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Fantasy sports allow you to try out your skills as a fantasy owner.  You can play at the online casino on your PC or on your mobile device as you join a league, build your team and compete for the league prize. It’s easy to learn how to play fantasy football, conquer your competitors and become a champion.

Anyone can play fantasy sports. It’s fun and intriguing to create your own team out of real players from the various teams.Participating fantasy sports competitors meet new friends and join in friendly competition while enjoying their favorite sport. You can keep everything straight and narrow or participate in some of the funny sidelines that football fans get into in the “real” Sunday afternoon games -- wearing a certain jersey, eating special meals or keeping an old hat on your head.

In 1987 the Cabazon and Morongo Bands of Mission Indians won a Federal Appeals Court lawsuit that gave them exemption from state gambling regulations for gaming activities that take place on tribal lands. The decision was upheld by the United States Supreme Court, opening the way for Indian tribes to open casinos on their native lands.

Today there are dozens of native American casinos that operate around the United States. They offer a wide variety of table games, slots, bingo and other gaming adventures. To date, none of these casinos offer online casino gaming but the door has been opened for such opportunities through recent judicial approval for sports betting activities including sports betting apps.  

September 2018 marked the first NFL season in which football fans could place legal sports bets in the United States. TIn May 2018 the US Supreme Court ruled that states could legislate sports betting in their own states. Several states have already set the apparatus in motion that have allows the sportsbooks to begin to function at land-based casinos and at online casinos for early 2018 kickoffs.

New Jersey was the first state outside of Nevada to introduce sports betting. The state legislature had already passed the needed legislation to allow sports betting in NJ before they challenged the 1992 Professional and Amateur  Sports Protection Act (PASPA) -- the Congressional Act that prevented sportsbooks from functioning in the United States. Once the NJ appeal was successfully decided by SCOTUS the state’s casinos were ready to begin accepting sports wagers.   

The evolution of cybercurriencies has been an evolving process but the first widely used cryptocurrency to become available for popular use came on the market less than a decade ago. Since that time numerous cybercurrencies have emerged, making it easy to make and accept payments anonymously.  Users take advantage of these cryptocurrencies to make payments for a wide variety of goods and services including to the online casino, for ticket sales, for online shopping and even for tax payments.

Some of the online casinos have taken advantage of the currency’s popularity while others are holding off, worried about the legalities of the secretive currencies and security issues.

The coming year is expected to be a banner year for American gambling aficionados. Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that states can legislate sports betting gaming in their locale there is a new push to open new sports betting venues, land-based casino sites and online casino gaming options.

Arkansas has taken the casino question to the voters in the November 2018 election. Observers foresee that the election will be close.

One of the big unanswered questions about how the trade war between the United States and China may be played out revolves around the Macau casino industry. Some analysts expect that Chinese gamblers will be scared away from Macau and will simply move online to play at the online casino. Other observers forecast that the Chinese government will ignore the Macau casinos since the Chinese government enjoys a good revenue from the casino activities.

What can Macau expect in the coming months?

Prop bets are becoming more popular now that sports betting is legal. The thrill of sports betting has worn off and now gamblers at both the land-based casino and at the online casino are looking for more excitement and more entertainment when they wager.

Some bettors employ research and expertise when placing their bets. They are serious gamblers who are out to win.Others just want to participate in the sport through their betting and aren’t serious about whether or not the wager is successful. 

The popularity of sports betting has astounded many observers who couldn’t have predicted the speed with which the activity would grow in the United States since SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) ruled that individual states could legislate for sports gambling. The implications for the states, for the online casino, for land-based casinos, for the sports leagues and for individual gamblers couldn’t have been foreseen  when New Jersey won its court case in May.

The coming election is bringing two financial giants into major conflict in Nevada. Warren Buffet and Sheldon Adelson are dueling it out over Question 3 and the results will significantly impact the online casino and land-based casino industry in Nevada.

The decision is worth hundreds of million dollars. The question involves the future of Nevada’s energy market. Nevada voters will be asked to choose sides between the casino companies and NV Energy.

The popular casino-robbery movie Ocean's 11 notwithstanding, security at Vegas casinos is the toughest in the world. Since the earliest days of casino entertainment, the casinos have been on their toes in their efforts to keep their players’ funds safe and their own cash guarded. The brick-and-mortar casinos acknowledge that, in order to keep worried players from moving to the online casino, they have to be on top of the latest security innovations in order to make their patrons feel protected and secure in their gambling endeavors.