Legalized Commercial Gambling In Maryland State

Introduction

In United States, Gambling is legally restricted. However gambling is not illegal in every state since its participation and availability is increasing. From last few years, gambling is generating huge revenues. In United States commercial casinos are run and established by private companies on non Indian land. Commercial casinos of United States created 354000 jobs which improved the employment conditions (Dombrink, 176). There are around 20 states and 2 territories of United States that allow commercial casinos, these are some of those states: New Jersey, Indiana, North Carolina, South Dakota, Michigan, Colorado, Maryland, Ohio, Washington, and so on. In 2006, there were around 450 commercial casinos in total that generated gross gaming revenue of $34.11 billion Thus in this paper I am going to evaluate Commercial Casino industry of Maryland. Maryland is one of the U.S. states where casinos operate legally and even conducted the campaign for market expansion of gambling services. Maryland is a small state in the east of America, which is called Mid-Atlantic State. Americans often called Maryland State old border (Old Line State), State-badge (Cockade State) or the Free State (Darian, 89).

Discussion

Current number of operating casinos in Maryland is 2, which are land based and slots only casinos. These casinos in Maryland has provided great employment opportunity since these 2 commercial casinos have employed 290 employee and it shows good progress if number of commercial casinos increases. Maryland is another state that has joined the group of entities in the United States, recently seeking to establish regulations for the game and most of the online game, now that the Department of Justice of the United States was in favor of each State can regulate their own online gaming market, provided they remain online sports betting illegal. The legalization of gambling ...