GovTech – Pennsylvania, West Virginia and nine other states might approve online gambling this year or next, says the founder of a major Internet gambling consulting company. “There’s intense competition in that part of the country,” says Fred Gushin, managing director and founder of Spectrum Gaming Group, a New Jersey company that analyzes trends for casino-related clients and government agencies around the world. New Jersey, Delaware and Nevada launched online gambling last year. “It’s something that will be considered not only by Pennsylvania but by all the other states that have gaming because they ultimately can’t afford not to,” Gushin…

iGaming Business – Borgata has emerged as the leading igaming operator in New Jersey’s newly-regulated market with US$3.3m in gross win during December 2013, the first  full month of regulated activity in the state, but overall gaming revenue in the state in 2013 was down on the previous year despite the introduction of online gambling, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) has reported. The regulator said that online gaming generated a total of $8.4 million (€6.2 million) between the initial November 21 soft launch date and the end of December, with $7.4 million of this amount accumulated in…

Card Player – As promised, Sheldon Adelson — well not really him but his army of employees — has began 2014 by vigorously fighting against the spread of legalized online gambling in the United States. Last year he announced that he would spend whatever it takes to thwart efforts by rival companies and pro-web gambling lawmakers everywhere. Just two weeks in the new year, and a draft of a federal bill that Adelson’s camp authored has surfaced, according to reports. The bill calls for the strengthening of a law that would stifle state efforts to authorize web gambling within their…

The new UK online gambling bill has taken another step forward after it was confirmed that it is to undergo further examination in the House of Lords. Yesterday, the House of Lords began a committee stage of the bill, a process in which it will be examined in detail. Despite the lengthy line-by-line examinations process, the government said that the bill is still on track for implementation before the end of the year. If approved, the legislation would require all online gaming companies in the UK market, regardless of where they are based, to hold a UK Gambling Commission license….

Online Poker Report – Iowa lawmakers will not take up the issue of online poker in 2014. Instead, the state’s gambling industry is committed to monitoring states where online gambling in already live with an eye toward working up a bill for 2015. That’s per Wes Ehrecke, President and CEO of the Iowa Gaming Association, in an article for Casino Enterprise Management. Ehrecke told CEM that there will be “no discussion in the 2014 legislative session” regarding online poker. Citing the short legislative session , Ehrecke sketched an alternative plan for Iowa’s gaming stakeholders: “Rather, the industry will closely watch…

iGaming Business – Land-based, online, mobile and social games developer High 5 Games (H5G) has agreed a deal with Caesars Interactive Entertainment (CIE) to integrate its remote gamer server into the US operator’s CaesarsCasino.com online gambling website in New Jersey. The deal will make CIE the first operator in the US state to integrate H5G’s suite of games, as well as marking H5G’s first official igaming partnership in New Jersey. Under the partnership, H5G will offer CIE access to many of its brands, including top-performing titles such as Jaguar Princess, Shadow of the Panther, Dangerous Beauty and Sirens for real-money…