3704 stories by Philip Conneller
West Virginia Online Casino, Poker Bill Clears Legislature But Plug Pulled for Online Sports Betting
West Virginia’s Lottery Interactive Wagering Act sailed through the Senate on Friday, which means the state stands on the brink of legalizing online casino gaming and poker. It’s not West Virginia’s first foray into online gambling -- it already has online sports...
Fifteen States Join Legal Challenge to New Wire Act Interpretation
A group of 15 states led by New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan have joined a legal challenge kickstarted by the New Hampshire Lottery to the DOJ’s new interpretation of the Wire Act. On Friday, the Pennsylvania Lottery filed to join the case...
Rhode Island Republicans Threaten Lawsuit to Block Mobile Sports Betting
Rhode Island Republicans have thrown a spectacular monkey wrench into the works of a legislative movement to authorize mobile sports betting. On Thursday, the state's Republican Party Chairman, Brandon Bell, threatened to sue Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo’s administration unless the legislature opts...
BC Regulator Probe Launched After Hundreds of Intact Grand Villa Casino Playing Cards Found in Dumpster
The British Columbia Lottery Corp (BCLC) is looking into a dumpster -- specifically, a dumpster that was found full almost to the brim of intact, unpunched playing cards belonging to the Grand Villa Casino in Burnaby. The cache would have proved a...
Connecticut Sports Betting Bill Would Allow Off-Track, Lottery, and Mobile Wagering, Leagues Would Get Cut
A Connecticut sports betting bill dropped in the General Assembly this week wouldn’t just restrict wagering to casinos, it would offer off-track betting sites and the CT Lottery a piece of the market too, both online and land-based. It would also offer...
Florida Lawyer Wrongfully Convicted Over $300 Million ‘Gambling Ring’ Turns Tables on Prosecutors With $50 Million Lawsuit
A lawyer wrongfully imprisoned in 2014 for being the “mastermind” of a $300 million Florida “gambling ring” is suing the state’s former AG Pam Bondi and former Seminole County Sheriff Don Eslinger, among others, for $50 million, alleging malicious and wrongful prosecution....
New Jersey Regulator Seizes $90,000 After Player Gambled Online from California
Caesars Interactive and the Borgata, Atlantic City have been ordered to forfeit more than $90,000 sitting since 2014 in the online gambling accounts of a man who gambled in New Jersey remotely from 3,000-odd miles away in California, the Associated Press reports....
California Sports Betting Ballot Initiative Goes Down in Flames, Gathers No Signatures
A campaign to put sports betting on the California ballot has hit the skids without gathering a single signature of support, but Russel Lowery -- consultant for the group Californians for Sports Betting -- told LegalSportsReport this week he believed he had...
Gamblers Vexed as BetBright Shuts Down, Voiding Outstanding Bets, 24 Hours After News of 888 Acquisition
Customers of Irish online betting platform BetBright were complaining they had been left high and dry this week after the company abruptly ceased trading on Tuesday, declaring all outstanding bets void, with just a week to go before the famous Cheltenham horse...
Real Madrid Stunned by Ajax in Champions League Drama as Dutch Side Overturns the Odds
Soccer superpower Real Madrid went crashing out of the European Champions League on Tuesday night in one of the most shocking results in the history of the tournament. The Spanish team was outthought, outplayed -- and well beaten -- by a brilliant...
