The Tropicana and their iGaming partner Gamesys (TropicanaCasino.com and VirginCasino.com) has been one of the pleasant surprises in the New Jersey market. Despite lacking a poker room (one is allegedly in development) the Tropicana has managed to slide comfortably into the #3 spot behind the Borgata and Caesars, and is extremely competitive when poker revenue is eliminated from the equation:
Confirmation that former SHFL Entertainment CEO Gavin Isaacs is working as a consultant for Perelman, 71, a leveraged-buyout investor who owns 38 percent of WMS.
Of the online players who have signed up to play in New Jersey at PartyPoker.com, 15 percent don’t live in the state. You must be within New Jersey’s borders to play, but residency isn’t required. That so many out-of-state players are traveling to New Jersey — call it “poker tourism” — is an encouraging sign for the fledgling industry, which so far has been generating less than $2 million per month in tax revenue for the state budget.
Nevada’s online poker industry is coming up on its one year anniversary, and New Jersey and Delaware now have five full months under their belts and the industry has been steadily chugging along, making improvements and solving problems.
That being said, there is also still quite a bit of confusion among the masses when it comes to legal online poker in the US.
In 2006 Washington State passed what many consider to be one of the most draconian gambling laws in the country, a law that makes playing online poker in the state a felony.
The current attitude that many people hold on the online gambling ban being pushed by Sheldon Adelson is that the Las Vegas Sands owner wants to ban online gambling to limit new competition from online providers.
That being said, there is a problem with that line of thinking, considering regulated online gambling licenses have been restricted to land-based operators and online activity hasn’t been shown to siphon off enough live players to warrant this type of concern, as the executives from
WSOP.com and
Boyd Gaming have pointed out.
2014 is poised to become the year that cloud gaming truly came into its own. Recent headlines, such as the
acquisition of Gakai by Sony and the
partnership of Onlive and Steam, all show that the biggest names in the tech community are realizing just how powerful and attractive cloud gaming can be.
Tencent Holdings has announced that it will bring King’s successful mobile puzzler Candy Crush Saga to its WeChat mobile messaging platform.
The future looks more than promising for online casinos. In fact, it resembles a mine filled with unpolished gems!
Realizing the far exceeding picture and extensive benefits, governments have started to become more inclined towards internet gambling. Starting from the US across Europe to Asia, and even marginally Africa, nations are in advanced phases of implementing online gambling.
California San Manuel Indian tribe has convinced a renowned online gambling veteran, Matthew Cullen, to head their take on the
online casinos in United States. The executive is famous for his roles at Betfair, one of the biggest sportsbooks in the UK and RocketPlay, social sports betting company.
Latin America has garnered a lot of attention as a region on the rise. Demand for gambling services is constantly growing and countries like Colombia are now licensing and regulating domestic online casino industries. However, in a region full of bright stars, Mexico is undoubtedly the brightest.
If you follow the iGaming industry, and particularly online poker traffic numbers, you’ve undoubtedly noticed a very disturbing downward trend over the course of 2014.
As Nevada and Delaware became the first states to sign an interstate agreement for iGaming, many wondered, ‘What about New Jersey?’ The state had reportedly been in talks with Delaware and Nevada on the subject but never made a move to expand in this manner. However, that will change at some point this year as New Jersey is expected to enter into an interstate agreement before 2014 is finished.
The agreement calls for of a selection of Amaya's casino games to be offered on the Ucasino gaming website, which is owned by Ultimate Gaming and its licensed partner, Trump Taj Mahal Associates.
Cloud hosting is the future of the games industry. By tapping into the considerable advances made in networking technology over the past several years, gaming can expand itself to entirely new frontiers, reaching users who might otherwise have never picked up a video game.
However, the industry is not grieving and is looking optimistically into the future after rethinking the strategy and trying out new things. Online gambling establishments have heavily increased advertising, putting their “faces” all over the state. Previous mistakes and glitches, especially the payment problems are being addressed and solved.
RENO -- The signs of decay linger on Virginia Street, the main casino corridor in “The Biggest Little City in the World.”
Pawn shops and cut-rate motels line up alongside the high-end hotel towers. The strip is still pocked with shuttered casinos, victims of the recession and burgeoning competition from Northern California’s Indian tribes.
Zynga’s executive ranks aren’t the only thing getting a makeover. The company announced this month that its marquee Zynga Poker product was going under the knife. The promised tweaks include “smarter betting controls, large hole cards, improved player pictures and a fully redesigned poker table and environment.” You’ll also get chips that are “fun to interact with (and even touch on a mobile device) when you want to raise or go all-in.” Zynga is promising to preview the new poker features over the coming weeks.
Royal Wins has announced plans to design a series of real-money ‘hybrid’ gambling games that will require a mix of skill and chance.
Texas-based social casino games developer Bee Cave Games and Nasdaq-listed land games specialist Multimedia Games have agreed to team up to provide a range of free-to-play social versions of Multimedia's real-money slots.
Massachusetts has emerged as one of the front-runners for online gambling expansion, with advocates for online gambling like State Treasurer and Gubernatorial candidate Steve Grossman and State Senator Bruce Tarr pushing the legislature to take action on online gambling.
Despite their efforts, it appears Massachusetts online gambling will have to wait until at least next year, based on recent comments by James McHugh, a Commissioner on the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, who spoke at the recent USA Online Gambling Forum at the Borgata in Atlantic City.
Three of the five municipalities where people are spending the most time logged on to some Internet gambling websites are within an hour's drive of Atlantic City, but operators say these gamblers are not the same clientele who frequent the resort's casinos.
Mobile devices, such as
smartphones and tablets, are fast becoming one of the top ways to play video games. Hits, such as Angry Birds, Temple Run and Candy Crush Saga, have all garnered tens of millions of downloads and have truly become icons of the video-gaming industry in general.
Now what if you could play all of your favorite Android games in the cloud? This question might seem a little bit odd considering that all Android-based games are played online. However, there is a big difference between general online play and cloud play. With cloud play, you can stream games to a variety of devices, as opposed to solely playing them on Android devices as you see now. Not to mention the fact that all of your stats and saved games are held safely in the cloud.
Las Vegas-based CG Technology announced an agreement Monday that will license the company’s sports wagering products with one of Mexico’s leading casino operators.
A lot of attention is being focused on the money Sheldon Adelson is funneling into his fight against online gambling, and we have spent a lot of time detailing the politicians and lobbyists that have enlisted in his crusade.
Less attention has been paid to the numerous groups and the people who have lined up on the other side, the people willing to face-off against Adelson and his allies and refute the claims being made.
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