Gaming Industry News Weekly Recap – Stories You Might Have Missed

North America

weekly-recap-december-7New Jersey’s regulated online gambling market is a week old; Things are going well enough the Pennsylvania wants in on the action; but Massachusetts isn’t quite ready to discuss it as they seek an injunction against the Tribes in Martha’s Vineyard; Becky Liggero talks with Rip Garber about the importance of Geo-location in New Jersey and Victor Rocha talks about California’s march towards online gambling regulation; Bill Pascrell III joins us for a Skype interview about online gambling in New Jersey and Ray Lesniak wants to turn New Jersey into a global gambling hub. Sheldon Adelson asked that we don’t attack the messenger in his latest op-ed so our Jason Kirk attacks the message in this week’s Dealer’s Choice; Lee Davy gives us updates on the WPT in Montreal and the WSOP Atlantic City and then looks at how Poker Tells have changed with the game; Juniper Research released a study that suggests mobile gamblers to hit 164 million world wide by 2018.

Europe

Betfair profits are up 56% in the first 6m of their fiscal year; Ladbrokes is expecting to cut more staff; Mr. Green is having a phenomenal year; UK gambling advertisements are up 600% since 2007; William Hill’s Sports Book of the year is Jamie Reid’s Doped; David Vamplew wins an FTOPS title; we have updates from the UKIPT and Stuart Rutter talks about his life outside of poker; Two English football games were fixed and two men were charged.

Asia

Taiwan was considering a casino near the Taipei Airport before deciding to delay casino legislation debate; November’s numbers in Macau were the fourth highest this year; James Packer’s Crown Casinos delays their Sri Lankan Casino resort; Macau casino Junket investor AMAX continues to struggle while Amuca (Macau) Sociedade Unipessoal Ltda hasn’t paid their rent at the Sands; China has told banks not to deal in Bitcoin, the virtual currency’s value plummets; it’s been a rough week for Russian gambling as online poker players face a new malware threat and a Russian bookmaker was shuttered for allowing wagering on roosters, rats and insects. We received the first update from the Calvin Ayre Foundation workers on the ground helping the people affected by Super Typhoon Haiyan.