On the May 16, Atlantic City hosted the 16th Annual US Gaming Congress. The participants of the conference were discussing the legalization of online gambling. Richard Bronson, the US Digital Gaming chairman, announced that the US Congress is unable to pass any online gambling legislation, as it is too badly divided. Nevertheless, he stated that the commercial potential of online gambling legalization is very high. Bronson held up the following statistics as an example: the Las Vegas was visited by forty million people last year and Twitter and Facebook were visited by forty million people over the last five days. Eugene Johnson, a member of the Spectrum Gaming consultancy, supported a point of view that within a few years, online gambling regulated by the state will become real in America.

He declared that online gambling is “the wave of the future” and that mobile gambling would be especially appealing to new generation of gamblers. The majority of the US Congress participants expressed the opinion that online gambling in the USA will be legalized in the nearest future. In this case land-based casino vendors will have to cooperate with online casinos.

May 25, 2012