Not everyone in the Pennsylvania legislature is on board with the idea of legal online gambling. That became abundantly clear at last week’s joint hearing of the House Gaming Oversight Committee and the Senate Community Economic & Recreational Development Committee. Now there’s even a bill to make online gambling explicitly illegal in the state. Five Republicans in the PA House of Representatives made their opposition to online gambling crystal clear. They introduced a bill, HB 801, that would prohibit and criminalize online gambling in the Keystone State. That came just a few days after the iGaming hearing. Per the legislation,…

We speak to the Lucky Play Casino team while visiting the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas! Lucky Play is managed by AGS Interactive, who says that their Lucky Play app offers “…mobile players all the thrills of Vegas casinos, to go!” Lucky Play customers can choose from dozens of AGS slot games player-favorite slot games, as well as video poker, blackjack, and bingo games. You can download the app by visiting iTunes, and AGS Interactive has also set up a Facebook page. Want to feel like you’re right in the heart of Vegas? Looking for free slots with bonus…

Amaya Gaming’s former CEO David Baazov has some new walking around money after selling nearly one-third of his stake in the online gambling company. On Tuesday, Baazov (pictured) announced that he’d sold 7m Amaya common shares at C$19 apiece for a total consideration of C$133m (US $99m). The sale represents about 4.8% of the company’s outstanding common shares and about 30% of Baazov’s holdings in Amaya, the parent company of online poker giant PokerStars. Baazov still controls roughly 17.6m Amaya shares, equal to 12.1% of the company. The market applauded the move, pushing Amaya’s stock price up 5.8% to C$20.06,…

A poll at the recently held Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) found that efforts by Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson to ban online gambling at the federal level are highly unpopular. The Institute for Liberty recently released the data from the high-profile conservative gathering that took place in February. The IFL is a group whose mission is keeping government “from unnecessarily interfering in the daily lives of America’s entrepreneurs.” Two of the questions posed to attendees had to do with online gambling. About 90 percent of respondents said they oppose efforts to ban state-regulated gambling. About the same number…

The Swiss parliament has voted in favour of a measure that requires internet service providers in the country to begin blocking access to illegal gambling websites. The lower section of the House of Representatives yesterday (Wednesday) gave its approval to the plan after the upper house had previously given the green light to the proposal. In addition, the House yesterday approved a measure that states only casinos based in Switzerland can receive an online licence. The move comes after the Legal Affairs Committee of the Swiss National Council in January voted to withdraw plans to introduce legislation to begin the…

Thanks to the vigorous developments in mobile technology and the spectacular shift towards the use of mobile devices over the past few years, it’s safe to state that the mobile gambling and betting markets will continue to grow at a quick pace and dominate their desktop counterparts. The speed of Wi-Fi and the explosion of use in the tablet and smartphone markets will ensure that mobile gambling and sports betting are brought to the forefront of this industry, and this will see the market forever altered for the better. The Spread of Internet Access The massive increase in Internet access…