Measuring China’s Impact on Las Vegas

Everyone in the gaming industry knows that Macau’s casinos suffered large downturns in revenue during the Mainland government’s corruption crackdown.  Chinese high-rollers knew that high-stakes gambling became a risky business, far from the baccarat tables.  When...

Are Daily Fantasy Sports Legal?

Gambling and the Law®: Are Daily Fantasy Sports Legal? Technology is speeding up changes in the world of gaming.  It took almost two centuries for poker to evolve from Straight Poker – five paper cards dealt face down with no draw – to Internet Hold ‘Em linking...

Will Trump Accidentally Destroy Las Vegas?

© Copyright 2017, all rights reserved worldwide.  Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I. Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com.  To be published in Gaming Law Review and Economics, Vol. 21, No. 1 at pp. (January/February 2017). Gambling and...
Day 6 Productions

Day 6 Productions

To help save endangered wild elephants, my wife, Patricia; daughter, Lauren; son-in-law, Hamish; and I founded Day 6 Productions.  I created these ceramic “Ellie Funts,” with Hamish, a production potter.  We give 15% of the proceeds to the David Sheldrick Wildlife...

What Should Daily Fantasy Sports Do Now?

Gambling and the Law®: What Should Daily Fantasy Sports Do Now? The two big Daily Fantasy Sports (“DFS”) operators, FanDuel and DraftKings, and their backers, are, in the immortal words of former President George H.W. Bush, in “deep-doodoo.”  But lawyers with legal...