Sheldon Adelson, the founder and CEO of Las Vegas Sands, passed away on January 11 in Malibu, California. And though Adelson was a pivotal figure for the US gambling industry in life, his impact in death may resonate even more profoundly for the market going forward. This is largely due to the fact that Adelson, …
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced last night that he would extend the statewide curfew as Coronavirus-related deaths in Ohio surpass 7,000 – a staggering new high. The curfew runs from 10 PM to 5 AM, and health experts believe that the lockdowns help flatten the curve in Ohio. The measure exempts all local businesses to …
An economic collapse, a global pandemic, and a contested election all walk into a bar. The bar’s name: 2020. Despite the hardships of the past year, there are places where the US betting industry took a win. Six places to be exact. This year several key pieces of legislation and citizen’s initiatives made their way …
As the dust settles around the 2020 US Presidential election, one of the most concrete, no-doubt outcomes of this cycle is that the gambling industry saw a big mandate play out in favor of expanded gaming. Five states – Colorado, Louisiana, Maryland, Nebraska, and South Dakota – all had gambling measures on their ballots, and …
If you live in the United States and regularly gamble online, most of that gaming naturally takes place at legal international betting sites. However, with the 2018 PASPA overturn, there has been plenty of – ahem – action in various state legislatures to pass new sports betting laws. To date, roughly 20 US states have …
Online gambling and sports betting with international operators has long been legal in the United States. However, with the PASPA overturn in 2018, the landscape started to change domestically. As of Q3 2020, over a third of all US states have passed local sports betting laws to allow the pastime within their borders. Some states …
For the last 25 years or more, the only option for online casino gaming in the United States was to use an international gambling website or sports betting operator. And though this arrangement continues to be the most prevalent with millions of avid gamblers patronizing these legitimate gaming sites every day, there has been a …
The future of domestic casino gaming is online, which is clear to anyone even cursorily involved with the US gambling industry. This has been especially highlighted during the 2020 coronavirus outbreak in the United States. During the months-long lockdowns – and even now with limited-capacity reopenings – states with physical brick-and-mortar gambling venues have been …
If you’re an avid brick-and-mortar poker player, chances are you’re now an avid online poker player instead. And if you aren’t, you’re probably strongly considering it. That, of course, is thanks to the widespread card room and casino shutdowns brought on by they 2020 coronavirus outbreak in America, which took away most poker players’ legitimate …
Michigan’s saving grace is picking up steam. Back before it became one of the laughing stocks of the political cataclysm that is 2020 America, Michigan – and embattled Governor Gretchen Whitmer (who is now the subject of a recall petition in the state) – passed and signed MI gambling laws legalizing sports betting and online …