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As most industry and legal experts expected, Acting United States Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall has formally recommended to the Supreme Court of the US that it not accept the appeal made on behalf of the state of New Jersey and the New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association in the sports-bettin...
New Jersey's Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) has released its monthly summary of gambling revenue, and the latest numbers from April of 2017 show a very mild decline from the same calendar month a year earlier. However, there's a big exception to the slight overall decline: Online gambling ...
New Jersey's self-exclusion program for problem gamblers works as well online as it does for live casino play, as evidenced by two recent director's actions involving online patrons. In both instances, previously self-excluded gamblers either began or continued to play on New Jersey-regulated onli...
Betfair Casino NJ (New Jersey) has become the second online site serving the state's gamblers to offer "live" Internet wagering. Betfair NJ announced the official live launch of the new offerings this week in partnership with Golden Nugget Atlantic City, after having previously discussed the tab...
US Representative Frank Pallone (D-New Jersey) this week sent a letter to acting US Solicitor General Jeff Wall urging that Wall recommend to the US Supreme Court that it accept the ongoing "Christie II" sports-betting legalization case on appeal. The request comes as Wall continues to assess the ...
May continues to be a great month for signing up for a new online account at Virgin Casino. In addition to the generous sign-up bonus, Virgin is offering a special prize to one of its lucky New Jersey players: A whale-watching trip off Massachusetts' scenic Cape Cod. It's a snap to participate ...
The hopes of New Jersey legislators that the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) will accept the state's appeal in the long-running “Christie II” legal battle may have taken a turn for the worse, if the latest unconfirmed reports from the nation's capital can be believed. Posting on social media recently,...
Major US-based casino-entertainment company MGM Resorts International and international online-gambling giant GVC Holdings PLC have announced a partnership through which online casino and poker games will be offered to New Jersey residents via MGM Resorts' PlayMGM brand. The deal strengthens the on...
TEN Atlantic City, the former Revel Casino property at the north end of Atlantic City's famed boardwalk, might be open as soon as June, if property owner and re-developer Glenn Straub has his way. The only problem: If it does open, it almost certainly won't be offering any sort of real-money gambl...
Online gambling in New Jersey continues to grow by the metaphorical leaps and bounds, as illustrated again within the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement's latest revenue summary. In the DGE's most recent monthly update, for March of 2017, total online-gambling revenue is up 40%, year over ...
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn won’t be re-opening Atlantic City’s shuttered Trump Taj Mahal any time soon, according to statements from Icahn given to regional outlets. Icahn’s latest Taj-related outburst followed New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s recent veto of a bill that would have...
What appears to have been a minor and temporary error in the geolocation protocols preventing would-be poker players outside New Jersey’s borders from accessing the state’s licensed, real-money online games has ended up costing PokerStars NJ and its parent company, Amaya Inc., $25,000. The New...
The post-judgment legal wrangling between famed poker pro and high-stakes gambler Phil Ivey and Atlantic’s City Borgata Hotel Casino is boiling down to the basics in the wake of Ivey’s recent motion to have the Borgata’s $10.13 million judgment against him declared final, to hasten the legal ...
US Congressmen Frank A. LoBiondo (NJ-02) and Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) have taken advantage of the extra attention paid to the NFL and (underground) sports betting in this pre-Super Bowl week to re-introduce federal legislation that would legalize sports betting across the US. LoBiondo’s and P...
Attorneys representing renowned high-stakes gambler and his playing partner in a judged illicit “edge sorting” scheme at Atlantic City’s Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa have filed a motion on Ivey’s behalf to have the initial $10.13 million against Ivey and a co-defendant made final so that the a...
New Jersey’s slowly growing online gambling market, the healthiest segment of the state’s overall legalized gaming market, is on alert of sorts after comments made during Tuesday’s US Senate confirmation of wannabe US attorney general Jeff Sessions. Sessions, an anti-gambling Southern Republi...
Former Caesars Palace Atlantic City security guard Izyiah Plummer was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Thursday for his role in orchestrating an armed robbery at Caesars in 2014 in which $181,200 was stolen from the casino. Plummer pled guilty last August on all charges filed against him a year e...
Carl Icahn’s high-stakes game of real-estate chicken with New Jersey’s legislators and gaming officials continued this week with multiple developments concerning Icahn’s shuttered Trump Taj Mahal property, which now looks as though it won’t be re-opening as a casino — or as anything else �...
New Jersey’s Division of Gaming Enforcement [DGE] has released its monthly summary of gambling revenue generated by the state’s licensed casino properties and online sites. In a top-line return that offers little in the way of startling news, the overall brick-and-mortar gaming win for all re...
The war over whether or not New Jersey’s live casino-style gambling will be limited to Atlantic City continues in Trenton’s legislative chambers, where the war of words — and lobbying dollars — has refocused on the expansion bill that would allow video-terminal casino games at the state’s ...
In what is likely the largest successful “clawback” lawsuit in New Jersey gambling history, a US District Court judge has ordered professional gambler Phil Ivey to return $10.13 million in illicitly obtained winnings to Atlantic City’s Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa. The decision also likely set...
A state bill that would allow New Jersey’s two existing horse-racing facilities, at the Meadowlands and Monmouth Park, to operate as state-licensed “racinos” has cleared its initial hurdle in a state Assembly committee on a narrow 4-3 vote. The measure, Assembly Bill 4255, passed the chamber...
The law firm representing prominent professional gambler and high-stakes poker pro Phil Ivey in a case brought by Atlantic City’s Borgata casino has filed a protest against the amount of damages claimed by the Borgata as a result of a rules-breaking “advantage play” scheme enacted by Ivey and ...
Maverick real-estate investor Glenn Straub has filed suit against the state of New Jersey over obstructions to Straub’s ongoing plans to revitalize the former Revel Casino property into a hotel-only venue. Straub acquired the Revel property and buildings in 2015, following a convoluted and oft-...
In a largely symbolic move, two New Jersey state legislators have introduced a resolution asking the US Congress to overturn the quarter-century-old Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), the federal mandate that continues to block the state’s efforts to bring voter-approved, lega...
Less than two weeks after famed professional gambler and 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Ivey, and co-defendant Cheung Yin “Kelly” Sun, were found civilly liable on breach-of-contract claims made by Atlantic City’s Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, counsel for the Borgata has file...
New Jersey voters on Tuesday turned down a proposal to modify the state’s restriction on legal casino gambling to allow the construction and state licensing of two new casinos in northern New Jersey, to increase accessibility to New Jersey casino for visitors from the New York City and Philadelphi...
Atlantic City’s Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa has come out on the winning end of a years-long civil lawsuit against world-famed gambler and poker player Phil Ivey after a federal-court judge in Camdem released a split-decision ruling that nonetheless gives the Borgata the right to collect a dispute $...
Two separate petitions seeking to bring New Jersey’s stymied attempt to legalize sports betting and nullify the US’s PASPA law have been filed with the United States Supreme Court in recent days, in a last-gasp effort to activate a law legalizing such activity passed by New Jersey legislators b...
The lights are off and the doors are locked at Atlantic City’s Trump Taj Mahal, the fifth casino property to close its doors in the past three years. The casino’s closure, ordered by current owner Carl Icahn as his “final solution” to long-running labor strife, might not be as absolute as ...
Though still in its early-development stages, the budding New Jersey online gambling market is already showing some signs of differentiation. Case in point: The recent approval and live entry into the NJ online market of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s Sugarhouse Casino. The new site (at PlaySugar...
The recent agreement over the availability in the US and New Jersey of various “grey market” online gambling sites between New Jersey’s Division of Gaming Enforcement [DGE] and the tribal-based Kahnawake Gaming Commission [KGC], which operates out of Canada, might turn out to be a very big dea...