If you’re a sports fan, you’re likely familiar with daily fantasy sports(DFS) sites like DraftKingsand FanDuel, which have run plenty of ads for their contests.

After being at the forefront of the regulatory efforts in Congress for several years, former Senate Majority Leader and current Nevada Senator Harry Reid (pictured) has now firmly aligned himself with billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson in his fight against online gambling in the US.

Happy Easter from everyone at PocketFives. We hope our entire community is having a wonderful, relaxing day. All of the restaurants around this author’s house are closed, so I decided I’d get a jump-start on work with several news articles that have been piling up over the weekend. The first item on the agenda: Harry […]

If you wanted to know where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV, pictured) stood on internet gambling, look no further than an article published on Friday in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. In it, Reid, clear as day, told the world, “I think the proliferation of gambling on the internet is not good for our country. […]

According to a report from the Washington Poston Thursday, “Lobbyists for Sheldon Adelson‘s Las Vegas Sands Corp. have been working in recent weeks to press for quick passage of [Restoring America’s Wire Act], holding discussions with aides to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).” If you don’t already know, […]

In one of the aftereffects of the Black Friday Federal indictments, the US Department of Justice continues to reject the requests of two District Attorneys in Utah about whether two US Senators had involvement in a case centering on online poker and internet gambling.