A key piece of legislation from 2019 will allow for the regulation Puerto Rico sports betting starting later this year. That legislation was amended last year to permit the activity and signed into law by Governor Vázquez Garced. Hope is that betting on sports will create additional tax revenue and jobs. However, the Puerto Rican Gaming Commission notes that the law must be updated to include the amendments made late last year. Still, the hop and expectation is that hope is that Puerto Rico sports betting will launch by April. Under the new law, wagers on sporting events would be…

Washington sports betting is looking to expand beyond the walls of Tribal casinos. For the second year in a row a new bill was introduced in the Senate to bring sports gambling to bettors in venues across the state. The bill would deliver sports betting to licensed card rooms and horse tracks. A similar proposal bill failed last year, but this time supporters say there is bipartisan support for the legislation. Betting on sporting events was finally approved within the borders of the state last year, but only for Tribal Gaming establishments. You can read more about expanding Washington sports…

In a case that has enormous implications for online gambling in America, the US Department of Justice lost their Wire Act appeal against the New Hampshire Lottery Commission. The First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of New Hampshire, upholding the decision of a lower court and driving a nail in the Justice Department newest interpretation of the law. That interpretation could have criminalized interstate online poker and threatened the new, US online gambling industry altogether. Whereas many have insisted that the 1961 Federal Wire Act was always intended to apply to sports betting, the DOJ chose to broaden…

2020 may not have been the best for many people. But for New Jersey sports bets it was a record year! The state took in nearly $1 billion worth of wagers just in the month of December, capping off a record year which saw over $6 billion worth of total bets being placed. Figures released Wednesday by the Division of Gaming Enforcement show the state’s nine casinos and three horse tracks that accept sports wagers took in over $996 million worth of such wagers in December, the latest in a string of monthly records for the activity. New Jersey has…

If legislators can put their differences aside, then we could see Ohio sports betting finally launch in 2021. Last year the State Senate and House could not overcome disagreements about regulatory oversight of the activity. The inability to get a deal done prior to the end of  December means that the process will have to start over with the new legislative session. Three of the biggest sponsors of the previous sports betting legislation are no longer in office. Right now the only legal option for sports fans in Ohio is to drive drive to Pennsylvania. Mobile sports wagering is legal…

Don’t look now, but the Philippines online gambling industry is looking to add horse racing and cock fighting to their offerings. This after a recent decision allows land based casinos their take both online and mobile bets from locals. That decisions comes as the Philippines seek to expand their online betting industry by both allowing residents to bet, and by targeting more overseas markets. It comes amid falling gaming revenues as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. The dog and horse racing offers would target players in America and Britain, while cockfighting would target players in South America. You can…