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Caesars Entertainment Corporation is fully embracing the new connections between the casinos and sports with new partnerships that promise Caesars’ patrons full access to all the best in sports networks.  Someday soon, Grande Vegas online casino may also have a sports book, then we'll invite all our casino players to also enjoy our own.  But until then.....

One of the biggest advantages to playing online casino games is that it forces you to set up an account with an e-wallet or some other system for turning real currency into money that can be moved through the Internet.

If there is one thing that gambling helps you acquire, it is a sensitivity to the flow of luck in your life. You can learn to feel when luck is strong and when it is not so strong, when it is random and when it can be channeled.

Once the government shutdown is resolved the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigation is expected to resume its hearings about how the federal government can help control the new wave of sports betting that’s taking the nation by storm.

Online gaming is one of the fastest-changing industries in the world. It’s estimated that the online casino accounts for almost $140 billion in annual revenue. Today, with the addition of mobile gambling entertainment, it’s predicted that the number will continue to grow as online casinos expand their platforms and new game options become available. 

Pamunkey Tribal leaders are preparing to bring a Grande Vegas Casino to Virginia which they will operate as a luxury casino resort. The plans call for a 1,200 room hotel with a pool and restaurants and a large gaming floor with table games and slot machines.

Betting has always been controversial, from the days when pre-historic cave-dwellers competed over simple competitions of stone throws to today’s intricacies of playing online at the Grand Vegas online casino. The year 2018 saw some exciting advances in the gambling industry but there were some controversies as well.

Gambling in Pennsylvania has been legal for less than a decade but state residents have become avid gamers, placing second only to Nevada in generating commercial casino revenues.  Now the Pennsylvania House has legislated online gambling at the Grande Vegas Casino and other online venues just as sports betting is starting to go live in the state.

In May 2018 SCOTUS ruled that state legislatures could legislate their own sports betting laws. Some states have already begun to allow online casinos, like the Grande Vegas Casino, and other land-based casinos to include sportsbooks in their line-up of betting options. Others are considering if, when and how to introduce sports betting, under what conditions and whether to include online sports betting in the itinerary of options.  

Until May 2018 sports betting, both live and at the online casino, was illegal in most of the United States, based on PASPA, the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act that Congress had passed in 1992. PASPA restricted betting on sporting events in the United States to only 4 states – sports lotteries in Oregon, Delaware and Montana and the sports pools in Nevada – which had sports betting activities in place before the Amendment was passed.