Washington Poker Room Operating Out of a Tent
A card room in Washington State has opened inside a tent under special protocols approved by Governor Jay Inslee. The innovation was introduced because of fears that Inslee would keep gaming halls closed through Phases 2 and 3 of the state’s Safe Start reopening plan. Dan Baker, casino controller and co-owner of the Black Pearl […]
Are You Playing to Win? Top 5 Money Management Tips for Online Slots
When you head to a bricks-and-mortar casino, one of the most important elements to use when gambling on the slot games is to decide on a money management strategy. Slots can be quite fickle. Without an idea of how to manage your money, you can lose it all, all too quickly. The same applies to […]
Big Ten, Pac-12 to Sit Out the Season
As if sports fans haven’t had a bellyful of bad news in 2020, on Tuesday the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences announced that their teams won’t play this season barring a miracle cure, or at least markedly improved conditions that could make it safe for players to participate. “The mental and physical health and welfare […]
New Online Slot Games: Mammoth Power & Smokin’ 777
Mammoth Power by Konami This game employs a fun theme centered on prehistoric animals like the wooly mammoth and saber-toothed tiger. The base game is a five-reel, 40-line game with a cool multiplier feature in the primary game. Whenever the wild Cave symbol lands in a winning combination (it appears on the middle reels), it […]
Baseball’s Best Matchups: Here’s Who Came to Play
It’s a few weeks into the MLB season, and aside from a couple Covid hiccups (the Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals have both quarantined due to positive cases), we’ve seen which teams are here to play in this abbreviated season. Let’s look ahead to some great primetime matchups, coming to a screen near you […]
Online Slot Games: Do You Understand the RNG?
One of the most misunderstood things about casinos is how slot machines arrive at each spin. Before the late 20th century, the answer was based on gravity and mathematical probabilities. The handle on a three-reel slot machine would wind a spring. When the spring released, it would send the reels spinning. Another mechanism would stop […]
Final Push To Legalize Massachusetts Sports Betting
Lawmakers in the Massachusetts legislature are making a last ditch effort to pass a sports betting bill before the end of the legislative calendar, July 31. The bill is being sold as a way to help speed up the Bay State’s economic recovery from the Covid-19 shutdown. The Boston Red Sox are adding their voices […]
Competitors Eye California’s Sportsbook Market
Competitors for California’s sports betting market are mentally carving it up, even though the only move toward legalization is a measure carried by a coalition of tribes who want to confine sports wagering to brick and mortar casinos and racetracks. If that measure passes in November 2020, the market could generate more than $30 billion […]
New York Finally Eyes Mobile Sports Betting
With the tax base crushed by the coronavirus pandemic, the New York Assembly has launched a survey among its members on whether to legalize mobile sports betting as a way to increase revenue. Staffers for Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and the Democratic majority started questioning lawmakers July 16, days before the legislature re-convenes, according to […]
R.I. to Allow Mobile Sports Betting Registration
Rhode Island lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved legislation that would enable mobile sports betting registration in the state. The bills, which await the signature of Governor Gina Raimondo, remove the requirement that sports bettors complete an application at either the Twin River or Tiverton casinos operated by Twin River World Holdings. Supporters of the bills argued […]
NJ Track Close to Fixed-Odds Betting
When a bettor makes a wager on which baseball team will win a game, the odds won’t change between then and game time. It’s known as fixed-odds wagering. But go to a racetrack and the system differs. With pari-mutuel wagering, the odds—set by the track—can vary, sometimes dramatically, between the time the bettor makes the […]
AGA’s Miller To Congress: Repeal Sports Betting Tax
On Wednesday, July 22, American Gaming Association (AGA) President and CEO Bill Miller testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at a hearing on “Protecting the Integrity of College Athletics.” Rather than opening college sports to manipulation and match-fixing, Miller said a legal, regulated sports betting industry may offer the best protections against corruption. “The […]
