Delaware’s online gambling network is now nearly two years old, and while it remains the smallest of the three markets for state-level Internet gaming in the United States, it is still generating revenue for the state’s casinos. But things haven’t gone so well on the online poker side of things, where rather than gaining a […]
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Accomplished veterans Ashleyluvssugar, Big John B, Ganesh, and Finnegans Wake head a talented cast of grass stars going long at Del Mar Aug. 22.
A former sixth-grade teacher in Cheyenne who pleaded no contest to charges she had sex with a 13-year-old boy has been sentenced to eight to 12 years in prison. The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports, Anna Andersen, who taught at Freedom Elementary, was sentenced Monday.
Fifth Harmony perform onstage during The Players’ Awards presented by BET at the Rio Hotel & Casino on July 19, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. There’s only 24 hours to go until Premios Tu Mundo and the buzz online is mounting for Telemundo’s star-studded awards show, where fans get to vote for their favorite TV, social media and music idols.
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch has filed a federal lawsuit seeking documents relating to the US Department of Justice’s revised opinion on the scope of the Wire Act.
In 2011, the DOJ surprised the gaming industry by issuing an opinion that the 1961 Wire Act applied only to sports betting. The opinion, which was dumped on an unsuspecting public two days before Christmas, paved the way for the intrastate online gambling markets currently operating in Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware.
The opinion was widely regarded as correct but was nonetheless controversial in certain circles. Case in point: the erroneously titled Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA), the Sheldon Adelson-backed legislation that seeks a return to the good old days when the DOJ believed the Wire Act prevented virtually every form of US online betting save horseracing and on-premise mobile gaming offered by some US casinos (including Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands).
Republicans who support RAWA made the DOJ’s 2011 opinion a sticking point in holding up the nomination of current US Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who held her ground by stating that she was unlikely to reverse that opinion.
A Missoula man has claimed a record $410,000 Montana Cash jackpot while a man from Winifred won the second-tier prize in the Lucky for Life drawing. Montana Lottery officials say James Schiewek of Missoula bought his winning ticket at Fast Trop in Missoula.
Las Vegas Sands has the most accommodation and the largest convention centers, and is ready for the growth in Chinese outboard tourism. The gaming and integrated resorts industry in Macau is still shouldering the burden of reduced mainland Chinese VIP player activity brought on by the Chinese government’s crackdown on excessive consumption and money laundering.
The gaming industry tends to see new technologies emerge in the form of new consoles from manufacturers like Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft, but in the coming months, Virtual Reality will take center stage as it tries to grasp the brass ring of a sustainable audience. A lot of companies are excited about VR, while others are taking a wait-and-see approach.
Keeneland will celebrate hosting the 2015 Breeders’ Cup World Championships by offering hour-long, guided tours that will give fans an insider’s look at the rich connection between Keeneland and the Breeders’ Cup.
The Carter Sales Company noted its 2015 OKC Summer sale of select Thoroughbred yearlings and horses of racing age Sunday, Aug. 16 in Oklahoma City delivered an average price similar to last year.
Jones has Longines Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) heroine Lovely Maria and her multiple graded stakes-winning stablemate I’m a Chatterbox in the 135th running of the $600,000 Alabama Stakes (gr. I) on Saturday, Aug. 22.
Alywow Stakes winner Mississippi Delta will try to continue her winning ways at Woodbine when she returns to the Rexdale, Ontario track on Saturday, Aug. 22 for the $150,000 Ontario Colleen Stakes (Can-III).
Entries are being accepted for the Virginia Downs Racing, presented by the Virginia Equine Alliance, six-race card Sunday, Sept. 20 at Great Meadow in The Plains, Va.
Aided by an almost 9% increase in average field size and eight more turf races, pari-mutuel handle at the midway point of the 40-day Saratoga Race Course meeting is showing strong gains compared with the same period in 2014.
On Aug. 22 the Nobiz Like Shobiz colt returns to stretch out to seven furlongs and step up in company in the $100,000 Arlington-Washington Futurity (gr. III), departing from post 4 in a field of 13 with Chris Emigh up.
Seven of the 11 3-year-old fillies for the Aug. 22 Monmouth Oaks (gr. III) come into the race off wins, but the only graded winner in the field — High Dollar Woman — drew the outside post in the 1 1/16-mile event.
Asian casino operator Donaco International has inked a partnership with English Premier League football powerhouse Manchester United.
On Wednesday, Man U announced it had named Donaco its Official Casino Resort Partner in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and South Korea. Donaco operates the Star Vegas casino in Cambodia and the Aristo International Hotel and casino in Vietnam.
The parties say they will work together to boost both brands’ profiles through the use of exclusive club content. Man U managing director Richard Arnold called the deal “a significant partnership” while Donaco CEO Joey Lim said the pact would allow his firm to “better engage with our customers and fans and help expedite our growth and footprint across the region.”
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The 2015 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open once again failed to hit its guarantee, coming up about 100 entries short of what was needed to build the prize pool to $5 million without forcing the casino to kick in some of its own money. But that didn’t stop the final table from providing plenty of […]
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Trainer Richard Mandella said he’d try two-time champion Beholder against males in the TVG Pacific Classic (gr. I), as long as she showed she was ready three weeks after her romp in the Clement L. Hirsch (gr. I).
The Delaware Park Safety Committee will review safety protocol following a Tuesday, Aug. 18 paddock accident in which a valet suffered serious injury but was not transported from the track for 32 minutes.