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The chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission said that the stay will likely allow wagering on the Raiders if the team moves to Las Vegas, even if the NFL requests to prohibit it.
The state’s Regulation 22 provides the means for games to be taken off the board, but Tony Alamo, chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission, doesn’t see that ever happening.
“I can’t speak for the commission, but growing up in the gaming industry and trusting the integrity of the gaming industry, I have total comfort in allowing sports betting on any teams whether they are here in Nevada — in Las Vegas, Reno or otherwise — or in other locations,” Alamo said.
“The fact that the Raiders come from Oakland to Las Vegas doesn’t move my needle in any direction in terms of should we allow that to be on a sports book board or not. Nothing changed for me.”
Bovada is offering 2-to-1 odds that President-elect Donald Trump will win the presidency again in 2020. They also posted longshot odds for a certain rapper.
Kanye West has 100-1 odds of becoming the next president of the United States. The rapper, mogul and “fashion designer” had previously suggested he might run, but he seems to be making the possibility a reality.
“When I talk about the idea of being president, I’m not saying I have any political views,” West said in a BBC Radio interview this week “I don’t have views on politics, I just have a view on humanity, on people, on the (the) truth. If there is anything that I can do with my time to somehow make a difference while I’m still alive, I’m all for it.”
Courthouse News published an article looking into the future of sports betting under President Trump.
“In the ’90s Trump pushed hard for New Jersey to legalize [sports gambling], so we know how he feels about it,” Daniel Wallach, a constitutional and gaming law attorney at Becker & Poliakoff, said in an interview.
The AGA put out another release supporting New Jersey in its bid to repeal PASPA.
“The fundamental legal question presented by these petitions is whether a federal court can, consistent with federalism and dual sovereignty, enjoin a State from passing a law that neither violates the Constitution nor addresses any matter preempted by federal law. The Third Circuit’s conclusion that federal courts have this unprecedented power is irreconcilable with this Court’s well-established anti-commandeering jurisprudence, and severely detrimental to state efforts to combat sprawling black markets for illegal sports gambling.”
Ohio has issued legislation that would make betting pools legal as long as they weren’t for profit.
Republican Senator of West Chester, Bill Coley, introduced the Senate Bill 356, to clarify the state’s law on certain forms of gambling. If the bill is passed, betting via electronic DFS sites would be banned if they were categorised as schemes of chance.
The legislation would also grant the regulation and licensing of pools. Pools are legal in Ohio, as long as they are not conducted for profit and 100% of the proceeds are returned are distributed as prizes.