State and Federal Gambling News in the USA

Below you will find the latest gambling news on a State and Federal level in the United States. The gambling news covers information on topics such as online poker, daily fantasy sports betting, commercial casinos, state lotteries, racetrack wagering, casinos games on the internet, land-based poker rooms, charitable gaming, and tribal casinos to name a few. Basically, anything related to gambling in the USA on a State-by-State or Federal level will be covered including online and land-based activities.


Regulations surrounding online poker are constantly being reviewed with every state having the onus to set up its own laws. Currently, Delaware, Nevada and New Jersey are the only states where online poker is licensed. New Jersey’s neighbor, Pennsylvania is slated to be the...
 

Canadian based Amaya Inc, the parent company of the PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker websites, has received a six month license renewal from New Jersey authorities.  PokerStars, the biggest online poker website in the world fought long and hard to enter the U.S market for a...
 

The month of February saw poker rooms in Nevada earn $8,975,000, which is an increase of 5.44% from the same period last year. This information was based on gaming figures released by the Nevada gaming regulators. There are over 70 poker rooms in Nevada and combined they...
 

The new rules issued on games by the Bay State’s Attorneys follow comparable moves as previously made by the state of Indiana and Virginia, when the announcement was made regarding regulations for the thriving daily fantasy sports industry. These regulations from Maura...
 

Times are hard and more and more American states are contemplating balancing their budgets through tax revenues from online gambling. New York State is one of them. An item in OnlinePokerReport revealed that the Empire State budget proposal covered by Senate Resolution No. R4330...
 

A gambling dispute between the state of Florida and the Seminole Tribe is not likely to reach conclusion until October this year. Both parties have requested a federal judge to postpone the trial until fall, which could potentially decide the fate of the country’s third...
 

Atlantic City has enjoyed a monopoly on casino gambling in the Garden State for four decades. However, that may all change by the end of the year as New Jersey voters will get to decide if two casinos can come up in north Jersey. Both houses of the state legislature approved a...
 

PokerStars, the largest online poker card room in the world is all set to enter the New Jersey market with a soft-launch scheduled for today, March 16th. The site expects to be fully operational by March 21st. Earlier in 2011, the US facing sites of PokerStars and Full Tilt...
 

As the state of New Jersey moves to welcome PokerStars to its online gambling landscape, the state’s gaming authority published record revenue numbers from the industry for the month of February 2016. According to the Garden State’s Division of Gaming Enforcement, licensed...
 

Another sign that PokerStars is serious about making a huge impact on the New Jersey online gambling market: The group’s parent company, Amaya Gaming, announced late last week that it had entered into a license agreement with NetEnt, the Stockholm-listed casino content...
 
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