Penn National reported an uptick in its fourth quarter revenues yesterday as it looks to new casino openings in Kansas and Ohio to offset the impact of wider expanded gambling competition in 2012.
A key legislative committee has voted to block the D.C. Lottery’s plan to launch the first government-run online casino in the United States, with one supporter now blaming Las Vegas gaming interests for the impending demise of the effort.
Hawaii has become the first state to introduce legislation addressing the U.S. Department of Justice’s 2011 legal opinion on Internet gambling expansion.
State lotteries are expected to tread cautiously in exploring Internet expansion in 2012, despite scoring a major legal lift from a Department of Justice memo published in December.
A 31-year-old American on Tuesday became the first online poker executive to plead guilty to criminal charges brought by the Department of Justice in April’s stinging "Black Friday" indictment.
All slot machines in Peruvian casinos must be connected to a central government monitoring system by the middle of next year, according to legislation passed last week by the country’s Congress in Lima.
Federal law should not be construed as preventing the Maryland State Lottery Agency from launching an intrastate Internet lottery program, according to a report delivered to lawmakers on Thursday.
A B2B deal with the British Columbia Lottery Corporation leaves Ireland’s Paddy Power in pole position to benefit from the possible expansion of online sports betting in Canada, where legal changes are due for consideration by parliament soon in the New Year.
The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation has yet to decide whether to join other Canadian lotteries on an interprovincial poker network or instead source its own platform, according to an OLG spokesperson.
