Australian Gambling – Gambling on company devices at your office could now see your boss in a whole world of financial trouble. Companies could now be fined more than $1 million for breaching safety standards if proven liable for workplace gambling under the Occupational Health and Safety Act. A business that supplies laptops, smart phones, computers or tablets without a gambling policy or an attempt to block the sites could even be up for criminal convictions. The issue has been raised this week by responsible gambling foundation spokespeople ahead of Responsible Gambling Awareness Week. Holding Redlich senior associate and workplace…

Sacramento Bee –  California tribal casinos were deeply divided about how, or if, the state should legalize online poker. Now tribes are talking, but a deal remains elusive because of key disagreements. Robert Martin, chairman of the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, said he would have no problem with allowing racetracks and advanced-deposit wagering facilities to offer online poker. “I can’t answer for every tribe, but I can tell you that Agua Caliente would oppose that bill,” said Jeff Grubbe, chairman of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. He noted that voters in 2004 rejected a measure to expand…

Card Player – Nevada’s three online sites collected a total of $792,000 in revenue during the month of April, according to a state reported released Wednesday morning. That figure amounts to a decline of 14.5 percent compared to March’s $926,000. February’s figure was $824,000. February marked the first time ever that a Silver State gaming revenue report included online poker figures. The state was keeping the numbers under wraps until a third casino firm, South Point, started offering games. Station Casinos, which debuted games in spring 2013, and Caesars Entertainment, which kicked things off in late summer 2013, are the…

LA Times – In legislative proceedings, the most important words in a debate often are the ones left unmentioned. At a hearing held by a California state assembly committee last month about legalizing online poker, the unspoken term was PokerStars. No hearing witnesses wanted to say outright that they were talking about PokerStars. It’s the largest online poker company in the world, which wants in on the riches to be had if California legalizes Internet card play, but it also has faced federal charges of money laundering and fraud. So the April 23 discussion before the Governmental Organization Committee was…

iGaming Business – Server-based gaming specialist Inspired Gaming has announced that Italian gaming company Gamenet has become the latest operator to launch its range of virtual sports games in the country. Inspired’s virtual sports products are already available to Italian players at more than 7,000 venues under existing agreements with SNAI, Sisal, Lottomatica, Eurobet and Cogetech. Inspired anticipates that over 10,000 venues in Italy will be live with its virtual sports products in the next few months with further operators including Intralot and Microgame. “Following this partnership Gamenet will be able to provide an even more extensive games library,” Gamenet’s…

The Nevada State Gaming Control Board Gaming Commission has approved the Genting casino license for the Malaysian conglomerate ahead of the opening of its new Resorts World Las Vegas facility in the state. As reported by iGaming Business, Genting presented its plans for a multi-phased opening of its new resort to the Nevada regulatory body earlier this month. Genting said the new resort would create ‘tens of thousands’ of jobs and generate ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ in tax revenue for Southern Nevada. Construction work on the new resort, which will be located on the site of the old Stardust…