The Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey is all set to introduce an industry first skill-based wagering product with the holding of its initial offering, a basketball hoop shooting tournament with a guaranteed (GTD) prize pool of $10,000. Each contest participant has 15 free throws for achieving the best free throw…
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NextGen Gaming, the Australia-based interactive games development studio of the NYX Gaming Group has closed an online game distribution deal with fellow-Australian slot machine content creator, Lightning Box Games (LBG). The agreement includes NextGen’s reconfiguration of some of LBG’s series of slot machine contents into online gaming materials using NextGen’s proprietary Global Delivery Network (GDN)…
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In an interview conducted by ESPN.com writer David Purdum, regarding NBA Commissioner Adam Silver's publicly declared support for the legalization of sports betting activities on a federal level, the NBA Chief disclosed he has taken further steps by discussing the issue with the Commissioners of other professional sports leagues. Mr. Silver said he has held…
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Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, the legislator who made headlines in September 2013 for playing poker on his mobile phone during a U.S. Senate Committee Hearing on Foreign Relations, has once again caught the attention of the U.S. gambling industry. In a Capital Games podcast hosted by Andy Katz of ESPN and Rick Klein of…
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Seminole Hard Rock Entertainment(SHRE), touted as one of the most influential operators of hotels and casinos, and owned by Florida's Seminole Indian tribe has announced reviving plans of entering the New Jersey hotel casino business. Last Thursday, the entertainment firm received a Statement of Compliance issued by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission (NJCCC), which…
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Microgaming Software Systems Ltd. the Isle of Man-based iGaming software provider that lays claim to having created the "world's first true online casino," has announced the launching of an industry-first Application Programming Interface (API), which the company calls "Babelfish." Designed and created to make easy the development and integration of a new poker program into…
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The National Council of Legislators from Gaming States (NCLGS), a non-bipartisan organization of U.S. state lawmakers who are themselves members of gaming regulation committee in their respective state legislative houses, has published a compilation of gaming policies that the organization proposes as standards for online gambling legislation. The NCLGS asserts that the compiled standards could…
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Last week, GoBetGo Sportsbook online betting site closed down without giving its site members assurance of settling any unpaid winnings and/or remaining account balances. Rather than do so, the GoBetGo Management merely posted a notification that the dotcom site has closed because their business strategy of offering the best odds at low margins was not…
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The next summer and winter Olympics is still a year away, but a group of Nevada-based bookmakers is hoping that state regulators will grant their petition for allowing Olympic Games betting. As it is, wagering on Olympic matches is an exception to the sports betting activities allowed in Nevada. According to the Vice President of…
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In a move to spur the growth of Internet gambling in New Jersey on its second year, particularly for online poker, NJ regulators have given the go signal for WSOP.com and 888.Poker.com to proceed with their initiative of combining their player pools. After its first year, NJ's online gambling industry realized only around 10 percent…
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