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Thanksgiving Gambling on Plymouth Rock? Who Knew the Pilgrims Got Their Game on Back in the Day
Thanksgiving is the official start to the holiday season in the United States, a time of year when families and friends come together to celebrate their American heritage, not to mention great food and football. After all, it's some low-stress merriment, free...
Massachusetts Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr Pushing to Legalize State Online Gambling
Massachusetts Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr (R-Gloucester) is campaigning to grant two forthcoming casinos in the state with the right to offer online gambling. The MGM Springfield and Wynn Everett haven't even opened their doors and won't for months, but that isn't...
Brian Sandoval Blasts Nevada AG Adam Laxalt Over Pro-RAWA Support
Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval has publicly reprimanded his state's attorney general, Adam Laxalt, over the baffling pro-RAWA comments he made Tuesday on the local political talk show Ralston Live. Laxalt, whose grandfather Paul Laxalt governed the state from 1967-1971, told veteran political reporter...
DDoS Online Gambling Hacker Teen Told to Get a Real Life by UK Judge, Who Gives Him a Chance to Have One
DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks have plagued the online gambling industry, and online retailers in general, since the dawn of e-commerce. These cyberattacks can be devastating to business, crippling a website’s operations by flooding its bandwidth with thousands of simultaneous requests,...
Massachusetts Casino Industry Becomes Local Cause for Concern
Massachusetts’ casino experiment doesn’t appear to be going to according plan. The packaging has barely been unwrapped on the state’s shiny, brand new casino industry, but it’s already causing anxiety in the regional press. For a start, Plainridge Park, the first casino...
Pennsylvania Lawmakers Looking to Regulate Daily Fantasy Sports
The Pennsylvania House Gaming Oversight Committee has already voted in favor of moving an online poker bill to its chamber's floor for continued discussion, and now the panel of lawmakers is trying to find a sufficient measure to regulate and permit daily...
Betfair Receives New Jersey Betting Exchange License
New Jersey has finally licensed Betfair to operate the first ever legal and regulated online betting exchange in the United States. The UK operator, which invented the betting exchange model in 1999 and has since risen to become one of the biggest...
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Voices Concerns Regarding Daily Fantasy
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell seemed to amend his league's yearlong position on daily fantasy sports (DFS) on Saturday during a fan forum in Minnesota with Vikings co-owner Mark Wilf. When the inevitable subject arose, football's most powerful man seemed to slightly distance...
Full Tilt Going to Steam to Grow Poker Player Base
Full Tilt Poker is coming to the Steam marketplace, the app receiving approval after being vetted by the entertainment gaming distribution platform's community of users. Over 125 million gamers strong, Steam will begin offering Full Tilt's play-money product sometime before the New...
Sports Betting Could Soon Come Online in New Jersey
Sports betting in New Jersey will have its day in court sometime in February when the United States Court of Appeals for the Third District holds an en banc hearing to determine whether the state has the right to authorize the industry....
