After making a modest entry in the U.S., William Hill’s Nevada expansion will include seven additional sports books across the state. The regulatory approval comes from the Nevada Gaming Control Board, which has issued approval and recommendations about the upcoming betting venues of the operator, citing places in Las Vegas and Laughlin. There will be other sites in North Las Vegas, Reno and throughout the Stateline region, next to the border with California. Positioning properties with California would allow for an additional stream of revenue as Californians are packing up to place legal sports wagers in neighboring Nevada. William Hill…

The American gaming industry was thrown for a loop recently by the new DOJ sports betting decision. Congress was not vague in its intent when it enacted the Wire Act in 1961. The law, developed and supported by then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy, was never meant to establish new prohibitions on any type of gambling. Rather, it was designed to provide federal enforcement support for illegal interstate sports gambling or, as a House Judiciary report in 1961 put it, to “assist the various States and the District of Columbia in the enforcement of their laws pertaining to gambling, bookmaking, and like…

The small African nation of Uganda bans sports betting recently. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, has ordered a ban on sports betting, a minister has disclosed over the weekend. State Minister of Finance David Bahati, was quoted by the privately-run Daily Monitor portal as confirming that no new licenses will be issued for the betting companies and that old licenses will not be renewed upon expiration. “We have received a directive from President [Yoweri] Museveni to stop licensing sports betting, gaming and gambling companies. The president has now directed the board which has been regulating them,” Mr Bahati is quoted to…

The state Gaming Commission will meet to discuss a New York sports betting bill for land-based casinos on January 28, 2019. An agenda published ahead of the meeting states that the Commission will look at proposed rules for regulating the industry. The Commission did not go into detail as to what it will specifically focus on at the meeting, but it will be the first time that the regulatory body will officially discuss potential rules and regulations for the vertical. A 2013 constitutional amendment gave the state’s casinos the right to launch sports betting should the Professional and Amateur Sports Act…

Arizona lawmakers will run the rule over a new bill that would legalize land-based Tribal sports betting within the state but prohibit betting on collegiate sporting events. Put forward by Senator Sonny Borrelli and Representatives Mark Finchem and Leo Biasiucci, SB 1158 sets out that each federally recognised tribe in Arizona with headquarters in the state would be able to offer sports betting. The bill is the first of its kind to be introduced in Arizona. This would not be limited to casinos, with tribes able to provide sports betting via kiosks or self-service terminals at one or more premises…

The thought of sports betting in Hawaii seems like a pipe dream. The state’s has long been perceived as having a firm stance in opposition to all forms of gambling. But, in one of the most surprising stories in recent weeks, Legal Sports Report says that Hawaii has emerged as being among the latest US states to present a bill that would pave the way for legal sports betting. Bill H 1107, if passed into law, will see the inauguration of a dedicated body – the Hawaii Sports Wagering Corporation which will regulate the state’s sports betting industry. The bill…