As he did in the last session, Rep. Tony Cardenas (D-CA) has introduced legislation, The Greyhound Protection Act of 2021, that would amend the 1961 Wire Act to prohibit greyhound racing.
Over the last five years, US residents have seen a steady stream of new legal online gambling options. The current increase in gambling options rivals the casino boom of the early and mid-1990s. From 1978 to that time, customers had two choices, Atlantic City or Las Vegas. By 1993 the number of states with legal…
After years of handcuffing players with a zero-tolerance policy for gambling and speaking out against the ills of sports betting, the NFL appears to be fully embracing not only sports betting but gambling in general.
It’s inevitable. Every season, there is a string of bad calls that significantly impact the outcome of sporting events. It’s also unavoidable that these blown calls send sports fans (and sports bettors) into a tizzy.
The gambling industry is having a robust (and long overdue) responsible gambling discussion. One of the critical subplots in the conversation is means-testing or affordability checks and, by extension, reducing revenue gambling companies obtain from problem gamblers.
The National Council on Problem Gambling has an admirable mission and is full of great people who do great work. What the organization has always struggled with is funding. And that lack of funding causes the NCPG to spend a lot of time trying to secure funding. That time would be better spent achieving its…
After a one-year hiatus, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) has returned to The Rio, and thus far, despite lingering COVID concerns and restrictions, the series has gone off without a hitch. Part of the festivities every year is the Poker Hall of Fame nominations and induction ceremony.
The US gambling landscape has changed significantly in the last five years. If we rewind the clock ten years, the landscape is even more unrecognizable. And understand, the industry’s evolution is in its early stages and far from over.
Gambling advertising is a hot topic of late, as industry insiders have started raising alarms that the current glut of advertisements will inevitably lead to a European-style crackdown. These warnings could already be too late, as Massachusetts regulators are already considering restricting gambling advertisements.
G2E week provides a constant barrage of news. From the panels to the showroom floor to the timed press releases. One bit of information that caught my attention was a collaboration between Conscious Gaming, IXUP, and GeoComply that, as the press release states, creates “a next-generation technology solution to help facilitate safe and responsible gambling…
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