A Las Vegas man who worked for online poker companies was sentenced to five months in prison for helping deceive banks into processing hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal gambling transactions.
Read More . . .With billions of dollars at stake, the head of the gambling industry's main lobbying group sounded a pessimistic note Tuesday about the prospect of Congress passing Internet regulatory laws this year.
Read More . . .A push by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to legalize online poker in Congress's lame-duck session could run into a buzz-saw of opposition from state legislatures and governors.
Read More . . .The Maryland State Lottery is planning to allow Marylanders to buy traditional lottery games through their computers and smartphones.
Read More . . .The US state of Vermont will investigate the benefits of internet gambling and online casinos following the US justice department's decision to ease its long-standing opposition to the idea.
Read More . . .Opposition to the Reid-Kyl federal Internet poker bill that was leaked to the press about two weeks ago has recently been vocalized by several parties.
Read More . . .If the recent airing of the dirty laundry — including the trading of public insults between Sens. Harry Reid and Dean Heller — is any indication, the delicate effort to legalize online poker is mired in deep political quicksand.
Read More . . .Churchill Downs Inc. is asking a federal judge in Texas to keep account wagering services such as Churchill's TwinSpires.com open, arguing that a new state effort to block online gambling is unconstitutional.
Read More . . .Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was trying to brand fellow Nevada Sen. Dean Heller a failure earlier this month when he wrote that passing an online poker bill was “the most important issue facing Nevada since Yucca Mountain.”
Read More . . .A proposed federal Internet gambling bill released last week is likely to face resistance in Delaware, where the bill could override state laws, according to professors.
Read More . . .Delaware's decision to expand legal betting on professional football games beyond casinos and into bars and restaurants seems to be paying off for tavern owners and the state.
Read More . . .Nevada is about to embark on its real-money online gaming experiment, and it doesn’t necessarily want to have to license firms like Visa, Bank of America and Google.
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