This Week in Gambling

Attorney General Adam Laxalt has signed onto a letter to the Trump administration asking the president-elect to squash web gaming, a position favored by major Laxalt donor Sheldon Adelson but one opposed by Gov. Brian Sandoval and Nevada’s top gaming regulator. The letter , which was put on Twitter by the Poker Players Alliance, was addressed to Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who has a generally anti-gaming bent and the transition team. It asks for the incoming administration to reinterpret The Wire Act, now being debated, to ensure Internet gaming is prohibited. “The risks to our citizens are real and extensive,”…

Running Rich Racing, a premier game from Competition Interactive, debuted at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas in September of 2016. This is a multi-player racing experience where players battle for cash on different courses based on modern spins of classic fairy tales. Each race is an intense adrenaline rush for the drivers and the spectators, who are free to place bets on the drivers! The developer of Running Rich Racing is Competition Interactive, and they are set to “rock the world of casino gaming one experience at a time.” They are creating social, competitive, skill-based,games for casinos… appealing…

Sheldon Adelson has wasted no time in trying to get his “Restoration of America’s Wire Act” bill back in to relevance. It has come to light that Attorney Generals from ten states have signed a letter to the Trump administration asking them to reconsider the 2011 DoJ opinion on the Wire Act, and to ban online gambling in America. This week’s special offer from Unibet Poker!

Zynga has launched legal action against two former senior members of staff after alleging that they stole confidential information to support a new employer. According to the Arstechnica.com website, Massimo Maietti and Ehud Barlach, who left Zynga in July and September respectively, took the data to social gaming startup Scopely. In a 28-page civil complaint, Zynga said Maietti was the creative director on “one of Zynga’s most ambitious soon-to-be released games, which goes by the code name Project Mars”, while Barlach was general manager of Hit It Rich! Slots. Both men are alleged to have stolen vast quantities of data,…

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Would $20 million be enough to buy enough U.S. Senators to get a law passed before the New Year that will benefit your business interests? Apparently Las Vegas Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson thinks so. He’s become a human ATM machine for the Republican Party this year, having donated $100 million to Republican causes. This includes the $20 million he pledged on September 20th of this year to the Senate Leadership Fund, a Super PAC created to elect Republican candidates to the U.S. Senate. What does Adelson want for buying Senators and members of Congress? He wants federal legislation to ban…