Author: Geoff Fisk

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 […]

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 […]