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According to several provinces in Canada, online casinos who aren’t licensed and regulated locally are committing an offense by accepting Canadian players. This argument has gone on for the last few years, and now British Columbia has taken action – sort of. The BC Gaming Policy Enforcement Branch (GPEB) wrote and delivered official letters...

The tides of land-based casinos are flowing in a whole new direction these days. Where once gambling was a popular pastime for all adult ages, today’s generation is much harder to reach. Now Gamblit Gaming is leading the charge to ‘gamblify‘ VR games – Millennial favorites like The Brookhaven Experiment – to draw them...

While many of you daily fantasy sports fans are 100% focused on the recent arrival NFL football season, there’s another season right around the corner that will be grabbing all of your attention soon enough. That’s right – I’m talking about the dreaded Tax Season. And if you live anywhere in North America –...

New Jersey has been abuzz with talk of a November referendum that would pave the way for two new, North NJ casinos. Such a possibility has been unheard of for nearly 4 decades, as gambling facilities have always been restricted to Atlantic City. Now, with the vote just two months away,plans for a Liberty...

In every region of the world, slot machine taxes are always higher than levies on table games. All casino operators knew that when they went into business. The payments they make to their respective jurisdictions generally help to fund their government, as well as major community programs and non-profits. But in Pennsylvania, one casino...

A new Canada casino is always a huge event with the locals, and it was no different yesterday when the Grand Villa Edmonton held its grand opening. Excited patrons lined the entryway to the multi-faceted entertainment complex in the city’s ICE District as hundreds of community officials and planners turned out to celebrate the...

MGM Resorts International is one of the world’s largest integrated resort companies, with around two dozen casinos and hotels from the US to China. One of their latest endeavors – the MGM National Harbor casino resort in Prince George’s County, Maryland, is set to open later this year. But the company is rethinking the...

Massachusetts’ gambling industry is growing immensely these days. For years, horse and greyhound racing, combined with a state lottery, were the only legal gambling options. Just recently, Plainridge Park opened a new slots parlor, and two major Las Vegas corporations started building resort casinos in Everett and Springfield, plus a tribal casino coming to...

There aren’t many Trump casinos left in the world today. Those that weren’t sold off and renamed have since been closed and/or demolished. As of now, only one casino remains with the Trump name atop its towers – so named for its former owner, now-Presidential candidate Donald Trump – and the way things are...

Some of the best novels of all time have been successfully adapted onto the big screen. Margaret Mitchell’s ‘Gone With the Wind‘, Mario Puzo’s ‘The Godfather‘, Stephen King’s ‘Shawshank Redemption‘ – you get the idea. But just how successful could a book telling the history of DFS, and subsequent movie of the same theme, really...