Presentations

Important National and International Conferences

2026

50 Years of Gaming: Lessons for the 50th State” by Michael Pollock

2025

Thailand’s big casino gamble hangs on fine print of regulations

2023

Dirty Laundry: The fight against money laundering in gaming

Joint – Public Hearing: Mobile Sports Betting in NY: A First Year Review & Its Budget Impact

2023: maybe a reboot in Asia casino client profile

Thailand casino landscape forming as details remain fuzzy

2022

Understanding iLottery: Growth Through Expansion, not Cannibalization Article for NASPL Insights magazine

2021

Sleeping in the Same Bed

Looking Back at Responsible Gaming, Looking Forward to Safe Gaming

Maintaining Gaming Integrity is not Optional

2020

Casino Tax Policy: Identifying the issues that will determine the optimal rate

Commercial, Indian Gaming: Finding Common Ground, Forging Partnerships

NCLGS/SGG III “Gaming and Public Policy: Optimizing Economic, Urban Development”

US Lotteries: Time to Rethink, Reinvent

Leveraging Online Channels as a Policy Goal and Potential Revenue Stream

Regulated Esports Gambling: The New Frontier

2019

The Mid-Atlantic Battleground, Presentation to East Coast Gaming Congress

Regulators, legislators are new referees in sports betting evolution

2018

ESPORTS FOR EVERYONE: first of a series on the future of esports and gaming

Illinois Joint House Revenue and Finance Sales and Other Taxes Subcommittee and House Executive Gaming Subcommittee

Sports Betting is Coming Fast: Know Key Regulatory and Policy Issues Relating to Implementation

Understand Controls, Harness Economics of Sports Wagering

Understand Controls, Harness Economics of Sports Wagering (Video)

Competitive Challenges in an Expanding Commercial and Regulatory Marketplace

2017

Legal Sports Betting in the United States: How Can it Evolve? How Should it Evolve?

Online Gaming from Land-Based Perspective: Part One (Registration Required)

Online Gaming from Land-Based Perspective: Part Two (Registration Required)

Impacts of Casinos on Connecticut OTBs

2016

Testimony before Assembly Tourism Gaming and Arts Committee

Economic Market Study: Casinos, Cardrooms and Other Forms of Gambling in Washington State

2015

Testimony before Georgia Committee to Preserve the Hope Scholarship

Legislative Presentation: West Virginia Greyhound-Racing Subsidies

Legislative Presentation: Illinois and National Gaming Trends

Spectrum Gaming Group Testimony on Pennsylvania House Bill 649

2013

National Council of Legislators from Gaming States presentation, January 2013

2012

Spectrum Gaming Group testifies before U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs

2011

Spectrum Gaming Group testifies before U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee

2010

Casino Tax Policy: Identifying the issues that will determine the optimal rate

New Hampshire Gaming Study Commission Testimony