Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, the nation’s leading critic of gambling on the Internet, funded a poll released Wednesday that showed nearly three-quarters of registered voters in Pennsylvania oppose online gambling. Shocking results? Not to Rep. John Payne, R-Dauphin, author of a bill to legalize online gambling. Poll results done by independent organizations are more legitimate than polls funded by someone like Adelson, the Las Vegas Sands CEO, who has a vested interest in the outcome… “I don’t hold much credibility to the survey because of the way it was done,” Payne said. The poll, conducted by Brock McCleary, president of…

Portugal’s Secretary of State for Tourism, Adolfo Mesquita Nunes, has confirmed that the country will launch a legalised online gaming market on June 28. As reported by iGaming Business, the country’s Council of Ministers in March approved a bill to establish a legal framework for online gaming, shortly before President Aníbal Cavaco Silva also signed off the new bill. The launch, which comes after a more than a decade of discussions, will enable players inside and outside of the country to access Portuguese gaming sites. National regulator Santa Casa de Misericordia de Lisboa will oversee the licence awarding process and…

Online gaming operator 888 has reportedly struck a deal with land-based facility the Mount Airy Casino Resort to provide internet gaming services in the US state of Pennsylvania. Although Pennsylvania does not currently allow online gaming, a number of bills have been introduced in the state in an effort to regulate such activity. Various reports in the US media suggest in the event that legislation passes in the state, then 888 and Mount Airy will be allowed to offer internet gaming and online poker services in Pennsylvania. Under the agreement, 888 would use Mount Airy’s interactive gaming licence to launch…

Poker News Daily – A new anti-online gambling bill has been introduced in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, aiming to make all online betting illegal in the Commonwealth. Introduced by State Representative Thomas P. Murt (R – District 152), it is the polar opposite of the two pro-online gambling bills that are currently before the House. Murt’s bill is actually just a reintroduction of former State Representative Paul Clymer’s bill from last year, one which had the backing of Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson. And whereas bills that look to explicitly legalize online poker in a state are naturally…

Reno Gazette Journal – Some of the newest incarnations of fantasy football look a lot more like gambling than intricate, outsmart-your-opponent strategy games. Since 2011, the billion-dollar fantasy market has been infused with dozens of daily and weekly games. Those games allow players to win huge prizes quickly, sometimes in one week, sometimes in just one night. With players betting thousands or even tens of thousands a night, legal experts believe it’s time to review the section of the 2006 federal law that was written specifically to protect fantasy sports from being banned the way online poker was. “There’s importance…

iGaming Business – Two thirds of the British public are concerned about the amount of advertising for online gambling, according to new research by digital marketing firm IgnitionOne and polling organisation ComRes. The ‘Betting on Digital’ report polled over 2,000 people, 604 of which are active or previous online gamblers, and conducted interviews with 11 senior marketers in the sector. The majority of marketers interviewed in the report placed great emphasis on the need to target the right audience, while the perceived success of this among the public is limited, with just 21% stating that advertising for online gaming targets…