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Preferential Shuffling
It is time to look again at the controversy over the right of casinos to shuffle cards in blackjack whenever the remainder of the deck favors the players. Although the issue of casino dealers counting cards has been stewing for decades, the most recent flare-up is the...
Card Counting by Casinos
It seems the eye in the sky has acquired a brain. The watchers have learned to count cards. Casinos have installed computer programs that can tell whether players are counting cards at blackjack. By recording how players change the size of their wagers and how they...
Gambling Games of the Future
In my last two blogs, I discussed the existential problem facing the gaming industry: All forms of legal gambling were invented in the 1800s or much earlier, and Millennials and their younger siblings hate them. Of course there have been technological developments. ...
Where’s My Jetpack? The Future of Legal Gaming
In July, 2014, newspapers ran a copyrighted Bizarro cartoon by Dan Piraro with the caption, “Kirk and Spock travel back in time to 2014.” The two Enterprise officers are standing on a street corner. Two guys are pointing at them and laughing: “Ha ha! Where'd you get...
Selling Sliderules to Kids with Smart Phones
Casinos, lotteries, racetracks and even bingo halls are built around forms of gambling that were invented in the 1800s, if not earlier. The growing trouble facing almost every gaming operator is Millennials. This segment of the population, aged roughly 21-38 years...
Casino Countermeasures: Are Casinos Cheating?
It is time to look again at the controversy over the right of casinos to shuffle cards in blackjack whenever the remainder of the deck favors the players. Although the issue of casino dealers counting cards has been stewing for decades, the most recent flare-up is the...
Why Retaliatory Tariffs on Playing Cards?
The bad news for the legal gaming industry is that Canada and the European Union have imposed a ten percent additional import tax on playing cards manufactured in the United States. The only good news, if you can call it that, is that China has so far not followed...
Spotlight: Professor I. Nelson Rose Speaking at the IMGL Autumn Conference
Among the topical discussions at IMGL's Autumn Conference, we'll be paying special attention to the Social Responsibility panel. I. Nelson Rose will join Sebastian Blohm, Global Head of Corporate & Legal Affairs at ZEAL Network SE and Chris Elliott,...
Brooklyn Law Review Essay Cites I. Nelson Rose
In a newly-published essay "Insiders, Outsiders, & Fair Access: Identifying Culpable Insider Trading" by Jonathan D. Glater, I. Nelson Rose's seminal work Gambling and the Law® is cited. Prof. Rose’s discussion of card-counters and other advantage blackjack...
Collateral Damage from Trump’s Trade War with China
Gambling and the Law® President Donald Trump has escalated his trade war with China. Last week he announced that he intends to slap tariffs on another $200 billion of imports from China. Stock markets around the world fell dramatically, as did the value of...
Upcoming Appearances for I. Nelson Rose
October 2, 2019 I. Nelson Rose will be a keynote speaker at the International Association of Gaming Regulators' conference in Jamaica, October 2, 2019 8:45 - 9:45 am. "Where's My Jetpack? The Future of Legal Gaming" August 9th, 2018 Responsible Gambling Association...
The Hastings COMM/ENT Law Journal Cites I. Nelson Rose
The Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal (COMM/ENT) published an article which noted Gambling & The Law's® I. Nelson Rose stated that PASPA was was unconstitutional. "Professor I. Nelson Rose of Whittier Law School, a leading gambling law expert,...
Macau and LV: Collateral Damage from Trump’s Trade War with China
President Donald Trump has escalated his trade war with China. This week he announced that he intends to slap tariffs on another $200 billion of imports from China. Stock markets around the world fell dramatically, as did the value of China’s currency, the yuan....
The Supreme Court Changes Everything
Late last year, I wrote a blog about the then pending sports betting case, entitled, “The Most Important Case of the Century.” It turned out to be even bigger than that In the coming days and weeks, I will be discussing in detail what this major change in the law...
Supreme Court Oral Arguments in NJ Sportsbetting Case Analyzed
© Copyright 2018, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GAMBLINGANDTHELAW.com. Gambling and the Law®: SCOTUS in the PASPA Sausage Factory "Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them...