MGM Still Plans to Buy iGaming Competitor LeoVegas, Despite Its Legal Issues
MGM Resorts International says it still plans to buy online casino and sports betting company LeoVegas Group, despite the latter’s legal troubles. Las Vegas-based MGM has been seeking to acquire LeoVegas for $607 million in order to establish an international online gambling presence. The land-based gambling giant’s leaders said so repeatedly during the gambling organization’s […]
Canada’s Long and Winding Path to Privatized Online Gambling
As part of a recent academic article, I dug into the path that sports betting took to legalization across Canada. Online casino gaming has emerged on a track that’s largely parallel to online sports betting. For much of Canada’s history, gambling policy emerged rather uniformly, and gambling remotely with computers was the stuff of science […]
Unifor Casino Strike Ends in Ontario, Details Emerge About Worker Injured on Picket Line
Pickering Casino Resort and Casino Ajax workers have ended their strike after ratifying a new agreement on Friday with their employer, Great Canadian Entertainment (GCE). GCE is the same company referred to as Great Canadian Gaming Corporation in previous articles. It has recently rebranded itself. The two parties reached a tentative agreement on Aug 4. […]
Standalone Online Gold Bracelet Series Coming to All WSOP Sites in September
Around the world, many of the special measures taken to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 are now getting rolled back. However, it looks like WSOP has decided to hang on to most of its pandemic-era innovations. That first became apparent in February, as the WSOP Online Circuit Series continued for a third year, despite the […]
PlayFallsview Is the First Foray of an Ontario Land-Based Casino Into the Online Space
PlayFallsview is the first iGaming site in Ontario to grow out of one of the province’s brick-and-mortar gambling establishments, the Fallsview Casino Resort in Niagara Falls. The app enters the Ontario iGaming market with online casino gambling that includes live dealer products. PlayFallsview also consists of an online sportsbook. iGaming Ontario (iGO) lauded PlayFallsview in […]
Massachusetts: The Next Frontier for Legal Online Casinos?
Massachusetts sports betting is in legal territory, with a bill to allow both retail and online sportsbooks expected to be signed into law in the coming days. Casinos, racing simulcast facilities, and independent sportsbooks are all expected to benefit when sports betting launches in the Bay State. That launch may happen as early as this […]
Betway Ends Its Gray Market Status in Canada
Betway Canada‘s Twitter bio says it all: “Ontario only, 19+.” That’s notable because, until Tuesday, Betway was one of the country’s most prominent gray market online gambling operators. On Tuesday, iGaming Ontario (iGO) congratulated Malta-based Betway for completing its nearly four-month-long regulatory journey. Now, Betway offers legal online casino, live casino, esports, and sports betting in […]
PredictIt’s Status in Jeopardy After CFTC Withdraws No-Action Letter
Experimental predictions market site PredictIt may eventually be forced to shut down. The site, which allows users to buy and sell “shares” in political propositions, has operated since 2014 under the grace of a “No-Action Letter” from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). That agency has now withdrawn its tentative permission. A no-action letter is […]
Flooding Hits Vegas Strip, but Casinos Stay Open
Heavy rains swept southern Nevada last week. According to the New York Times, they dumped about half the area’s annual rainfall in the span of two hours. The rainfall resulted in significant flooding on the Las Vegas Strip from Thursday evening into Friday morning. That threatened to create major issues for business owners throughout the […]
Could Quick-and-Gentle Self-Exclusion Be the Way Forward for Responsible Gambling?
A stitch in time saves nine. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. English, like many languages, is full of aphorisms about the comparative efficiency of early intervention. When it comes to current practices around responsible gambling, however, a different phrase springs to mind: Shutting the stable door after the horse has […]
