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Louisiana Gives DraftKings a Four-Month Extension, Not a Renewal, Over AI and Shareholder Suitability

3 min read•Oct 16

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Sports Betting

Johns Hopkins Study Ties Legal Online Sports Betting to Up to 7.2% Rise in Depression and Anxiety Care

3 min read•Oct 16

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Regulatory

National Audit Office to Examine the National Lottery Licence Award as Good-Cause Payments Fall 22%

3 min read•Oct 15

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Sports BettingOct 12

ANJ Finds Bettors It Flags as Excessive Place Up to 89% of Stakes on Half, Quarter and Set Bets

France's gambling regulator has broken its 2025 online sports betting figures down by sport and found growth built on more matches, a 24-hour live offer and operators steering payouts to the 85% cap. The sharper finding is who bets on the obscure end of the menu: mostly players its own algorithm flags as excessive.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 12

Denmark's August Gambling Revenue Falls 5.1% as Betting Drops 41% and Online Casino Rises 15%

Denmark's liberalised gambling market shrank year on year in August for the first time in 2026, and sports betting accounts for more than the whole fall. The comparison is with an exceptionally strong August for bookmakers last year, and the data cannot say whether Danes staked less or simply lost less.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

RegulatoryOct 12

Macau's Gaming-Related Crime Rises 12.3% in Nine Months as Casino STRs Climb 7.9%

Police recorded 1,951 gaming-related crimes in Macau between January and September, while casino operators filed 2,968 suspicious transaction reports, both up on a year earlier even as overall crime fell and gaming revenue weakened through the third quarter. Fraud and illegal money exchange drove the rise; the loan-sharking and detention cases of the junket era kept falling.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

CorporateOct 12

Hacksaw Says Q3 Revenue Growth Slowed to 11% to 12%, Well Short of Its 30% Target

The Stockholm-listed slots supplier expects third-quarter revenue of about EUR 57.5 million to EUR 58.5 million, which would be less than it reported for the second quarter, and blames softer markets and weaker game performance. Its shares fell 27% in early trading.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 12

Liquor & Gaming NSW Fines Two Venues After Checking 51 on Pokies Shutdown Hours

Six months after New South Wales revoked the exemptions that let more than 650 pubs and clubs run poker machines through the 4am to 10am shutdown, the regulator has fined two venues and put 70 more under assessment. It has not said how much the fines were, and the government is already reviewing whether six hours is long enough.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

CorporateOct 12

Genting Proposes RM1.25bn Rights Issue to Repay Debt as Maybank Warns More May Follow

Genting Berhad wants RM1.25 billion, approximately $306 million, from shareholders to pay down borrowings that have climbed to RM45.25 billion. The Lim family has committed its 45% share; the rest is not yet underwritten, and Maybank Investment Bank says this may not be the last call on investors.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Prediction MarketsOct 12

CFTC Carves Licensed Sportsbooks Out of the Swap Definition and Proposes to Write Event Contracts In

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has published the two rules it sent to the White House last month: one, in force the day it appears in the Federal Register, says a bet with a licensed sportsbook or casino is not a swap; the other proposes that event contracts, sports included, are. The line runs through who sells the product and where it trades, not what it is.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 12

New York Proposes Banning AI-Tailored Gambling Offers and Making Sportsbooks Flag At-Risk Bettors

New York's Gaming Commission has proposed barring every gambling licensee in the state, not only sportsbooks, from using AI to tailor offers or suggest bets, and presuming any personalised offer unlawful. A second rule would make mobile sportsbooks flag, contact and if necessary close the accounts of at-risk bettors.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 11

Brazil to Sue Eight Operators Over Withheld Refund Data as the Sum Owed Falls to R$159 Million

The Attorney General's Office says it will go to court to force eight former licensees to give their banks the per-player lists the ban requires. The same release cuts the money still owed to bettors from about R$1.2 billion to R$159 million, and does not say how.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 11

Canada's Supreme Court Reserves Judgment on Ontario's Plan to Pool Players With the World

Four provincial lottery corporations asked the Supreme Court of Canada on 7 October to overturn the ruling that would let Ontario's poker and fantasy players sit at the same tables as players abroad. The nine judges reserved judgment, and no date has been set for a decision.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

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The Star Swings to A$12m EBITDA Profit as Chair Faults Its Treatment of VIPs

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ATG's Q3 Operating Profit Falls 10% as Its Swedish Business Shrinks and Only Denmark Grows

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Encore Boston Harbor Revenue Falls 22% in Its First Month of Strike Action

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Macau's Six Concessionaires Commit MOP9 Billion to a Government Fund That Counts Towards Their Non-Gaming Pledges

Antonina Tupikova3 min read

Boyd Gaming's Las Vegas EBITDAR Falls 7.4% as Destination Softness Hits the Orleans and Downtown

Antonina Tupikova3 min read

Crypto

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Crypto-Gaming Giant Yolo Group to Exit Grey Markets in Major Strategic Pivot to Regulation

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General

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US States Spent $145m of the $188m Set Aside for Problem Gambling Services in FY2025

Antonina Tupikova2 min read

Court of Appeal Overturns Spribe's May Win, Ruling English Law Decides the Effect of Georgia's Aviator Judgments

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Illinois Casino Revenue Rises 12.7% to $178.2m in September as Hollywood Aurora Gains 81%

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New Gambling Reform Group FFOG Names Board and Courts Problem Gambling Councils as NCPG Seeks a Leader

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Dutch Study Finds All 10 AI Assistants Named Unlicensed Casinos, and Three Listed Them as Legal

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Interviews

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WiseGaming's Steven Paton: Technology, Not Geography, Decides Who Survives

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Håvard Lehn: Esports Has Been Poorly Run and iGaming Has Paid the Bills

Antonina Tupikova7 min read

Honoré Gaming's Casanova: Europe Builds for the Exception, Not the Rule

Antonina Tupikova8 min read

Jenningsbet's Greg Knight: Media Rights, Not Tax, Will Decide Shop Survival

Antonina Tupikova6 min read

Inside The Playa's VIP Intelligence Bet: A Conversation With Gali and Viktoriia

Liam O'Brien6 min read

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Louisiana Gives DraftKings a Four-Month Extension, Not a Renewal, Over AI and Shareholder Suitability

Johns Hopkins Study Ties Legal Online Sports Betting to Up to 7.2% Rise in Depression and Anxiety Care

National Audit Office to Examine the National Lottery Licence Award as Good-Cause Payments Fall 22%

Latest News

ANJ Finds Bettors It Flags as Excessive Place Up to 89% of Stakes on Half, Quarter and Set Bets

Denmark's August Gambling Revenue Falls 5.1% as Betting Drops 41% and Online Casino Rises 15%

Macau's Gaming-Related Crime Rises 12.3% in Nine Months as Casino STRs Climb 7.9%

Hacksaw Says Q3 Revenue Growth Slowed to 11% to 12%, Well Short of Its 30% Target

Liquor & Gaming NSW Fines Two Venues After Checking 51 on Pokies Shutdown Hours

Genting Proposes RM1.25bn Rights Issue to Repay Debt as Maybank Warns More May Follow

CFTC Carves Licensed Sportsbooks Out of the Swap Definition and Proposes to Write Event Contracts In

New York Proposes Banning AI-Tailored Gambling Offers and Making Sportsbooks Flag At-Risk Bettors

Brazil to Sue Eight Operators Over Withheld Refund Data as the Sum Owed Falls to R$159 Million

Canada's Supreme Court Reserves Judgment on Ontario's Plan to Pool Players With the World

Corporate

The Star Swings to A$12m EBITDA Profit as Chair Faults Its Treatment of VIPs

ATG's Q3 Operating Profit Falls 10% as Its Swedish Business Shrinks and Only Denmark Grows

Encore Boston Harbor Revenue Falls 22% in Its First Month of Strike Action

Macau's Six Concessionaires Commit MOP9 Billion to a Government Fund That Counts Towards Their Non-Gaming Pledges

Boyd Gaming's Las Vegas EBITDAR Falls 7.4% as Destination Softness Hits the Orleans and Downtown

Crypto

Three Regulators and Two Banks Start Testing for a Quantum Break

The CLARITY Act Comes Down to Seven Democrats on 15 September

A $49bn Mint That Was Worth $675,000: Inside the Sandbox Exploit

Russia Opens a Crypto Door and Caps It at 300,000 Roubles

Crypto-Gaming Giant Yolo Group to Exit Grey Markets in Major Strategic Pivot to Regulation

General

US States Spent $145m of the $188m Set Aside for Problem Gambling Services in FY2025

Court of Appeal Overturns Spribe's May Win, Ruling English Law Decides the Effect of Georgia's Aviator Judgments

Illinois Casino Revenue Rises 12.7% to $178.2m in September as Hollywood Aurora Gains 81%

New Gambling Reform Group FFOG Names Board and Courts Problem Gambling Councils as NCPG Seeks a Leader

Dutch Study Finds All 10 AI Assistants Named Unlicensed Casinos, and Three Listed Them as Legal

Interviews

WiseGaming's Steven Paton: Technology, Not Geography, Decides Who Survives

Håvard Lehn: Esports Has Been Poorly Run and iGaming Has Paid the Bills

Honoré Gaming's Casanova: Europe Builds for the Exception, Not the Rule

Jenningsbet's Greg Knight: Media Rights, Not Tax, Will Decide Shop Survival

Inside The Playa's VIP Intelligence Bet: A Conversation With Gali and Viktoriia

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