An Assembly panel approved a bill on Thursday that would allow licensed casinos in Atlantic City and racetracks to conduct wagering on professional and collegiate sport or athletic events, if a federal law is overturned.
Read More . . .The brother-in-law of US Representative John F. Tierney was convicted in US District Court in Boston yesterday of racketeering and gambling charges.
Read More . . .Gov. Andrew Cuomo's widely reported job-creation editorial Sunday is being interpreted as a sign he'll carry the flag for a constitutional change that could legalize casino gambling in New York and one day lead to a full-service Catskill casino.
Read More . . .Two men charged in a case that shut down U.S. operations for three Internet poker companies are likely to go on trial in March, a judge told lawyers Thursday.
Read More . . .Sports betting in New Jersey came a step closer to reality today, with a Senate panel approving a bill to allow casinos and racetracks to apply for licenses to offer it.
Read More . . .Nevada gaming regulators have started to review a couple of applications related to intrastate Internet poker, according to Gaming Control Board Chairman Mark Lipparelli.
Read More . . .Joe Barton was hanging around the cabin with the other 12-year-old kids at Camp Wisdom, a Boy Scouts facility in Dallas, when one boy pulled out a deck of cards and they started to play poker.
Read More . . .D.C. Lottery officials do not plan to change the essential components of their controversial online gambling plan after holding nine community meetings to hear concerns and dispel myths about the program.
Read More . . .Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., will announce today that he will not seek re-election next year, capping a 32-year career in Congress, a spokesman said Monday.
Read More . . .Last Friday, the U.S. House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade held its second hearing on internet gaming in as many months, with this month’s topic focusing in part on how proposed online poker legislation should be regulated at the federal and state levels
Read More . . .In Friday’s hearing before the House Energy and Commerce committee’s subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade, supporters and opponents of online poker were constantly challenging each other
Read More . . .Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) today warned a House subcommittee that the legalization of Internet poker would enable the spread of gambling to every computer, iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, Android and Windows phone in the country.
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