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The Beginner’s Guide To Playing Online Blackjack

Blackjack has been played for hundreds of years, with the roots of the game dating back to the 17th century. While it’s enormously popular in land casinos, the benefits of playing online blackjack are plentiful – you can play noon or night, there is no need to dress for the occasion, you won’t get distracted by other players, and you’ll enjoy access to an online support team. Though there are some obvious differences when playing blackjack online, much of what you need to know is the same for a land casino. In this beginner’s guide, we explain the rules of…

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New Jersey Sports Betting Passes Nevada

New Jersey sports betting has surpassed Nevada for the first time, as more money was bet there than the sports books in Las Vegas. New Jersey took in over $318 million in action, narrowly passing the books in Nevada at $317 million. Earlier, there was potential that the celebration in the Garden State would be short-lived, with Trenton lawmakers and Gov. Phil Murphy at the brink of a government shutdown that would have impacted racetracks, sportsbooks and casinos. But Murphy later in the day said he would avoid a shutdown and sign a budget by the Sunday deadline. Sports betting was…

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Michigan Online Gaming Opposed by Governor

Michigan online gambling legislation is being opposed by Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Whitmer is at odds with the bill’s sponsor over her belief that an online gaming market would cannibalize the state’s online and retail lottery revenues, draining money from school programs. “I’ve said very clearly, over and over again, that protecting the School Aid Fund, ensuring that we get every dollar back into the education of our kids is my top priority,” Whitmer told Michigan Radio this week. “So I’m going to have a hard time supporting anything that doesn’t protect that goal.” In 2018, having united Michigan’s disparate…

New York Mobile Sports Betting

Mobile Betting Dies in New York Assembly

Players in the Empire State will be stuck traveling to casinos upstate if they want to bet on sports as Senator Addabbo’s mobile gambling bill failed to pass the New York Assembly. The Senator tweeted that he saw no clear reason why the state could not implement mobile sports betting in 2019. The prospects of the bill passing in the Assembly were always seen as slim, with the Speaker of the chamber Carl Heastie of the opinion that a constitutional amendment was necessary to allow mobile betting. “NY will be stuck like a disabled car on the shoulder, while we…

DOJ Still Plans Online Gambling Wire Act Enforcement

The US Department of Justice lost their court case against the state of New Hampshire over the the Wire Act. However, they are still moving forward with plans to enforce their interpretation of the online gambling Wire Act interpretation. Meanwhile, New Hampshire has passed a sports betting bill which contains some interesting language that could disrupt enforcement of the Wire Act even further. Hello friends, and welcome to This Week in Gambling. I’m J Todd. You know, every now and again something happens in our industry that is quite surreal. And when it does I get to report it! Which…

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Online Gambling Wire Act Enforcement Threatened

A congressional amendment has been put forth that would threaten any online gambling Wire Act enforcement by the U.S. Department of Justice. The proposed amendment would attach to a federal bill that determines funding for the DOJ, and would block any funds from being used to enforce its revised opinion on the 1961 Federal Wire Act. Should the amendment be accepted, the Justice Department will not be permitted to use any money to enforce the opinion of their Office of Legal Counsel’s belief that the Wire Act applies to all forms of gambling and not just sports betting. The amendment…