Lawmakers in North Carolina are discussing a new bill that would legalize Tribal sports betting in the state. Sponsored be Senator Jim Davies, S 154 would allow tribal gambling facilities to offer sports wagering, in addition to gaming machines, live table games, raffles and video games that are currently permitted. Should the bill come into law, consumers in North Carolina would be able to place legal bets on both professional and collegiate sports events. However, punters would seemingly be limited to gambling on-site at the tribal facilities, as the bill does not make reference to mobile or online gambling. S…

So, it’s come to this? The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel participated in a Tribal Online Gambling challenge to the UIGEA in 2014 when they took the Desert Rose Online Casino live. Additionally, the Iipay Nation had plans to start an online poker site. Now, after years of legal battles with the state of California, a US Court has made a decision which could have far reaching impacts for Tribal Online Gambling and web based betting in general. _____ In light of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), as one would expect, the online gambling industry has indeed shifted…

How will the legalization of sports betting affect on Tribal Gaming? Much of the American Indian casino industry is at least temporarily opting out of sports betting, discouraged at the anticipated low profit margins and rebuffed by federal and state regulatory and legislative hurdles required to take wagers on college and professional sports. But the debate surrounding sports betting is accelerating efforts to advance tribal government casinos from traditional gambling to internet and mobile technology, a transition believed necessary to generate interest from a younger generation of customers. “This certainly ramps up the conversation of what comes next in the…

Bills to regulate sports betting are slowly making their way through state legislatures. However, Native American gaming interests could bypass the formalities and begin offering sports bets on tribal land! This week’s special offer comes from the MYB Casino!

Gambling is a fantastically, astonishingly lucrative market, yet online gambling is more or less illegal in the United States, despite the popularity of physical casinos in Vegas and Reno and Atlantic City. Richard Branson opened the high-profile online VirginCasino in 2014, but dealers hit a soft sixteen only for gamers physically in New Jersey. Few industries are this regulated: Donald Trump himself couldn’t get a gambling license in Las Vegas last year. It wasn’t always this way. PokerStars, the largest online gambling venue in the world, gained prominence during the 2000s with hundreds of thousands of players, valuations in the…

Biz Journals – The latest ruling in the ongoing battle of the legality of a casino in downtown Buffalo was made but resolution of the eight-year-old case doesn’t seem any closer. A motion made by the National Indian Gaming Commission to intervene and be a party to the lawsuit by Citizens Against Casino Gambling in Erie County was denied May 28 by the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. The commission, however, was granted the ability to file amicus curiae brief, which can be presented by an entity interested in influencing the outcome of a lawsuit but who is not…