State and Federal Gambling News in the USA

Below you will find the latest gambling news on a State and Federal level in the United States. The gambling news covers information on topics such as online poker, daily fantasy sports betting, commercial casinos, state lotteries, racetrack wagering, casinos games on the internet, land-based poker rooms, charitable gaming, and tribal casinos to name a few. Basically, anything related to gambling in the USA on a State-by-State or Federal level will be covered including online and land-based activities.


Members of New Hampshire's Executive Session voted just before the weekend to put an end to the Granite State's hopes of a legal and regulated online gambling industry. The members unanimously voted 22-0 that the bill, H 562 was “inexpedient to legislate”. This means that...
 

The US Commissioner for Major League Soccer (MLS), Don Garber has come out in support of legal sports betting in the United States. Garber said at a Yahoo Finance event recently that the regulation of sports betting in the US was only a matter of time and that he believed that...
 

Realizing that one of the only ways to plug its budget hole is to make drastic changes to existing laws, lawmakers in Pennsylvania approved the largest expansion of gambling for over a decade.  On Friday, the Pennsylvania House voted 109-72 in favor of a bill that will...
 

The group that won the contract to run the struggling Illinois Lottery, Camelot, believes that it could bring in $4 billion in sales next year. Camelot Illinois, a subsidiary of the operator of the UK's National Lottery, will take over the contract from Northstar at the...
 

As New York readies for the upcoming Sports Betting USA Conference, scheduled for next month, the gaming analysts, GamblingCompliance released a report this week, estimating that the country's legal sports betting market could be worth nearly $6 billion. Both of these - the...
 

In the shadow of the upcoming Supreme Court hearing to consider New Jersey's request to lift an almost nationwide ban on sports betting, casino owners in the state of Maryland are urging legislators to introduce the legalization of sports betting. The casinos are hopeful that...
 

In 2014, Delaware and Nevada inked the Multi-State Internet Gaming Agreement, whereby players from each state would be able to play each other in an online environment. Delaware and Nevada - two of the three states that authorize online gambling - would allow players logging...
 

Over the past few months, two bills have been introduced in Massachusetts that are pitching for the introduction of online lottery sales.  The urgency of the matter seems to lie in the fact that New Hampshire recently allowed the sale of lottery tickets online, and...
 

Will New Jersey be heading into the New Year with the gift of a legal sports betting industry?  From The Washington Post’s SCOTUS reporter comes the news that December 4th has been set as the date that the US Supreme Court will hear the oral arguments in New Jersey’s...
 

A new study performed by analysts Eilers & Krejcik Gaming predicts that should the US Supreme Court rule in favor of New Jersey's appeal to allow legal sports betting in the state this month, it could open the floodgates of other states seeking the same rights. According to...
 
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