Author: Geoff Fisk

California poker players are accustomed to playing in tents and other outdoor setups at this point in the COVID-19 pandemic, but at least two major poker rooms in the Golden State appear poised for a return to normalcy. The Bicycle Casino and Commerce Casino both announced intentions to reopen their indoor poker venues on Monday, […]

US legal online casinos boomed in 2020, and so far 2021 appears on pace to shatter last year’s record-setting numbers. The industry welcomed a new big player with the launch of Michigan’s online casinos in January. February marked the first complete month of operations for Michigan’s mobile casino apps. The revenue numbers are in, and […]

January continued a long-running streak of new heights for the Pennsylvania online casino industry. Each of the final six months of 2020 saw the Keystone State’s mobile casinos set an all-time monthly revenue record, only to have that benchmark surpassed the following month. That trend continued in the opening month of 2021. The monthly revenue […]

The ever-growing Pennsylvania online gambling market is welcoming its newest online casino on February 24 at 9am. Borgata PA Casino is will mark the first foray outside of the New Jersey market for the Borgata online brand. Borgata PA Bonus Code: SHARPBOR New users will get 100% deposit match up to $1,000 dollars along with […]

The first month of 2021 has New Jersey online casinos on pace to produce more than $1 billion in revenue in 2021. There’s still a long way to go before 2021 wraps up, but January saw mobile casinos in the Garden State set an all-time monthly revenue record. New Jersey’s online casinos pulled in more […]

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board’s upcoming monthly meeting includes a possible approval of GGPoker on the agenda. GGPoker parent company NSUS appears on the slate for the PGCB’s scheduled regular monthly meeting, with NSUS in front of the board for approval of an Interactive Gaming Manufacturer License. If approved, GGPoker would become the fourth online […]

Caesars Entertainment announced an expansion into daily fantasy sports, as the company purchased a minority share of SuperDraft, Inc. A Monday press release lauded the move as a “strategic investment” for Caesars, which owns an option to purchase 100% equity in the SuperDraft DFS platform in the future. Under the terms of the partnership, Caesars […]

A year of unprecedented challenges for the retail casino industry yielded a year of incredible growth for legal online casinos. December’s monthly revenue reports saw New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia all post their best revenue-earning months of 2020. Combined online casino and poker revenue nearly hit the $100 million mark for New Jersey in […]

Advocates for legal interstate online poker in the US received a bit of good news Wednesday. The New Hampshire Lottery Commission scored a victory in court against the US Department of Justice’s 2018 opinion on the Federal Wire Act. The First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the New Hampshire Lottery Commission, which […]

A proposed mobile sports betting bill could bring online wagering to Mississippi as early as July 2021. State Senator Scott DeLano introduced Senate Bill 2396 Monday, which contains language that would amend Mississippi’s current sports betting laws to include online wagering. Retail sports betting was legalized in the state in August 2018. DeLano’s proposed measure […]