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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…
How does a Supplier Register to Participate in CT iGaming and Sports Betting?
July 15, 2021
How does a Supplier Register to Participate in CT iGaming and Sports Betting?
By: Sara Dalsheim
Connecticut legalized sports betting this year and is hoping to launch in time for the 2021 NFL season. However, the registration process for operators and suppliers has yet to be set forth. The focus in Connecticut is largely on licensing fantasy operators in time for the 2021 NFL season. As a result of protests from players in the fantasy sports industry, Connecticut lawmakers added a…
Did the Supreme Court Just Clear the Way for Student Athletes to Promote Sports Betting?
June 24, 2021
Did the Supreme Court Just Clear the Way for Student Athletes to Promote Sports Betting?
By: Sara Dalsheim
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling in NCAA v. Alston, et al. could be the catalyst that transforms the NCAA’s student athlete regulation of the benefits/compensation provided to college athletes. The Court, in a decision written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, upheld the lower courts’ ruling that the NCAA violates antitrust laws by placing limits on the education-related benefits schools can offer to their athletes. Colleges and…
NJ Gaming Chief: “It’s a Wonderful World to Be an iGaming Operator”
June 11, 2021
NJ Gaming Chief: “It’s a Wonderful World to Be an iGaming Operator”
By: Jacob Grubman
With a new bill authorizing online gaming in New Jersey for the first time in 2013, Department of Gaming Enforcement Director David Rebuck and his staff went looking for ways to assuage industry concerns that online firms would “cannibalize” business from the already-struggling retail operations in Atlantic City. “It was going to cannibalize it, intuitively: ‘We’re going to lose people; they’re not going to come…
Will New Jersey be the center of the Esports Universe? According to the Head of the NJ Division of Gaming Enforcement, that’s the goal
May 26, 2021
Will New Jersey be the center of the Esports Universe? According to the Head of the NJ Division of Gaming Enforcement, that’s the goal
By: Nicole Kardell
The EGR’s East Coast Virtual Briefing 2021, took place May 26, 2021 with a packed agenda, including revealing the winner of the Ifrah Pitch Competition. We wanted to provide some highlights on developments in esports as a gambling vertical. Esports was the focus of a Q&A session hosted by Chris Grove, a partner at Eilers & Krejcik Gaming. Grove interviewed the director of New Jersey…
Coming to [North] America: Content Regulation for Gaming Ads and Marketing
April 28, 2021
Coming to [North] America: Content Regulation for Gaming Ads and Marketing
By: Nicole Kardell
The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario recently published its Draft Registrar’s Standards for Internet Gaming (“Draft Standards”). The purpose of the 50-page document is “to ensure that regulated entities have a sound control environment, and an organizational structure that promotes good governance, accountability and oversight, as well as transparency in dealings with the AGCO.” Among the areas of oversight (which are broad reaching) is…
