Estados Unidos

US.- Lawmakers in the state of Delaware are ready to study the possibility of reducing state’s taxes on casino revenues as gaming venues are in danger of shuting down their operations due to financial problems. Senate Bill 114, introduced by Sen. Brian Bushweller, would cut the tax on table...

US.- Massachusetts authorities have joined the federal debate related to a potential legal sports betting industry. Over 18 states have shown their interest in legalising sports betting operations if the federal government is forced to change current PASPA legislation under a resolution released by the US Supreme Court. After...

The supreme court on Monday suggested it may side with New Jersey in its effort to make sports gambling legal, a case that could make betting on football, basketball and other sports widely available. The justices heard New Jersey’s challenge to a federal law that bars states from authorizing gambling in...

Casino revenues of Atlantic City have dipped by 2.7 percent in July but it isn’t enough to make the state gaming officials push the panic button. In fact, New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement David Rebuck finds the figure “encouraging” since it only reflects the continued stabilization of the casino...

The code of the American Gaming Association calls on casino operators to be more transparent with patrons and provide training to employees. Its announcement in Las Vegas came within months of two high-profile criminal cases that drew attention to the effects of compulsive gambling. The casino industry’s largest lobbying...

Scott Blumstein venceu o principal torneio de póquer ao bater outro estreante, Daniel Ott. Com 25 anos, o jovem ganhou 8,1 milhões de dólares (cerca de 7 milhões de euros) em Las Vegas. O principal torneio de póquer do mundo, o World Series of Poker, teve este ano dois finalistas estreantes. Acabou ganho por um jovem contabilista de 25 anos: Scott...

Jeff Sessions, the US Attorney General is reportedly considering the reintroduction of a federal ban on all state-regulated online gambling in the US. Reports in the Huffington Post say that Sessions could consider reintroducing the ban despite a lack of public support and strong opposition from the National Governors...

The Department of Justice have recently announced that Absolute Poker is to compensate players through a claims process similar to that of Full Tilt, which is part of an ongoing civil complaint settlement following the events of online poker’s “Black Friday” in 2011. In April 2011, the U.S. Department...

When Toya Mitchell first learned MGM Resorts International had won a contract to build a new casino down the street from her house in Prince George’s County, Maryland, she was cautiously optimistic. Mitchell, the owner of Lord & Mitchell, a small, women-run business specializing in customized promotional and printed...

In October 2016, the world saw the most powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack ever registered in cyber history. The destructive Mirai botnet brought down sites including Twitter, the Guardian, Netflix, Reddit, CNN and many others in Europe and the United States after it hit the servers of...

The shuttered Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City has found a buyer. The new owner will be a group of investors led by Hard Rock International, the company behind Hard Rock Cafe. President Trump once operated the hotel, but financed the project with junk bonds and could not...

O fundador do que foi um dos maiores sites de poker online aceitou, na quinta-feira, enfrentar as acusações americanas resultantes de um longo processo criminal contra empresas de Internet como a sua, que operam ilegalmente nos Estados Unidos. Scott Tom, que fundou o Absolute Poker, sediado na Costa Rica,...

Residents of New Jersey voted overwhelmingly against a ballot measure Tuesday that would allow for the construction of two casinos outside of Atlantic City. With over 2.8 million votes cast, the “No’s” destroyed the “Yes’s” 2,201,768 to 633,034. Casino gambling was legalized in New Jersey in 1976, but restricted...

New Jersey’s cash-strapped coastal gambling hub of Atlantic City will submit an updated fiscal recovery plan to the state, local officials said on Wednesday, in an eleventh-hour bid to hold off a takeover of city government. Trenton rejected the city’s five-year plan on Tuesday, questioning the viability of a...

The New Jersey Senate passed a bill on Thursday designed to keep billionaire investor Carl Icahn from re-opening the Trump Taj Mahal for five years. The bill, S2575, was affirmed by a vote of 29 to 6 (with 5 not voting) and would amend the portion of the state...