Lawmakers in Ireland are busy at work creating a new regulatory body that will oversee the nation's gambling industry.It's a move that's been a long time coming, but is still a long ways from becoming a reality. Ireland's vision for an authority to oversee the gaming is spelled out in a new report titled, Inter-Departmental…
When it comes to online gambling in the United States, New Jersey is the leader of the pack. The Garden State led the fight for regulation and is enforcing those regulations with real vigor. To wit, earlier this month several New Jersey online licensees were hit with fines for a series of infractions involving self-excluded…
Romanian players are finding that their deposits don't go quite as far as they did before the government imposed a two percent tax on deposits. It's an imposition on players that was originally a gift to operators, but is anyone in Romania even paying attention to the new tax - including the Romanian government? At…
Pennsylvania's regulated sports betting interests took a hit in February as sharp bettors and a slight handle put sportsbook revenue at anemic levels. All told, Pennsylvania sportsbooks took in $31.5 million worth of wagers in February, but cashed in revenue of just $1.95 million for the month. That's down about 1.6 percent over January's numbers,…
Are gambling operators allowed to promote gambling? That's a question that the regulators at the UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) have seemingly asked and answered - if their recent decision to ban a Sky Bet ad featuring sports presenter Jeff Stelling is any indication. Last week, regulators at the ASA issued a ruling banning a…
Sports betting's march through the United States of America continues this week as the Ohio State Senate introduced SB111, which would legalize the activity throughout the state. It's a bill that, if passed, would give the Buckeye State a very effective and progressive version of US sports betting. SB111 was introduced by Senators John Eklund…
New Jersey's experiment with regulated online gambling has been going so well recently that it's actually a newsworthy event when the state's operators fail to post record monthly revenue. That's what happened in February when Garden State operators not only failed to beat their own records for the month, they also failed to post an…
Online and mobile sports betting is currently not available to West Virginia players as the state's wagering platform provider works out a dispute with a third-party vendor. It's a kink in the system that operators definitely don't need, and it comes as the state's lawmakers decide whether or not to expand online gambling options for…
A California man is forfeiting $90,000 from funds in his New Jersey online gambling accounts on account of the fact that he doesn't live in New Jersey but has been gambling online there from his home in California anyways. The gambler in question, Vinh Dao, somehow managed to bypass some of the most sophisticated geo-tracking…
UK bookmaking giant William Hill posted an astonishing £722 million ($948.5 million USD) loss in 2018, but company officials are writing off the losses and say everything is actually fine at the company. While this statement may seem counterintuitive to the layman, investors are largely accepting the situation, leaving William Hill stock prices largely unaffected…
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