Andrea Domingo, CEO of Philippine gaming regulatory body PAGCOR, will give the opening keynote at the upcoming Manila edition of the SiGMA virtual roadshow The SiGMA Roadshow is back. After a successful first show in Ukraine, followed by an event centered around Las Vegas, SiGMA Group is excited to announce the next stop on its global tour – Manila. A 2-hour virtual event kicks off on the 5th of May at 9:00 – 11.00 CET/15:00 – 17.00 TPE. The SiGMA Roadshow has now moved into the virtual world, with a journey entailing several virtual shows across five major regions; the…

I was there on one of the last nights the Stardust Casino was open in Las Vegas. I watched Don Rickles perform his signature routine and laughed a lot. John Stamos was in the audience a few rows behind me. I said “Hey, John.”. He said, “Hey. Who the hell are you?” Seriously, though. I was fortunate enough to visit the Stardust just before it closed. I did see Mr. Rickles and Stamos. And even though neither of them actually spoke to me, I did manage to get a $5 chip which is somewhere in a box in the back…

Las Vegas, Nevada and Southport, Merseyside. You might think America’s most glitzy city has little in common with the small coastal town that lies in the shadow of Liverpool on England’s rugged North West coast. But both have seen iconic casinos close their doors, only to reappear, at least in a virtual way, in cyberspace. For Southport, this is just the latest in a series of closures to be announced by Malaysia-based Genting Group across the UK, while in Vegas, it signals the return of an iconic name that disappeared from The Strip in 2006. A Sin City legend There…

The new budget for the 2022 fiscal year includes plans for New York mobile sports betting. The announcement came as the state legislature and Governor agreed on an arrangement that could allow four online sports books to be operating in the state as soon as September. The New York Lottery would issue licenses to two mobile betting operators, and they would subcontract licenses to a total of four operators. The state will become the most populous to legalize mobile sports betting, and estimates are it will creating a revenue stream of $500 million a year. The governor also promised that…

For the first time in the short history of American online gambling regulation, a license has been suspended. The sports betting license of Action 24/7 has been suspended by the state of Tennessee, where the company is based. Following a meeting of the state regulator, the Tennessee Lottery, it was decided to pull the operators license due to suspicious betting activity, which included play through a proxy and suspected credit card fraud. The Action 24/7 team actually brought the matter to the attention of the regulator after they began investigating the player account which made 184 different deposits from seven…

It’s been a long, difficult fight… but it’s finally over. The U.S. Department of Justice lost a Wire Act decision again, but this time they will not appeal that ruling. The First Circuit Court of Appeals has determ9ned once and for all that the 1961 Federal Wire Act only applies only to sports betting, not to other forms of online casino games or poker. And in regard to sports betting, the Act only applies to best across state lines, or interstate gambling. The Justice Department had attempted all sorts of fancy legal maneuvers, some of which put at risk activities…