Billionaire casino owner Shel Adelson donates millions of dollars every year to GOP candidates but, according to Senator Marc Rubio (R-FL), that money doesn't buy any influence when it comes to gambling legislation. Rubio, who has received money from Adelson and, coincidentally, supports the Adelson-backed Restoration of the American Wire Act (RAWA), spoke on the…
If you've ever it seemed like Americans prefer illegal sports betting over regulated online betting, congratulations you had it right all along. Even better, the big brains at the University of Massachusetts recently conducted a study that backs up that claim. The study was conducted by the UMass School of Public Health and Health Sciences…
It only took a year and a half, but the New Jersey online gambling industry finally has some good news to report. During the 2014 reporting period, Garden State igaming drew in $122 million in revenue. That represents some real progress from its early days and is turning into the poster child for regulated online…
Two lawmakers are targeting legal online horse wagering in the US with a RAWA-like bill that would outlaw the practice entirely. U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) are looking to repeal the Interstate Horseracing Act of 1978. That's the act that allowed for the creation of offtrack betting (OTB) parlors…
Analysts at Morgan Stanley have been gazing into the future of regulated American online gambling and they didn't particularly like what they saw. Yesterday, the financial giant slashed its prediction for US online gambling growth through 2020 by by more than half. The company suggests that the budding industry will only do about $2.7 billion…
Earlier this week the National Advertising Division (NAD), an arm of the Better Business Bureau, told DraftKings to stop saying it was the largest fantasy sports site on the web. The decision is yet another salvo in the battle between the two biggest sites in the rapidly growing weekly/daily fantasy sports market. It's also a…
The Restoration of America's Wire Act (RAWA) had its day before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations and the results were every bit as insane as you might have imagined. Anti-online gambling members of Congress used the hearing to air out a litany of complaints against online gambling that ranged from…
Billionaire Shel Adelson's influence over his pets in the US Congress is, seemingly, the reason why today's hearing on the Restoration of America's Wire Act (RAWA) is a decidedly one-sided affair. That's the accusation being made by the American Spectator. According to the very conservative magazine, Adelson is the reason why no pro-online gambling voices…
Delaware online poker revenue numbers for January 2015 are in and the story they tell is pretty grim. Compared to last January, online poker earnings for the state were down a whopping 220%, according to the Delaware Lottery Commission. In dollars and cents, that's just $27,695.45 and nowhere near what the numbers state officials were…
Anyone with an interest in the advancement of regulated online gambling in the United States just picked up a brand new set of friends, the Democratic Governors Association. The group, which consists of 18 sitting State Governors, wrote a letter to top Senators and Congressmen urging them to block passage of the Restoration of America’s…
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