A bettor walked up to the counter at the MGM Mirage sports book Sunday morning with a question -- "How much can I bet?" "I told him, 'whatever you like,'" said Jay Rood, MGM vice president of race and sports. "He took the [Dallas] Cowboys for six figures." Ouch.
Read More . . .Adam Silver, commissioner of North America's National Basketball Association (NBA) league, has predicted that struggling state budgets and a wider acceptance of gambling by US citizens will lead to legalised sports betting across the country.
Read More . . .While the Trump Plaza Casino is due to shut its doors on September 16th after 30 years of operations in Atlantic City, its online partner Betfair will not be exiting the state's nascent iGaming market and will continue offering its online site Betfaircasino.com to New Jersey residents.
Read More . . .Parx Casino, the largest casino operation in Pennsylvania, US has joined forces with mobile technology company JOINGO to launch a new social casino.
Read More . . .Las Vegas may finally be closer than ever to getting its own professional sports team.
Read More . . .PayPal has been in the news of late for its possible spinout from Ebay and its ongoing search for a new CEO, but there's another largely overlooked storyline that could have an equally big impact on its future.
Read More . . .Some of the newest incarnations of fantasy football look a lot more like gambling than intricate, outsmart-your-opponent strategy games.
Read More . . .Online fantasy football contests that charge entry fees and pay prizes have widely proliferated throughout the Internet, Nevertheless, another popular form of pro football gaming pay-to-enter NFL survivor pools are rarely found on the web, despite their mainstream popularity.
Read More . . .It's still 'game over' for Kern County internet cafes but many are now turning to online internet cafes instead.
Read More . . .The Delaware Lottery has reported a month-on-month drop in iGaming revenue during July, despite the US state having experienced an increase in online poker revenue.
Read More . . .When lawmakers carved out an exemption for fantasy sports in a 2006 law targeting online poker, no one predicted that it would spawn an online gambling operation that may someday rival the millions wagered daily in Las Vegas sports books.
Read More . . .Online and social games development company Quickspin has agreed a deal to supply its entire portfolio of casino games to Rational Group-owned internet poker brand Full Tilt Poker.
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