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Texas Governor Slams State Regulator’s Online Gambling Ambitions
Texas officials must cease their line of inquiry into legalizing online gambling, Governor Greg Abbot said this week. In a letter to the Chairman of the Texas Gambling Commission, Abbot said that a state prohibition on gambling expansion is in place to...
Global Poker Index and USA TODAY Sports Partner to “Sportify” Game
The Global Poker Index (GPI) and USA TODAY Sports Media Group are joining strengths in a shared mission to "sportify" the game of poker and revolutionize how it's played. Acquired by Internet entrepreneur Alexandre Dreyfus in 2012 under his Mediarex sports and...
DFS Could be Outlawed By DOJ By End of Year As Rumors Swirl
Daily fantasy sports (DFS) could soon be declared illegal at the federal level by the Department of Justice (DOJ), according to a Washington DC-based unnamed source who spoke to The New York Post this week. In mid-October, it was reported by The...
MLB Strikes Deal With Anti-Match-Fixing Integrity Firm in a First for US Sports
Major League Baseball has become the first US sports league to employ a sports integrity monitor to guard against match-fixing. The league announced this week that it had inked a multi-year deal with London-based firm SportIM for an undisclosed amount of money....
Controversial Connecticut Casino Expansion Kicks into Gear, Receives Five Site Proposals
A planned Connecticut casino expansion on the state's northern border is progressing, despite a lawsuit by MGM Resorts that's seeking to snuff it out completely. Connecticut’s Mashantucket Pequots and Mohegan tribes, which will operate the venture jointly should it go ahead, announced...
Daily Fantasy Sports Declared Illegal by New York Attorney General
Daily fantasy sports (DFS) is no longer legal in New York following an investigation by the state's lead legal attorney, market leaders DraftKings and FanDuel both receiving cease-and-desist letters on Tuesday. "Our investigation has found that, unlike traditional fantasy sports, daily fantasy...
Joe McKeehen Takes Down WSOP Main Event Final Table in Dominant Fashion, Wins $7.6 Million as New Poker Champ
Joe McKeehen is the last man standing. 6,420 players ponied up $10,000 in cash back in July to enter the 2015 WSOP Main Event. After 10 days of competition, McKeehen had every last chip in play and is now officially the 2015...
Station Casinos’ IPO Faces Union Challenge Over Deutsche Bank Libor-fixing Scandal
Station Casinos’ stock market ambitions were facing a challenge from Las Vegas’ most powerful union this week. The Culinary Workers Union (Local 266) has a longstanding beef with the casino company, which is anti-union, and is attempting to derail its application for...
Amaya Slashes 2015 Economic Forecast, Stock Price Tumbles
Amaya Inc. is cutting its 2015 full-year financial projections for revenues and net earnings, an adjustment that will naturally also lower expectations for per share profits. The parent company to PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker is reducing its year-end revenue projections by...
WSOP November Nine Day Two Recap: Stern, Cannuli, Steinberg Out the Door
For the second consecutive day, the WSOP November Nine final table started off with a bang, and then became a bit dull. There were some fireworks throughout the three hours of otherwise mostly unexciting play. The first bust out came on the...
