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Luke always has a smile ready on his face. As a poker player and a dedicated writer, he’s got a few tricks up his sleeve. With the poker landscape changing quite rapidly, he’s our boots on the ground, following all developments with the utmost interest and reporting back to our readers. Luke’s big strength is that he doesn’t just write for the sake of reporting, he genuinely puts himself in our readers’ shoes, trying to make sense of an overwhelming inflow of information.

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Pa. Gambling Industry Posts Lackluster Performance in April

In March 2019, the Keystone State established a new market record thus setting some rather high expectations for the months that would follow. Unfortunately, things took a rather unanticipated turn in April when the state posted falling gambling revenue. The Slump in Slot Machine and Table Game Revenue According to figures released by the Pennsylvania […]

Harrah’s Philadelphia Unveils New Poker Room

Last Friday (April 26, 2019) Harrah’s Philadelphia Casino and Racetrack officially launched a brand-new poker room following extensive renovations. The World Series of Poker-branded poker room is part of the operator’s bid to reverse an extended period of loss of customers due to both in- and out-of-state competitors. Even though the renovated and upgraded poker […]

The NCAA and the Inevitable Reality of Sports Betting

AS it stands, it seems that all the bets are off in as far as the NCAA’s resistance against sports betting in the United States is concerned. Contrary to what was the case at the 2018 Final Four where the only state where players could legally place sports bets was Nevada, there are tons of […]

Caernarvon Township Officials Back First Pa. Mini Casino

A little over a week ago Penn National Gaming pitched a proposal for a Category 4 satellite casino during a public hearing that was hosted by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board in Caernarvon Township. During that particular hearing, a significantly large of residents opposed the establishment of the mini-casino citing concerns that such an initiative […]

Casinos Have Better Chances than Sports Betting in 3 US States

When PASPA was finally defeated in May, 2018 nobody hurried to speculate that casinos would be the place where most sports betting would take place anyway. Pennsylvania’s own casinos hadn’t submitted a sports betting license by June. Then some wondered – where else if not casinos? Sure, there were the race tracks, but would that […]

Golden Nugget Can Serve as Role Model for PA Casinos

If there’s one property everyone should be looking into these days, it is the Golden Nugget. Having kept a relatively low profile, the Nugget is back in the limelight, expanding its footprint and beating all expectations. In Atlantic city alone, the casino has managed to become the second most-grossing casino at the beginning of the […]

Pa. Gambling Licensees Asked to Comply with New DOJ Opinion

On Monday, January 14, the United States Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel issued a new legal opinion on the Wire Act of 1961. This new opinion stated that the Wire Act applied not only to sports betting but also all other forms of interstate online gambling – this effectively reversed a 2011 Office […]

Two More Pennsylvanian Casinos Prep for Sports Betting

Sports bettors in Pennsylvania are about to have three sports books to choose from as two more casinos, namely Rivers and SugarHouse casinos, are about to go live with their own sports betting offerings. Both casinos are set to begin their test periods on Thursday, December 13 – if this goes well, the Pennsylvania Gaming […]

Pennsylvania Sports Betting Finally Goes Live

The long wait for legal sports betting in the Keystone State has finally come to an end and Penn National Gaming’s Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course is the first casino to offer the service. All this begun last week on Thursday when the first legal sports bet was placed at the Hollywood Casino […]

Hollywood Casino iGaming Even Closer with Two New Deals

Penn National, the operator of Pennsylvania’s Hollywood Casino has recently signed two new groundbreaking deals that are expected to bring the launch of its much-anticipated online gaming offering even closer. Supposing everything goes as planned, residents of the Commonwealth will be able to access legal and regulated online gaming products before the end of the […]