Gambling

Researchers say public health warnings are “essential to prevent the escalation of gambling-related harm and its long-term consequences.”

If you overspent for the holidays, there’s a chance to get a billion dollars to help pay for those gifts. The Mega Millions jackpot is now $1.15 billion for the next drawing, or $516 million in cash payout. NBC10’s Lauren Mayk reports. 

New Jersey gambling regulators have handed out $40,000 in fines to two sportsbooks and a tech company for violations that included taking bets on unauthorized events, and on games that had already ended.

Television executives Chuck Lorre and Nick Bakay discuss the gambling that happens behind the scenes on the sets of “The King of Queens” and “Bookie”.

Lawmakers from states where gambling is legal are proposing standards for additional states that are considering allowing internet gambling, including a tax rate of 15% to 25%, and a ban on credit card deposits.

Women have broken through in the sports betting industry as analysts and hosts. Now, they want to open doors for more casual female bettors.

Boyd Interactive has purchased Resorts Digital, the online gambling arm of Atlantic City’s Resorts casino for an undisclosed amount. Resorts will continue its relationship with other online gambling partners including DraftKings, Penn Gaming, PokerStars and ESPNBET. It and Boyd will cross-promote each other’s businesses.

A commercial affiliate of the Major League Baseball Players Association sued DraftKings and bet365 on Monday, alleging unauthorized use of player names and images. The suit, filed by MLB Players Inc. against Draftkings Inc. and Bet365 Group Ltd. in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, claims the companies engaged in illegal “use of MLB player images on their sportsbook betting platforms”...

Rep. Paul Tonko of New York and Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut introduced the bill Thursday. It’s designed to address what they say are the harmful effects of the rapid expansion of legal sports betting in the U.S. since 2018. Blumenthal called the measure a matter of public health.

People began betting on which political party would win control of Congress in the November elections within minutes of a judge’s ruling Thursday allowing the bets — the only ones to be legally approved by a U.S. jurisdiction.

People began betting on which political party would win control of Congress in the November elections within minutes of a judge’s ruling allowing the bets — the only ones to be legally approved by a U.S. jurisdiction.

Amid the explosion of legal gambling in the U.S., some things have remained off-limits, including betting on the outcome of U.S. elections. But that could be about to change. A federal judge in Washington has struck down a decision by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to prohibit a company from offering what amounts to bets on the outcome of Congressional...

New Jersey gambling regulators have levied a $33,000 fine on sports betting company bet365 for taking bets on games in which the outcome was already known.

The solution comes in the form of The Mirage Progressive Finale Cash Giveaway promotion, which will run from July 9 through July 13 and July 16.

Atlantic City’s casinos were nearly 10% less profitable to start off this year. First-quarters earnings figures released Wednesday by New Jersey gambling regulators show only two of the nine casinos were more profitable than they were a year ago.

New Jersey’s casinos, horse tracks that accept sports bets, and their online partners won more than half a billion dollars from gamblers in April, an increase of over 10% from a year earlier. But figures released Thursday by state gambling regulators show that was due in large part to the state’s second-best month ever for internet gambling.

Atlantic City’s main casino workers union and the state’s attorney general want a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a different union that seeks to ban smoking at the city’s nine casinos. Local 54 of the Unite Here union says many of its 10,000 workers could lose their jobs and the means to support their families if smoking were...

Dave & Buster’s, one of the largest entertainment operators in the country, will allow its loyalty customers to compete against one another on its app.

Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small said Thursday he remains committed to his family and to his city as he deals with charges that he and his wife abused their teenage daughter. “I pledge to each and every one of you, it doesn’t change my commitment, number one, to my family, and it doesn’t change my commitment here to the great...

New Jersey’s high-flying internet gambling market continues to smash records. But the amount of money won from in-person gamblers at seven of Atlantic City’s nine casinos is less than it was before the COVID19 pandemic.