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The Florida Senate passed Senator Bill Galvano’s Gaming Bill 8. The House gaming bill is also among the bills that are expected to be passed in a few days. After the full Senate chamber have made a decision to pass the new bill, despite the fact that the Senate and and House versions of the legislation differ from each other, especially when it comes to the budget considerations in the balance. The Senate’s preliminary approval was given to SB 8 on Wednesday. Then, on Thursday, the Senate approved the version…

Pennsylvania finally saw the introduction of a piece of legislation seeking to make video gaming terminals (VGTs) across the state bars, truck stops and betting parlours situated away from racetracks legal. The bill, called HB 1010, was presented to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. The bill concerning the video gaming terminals is actually repeats a previous effort for such piece of legislation which was introduced over the last session of the Pennsylvania’s legislature. The sponsors of the bill, forty-six state representatives led by the Representative Mar Mustio as main sponsor…

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) urged the gambling industry to be more serious and tolerant to consumer complaints. The country’s gambling regulator published some findings related to a Commission’s review, according to which both alternative dispute resolution providers and gambling companies needed to improve their way of handling consumer disputes in their practice. Previously, the Gambling Commission has published a review of the way such complaints are being processed in the gambling industry. The UK gambling regulator has also published some information about the issues that it would be more…

MGM has managed to mark a great achievement in terms of its planned casino in the region of Western Massachusetts. The casino and hotel complex is set to officially open in the autumn of 2018. After it is established, it is expected to become the first gambling destination in the region which is built in Vegas style. The Las Vegas casino giant is scheduled to hold a ceremony on Wednesday for raising the final steel beam of the resort casino and hotel complex located in Springfield. The project is estimated…

GambleAware, a leading British charity organisation formerly known as the Responsible Gambling Trust (RGT) has announced that the Multi-Operator Self Exclusion Scheme (MOSES) had turned out to be successful. According to the information presented by GambleAware, the self-exclusion scheme for licensed retail betting offices has been very efficient to users who have wanted to reduce or stop their gambling activity. Unfortunately, the newest research initiated by the charitable organisation showed that the individuals who suffered from problem gambling behaviour needed some additional support to help them reduce their gambling habits.…

Mr Green and Betfair have become the latest online gambling operators that confirmed its decision to exit the Polish gambling market. Earlier, Betfair has revealed its intentions to leave Poland due to unfavourable gambling legislation that is scheduled to take effect this week. The amendments in the Polish Gambling Act which are to be implemented in a few days only, have been considered as unfavourable and hostile ones for overseas operators. The country’s regulatory authorities and legislature have been blamed in trying to make the conditions more favourable for the…

According to the information presented in a recent report, a significant decline in Nevada poker revenue has been registered over the past several years. Now, with a new closure at the Monte Carlo, the Las Vegas Strip has been projected to face a quarter of poker tables-generated revenue smaller than the one generated in the region ten years earlier. The Monte Carlo casino is scheduled to close a poker room featuring eight tables in about a month. This comes as part of reconstruction project which is estimated to $450 million.…

As Casino Guardian reported less than a fortnight ago, West Virginia emerged as the state which faced the matters related to online gambling legislation most recently. However, some new reports provide information that the state is not very likely to see any change in the status quo of the online gaming within the current legislative session of the competent authorities. Earlier in March 2017, the bill H 3067 was presented, which made West Virginia part of the states that have been seeking to make iGaming legal. As we have revealed…

Two of the leading international gambling operators are to become the latest gambling companies that are to exit the newly-regulated online betting market in Poland. William Hill and bet365, two of the most powerful and successful online casino, gaming and betting operators on a global scale, revealed they are to withdraw their operations from the country, following a number of other companies that have made the decision to leave its jurisdiction due to tax legislation that is considered as unfavourable to off-shore companies. Global betting operators have started to close…

Almost a decade ago, at the time when the first legal casino in Western Pennsylvania – The Meadows – opened, warnings predicting the future increase of problem gambling behaviour were issued around the industry. However, over the last annual conference of the CCGP, an abbreviation which stands for Council on Compulsive Gambling of Pennsylvania, which took place in Pittsburgh a few days ago, no proof indicating an increase in gambling addictions in the region over the past ten years was presented. The CCGP is a non-profit organisation which works in…