Author: Daniel Williams

According to the information presented in a recent report, a significant decline in Nevada poker revenue has been registered over the past several years. Now, with a new closure at the Monte Carlo, the Las Vegas Strip has been projected to face a quarter of poker tables-generated revenue smaller than the one generated in the region ten years earlier. The Monte Carlo casino is scheduled to close a poker room featuring eight tables in about a month. This comes as part of reconstruction project which is estimated to $450 million.…

As Casino Guardian reported less than a fortnight ago, West Virginia emerged as the state which faced the matters related to online gambling legislation most recently. However, some new reports provide information that the state is not very likely to see any change in the status quo of the online gaming within the current legislative session of the competent authorities. Earlier in March 2017, the bill H 3067 was presented, which made West Virginia part of the states that have been seeking to make iGaming legal. As we have revealed…

Two of the leading international gambling operators are to become the latest gambling companies that are to exit the newly-regulated online betting market in Poland. William Hill and bet365, two of the most powerful and successful online casino, gaming and betting operators on a global scale, revealed they are to withdraw their operations from the country, following a number of other companies that have made the decision to leave its jurisdiction due to tax legislation that is considered as unfavourable to off-shore companies. Global betting operators have started to close…

Almost a decade ago, at the time when the first legal casino in Western Pennsylvania – The Meadows – opened, warnings predicting the future increase of problem gambling behaviour were issued around the industry. However, over the last annual conference of the CCGP, an abbreviation which stands for Council on Compulsive Gambling of Pennsylvania, which took place in Pittsburgh a few days ago, no proof indicating an increase in gambling addictions in the region over the past ten years was presented. The CCGP is a non-profit organisation which works in…

A new gambling bill aimed at keeping the current gambling status quo in the state of Florida has passed a key House Ways and Means Committee voting, which approved the measure with a ratio of 11 to 7. The gambling measure, which was sponsored by the Representative Mike La Rosa, is considered to be aimed at making a new agreement with the local Seminole Tribe. The sponsor of the new bill commented on the piece of legislation, saying that the status quo proposal of the House would be great as…

Another online gambling bill has been presented in Pennsylvania. The online gambling and gaming reform piece of legislation, which is called Senate Bill 524, has been officially introduced by number of Democratic State Senators. The four supporters and co-sponsors of the bill are Senate Minority Leader Jay Costa, Senator Vincent Hughes, Senator Judy Schwank and Senator Wayne Fontana. The memoranda about the co-sponsorship was first presented back in January 2017. Also, apart from the Senate Bill 524, a number of state senators from the Republican party brought another piece of…

Last week, the state of Iowa passed a new piece of legislation focused on providing problem gamblers with a new way to keep themselves out of local casino and gaming venues. At present times, players are given the chance to voluntarily exclude themselves from entering casinos and gambling facilities for life. The new bill passed to the Iowa Senate would allow problem gamblers to enter gambling floors five years after the initial ban was established. In these cases, gamblers would become subjected to a ban that would be renewed every…

The retailers of the National Lottery have been urged to make their customers more engaged with a brand new campaign which allows players to vote for local causes which are intended to be funded by the National Lottery. The campaign, called The People’s Projects, goes live today. Since the beginning of the year, nationwide stores have been visited by the retail teams of Camelot, who were presenting and distributing POS kits and briefing retailers for a couple of months before the beginning of the campaign. The People’s Project initiative comes…

The KPMG Gibraltar eSummit is scheduled to kick off at 8:45 AM on March 23rd at the Sunborn Gibraltar. The one-day event is to feature a great variety of topics, including mergers and acquisitions, anti-money laundering, harm and risk minimisation online, etc. Many of the topics will also be discussed in regards to the online gambling industry, and will be presented by real experts and proved eBusiness professionals. The Best Corporate Services Provider of the Year 2016 Award, which was granted to KPMG Isle of Man and Gibraltar events last…

The state regulatory authorities in Mississippi rejected two proposed casino constructions. At a special meeting, which continued for less than two hours, the proposal was discussed by the Mississippi Gaming Commission‘s members, who later made the unanimous decision to reject the sites. No further explanation on the decision came from the three members of the Commission, who refused to comment on the matter. The decision came as a great shock to the two developers, Ray Wooldridge of RW Development in Biloxi and Jacobs Entertainment of Diamonhead, with both of the…