxation, and Online Gambling Regulation.
Donations exceeding $250,000 have enabled backers of expanded gambling in Nebraska to launch their initiative petition drive, and according to the first campaign finance report belonging to the petition group, ...
Fantasy sites FanDuel and DraftKings' use of 2006 federal money processing legislation as the lone validation for their legitimacy is “sheer chutzpah” according a former U.S. congressman who co-sponsored the l...
Don't count New Jersey out of the sports betting game just yet. This morning the full Third Circuit said it would revisit a 2-1 panel decision that threw out an appeal related to New Jersey's sports betting au...
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The three-member New York Gaming Facility Location Board voted unanimously to recommend a casino license go to Tioga Downs today. The final fate of the application lies with the New York St...
The large budget deficit is not getting any smaller in Pennsylvania, as lawmakers search for some way out of the continuing debt. Republican officials have been resisting a tax increase to help the budget and a...
According to an exclusive interview, reporters for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) have disclosed that Georgia Governor Nathan Deal might support the legislature’s current casino bill – if the bill’s fea...
US Representative Dina Titus of Nevada wants a congressional hearing to explore the legalities of daily fantasy sports (DFS). In a letter to the chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Thursda...
Amaya Inc, the owners of the PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker brands finally got permission to launch online poker operations in New Jersey. The company had been fighting hard to obtain a license in New Jersey bu...
After years of unsuccessful efforts by the state to prevent the Tohono O’Odham Nation from opening a casino in Glendale, Arizona, and its attempt to dictate and manage the type of gambling the tribe is permitte...
Whether or not operators of daily fantasy sports (DFS) are violating the Illegal Gambling Business Act (IGBA) is a question for a grand jury, which has been convened by the US Attorney’s office in Tampa, Florid...
Sports betting companies are competing for the Australian betting dollar, which by some estimates surpassed $20 billion last year. Prime time television commercials, social media buys, website pop-ups, and radi...
A judge ruled the attorney general's office either shut down and confiscate machines from all other bingo casinos within 45 days or return cash and gaming machines seized in a raid at the VictoryLand casino. Th...
On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review two Indian gaming cases petitioned by the states of Oklahoma and Wisconsin.
One of the issues at hand was whether to accept the Kialegee Tribal Town’s prop...
MGM Resorts International may have plans to create a casino in Springfield, Massachusetts, however, the company is still showing interest in creating a Connecticut casino. MGM believes that there are several po...
Cyprus Weekly is reporting that there has been a keen interest from casino operators from all over the world in obtaining the sole casino license to be issued in Cyprus. So far six big companies from the United...