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Potentially illegal gambling is a major topic in Alabama these days. Earlier this week, the State Attorney General scripted an opinion that daily fantasy sports is illegal gambling, ordering DFS sites to cease-and-desist by May 1. Now US Attorney George Beck is questioning the legality of electronic bingo games at the state’s tribal casinos....

Steve Wynn, CEO of Las Vegas casino giant Wynn Resorts, is a busy man these days. He has billions of dollars worth of projects underway from the east coast’s Everett, Massachusetts, all the way to Macau, China. Between monitoring progress on those ventures, and possibly testifying in front of a federal court, he’s found time to announce...

After 14 months of diligent scrutiny into the background of PokerStars and its relatively new owners at Amaya Gaming, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) granted PokerStars a transactional waiver to operate online poker and casino games in the state in September 2015. As the expiration date approached, instead of granting a...

There’s a lot happening down on the farm these days. Those lively lambs are at it again in Microgaming’s updated release of an old online slot favorite, Bar Bar Black Sheep. This time around, the developer has added some new features, as well as expanding the reel-set to a 5×3 grid. The original Bar...

Fly into Las Angeles and you’ll witness the famous LAX sign. O’Hare in Chicago is known for its tubular neon walkway. IAH in Houston is most proud of its moonwalking astronaut cow. But when you fly in or out of Las Vegas, the airport’s most unique feature is its slot machines. Yes, you can...

When Mohegan Sun paid Penn National Gaming $280 million for the Pocono Downs Racetrack along Highway 315 in Plains Township, PA in 2005, it looked nothing like it does today. Over the next ten years, the rebranded Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs evolved from a worn down horse track into a renowned gambling centre,...

Once again, lawmakers in New York will be looking at the possibility of legalizing and regulating internet poker. Assemblyman J. Gary Pretlow has introduced yet another online poker bill, A-9049. A companion bill, S-5302, was introduced in the Senate. Both measures hit the table in January 2016, giving New York legislators a chance to...

At 4:00pm ET on March 16, the official soft launch of PokerStars NJ commenced. As is often the case is such situations, many beta testers took to the forums of 2+2 (PokerStars NJ – Official Thread) to convey their experiences – both good and bad – and communicate one-on-one with site representative, ‘PokerStars Dylan’....

In October 2015, Zhe Wang of Mississauga, Ontario became one of the world’s luckiest people, and she didn’t even know it. She won Ontario’s Lotto 6/49 drawing, worth a life-altering, multi-million jackpot of $64 million, and has been officially named the winner of the largest Canadian lottery prize ever awarded. Five months ago, the...

The question as to whether daily fantasy sports (DFS) is a game of skill or gambling – i.e. legal or illegal – has been posed many times across the US in recent months, but never in such an illuminating way as it was in California, where legislators are still struggling to find compromise in...