The 2023 US Poker Open Championship paid out $1.7 million in prizes to their top six contenders. Martin Zamani, a professional poker player from Boca Raton, Fl., took home the top prize of $666,000 at the event held in Las Vegas, March 23rd – April 4th. The no-limit Texas Hold’em tournament had ten events that …
In the United States, there are just four major categories of regulated gambling outside the various state and interstate lotteries: Casino gambling Sports betting Poker Horse betting In the online space, betting on horses has always been the most domestically available gambling market, as over 40 states allow the pastime. The Interstate Horse Racing Act …
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 …
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 …
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 …
One Presidential hopeful has pushed his chips forward and wants to go all-in when it comes to legal online poker in the United States. New York entrepreneur Andrew Yang, a contender for the 2020 Democratic nomination, recently took to Twitter to voice his support for the nationwide legalization of online poker. The Democrat, who hopes …
While the sports season has slowed in May, NJ still fairs well. May is not a particularly highly active sports month, therefore states with legal sports betting like New Jersey has taken a hit. Gross online gambling revenue dipped in the month of May from $53.08 million to $52.09 million for online casino, sports gambling, …
The DOJ flip-flops on domestic gambling stance which has major implications across the nation. An Opinion given by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2011 concerning the limitations of the Federal Wire Act has recently been reversed, or reconsidered, by a Memo released by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), a division of the DOJ, …