Author: Geoff Fisk

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 […]

The legal sports betting boom in the US continued in October. Overall betting handle in the US topped the $3 billion mark for the first time, as domestic sportsbooks took more than $3.2 billion in wagers. Each of the top six sports betting states generated more than $200 million in overall betting handle for October. […]

With football taking center stage in the US, online sports betting continued to hold strong in November. New Jersey broke its own record for monthly betting handle for any US state, with 94% of bets coming from online sportsbooks. Pennsylvania set a new high for monthly mobile sports betting revenue, as the Keystone State’s online […]

The upward growth trend for online casino revenue slowed down in New Jersey and Pennsylvania this month, but iGaming is still booming in the two biggest US markets for mobile gambling. New Jersey’s online casinos posted the second-best month in the history of the state’s industry, while Pennsylvania extended its streak of record-breaking revenues for […]

October 2020 set yet another benchmark for mobile sports betting in the US. All five states on this month’s revenue roundup list (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Iowa, and West Virginia) broke records for monthly mobile sports betting revenue. New Jersey continues to set the standard in the US mobile sports betting market, with Pennsylvania also […]

The upward potential of legal online gambling in the US continues to push the bar higher. In each of the last four months, New Jersey and Pennsylvania have reached record numbers in monthly revenue for online casinos. Revenue numbers for the two biggest online casino markets in the nation still haven’t shown any signs of […]

September 2020 produced record-breaking numbers for combined legal sports betting handle in the US. The nation’s 18 legal sports betting jurisdictions (17 states plus Washington D.C.) saw nearly $3 billion in wagers come in for September. The return of NFL and NCAA football bolstered the surging US sports betting industry to its biggest month yet. […]

Election Day 2020 included gambling initiatives on the ballot in six US states. Louisiana, Maryland, and South Dakota all voted on sports betting legalization, with the path to legal sports betting very different for each state. Nebraska and Virginia put retail casino gambling legalization to a public vote, while Colorado’s gambling initiative proposed an expansion […]

The September arrival of college and NFL football contributed to the usual boost in sports betting revenue across the US. With more online sports betting options than ever, all five of the states on this month’s revenue roundup list achieved new records for monthly combined retail and mobile betting handle. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Iowa, […]