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New Jersey Observes Week Four of Responsible Gaming Education Month by Highlighting Research into the State's Gambling Activities TRENTON - New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced today that results from a second study examining the prevalence of gambling in New Jersey are now available. The report, funded by the Division of Gaming…

An estimated $850 million Powerball jackpot will be up for grabs Wednesday night for players willing to risk a couple dollars and brave incredibly long odds. The jackpot is the world's ninth-largest lottery prize of all time, behind earlier prizes in the Powerball and Mega Millions games that all topped $1 billion. The jackpot has grown so large…

Some numbers have been drawn a bit more often than others, but your chances remain the same for any combination. WASHINGTON - The Powerball jackpot for Wednesday's drawing is an eye-popping $850 million - the fourth-largest jackpot in the history of the game and the ninth-highest jackpot in U.S. lottery history. And all that cash on the line has…

The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $835 million after no one beat the immense odds Monday night and won the top prize. The winning numbers were: 10, 12, 22, 36, 50 and 4. The grand prize on Wednesday swelled past $800 million and will have a cash prize of $390.4 million up for grabs, according to Powerball's website. There now have been…

Geographically speaking, there's an ocean separating Dan Spencer and Greg Weber. But the two stay in touch on a daily basis, and each has turned his pain from gambling addiction into promise through an organization that emphasizes lived experience to reach people. By all appearances, Weber was one of the most successful poker players in New Jersey.…

Can you buy your way to being a near-billionaire. With tonight's Mega Millions lottery jackpot cresting $800 million just days after someone bought a billion-dollar Powerball payout, it's reasonable to look for ways to increase your odds. But winning won't come easy. And it requires a little more luck - and strategy - than just rushing out to your…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH - Associated Press Lottery dreamers are setting their sights on the growing Mega Millions jackpot drawing on Friday after a ticket worth more than $1 billion was sold for the Powerball lottery. Here's a look at how this drawing compares to other jackpots and why these winnings have become so high. The new jackpot for the…

NEW YORK (AP) - There's no shaking it. Your chances of winning the lottery are extremely slim - even as more and more eye top prizes soaring to jaw-dropping heights. Ahead of Wednesday night's drawing, the estimated jackpot for Powerball reached $1 billion - marking the seventh largest prize across U.S. lottery history. And Mega Millions' jackpot…

The Powerball jackpot rose yet again to an estimated $1 billion after no winning ticket was sold for the latest drawing, the third largest in US history. No ticket for Monday's drawing matched the white balls 5, 8, 9, 17, 41 and red Powerball 2. The jackpot was estimated at $900 million. Wednesday's jackpot would now be the third highest in the…

ATLANTIC CITY - With the NBA and NHL finals in full swing- and fans betting on everything from which team will win, by how much, and how many points individual players will rack up - Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) Director David Rebuck today announced two new tools to assist problem gamblers: a…

Something tells me there were a lot of broken brackets and lost bets this March Madness season. The American Gaming Association says the NCAA tournament has become the most wagered-on sporting event, with about a quarter of U.S. adults putting money on games this year. Sports gambling has exploded since a 2018 Supreme Court decision removed blanket…

Since announcing it wants to build a casino in Uniondale, Sands New York has spread money around Nassau to sponsor a wide range of local programs, including bringing in soccer superstars and a former NFL star to grace a youth events. The group also has sponsored Irish American government day in Garden City, training programs at Nassau Community…

A record-breaking quarter of American adults are set to bet some $15.5 billion on this year's March Madness college basketball contest - the latest sign of a fast-growing market that's fuelling a tripling of addiction rates. The American Gaming Association (AGA), an industry body, says 68 million adults are expected to place bets this year, a sharp…

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Hawaii lawmakers are eyeing changes that could make a trip to Las Vegas more expensive for Islanders. The bill proposed by state senator Stanley Chang argues that Hawaii residents spend hundreds of millions of dollars in gambling in other places like Las Vegas, and in return, there's no benefit to Hawaii. "Hawaii is a…

Ahead of a Super Bowl expected to generate $16 billion in wagers, New Jersey this week announced what it called a first-of-its-kind program requiring online betting companies to track customers' behavior for signs of problem gambling. Under the initiative launched Jan. 1, gaming platforms would mine individual data collected through sports betting…

A Hawaii Senate committee on Thursday approved a bill banning casino advertising in the state, but amended it to remove references to Nevada resort properties, including Las Vegas-based Boyd Gaming Corp., which has established a decades-old business to attract Hawaiians to "the ninth island." The Senate's Committee on Commerce and Consumer…

As mobile betting apps turn people's phones into pocket-sized casinos, gamblers are also putting their phones to use for a more traditional purpose. To reach out for help. An I-Team analysis of call data in New Jersey shows an steep spike in outreach to 800-GAMBLER, the state's hotline to deal with compulsive gambling and addiction. According to…

TRENTON - The explosion of online gaming appears to be making it easier for people who are underage to gamble. Almost one-third of gaming profits in September came through internet gaming, rather than in-person gambling in Atlantic City. And more than 93% of all the money spent on sports bets was wagered online. But gambling analysts and addiction…

While New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement Director David Rebuck has been known for a number of years as perhaps the most preeminent regulator in the U.S., he says he was a "novice" in terms of the gaming industry when he first took the job way back in 2010. Fortunately for Rebuck, he got started just ahead of the technological explosion that…

The legal landscape around online gambling and gaming in the United States is notoriously murky, with government regulations and public opinion each playing a significant part in shaping the industry. Before it was finally outlawed in the 1890s, gambling in its various forms was a common pastime in the early days of the United States, most commonly…

It's clear to anyone who watches television in a state where gambling is legal that gambling ads are becoming more common. But new numbers show just how quickly they have grown. The cost of television ads for online gambling and gambling services jumped to $725 million in 2021, up from $292 million in 2020, according to Nielsen. To put that into…

This is the latest installment of an ongoing series, "Rolling the Dice," which is taking a deeper look at the perennial question of whether gambling should be legalized in Hawaii. Hawaii has considered many gambling proposals over the last three decades, ranging from a lottery to floating casinos in Honolulu Harbor. The Legislature also weighed…

In the latest New Jersey-based legal gambling expansion deal that is likely to be replicated in other states, Rutgers University and Jackpocket this week reached a multi-year agreement to make the leading lottery app in the U.S. "the school's first-ever official mobile lottery partner." The agreement provides Jackpocket with so-called "premier…

Jackpocket, known as "the leading lottery app in the U.S. to provide a secure way to order official state lottery tickets," on Tuesday announced that it has gained online market access in New Jersey for its forthcoming online casino product through an agreement with Caesars Interactive Entertainment. Already with lottery operations up and running…

A Union County woman who works in the field of health care has cashed a $9.4 million New Jersey Pick 6 Lotto prize. In announcing the windfall, Jackpocket said that according to historical data and consultation with gambling industry firm Eilers & Krejcik, it is believed to be "the single largest legal-and-regulated win ever on a mobile device in…

ONE was apparently too many for Richmond voters when it came to a casino in Virginia. Voters appear to have rejected the construction of a $565 million casino with retail sports betting available in the state's third-largest city, with "No" votes receiving 51.44% of the vote and "Yes" votes receiving 48.56% as of 10:39 p.m. EDT on Tuesday night.…

Add Jayson Williams to the list of former all-star professional athletes who have gained a toehold in the world of U.S. gambling expansion. But while others may appear in TV commercials and tout sportsbooks that are their business partners, the 53-year-old Williams has carved out a niche of his own by founding an "outdoor adventure therapy"…

What are the origins of problem gambling, and what treatments are most effective in helping those who come forward to try to break the cycle? Those are questions that many leading figures in the field of compulsive gambling say have not been the subject of nearly enough research. But now Playtech, known as the world's leading gambling technology…

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - A gambling technology company and a virtual mental health clinic are joining with New Jersey's Rutgers University to study the effectiveness of treatment for compulsive gambling and video game playing delivered in a virtual setting. Playtech, based in Isle of Man, and Kindbridge, the Chattanooga, Tennessee-based…

After more than five years - through two presidential administrations, two Philly mayors, the Eagles winning the Super Bowl and firing their Super Bowl-winning head coach - plans for a massive casino and hotel near the South Philadelphia stadiums are coming to fruition. They'll finally be fully realized next month, when Live! Casino and Hotel…