This Week in Gambling

The Cosmic Convoy online slot is a 10 reel, 10 row, cascading reel adventure from our friends at High 5 Games. It features both a Bonus Round and Bonus Spins. Plus there are Scatter Symbols and Re-spins when you land clusters of Alien Symbols! Ever dreamed of crash landing on a world rich with wondrous wealth? Then follow High 5 Games latest slot game release on a Cosmic Convoy to a planet thriving with fortune! It has a 10×10 layout where players to journey to the delectable surface on this colorful fun planet. In the Cosmic Convoy base game, when…

Any hope of sports betting in California will , state residents will eventually come down to the voters. Perhaps as soon as this fall state residents will be able to decide between ballot measures aimed at regulating the activity. But is would also be understandable if they were so sick of the political bullshit in the state that they just didn’t care. First, there’s the struggle between state card rooms, national operators, and Tribal gaming interests. Each wants the biggest piece of the action they can get. Each would love a monopoly on the action, if we’re honest. And that’s…

PokerStars has decided to bring their players even more with the launch of their new peer-to-peer online betting platform! The PokerStars Betting Exchange is now available at both at PokerStars .com and .eu sites, giving their customers access to a sports betting experience on a global level while maintaining the ease of a single account and wallet! The PokerStars Betting Exchange uses technology from Flutter Entertainment, which gives PokerStars players access to a global liquidity pool. It’s the world’s largest betting exchange (the Betfair Exchange), which means that players have immediate access to global markets and opportunities to buy and…

The numbers from March are in, and New Jersey sports bets have broke the $1 billion mark. That’s the sixth consecutive month that the state has been able to break the billion dollar mark. Casinos in the state handled $1.12 billion in bets, driven mostly by the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament, according to the state Division of Gaming Enforcement. Ironically, bettors in New Jersey could not place money on St. Peter’s of Jersey City, as their is a prohibition of betting on in-state collegiate programs. St. Peter’s became the first 15 seed to advance to the Elite Eight when…

Our gambling news this week finds us in London attending the International Casino Expo, or ICE, where J.Todd is reporting from the floor of the event! Topics of discussion include Michigan online poker news, an update on New Jersey esports betting, and a look at a brand new slot machine!   Hello everyone! J.Todd here for This Week in Gambling, coming to you from the floor of the International Casino Expo… or ICE, as we call it. I gotta tell you, I didn’t know what to expect coming over because last year’s event was canceled due to the pandemic, and…

Four Pennsylvania casinos have been fined for a variety of violations, this according to the state’s Gaming Control Board. The fines were approved late last week. The Mohegan Sun Pocono Casino received a fine of $10,000 for failures in self-exclusion, and the Rivers Casino Pittsburgh was fined $7,500 for using revoked software on some slot machines. The more serious incidents at Pennsylvania casinos were at the Hollywood, who’s owner was fined $40,000 for over serving of alcohol. And the Rivers Philadelphia saw their owner fined $10,000 for permitting underage gambling. In the more serious violations, a guest at the Hollywood…