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Horses, Casinos, and Prediction Markets – Old & New in Saratoga Springs
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August 22, 2025
Horses, Casinos, and Prediction Markets – Old & New in Saratoga Springs
By: Michelle Cohen
Last week, I moderated a panel on the sizzling topic of prediction markets at the annual Racing and Gaming Conference at Saratoga. This conference brings together legislators, regulators, and industry professionals from a wide range of organizations in the gaming ecosphere – from horse trainers, to representatives of game suppliers and sports betting companies. It is a conference where the “old” (horse racing) and the “new” (i-Gaming and other online operations such as skill games and sweepstakes) converge. So what’s new in the “traditional” world of horse racing? Panelists shared insights into the challenges faced at our nation’s horse tracks, including staffing the tracks in light of changes in immigration policies. One panel focused on off-track betting as a possible…
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Gambling Industry Takes on Addiction Prevention
July 28, 2025
Gambling Industry Takes on Addiction Prevention
By: Jordan Briggs
Last week, the National Council on Problem Gambling hosted advocates, regulators, counselors, and other industry participants in Columbus, Ohio for the National Conference on Gambling Addiction & Responsible Gambling 2025. With such a broad range of attendees, the conference offered many unique sessions geared towards different industry groups, including wellness sessions and recovery meetings alongside the overviews of ongoing, broad research and the operator-specific talks…
FAIR Treatment of Lost Bets
July 25, 2025
FAIR Treatment of Lost Bets
By: Avner Kronisch
Introduction On July 7, 2025, Representatives Dina Titus (D-NV) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) introduced H.R. 4304, the Fair Accounting for Income Realized from Betting Earnings Taxation Act, commonly known as the FAIR Bet Act.[1] Two days later, Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), and Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced the Senate companion bill, S. 2230, titled Facilitating Useful Loss Limitations to Help Our Unique…
Ripple Decision Shakes Up US Crypto
July 14, 2023
Ripple Decision Shakes Up US Crypto
By: George Calhoun
In an apparent boon to the cryptocurrency and broader blockchain industries, a judge in the US District Court for Southern New York ruled on Thursday that Ripple Labs Inc. did not violate federal securities laws in the offering and sale of the XRP token on public exchanges, meaning that the token could be relisted on public U.S. exchanges. Indeed, Coinbase, the United States’ largest cryptocurrency…
Thinking of Starting Your Own DFS Company?
July 3, 2023
Thinking of Starting Your Own DFS Company?
By: Sara Dalsheim
The expansion of daily fantasy sports (“DFS”) is on the rise in the United States. As the country prepares for the 2023-24 NFL season, it is around this time we see new products come to the market. Unlike sports betting, launching a DFS product has less regulatory barriers. Although, there are a few key states with regulatory compliance requirements that new contest operators should keep…
Circuit Court for the District of D.C. Upholds Compact: What this Means for Sports Betting in Florida
June 30, 2023
Circuit Court for the District of D.C. Upholds Compact: What this Means for Sports Betting in Florida
By: Abbey Block
Today, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a decision in West Flagler Associates, Ltd. v. Haaland, that will have meaningful implications for the future of online sports betting in Florida along with the interpretation of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (“IGRA”). By way of background, in the spring of 2021, the State of Florida and the Seminole Tribe announced a compact under IGRA purporting…
Ifrah Law on Web3: Web3 Gaming
June 29, 2023
Ifrah Law on Web3: Web3 Gaming
By: Jake Gray
What We’ve Covered In the initial two blog posts of this series, we explored the fundamentals of the World Wide Web, focusing on its iterative issues and solutions as the technology evolved. We charted the history of the Web briefly, from its early stages of relatively isolated, static, and read-based websites to today’s rather centralized, interconnected, write-based websites, highlighting the underlying reasons and innovations behind…
Is Sports Wagering Regulation and Legalization Leading to More Sports Integrity?
May 25, 2023
Is Sports Wagering Regulation and Legalization Leading to More Sports Integrity?
By: Sara Dalsheim
During the debate to legalize sports wagering in the United States opponents claimed that it would lead to increased corruption and match fixing in sports. However, Sportsradar’s annual Betting Corruption and Match-Fixing Integrity Services Report for 2022[1] revealed that the number of suspicious matches has declined in North America. According to the Report the number of suspicious matches in North America declined 25% compared to…
