In Maryland, the brick-and-mortar casino industry helps keep horse racing alive. With brand new casinos scheduled to be built in the state, those within the horse racing industry are feeling.. @cardplayer.com

Some in the state of Massachusetts were not content with just having more brick-and-mortar casinos. Some want Internet gambling as well. An amendment to a budget proposal that would authorize.. @cardplayer.com

Internet gambling has been taken off the table for now in Illinois, but it will soon reemerge. Supporters of expanding gambling in Illinois, which has 10 riverboat casinos at present,.. @cardplayer.com

Coupled with an effort to increase brick-and-mortar gaming in Illinois, some lawmakers are looking again at web gaming. A bill filed Wednesday would authorize Internet games. @cardplayer.com

The Rational Group, which owns PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, filed papers with the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement asking for approval to purchase the Atlantic Club in the city. @pokerlistings.com

Since 2006, Atlantic City’s casino industry has been on the steep decline — and it just had another poor year from its brick-and-mortar gambling operations. @cardplayer.com

Proposed legislation would regulate brick-and-mortar poker games but ban online poker Texas state legislatures will have a new poker bill to consider in 2013, after a measure called the “Texas Poker Gaming Act of 2013” was introduced in December. @pokernews.com

The expansion into land-based gaming continues for PokerStars. PokerStars expands its brick-and-mortar presence with the addition of poker room at the Casino Gran Madrid. @pokernews.com

The rumored purchased price is around $50 million for the struggling brick-and-mortar casino. The acquisition of a land-based casino in New Jersey would put PokerStars back on the inside track for offering online poker to New Jersey residents should the state's current push for an online poker bill go through. @pokerlistings.com