Israeli online gaming company 888 Holding plc (LSE:888) has increased its bid for Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment. Controlled by Israel’s Shaked and Ben-Yitzhak families, 888 operates the world’s largest online casino and poker operation while Bwin offers poker, bingo and

Google doesn’t allow real-money gambling apps on its Google Play store. But Betcade has unveiled its own Android-based app store for real-money gambling. It’s the case of one company opting out of gambling and another stepping in to provide it. The Pasadena, Calif.-based Betcade plans

New York will hold a hearing about online poker in September — appearing to set the stage for the third straight year that an online gambling bill will appear in front of the legislature. If and when New York regulates online gaming, what might the landscape look like? For starters, s

State gambling regulators are recommending that Maryland’s five casinos be permitted to reduce required average annual payouts from their slot machines, according to online documents. The regulators are endorsing — in part — the casinos’ request that the state relax a requ

Efforts to open legal sports books outside Nevada suffered a major setback Tuesday when a federal appeals court denied New Jersey’s attempt to bring betting on athletics to its casinos and racetracks. Still, the possibility remains that sports books will eventually spread to other sta

TUNICA COUNTY, Miss. — There’s been a lot of activity going on lately at the old Harrah’s Casino property in Tunica County. But it hasn’t been the sound of the slots or rolling dice. Instead it was the rumble of heavy machinery. Demolition has begun on what was

By Howard Stutz Las Vegas Review-Journal BILOXI, Miss. — John Ferrucci recalls standing at the Broadwater Marina on a humid, late summer morning in August 2005, trying to determine the best way to slip the moorings of the President Casino barge and float it 35 miles west to Hancock Co

By Brent Johnson | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com on August 27, 2015 at 8:30 AM, updated August 27, 2015 at 10:00 AM TRENTON — New Jersey’s four-year effort to legalize sports betting suffered another legal setback Tuesday, when a three-judge U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals pan

Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2013 10:28 am by John Brennan [last UPDATED at 12:15 pm ET] The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday affirmed a lower court ruling that struck down New Jersey’s sports betting law because it conflicts with a 1992 federal law that bans such ac

One Coast regionalism concept tries to promote common agenda Mike Lacy Posted: 09/04/2014 6:54 AM SOUTH MISSISSIPPI (WLOX) – At first, it seems odd. A marketing proposal with no budget, no infrastructure and no meetings. There’s only an idea, a logo and a hope to turn the