Only in Pennsylvania: Gamblers would not be allowed to register online to open Internet gambling accounts unless they live more than 20 miles away as the crow flies from a bricks-and-mortar casino. Any closer, and they would have to travel to a casino and register in person, under the provisions of a Senate bill in Harrisburg calling for big changes to the state’s gambling landscape. The goal is to give the brick-and-mortar casinos a better chance to tap into their local target audience. It’s an unusual move. None of the other states that have legalized online gambling – Nevada, Delaware,…

The Canadian Gaming Association (CGA) is today calling on the Senate of Canada to bring Bill C290 to an immediate vote. Their inaction on the bill continues to foster an illegal, unregulated and dangerous environment for Canadian sports bettors. On June 2 the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake announced its intention to become the actual operator of an online sports wagering site, Sports Interaction, within the Province of Quebec.  Operating such a site in Canada is considered illegal under current Canadian law. “A significant and illegal online sports betting business will soon operate within Canada’s borders,” said Bill Rutsey, CEO of…

Even as the rise of the Internet has driven communications and economic growth to heights previously unimagined, some lawmakers are using that very explosion as pretext to expand the federal government’s power and reach in ways that threaten the delicate balance of powers inherent in our federalist system. A key example is a new piece of legislation called the “Restoration of America’s Wire Act,” or RAWA. Introduced in the House as H.R. 707 by Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, the bill purports simply to update the half-century-old Wire Act, originally signed by President John F. Kennedy to combat the influence of…

It is no secret that as Europe’s most populous and affluent country, Germany also happens to be the continent’s biggest gambling market and in 2013 the nation of 80 million people generated $3.7 billion (€2.7 billion euro) in revenues, up by 5% compared to the previous year. In order to organize a framework for its burgeoning gambling industry, Germany introduced its Interstate Treaty on Gambling in 2012, but the piece of legislation has since drawn criticism from the EU, especially as it forbids all types of internet gambling with the exception of sports betting. One of Germany’s 16 states, however,…

Billionaire Ronald Perelman, who is the chairman and largest stockholder of lottery and slot machine giant Scientific Games Corp., plans to support the presidential bid of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, despite the Republican candidate’s backing of legislation that would ban Internet gambling. Scientific Games, which is headquartered in Las Vegas, has a large interactive gaming division that operates online lotteries in the U.S. The company provides products to 39 of the 44 U.S. state-run lotteries and to 50 lottery countries. Last year, Graham and a Utah congressman to introduced legislation to ban online wagering in the U.S. The move…

The big question is , are US players still acceptable to the online casino sites?. Well,this is quite difficult to answer as the question is tricky.Few years back,we can say during Bush regime ,online gambling for US citizens was made a little difficult through some legislation from them.Basically,the main summary of the legislation was that financial institutions could not transact with the people and businesses engaged in online gambling.Although ,there was a clause in the legislation which said that people  can continue to involve in online gambling if they manage and found alternative methods of making transactions. This put people…