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 …
Usually, our coverage involves the launch of new US-based sportsbooks and how they stack up to their more refined competitors overseas. After all, offshore betting sites have been taking US customers for almost 30 years, long before the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act was overturned by the Supreme Court in May 2018. But one …
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 …
“It’s a cancer that needs to be out of the state of Utah.” Utah state Sen. Karen Mayne announced Thursday she is drafting a bill to combat “fringe gambling” and the West Valley City Democrat did not mince words during her Capitol news conference press conference in Salt Lake City. “If they want this kind …
In a move that few saw coming, the White House announced on Tuesday that President Donald Trump pardoned Edward DeBartolo Jr., the former owner of the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers. DeBartolo was included in a United States gambling case that, to this day, remains one of the biggest scandals involving a professional sports franchise owner. …