{"id":11158,"date":"2018-08-01T18:32:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T18:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/?p=11158"},"modified":"2018-08-02T14:17:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T14:17:55","slug":"american-online-gambling-is-a-long-way-from-being-all-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/american-online-gambling-is-a-long-way-from-being-all-american\/","title":{"rendered":"American Online Gambling Is A Long Way From Being All-American"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caesars<\/strong>\u2019 announcement that it is expanding sports betting to its casinos in New Jersey<\/strong> and Mississippi<\/strong> was good news for its technology partner Scientific Games<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

One aspect of the story that went virtually unmentioned is that Scientific Games <\/strong>is an American company<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The other major deal announcement came from MGM<\/strong>, which is entering a 25-year joint venture with GVC<\/strong> to take advantage of interactive gaming opportunities in online casino, poker,\u00a0and sports betting.<\/p>\n

GVC is a British company. And that\u2019s not surprising, since the majority of online gaming operators and gaming technology suppliers are not US companies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As part of the deal presentation<\/a> by MGM and GVC, the companies presented slides explaining what they were each bringing to the deal. The GVC\u2019s slide ranks it number one among its peers<\/strong> by annual revenues as an online gambling operator.<\/p>\n

Market leaders in the gambling industry<\/span><\/h2>\n

The other eight companies GVC compares itself to are:<\/p>\n