After months of waiting, Pennsylvania online sports betting is finally available! SugarHouse Casino began live testing of its mobile sports betting app product after receiving approval from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board The advent of Internet sports wagering in the state has been months in the making. SugarHouse becomes just the first of many coming dominoes to fall in the state. All eight of the current sportsbooks in the state are expected to offer Pennsylvania online sports betting by this summer. A ninth, Presque Isle Downs in Erie, is targeting June 1 as the kickoff date of its retail sportsbook….

A bill that would allow betting on sports in Tennessee was fundamentally altered by the bill’s sponsor by only allowing online sports betting. It was supposed to bring sportsbook style shops and kiosks to Tennessee, but state representative Rick Staples introduced an amendment that changed much of the bill language. Instead of physical locations, only online sports betting would be permitted. Betting would be managed by the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation. Rep. Staples said he believes the state will raise $21.6 million in the first year of operation, doubling that number in the second year. Local governments would receive 15…

Sports betting is an essential industry in several countries such as the UK, USA, and Australia. If you go by definition, then sports betting is predicting the results of the sports by placing the bets on the game’s outcome. The online forums where you can bet on the favorite sports team have entirely revolutionized sports betting. Forums offer a give and take policy and the bettors discuss the predictions and help one another to decide the profitable bets. There are numerous places or the online websites where you can easily place the bets but all are not genuine, so before…

For decades, online sports betting has been illegal in the US outside Nevada. With a Supreme Court ruling Monday, that’s about to change, likely before the upcoming NFL season kicks off. But don’t get too excited—or horrified, depending on your perspective—about the future of online sports gambling just yet; it won’t come all at once, and it won’t be everywhere. In a 6–3 ruling, the Supreme Court backed the state of New Jersey’s challenge to the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, a 1992 law that banned states other than Nevada from operating a sports book. The decision doesn’t legalize…

As technology advances, there have been major innovations in the iGaming industry. Both online casino and online sports betting operators are now turning to look at more creative ways to engage users. Trends are changing, demands are growing and the focus is on a more interactive gaming experience. To give you a bit of insight into what’s happening in the industry, specifically from a sports betting view, we explore the latest trends in 2017. With a focus on eSports, the niche rapidly grew in popularity in 2017 with a boom of new players joining in on the action. The game…

The New Jersey case for US sports betting reform is heading to the US Supreme Court, and the imaginations of many are running wild. Namely, the prospect of the state winning its appeal to allow sports betting also offers the possibility that a number of other states could quickly move to legalize sports wagering. (Some already are well on their way, including Mississippi and Connecticut.) And while that may be the case, online and mobile sports betting is not likely to proliferate nearly as quickly as land-based wagering. Here’s where we’re at in the United States in terms of online…