This Week in Gambling

As America inches state by state into regulated online gambling, rumors of a US Network have started to circulate, with PartyPoker at the center. Players at BetMGM and Borgata Poker in New Jersey recently received emails about a chance to win an entry into a PartyPoker US Network $250K Freeroll. The event is slated for January 26. The use of the term US Network appears to be new branding for PartyPoker. While the term US Online Poker Network could mean a variety of things, best guesses say that PartyPoker could be planning to go live in Nevada and then merge…

We take a look at the 88 Wild Dragon slot from our friends at Booongo! Feel the powerful spirit of Chinese culture and the mysticism of the ancient Asian world in this great online slot! The 88 Wild Dragon online slot features magical portals that open the gates to the parallel worlds of wealth and achievement. If one of the two symbols fall out in one of them, the Red Dragon becomes Wild and burns with a hot flame. Two Black fire-breathing Dragons are liven up on special lucky devils. If they appear immediately in 2 portals – you are…

The foul-mouthed, abusive and arrogant celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay seems to want one more claim to fame: his own online casino games. According to a report from The Sun, Ramsay plans to develop  games based on his reality television show Hell’s Kitchen. The British media outlet is reporting that Ramsay applied for a trademark with the UK Intellectual Property Office, and on his application indicated that the trademark was for computer programs for “playing casino, gambling and betting games.” It is not known when these online casino games could launch and Ramsay hasn’t made any official comment on the application…

We’re kicking off the New Year with gambling news on the Department of Justice Wire Act online gambling case! Discussion includes Sheldon Adelson, Joe Biden and the Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling. Also, Virtual Reality is taking over Las Vegas. Soon, players may be able to use VR to bring Vegas to them! Hello friends so good to be back for 2020 after taking some time off for the holidays but enough chitchat let’s get right back into things with this week’s big story. December 20th was the deadline for the US Department of Justice to file their appeal in…

Sheldon Adelson’s lobbying entity, the Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling, has crawled back from the sewer. It seems that the Justice Department fight in the Wire Act case with New Hampshire has given them some confidence. Just a few days later, CSIG joined the DOJ’s case with another voluminous amicus filing. Neither the DOJ nor CSIG have offered anything new this time around, instead opting for an expansion of the tired and adjudged incorrect legal arguments that were refuted in earlier rulings. The latest CSIG amicus brief incorporates large chunks of its May 2019 brief verbatim, including many of the…

We have a look at the amazing Fortune Totems slot machine, part of the Konami Gaming Ba Fang Jin Bao linked progressive! The Fortune Totems slot game features some familiar Konami favorites, such as a 4-level linked progressive jackpot and a pick-and-match game to win a progressive! Players can win up to 18 free games when playing the Fortune Totems slot machine that comes with up to 3,125 ways to win in the free games! On the heels of high performance across the big-screen Concerto Opus cabinet, and growing momentum for its award-winning KX 43, Konami is further expanding its…