This Week in Gambling

It’s been less than a month since the passing of Sheldon Adelson, and already his Las Vegas Sands has a new CEO who is steering the company toward iGaming and digital betting. Rob Goldstein has been named as Adelson’s replacement, and he seems set to take the company directly into the teeth of the industry his predecessor spend millions of dollars and the last years of his life fighting. When speaking of Adelson’s dislike of online gambling, Goldstein said “He never questioned its viability… We just want to keep working toward our goals. It’s a very interesting business. The question…

SiGMA’s 7th language has been announce with the addition of Hindi to its website. The language will be the 7th translation after French was announced earlier this year. The addition of the new content follows an announcement last year that the company would be taking their editorial content in a more global direction by adding 10 language translations to their website. Users can now find all content, including the SiGMA News website, in Hindi. The latest addition to SiGMA’s portfolio of languages will run alongside the recently launched French, Russian, Mandarin, Spanish, and Portuguese content, and aims to cater to SiGMA’s…

The fight over American online gambling may now be over, and it looks like the good guys have won the battle! The First Circuit Court of Appeals has made a decision in the New Hampshire Lottery case after the Justice Department appealed the first decision. But if the DOJ wasn’t happy before, they won’t be happy now! Hello friends! And thanks so much for streaming another edition of This Week in Gambling where the fight for American online gambling may have just come to a crashing halt! And that is this week’s big story! For nearly 15 years now some…

Regulated US internet betting just hit an amazing, all-time high over the weekend… due in large part to the opening of Virginia and Michigan online gambling! The NFL’s Conference Championships over the weekend brought out the bettors across 17 states and Washington, DC. That resulted in a 260% increase in legal gambling transactions placed over the web from the same time last year. Just from the two newest markets in Michigan and Virginia there were well over 7 million bets places by 400,000 individual accounts. Many jurisdictions are now starting to take notice that all that money (and potential tax…

Could we soon be seeing Bitcoin slot machines for some of our favorite game titles? Our friends at IGT are working on that right now! And soon, popular titles like their Megabucks and Wheel of Fortune could be accepting cryptocurrency payments! IGT recently received a patent after developing a way to move Bitcoin and other cryptos from player’s game accounts and their cryptocurrency wallets. Additionally, they got regulatory approval in Nevada. That means that a slot player could transfer Bitcoin to a slot machine with a few swipes on their phone! The Coronavirus pandemic has increased the interest in virtual…

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