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Affiliates Move into Online Sportsbooks

A groundbreaking panel discussion about affiliates in the online gaming industry was held at the Global Gaming Expo (G2E) in Las Vegas. The panel discussed the impact of affiliates on the online gaming industry. The long, formal title of the panel was “Affiliate Marketing Grows Up: Implications for the Regulated U.S. Online Gambling Market”. Sports Betting and Affiliates The impetus for the panel was the decision of the United States …

Sports Betting – One Man’s View May Surprise You

A professional sports bettor from Las Vegas told his attitude in an article posted at espn.com towards the legalization of sports betting in other states other than Nevada, which before the United States Supreme Court declared that the law called PASPA (Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act) in violation of the US constitution had full sports betting through its many casinos, plus Delaware, Oregon, and Montana which had limited legal …

$2,300,000,000 Potential Annual Windfall to the NFL: Study

The National Football League season in the United States began last weekend and for the first time betting on the games was legal in states other than Nevada. Before the US Supreme Court declared that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), that had been established law since 1992, was unconstitutional, thus opening legal sports betting to the 46 states that hitherto did not have legal sports betting, betting …

American Football Beckons Sports Bettors

The football season in the United States opens on the weekend of September 9-10. Now that sports betting is legal in all 50 states, pending legislation to that effect by the individual states, betting on American football is expected to reach levels never seen before. Since 1992, sports betting was legal in only four states and only in Nevada, where Las Vegas is, was sports betting fully legal in all …

West Virginia Casinos Take First Legal Sports Bets

The start of the football season in the United States hit the newly legal sports betting scene in the state hard and in a good way. The college football season began this past weekend with hundreds of games and the professional season will begin on Thursday and then continue on Sunday and Monday. Ready and Waiting West Virginia is one of the very few states to have been ready to …

Betting on the Big Four Sports is Coming to a Casino Near You

In the United States, the Big Four spectator sports remain baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. At this time of the year, each sport is gearing up for either the start of the season (football, basketball, and hockey) or for the playoffs, in the case of baseball. Along with great sports action from the Big Four, sports betting is coming to many states where the law called PASPA had for about …

Sports Betting Odd Couple: Buffalo Wild Wings and DraftKings

Just a few days ago, Buffalo Wild Wings announced that it is in the late stages of negotiations with DraftKings for a marketing arrangement between the two companies. The reason the announcement is so newsworthy is because 1) the negotiations have not yet been completed and 2) the partnering of DraftKings, which offers daily fantasy sports to millions of players throughout the United States and has also just recently opened …

Can States Raise Millions Through Increased Sin Taxes?

A newly released study conducted by the Pew Research Institute in conjunction with the Rockefeller Institute of Government, indicates that sin taxes are not likely to be the financial bonanza so many states expect them to be. States are in dire financial straits and see taxing gambling winnings—one of the many so-called sin taxes— as one of the last ways they can raise the kinds of revenues they will need …

States Looking for $1,000,000 Windfalls from Sports Betting

In May, the United States Supreme Court voided a law that had been in effect since 1994, called the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act or PASPA, on constitutional grounds. It set into motion the possibility that all fifty American states or some of them would, in time, legalize sports betting within each state’s jurisdiction. The various states have, indeed, begun discussing legalization of sports betting in their individual jurisdictions. …

NBA Odds Shift Over Off-Season

The NBA season may be over but the landscape of the teams has changed so much over the off-season that the impact will be felt far and wide. And with sports betting in America getting new consideration, the ripples could reach as far as the casino online. While the Golden State Warriors are even more likely to win their third straight NBA championship, having added one another all-star to the …

Mobile Expected to Increase Sports Betting Exponentially

The World Cup is the international sports activity that is receiving by far the most attention this month but this month will pass, a champion will be crowned, and life will return to “normal”. However, betting on sports will continue to rise incrementally or exponentially, depending on the market, in the years ahead. One area that is receiving a lot of attention in the news is the prominence of mobile …

4 Tips for Betting on the World Cup

The biggest news in sports and concomitantly in sports betting is the World Cup of football. Sports betting has become the big news in the United States because the Supreme Court only one month ago declared PASPA, the law that had made sports betting illegal in all but four states, unconstitutional. The change in the law was too close to the start of the World Cup tournament to allow many …