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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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CorporateOct 7

GKL Denies Recruiting Customers Abroad After Report Questions Staff Trips to Hong Kong and Macau

Yonhap, citing an unnamed source, says Grand Korea Leisure's marketing staff and executives have been meeting customers in Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and Mongolia without proper legal review, 11 years after Chinese police arrested Korean casino staff for recruiting gamblers. GKL says its staff serve existing customers and recruit no one.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 7

Spain's Snap Election Sinks Its Loot Box Ban but Leaves the Deposit Limits Standing

Pedro Sánchez's dissolution of the Cortes kills the only gambling-related measure that was actually before parliament, a ban on minors buying loot boxes. The Gambling Act reform never got that far, and the rules that matter most to operators were made by decree, where the election cannot reach them.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

CorporateOct 7

Kangwon Land's KL Saberi Slot Business Has Lost ₩14.8bn Since 2020 and Sold 77 Machines Abroad

Data obtained by an opposition lawmaker show Kangwon Land's slot machine manufacturing business has run at a loss every year since 2020, while a Philippine sales office that cost about ₩700 million found no new distributors. The losses total about $11.1 million, not the $236 million some English-language reports have carried.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 7

Thailand Blocked 945,075 Gambling URLs in Fiscal 2026, Up From 62,213 Two Years Earlier

Thailand's digital ministry says it blocked 945,075 gambling-related URLs in the year to September, most of them found by its own AI-assisted monitoring and blocked under court orders. The count measures how hard the state is pushing; it does not show whether the market has shrunk.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 7

Kahnawake Suspends Polar Ventures SDRL's Licence Without Naming a Site or the Grounds

The Kahnawà:ke Gaming Commission has suspended the operator authorisation of Polar Ventures SDRL after a show cause process, and announced it a week later. The notice names no website, gives no reason and sets no end date.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

CorporateOct 7

Maverick Files to Close Its Two Elko Casinos on 30 November, With 239 Nevada Jobs at Risk

A week after the same notices went out in Washington, Maverick's Nevada arm has told the state it will permanently close the Maverick Casino Hotel and the Gold Country Inn in Elko unless a new operator takes them over. Court filings show both sit in the sale-leaseback portfolio that drew no bids in the company's bankruptcy.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 7

Rank's Grosvenor Casinos to Pay £5m Over Money Laundering and Safer Gambling Failures

The Gambling Commission found that staff at Rank's Grosvenor casinos treated customers' wealth or winning streaks as a reason for light-touch safer gambling checks, and that its anti-money laundering rules had not caught up with changes made in 2020. The regulator says risks more often associated with online gambling are equally alive on the casino floor.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 7

Dominican Lottery Chief Quico Tabar Sworn In as Interim Head of the New Gambling Regulator

Finance Minister Magín Díaz has sworn in the administrator of the National Lottery to run the Dirección General de Juegos de Azar until it is built. He keeps both his existing posts, although the law that created the regulator bars its director general from holding any other public office.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 6

Stake Targets 12 October Alberta Launch, a Day Before the Grey-Market Cut-Off

Stake Canada Ltd. is now on the regulator's register and says it expects to be fully operational on 12 October, provided it signs an operating agreement with the Alberta iGaming Corporation. The date sits one day inside the 13 October limit for operators moving out of Alberta's grey market.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 6

Pennsylvania Police Say Switched-Off Skill Games Can Still Be Seized From 14 October

The State Police's third notice closes the route Pace-O-Matic says it will take, disabling terminals rather than removing them, and puts bars' liquor licences on the line. None of the six skill game bills has left committee.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

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

Antonina Tupikova3 min read

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

Antonina Tupikova3 min read

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

Antonina Tupikova3 min read

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

Liam O'Brien2 min read

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

Antonina Tupikova3 min read

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

Antonina Tupikova3 min read

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

Antonina Tupikova3 min read

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

Antonina Tupikova3 min read

Interviews

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

Antonina Tupikova8 min read

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

GKL Denies Recruiting Customers Abroad After Report Questions Staff Trips to Hong Kong and Macau

Spain's Snap Election Sinks Its Loot Box Ban but Leaves the Deposit Limits Standing

Kangwon Land's KL Saberi Slot Business Has Lost ₩14.8bn Since 2020 and Sold 77 Machines Abroad

Thailand Blocked 945,075 Gambling URLs in Fiscal 2026, Up From 62,213 Two Years Earlier

Kahnawake Suspends Polar Ventures SDRL's Licence Without Naming a Site or the Grounds

Maverick Files to Close Its Two Elko Casinos on 30 November, With 239 Nevada Jobs at Risk

Rank's Grosvenor Casinos to Pay £5m Over Money Laundering and Safer Gambling Failures

Dominican Lottery Chief Quico Tabar Sworn In as Interim Head of the New Gambling Regulator

Stake Targets 12 October Alberta Launch, a Day Before the Grey-Market Cut-Off

Pennsylvania Police Say Switched-Off Skill Games Can Still Be Seized From 14 October

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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