In recent years, it has become common for there to be a hot topic or two that dominates the conversation at the annual East Coast Gaming Congress in Atlantic City.
On Tuesday, the first day of the two-day conference at the Hard Rock Casino along the fabled Boardwalk, that was true again.
The form of mobile gaming commonly referred to as “sweepstakes casinos” was a key point of discussion at the panel titled “Future Shock: Confronting Unprecedented Changes in Gaming” — and to a lesser extent, so was the subject of “prediction markets” or “event contracts.”
David Katz, a gaming and entertainment industry stock analyst for Jefferies Capital, said during an earlier panel Tuesday that the controversy over the legality of growing new products is nothing new.
