Here are some of the top stories in mobile and online gaming that we’ve been monitoring in recent days.
Sorry sports fans, I’m not referring to the NBA Basketball team. In one of my earlier reports, I had mentioned the possibility of PayPal joining the online gambling world. Well, according to Online Poker Report, it is getting closer and closer. According to a tweet from GamblingCompliance’s Chris Krafcik he tweeted, “#NewJersey DGE confirmed yesterday it was in licensing discussions with PayPal.”
That’s right. For you Back to the Future 2 fans, online sports gambling may have developed their own version of Gray’s Sports Almanac. For clarification, this is not a program that can predict the future (which would be awesome). This program takes all stats and figures and predicts the best possible outcome, so you can more likely pick a winner.
One day in the not too distant future — if federal and state governments comply — you may be able to place a bet from your smartphone from almost anywhere in the United States.
Well we have all been hearing how internet gambling is becoming more of a reality in the United States (cases in point – New Jersey, Delaware, and Nevada). With that, concerns of increased gambling addiction have been raised. It has been assumed that with the ability to just sit in your own home and gamble that one would be more likely to gamble more of their income, and more frequently.
Republican U.S. Congressman Jason Chaffetz of Utah is doing everything he can to try to keep online gambling from continuing in their state. In 2011, the Department of Justice permitted online gambling in the state of Utah.
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