Nick Loya Article Archive

Nick Loya has contributed four articles published on the iGaming News site.

Editorial: A Case for Regulated Sports Betting in the US (26 July 2007)
On Tuesday, National Basketball Association (NBA) commissioner David Stern took the podium in New York to proclaim that betting allegations made against Tim Donaghy suggested that the former referee represented an “isolated case” of misconduct. However, the emergence of yet another sports-betting scandal has forced the public to look at just how isolated men like Donaghy are from established sports books and other less-than-reputable gambling operations.

Negotiating the US Legal Morass the Gentlemanly Way (26 June 2007)
A new online betting service called Betcha.com is trying to promote a form of peer-to-peer betting within the United States that it claims is fully legal due to the nature of all wagers as "gentlemen's bets."

In-Game Advertising a Profitable Revenue Source (22 June 2007)
Two leading online poker rooms, PKR and Partypoker, have added in-game advertising to their play-money operations in an attempt to generate a new source of revenue to boost sagging earnings.

Google Restricts UK Gambling Ad Policy (12 June 2007)
The U.K. affiliate of Google has announced an immediate change in its Adwords policy that extends a restriction on gambling advertisement to include play-for-free and tutorial sites.