Texas has joined the parade of US states looking to regulate daily fantasy sports activity in 2017.

On Wednesday, State Rep. Richard Peña Raymond made good on last year’s vow to introduce legislation that would formally authorize DFS activity in the Lone Star state by classifying it as a game of skill.

HB 1457 would allow a “fantasy sports contest operator” to award cash prizes “based on the relative knowledge and skill of the contest participants and based predominantly on accumulated statistical results” of the actual athletes on the field.

HB 1457 would not allow fantasy contests that depended on scores, point spreads or “any single performance of an individual athlete in a single professional or amateur sports competition,” as well as any contest based on live pari-mutuel racing.

Vermantia Immersive Gaming has joined eSports betting community after entering into a collaboration with the eSports tournament and gaming platform PvPRO Gaming.

I was talking to my mate the other day when he told me of a recent win on the horses. He knows a man, who knows a man, who knows a trainer, who knows when horses are going to win or not. He gets this red hot tip and tells all of his mates about it (except me).

Now, he’s not a gambling man, but it’s a red hot tip, right. He talks his wife into allowing him to put £100 at odds of 10/1 and it comes in.

“Your heart must have been trying to jump out of your ribs,” I said.

Vermantia Immersive Gaming has joined eSports betting community after entering into a collaboration with the eSports tournament and gaming platform PvPRO Gaming.

I was talking to my mate the other day when he told me of a recent win on the horses. He knows a man, who knows a man, who knows a trainer, who knows when horses are going to win or not. He gets this red hot tip and tells all of his mates about it (except me).

Now, he’s not a gambling man, but it’s a red hot tip, right. He talks his wife into allowing him to put £100 at odds of 10/1 and it comes in.

“Your heart must have been trying to jump out of your ribs,” I said.

The us-facing online poker room, Cafrino, prepare for a move to the subscription model by making two new hires and offering players to join the Cafrino Street Team.

Playing online poker is illegal in all but three states in the USA. But there are still people playing online poker where they shouldn’t be.

What gives?

Cafrino.com is a free to play online poker room that still offers real money prizes. They circumvent the law by not taking any money from their players, and they reward them by using a slice of the advertising revenue they receive from third-party sources.

Poker Hall of Famer and all round brilliant poker ambassador, Mike Sexton, has been nominated for a record three American Poker Awards as the 70+ nomination panel concludes their role in proceedings.

The 70+ strong nominations committee for the American Poker Awards (APA) have done their job. It’s time to find out who needs to be clearing some space on top of the TV.

Let’s begin with the people who have had such a sterling 2016 they were nominated multiple times, and start with one of the most prominent members of the poker community.

Mike Sexton is a former APA winner. He picked up the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. But his enthralling victory in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event in Montreal and the publication of his memoir ‘Life is a Gamble’ sees him nominated for a record three categories.

A pair of New Jersey congressmen have revived their push to have the US federal government lift its longstanding ban on legal sports betting.

With the Super Bowl just days away, Representatives Frank LoBiondo and Frank Pallone Jr. have reintroduced legislation to overturn the federal PASPA sports betting prohibition, which for a quarter-century has restricted single-game sports betting to the state of Nevada.

The reps have introduced two separate bills, with Pallone’s NJ BET Act aimed at exempting New Jersey from the PASPA prohibition while LoBiondo’s Sports Gaming Opportunity Act would offer a four-year window in which all US states could choose for themselves whether they want legal sports betting within their borders.

For the record, LoBiondo and Pallone have been pitching versions of these bills for years but these efforts have yet to make any headway on Capitol Hill, and there’s no indication that this year will be any different.