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Regardless of whether you’re planning a Vegas casino online vacation or are looking for land-based casino entertainment, you’ll get more out of your vacation if you plan ahead. 

Many gamblers are superstitious. Even some of the world’s top-ranked poker players have their systems, talismans, catch phrases and other ways of calling down the gods to request a good outcome.

Sports betting isn’t legal in the state of Georgia but that isn’t stopping Atlanta’s pro teams from promoting wagers on their performances.  The four teams are lobbying the Georgia legislature to pass legislation that will make betting on sporting events legal in the state through mobile online casino sportsbook gambling.

The teams, the Hawks, the Falcons, the Braves, and United are at the forefront of advocating for a bill that would make it legal to bet on their games.

Sports betting has been an explosive issue in California for many years. Legislators, pro and anti-gambling forces and gaming tribes have been battling over whether to allow Vegas casino sports betting to be introduced to the state. The battle has been raging  for the past year and a half, ever since the Supreme Court ruled that jurisdiction over sports betting laws was in the hands of the states.  

Keeping loan shark activity under control is a major focus of the Macau police who must contend with the triads who try to control money and no deposit bonus codes that are coming into and out of the Macau casinos.

Russia, where gaming has been on a slow burner for many years, has approved a new casino zone in the occupied Crimea. The country hopes that the Crimea casino, which will feature a casino sign up bonus, will attract both Russian gamers and foreign visitors. 

Criminals have always been attracted to any activity in which money is involved and the multi-billion dollar sports betting business is no exception. The internet has made it easier than ever for criminal gangs to bribe referees and pay off players, thus fixing matches and walking away with millions in online casinos sports bets wins.

West Virginia has set a new record for the highest sports betting handle ever recorded in its state and the credit is being placed on the doorstep of the casino sign up bonus and newly-operating online sports books.  For months, West Virginia was struggling to cope with an underperforming sports betting industry. However, now that DraftKings and FanDuel have opened in the states, the sports betting market in the states has ignited.

Despite widespread backlash among consumer advocates on social media, a number of Vegas casinos are not only maintaining their add-on charges – they are raising them. Despite backlash, Vegas resorts are continuing to add extra costs on to the basic overnight fees for parking, in-room and resort-wide Wi-Fi access, fitness center access, boarding pass printing, local and toll-free calling, parking, newspaper services and more. 

The traditionally conservative Southern United States has seen a lot of opposition to legalized gambling over the years.  Georgia has no casinos at all and casino developers in other states have had to contend with powerful lobbies who oppose gambling on religious and social grounds.

Now that the Illinois legislature has legalized casino development in Chicago, the race is on to determine which locales will be chosen to receive the go-ahead to start the process of casino development.

The Department of Justice’s 2018 interpretation of the Wire Act as it relates to Vegas casino online gambling continues to be controversial and confusing. Opponents of the Act, including online casino operators, have already filed suit in Federal Appeals Court to halt the Trump administration’s interpretation, which bans interstate internet gaming. However, most observers expect that the issue will ultimately reach the Supreme Court.

Every day, hundreds of New Yorkers stream into the Hoboken train terminal. These commuters aren’t heading to jobs – they have come to sit in the terminal for a short period of time while they place bets on sporting events with New Jersey’s mobile online casino and mobile sportsbooks.  Then, without ever leaving the station, they hop back on the next train back to the Big Apple.

Downtown Las Vegas is neglected no more. The area, which now sees most of its revenue coming from welcome bonus casino activity, is experiencing a number of positive changes resulting from casino owners’ investments in the area. Analysts say that the changes are noticeable – data from the Nevada Gaming Control Board showed that in July 2019, gaming in downtown Las Vegas rose 5.83 percent over 2018 even while it fell 0.3 percent on the Strip.

The 2019 football season is the second NFL season in which Vegas casino online sports betting is legal in the United States. The industry is growing and, much to the NFL’s dismay, the division of the sports betting industry that is growing the fastest is the online betting sector.

Tribal gaming in the United States is booming. According to the National Indian Gaming Commission, Indian gaming, including Indian online casinos, brought in a total of $33.7 billion nationwide in 2018.  That’s an increase of 4.1 percent over 2017.

This November, Colorado voters will be asked to make the Rocky Mountain state the 20th U.S. state to legalize land-based and online casino sports betting.  If Proposition DD is approved, it will mark the first major expansion of gambling in Colorado since 2008.

It’s still early enough in the Vegas casino football season for you to put together a great team and plan out your campaign for the 2019 season. Here are some tips for you to succeed: 

The Philippine casino industry has had some shaky starts and stops over the last few years.  President Rodrigo Duterte held up the granting of a license for Landing International’s license in Entertainment City, Manila and banned the construction of new casinos on Boracay.  He declared war on online gambling and tried to crack down on the iGaming industry soon after became president in 2016 which caused hundreds of eGames parlors to close.

Football is America’s favorite sport. Many football fans enjoy betting on the games but up until last year, betting could only be undertaken in an informal or illegal framework.  Today sports betting is legal in 10 states and by the end of the year, sports betting should be legal in another dozen states.

In March 2018 the Chinese government put a freeze on granting approval for new video games. The complete freeze ended in early 2019 but Chinese games companies are still feeling the aftereffects.  Luckily this does not refer to games found at a welcome bonus casino - like Grande Vegas - but rather your run of the mill video games.

MGM Resorts has gone ahead with its threatened suit against the Department of the Interior over the department’s approval of the development of a tribal land-based and Vegas casino online gaming venue in East Windsor Connecticut.  The company, which is trying to get its nearby Springfield MA mega-casino off the ground, claims that DOI officials didn’t follow proper protocols. It is suing to have the project halted. 

The Illinois Gaming Board (“IGB”) recently released the Chicago Casino Feasibility Study which was commissioned to address the feasibility of approving a Chicago City casino and offering online casino gambling. Copies of the study, which were prepared by Union Gaming Analytics (“Union Gaming”), have been delivered to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Governor JB Pritzker, House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton. 

A letter from Larry Gregory, former executive director of the Vegas casino Mississippi Gaming Commission and current executive director of Mississippi Gaming and Hospitality Association is raising concerns on the highest level of state government regarding the activities of the Mississippi Gaming Commission. Gregory calls into question the actions of Gulfport attorney Al Hopkins who was named as the new chairman of the state’s Gaming Commission in 2015.

As Japan moves forward with plans to open Integrated Resorts that will feature hotels, entertainment and gambling, international operators are focusing on their own plans for their hoped-for presence in the Land of the Rising Sun.  These are investors who have extensive experience in operating no deposit bonus codes gambling and other entertainment venues in the East but now, they must meet their own needs while they coordinate their efforts with the needs of Japan.

Only a year and a quarter after the Supreme Court overturned a federal ban on sports betting, a number of U.S. based media companies are focusing on how they can cash in on Americans’ penchant for online casino wagering on sports. Several networks have already developed strategic partnership with industry experts as they integrate sports betting content into their platforms.

As tensions rise and the U.S. – China trade war heats up, the one thing that is certain is that both parties want to see the Macau welcome bonus casino industry continue to do well. Macau is a gambling powerhouse which generates three times as much gaming revenue as Las Vegas and all sides have a vested interest in keeping the industry healthy.

Detroit casinos are preparing to offer legal sports betting, even though the state of Michigan has not yet legalized sports gambling in the state. The Detroit casinos are pushing to cash in on the lucrative activity which is already up and running in 10 states – including in neighboring Indiana and Illinois. No doubt they'll entice new gamers in with the ever-popular, and lucrative casino sign up bonus.

The Las Vegas Sands is demonstrating its commitment to expansion in Asia with plans for a series of far-reaching welcome bonus casino renovations and modifications. The Las Vegas Sands has, for many years, been pushing ahead with its Asia operations. Now it is again indicating that it sees Asia as one of the most important gambling centers of the world through its plans to invest over $1 billion in upgrades and expansions of its Macau and Singapore properties.

A coalition of Connecticut lawmakers filed a bill that would expand Vegas casino style gambling in the state.  The issue is pitting MGM Resorts International against Connecticut tribes that operate casinos in the state.

Twenty seven years ago, Congress passed the PASPA Professional and Amateur Sport Protection Act. After more than 2 decades, in 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Act was unconstitutional.  By overturning PASPA, SCOTUS opened the door for each individual state to legislate Vegas casino online sports betting for its own jurisdiction.

When MGM embarked on its mammoth Springfield casino resort project, they expected to attract much of the business that was going to Connecticut's tribal casinos.  That hasn't been the case – MGM believes that Connecticut gamblers are staying loyal to the two land-based and online casinos that are located in their home state, the Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Resort Casino.

A federal judge has rejected motions by the Iowa City of Council Bluffs and the states of Iowa and Nebraska that asked that the Ponca Tribe’s Prairie Flower Casino be closed while the National Indian Gaming Commission revisits its original ruling that allowed the casino to open.

Last month, online sports wagering with no deposit bonus codes took the lion’s share of Pennsylvania‘s bets, overcoming land-based casino gaming, brick-and-mortar sports betting and state racetrack revenue.

Console manufacturers and Vegas casino console game developers are excited about Project xCloud, a new video game streaming device from Microsoft that allows players to instantly stream PC and console games to their preferred gaming device via an internet connection.

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Even before the May 2018 SCOTUS ruling that gave states the right to legalize land-based and online casino sports betting in their jurisdictions, wagering on sporting events was definitely part of America’s sports culture. It was available, but only through underground networks or offshore books. Anyone could place a bet but it wasn’t above board and the only people making money on it were either criminals or online sites operated from outside the country. 

The Macau Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau has directed Macau casinos to refrain from installing facial recognition and other Vegas casino online surveillance tools until such time as the bureau approves them.  In its directive, the Bureau told the casinos that any data collected must remain with casino operators and could not be shared.

The casino/hotel Integrated Resort industry in Japan is off to a slow start but observers see progress as the government moves towards granting three companies licenses to build IRs complete with casino sign up bonus give-aways in three separate locations. Casino operators would like to see things move more rapidly but that’s not the way it works in Japan. Consultants are advising the operators to “go with the flow” and accept the slow pace as part of the process that comes with doing business in Japan. 

One of the pure pleasures of online casino gaming at Grande Vegas is the total lack of problems like Las Vegas is experiencing now - where the Las Vegas culinary union is facing off with the Las Vegas Palms hotel.  

In the ‘70s -- the early days of video games — gaming wasn’t an “industry.” There were just a few companies with a few employees in each. Everybody seemed to know everybody else and many of those early companies collaborated freely. First there was the “arcade boom” and that was followed by home computers, mobile devices and game consoles. Over the years, as the popularity of video gaming grew, the need for events where people involved in the industry could collaborate grew - whether it was to share tech know how, ideas for player perks like casino sign up bonus give-aways, new game development, gaming a.i. or an unlimited number of subjects. Thus was born an industry of its own – Games Industry Events.

There are few issues that are as polarized as the subject of online casino and land-based sports betting in the United States.  It is now legal for states legislatures to legislate sports betting for their states' residents but each state sees the issue differently. Some states show no interest in allowing sports betting in their jurisdictions while others had sportsbooks running within weeks of the Supreme Court ruling that allowed them to run legal sports betting in their states.

Looking for a no deposit bonus code?  Check out the PA lottery.  The first round in the battle between seven Pennsylvania casinos and the Pennsylvania lottery resulted in a win for the state’s new online iLottery.

According to estimates, half of Americans now live in states where sports betting is legal or will soon be legal. Sports betting is a $150 billion industry in the United States and New Jersey has now overtaken Nevada - where sports betting was once only available at Vegas casinos - in becoming the top state in monthly legal sports betting.

According to a recent report, casinos and hotels in Las Vegas have become soft targets for cybercriminals who are targeting the huge numbers of financial transactions and no deposit bonus codes that take place in those institutions every day. 

The online casino industry is a fast-growing market that is reaching more and more gamers every year. The industry has expanded at a compound annual rate of 9% over the last 7 years – three times higher than that of the global GDP.

On July 15th, Pennsylvania became the fourth state in which their local, land based casinos are now able to launch their own online version of themselves.  Of course, our own Grande Vegas Casino online has been available for the past 25 years.  This update is about a change to local, land-based casino activity.

The US gambling industry is growing. Now Virginia, a traditionally anti-gambling state, is stepping into the casino gambling waters, toes first, with small slot machine gambling venues that are sprouting around the state.  Bet they won't offer a new player casino sign up bonus, like our very own Grande Vegas does - but let's see....

Together with 7 other sports betting states, Arkansas has finished organizing the infrastructure to get sports betting with no deposit bonus codes up and running at the Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort in Hot Springs. Meanwhile, an online sportsbook has launched in West Virginia to give WV residents an extra wagering opportunity.

Antithesis to online casinos, like our very own Grande Vegas online casino, which encourage players to play responsibly within their budgets, Macau’s brick-and-mortar casinos are now using artificial intelligence to identify the players who are the most likely to lose the most money. The casinos have known for a long time that the longer a gamer plays, the more money he stands to lose.  Now casinos in Macau are employing digitally-enabled poker chips and baccarat tables, facial recognition technology and hidden cameras to track how individual customers behave at the betting table. The casinos then use that knowledge to determine the players' appetite for risk. 

Pennsylvania sports bettors can now place their bets via their online casino app on their mobile device. Everyone agrees that online betting in PA still has some glitches to overcome but the state has taken a big step in making sports betting more accessible to more people.

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Last month, a federal court ruled that a recent Department of Justice interpretation of the 1961 Federal Wire Act was unconstitutional regarding Vegas casino online gameplay. The DOJ sought to suspend online gambling activities across a number of states but the court ruled that the Wire Act’s scope did not address online casino gaming.

In an creative move that’s bound to bring the sports betting industry to a new level, Draftkings has announced that it is inviting sports bettors from around the country to participate in its first annual Sports Betting National Championship and enjoy no deposit bonus codes. 

The Apple app store has released a new online casinos policy that requires that all real money games sold at their store be created specifically for the iOS platform.

This November, Colorado voters will be asked to approve a referendum that, if it passes, will bring sports betting to the state. The public referendum will allow the state to license both physical and online sportsbooks. Existing land-based casinos will be able to obtain a master license which will allow them to partner with one operator for retail sportsbook operations and another operator who will run the online sportsbook activities - sure to come complete with casino sign up bonus perks.

The South Carolina-based Catawba tribe is trying to get permission to build a brick-and-mortar and eventually online casino in North Carolina but the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is opposing their efforts. The Catawbas are planning to develop the land near Kings Mountain in North Carolina for their casino. U.S. senators from both Carolinas are backing them but that may not be enough to win their battle against the politically-powerful Cherokees.  

The casino industry continues to grow, but many casino operators are concerned that they are attracting an aging demographic.  Traditionally, they've tried many welcome bonus casino perks to draw in new, younger players - free drinks, free lodging, free parking, free buffet meals, and more.  Now, many casinos believe that they’ve found the answer – esports.

The earnings reports for Vegas casinos for the second quarter of 2019 show that Vegas is rebounding from the downward trend of 2018. While Vegas casino online playing is on the upswing, like here at Grande Vegas Casino, visitation at on-site casinos is slow in the rebound. It will take a while before the casinos see the numbers start to rise again.

Florida’s relationship with its native American tribes has brought the two sides to court multiple times. The state is in negotiations with the Seminoles regarding a dispute over their Vegas casino income. Seminole leaders are skirmishing with the authorities in a long-simmering dispute over gambling income in a disagreement that will likely have long-ranging repercussions.  

In Las Vegas, politics is recognized as the casino industry’s highest stakes game. Many of the online casino and Las Vegas strip’s biggest names, including Wynn Resorts, Red Rock Resorts and the Las Vegas Sands -- have ties to Republicans. Some influence their party of choice through donations while in others, executives engage in high-profile political involvement (i.e. Sheldon Adelson of the Las Vegas Sands).  

Poker players are no strangers to bluffing, as that is one of the most powerful tools every player has when playing poker online.

DraftKings Sportsbook and FanDuel Sportsbook are preparing to launch a $1m advertising campaign in Illinois to raise awareness about a "bad-actor" clause the state’s casino, Des Plaines Casino, is pushing. The casino wants to see the clause included in any state law that will legalize Illinois online casino games sports betting.

The Cherokee Nation Businesses is partnering with Legends, a hospitality company, as it tries to gain a license to build a Vegas casino resort in Russellville, Arkansas.

Sports fans have been betting on sporting events ever since the ancient Egyptians ran chariot races and the Spartans competed in the ancient Greek Olympics.  Today fans can place bets legally at multiple sites including at brick-and-mortar casinos, through online sportsbooks and at the online casino.

The town of Gay Head (Aquinnah) on Martha’s Vineyard has returned to court to ask a U.S. district court judge to require the Wampanoag Tribe to get building permits for their planned land based and online casino development. Even though the Wampanoag tribe succeeded in getting their casino project OK’d in federal court, the town isn’t relenting in its objective to exert its authority.

The Department of Justice’s recent attempt to apply the 1961 Wire Act to online lottery and Vegas casino online betting was ruled unconstitutional by a U.S. District Judge. Judge Paul Barbadoro ruled that the DOJ was acting outside its authority in applying a wider interpretation to the ban on interstate online wagering.

OK, so you enjoy playing your online casino games at Grande Vegas - who doesn't?!?  All is great for online games.  But once in a while you want to pack your bags and head off to a real casino.  Whether it be for some excitement, as part of your vacation or for a bit of R&R, you probably have hopes of going home with more money than you had when you arrived. 

A long-awaited piece of legislation that will expand Illinois' Vegas casino industry has passed the Illinois legislature and been signed into law. The  so-called “gambling-expansion legislation” will allow a casino to be built in the southern suburbs of Chicago. Now, the question on everyone’s minds is, where?

Gaming today, including video games, social media games and online casino games is a $99.6 billion industry. From land-based casinos to online and mobile casino sites, VR and AR games,  video gaming and other types of online and offline gaming activities, the industry is growing quickly. Industry observers credit social media for much of the rise, especially social gaming which is worth $2.15 billion in the U.S. alone.

The Comanche Tribe’s battle against the development of a Chicksaw Casino in Terral Oklahoma, near their native lands, seems to be at a standstill. The Comanches are fighting to prevent the Chicksaws from opening a rival casino project that was approved by the Interior Department with no consultation with the Comanches.

On May 15th, the House of Representatives passed the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation Reaffirmation Act (HR 312) which could signal the end of the Mashpee Wampanoag struggle to open a Vegas Casino on their Massachusetts lands.