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Texas Jurisdiction News
Texas Lottery and Texas Motor Speedway team up
28 Mar 2024
The Texas Lottery and Texas Motor Speedway have joined together again to rev up luck for lottery players and racing fans through the new LUCKY-7s scratch ticket game.
Jackpocket announces NHL partnership with Dallas Stars
1 Dec 2022
The deal, which starts in the 2022-23 hockey season and will then run for the next three years, is an exclusive arrangement.
Mattress Mack makes sports betting history
7 Nov 2022
The owner of Houston-based Gallery Furniture won $75 million as his total bets of $10 million paid out when the Houston Astros won the World Series.
Texas governor says bingo halls and simulcast racing can reopen Friday
19 May 2020
On Monday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced the second phase of his reopening plan that will allow bingo halls and simulcast racing facilities to reopen on 22 May.
Texas bingo halls and card rooms will remain closed through 30 April
31 Mar 2020
Texas Governor Greg Abbott today issued an Executive Order implementing Essential Services and Activities Protocols for the entire state of Texas.
APCW Perspectives: Closures and catastrophes
5 Sep 2017
This week, J. Todd is discussing another affiliate program closure, as IGT Partners is shutting down. Also, another failed acquisition by GVC Holdings, and thoughts and prayers for flood-ravaged Texas.
DFS news roundup: Virginia governor signs DFS bill into law
10 Mar 2016
Governor Terry McAuliffe signed the bill Monday afternoon, making Virginia the first U.S. state with a regulatory framework for real-money DFS contests.
Texas AG says daily fantasy sports are likely illegal
20 Jan 2016
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced his opinion during the Fantasy Sports Trade Association's Winter Conference in Dallas.
AGA making its voice heard on major gaming issues
12 Nov 2014
AGA CEO Geoff Freeman said the AGA should be the group to clear up misconceptions or untruths about a regulated casino industry. That’s what the organization did in Massachusetts, and will do in other markets.
Sandoval: Deals with other states on Web poker possible
17 May 2013
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval didn’t name the states but gaming sources said Texas could be a target.
Ten states that should have online gaming
6 May 2013
With Ultimate Poker -- licensed and regulated by Nevada -- now open for real-money business, Casino City's Aaron Todd surveys the landscape and identifies 10 states that should have online gaming.
34 people accused in illegal gambling operation
10 Apr 2013
34 people, 23 businesses all stand accused of allegedly operating or helping to operate an illegal gambling site.
85-year-old woman busted for running illegal gambling operation
5 Dec 2011
85-year-old woman in Texas may have been running an illegal football gambling operation out of her house for years.
Houston's Mahmood wins WSOP Heads-Up title, $625,674
22 Jun 2010
Eyaz Mahmood defeated Ernst Schmejkal in final match of the $10,000 buy-in Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em championship at the World Series of Poker on Monday to win $625,674.
Barch wins $256,919 and WSOP Pot-Limit Omaha title
13 Jun 2010
John “Tex” Barch won the $1,500 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha tournament (Event #20) for $256,919 at the World Series of Poker on Saturday night. With the win, he also claims his first WSOP gold bracelet.
Texas poker players want game legalized
26 Mar 2009
News brief: Texas poker players are willing to be taxed in order for the game to be legalized.
Advocates want to legalize poker in Texas
26 Jan 2009
News brief: Supporters say a bill legalizing poker in the Lone Star State would clean up the risky underground scene of illegal card games.
Like gambling-related biographies? Here's a handful to choose from
10 Sep 2008
Five books for those who want to read about gambling's survivors, characters and con men, here's a recommended list with a thumbnail description of each. They deal with people who "stood out" in history with regard to the games, the action, the money.
Texas Association for the Advancement of Charitable Bingo formed
19 May 2008
Littlefield Corporation reports that it has participated with others representing approximately thirty-five licensed commercial lessors in the founding of the Texas Association for the Advancement of Charitable Bingo.
Report: Texas forced into gambling expansion
27 Mar 2008
News Brief: Texas would have to expand gambling to see the multibillion-dollar profits Gov. Rick Perry promised last year when he proposed selling the state lottery, according to a report released.
Lottery sale proposasl reaction mixed
9 Feb 2007
News Brief: Texas Governor Rick Perry’s proposal to sell the Texas Lottery is getting mixed reviews.
TV Host Earns World Poker Challenge Seat
31 Mar 2006
Tom Schneider, host of TrueTexasPoker,
outlasted a field of 589 players to earn a spot on the televised final table at the World Poker Challenge in Reno, Nevada.
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