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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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M&AOct 6

Informa Agrees to Buy ICE Owner Clarion Events From Blackstone for £2.24bn

The London-listed events group is paying 11.1 times Clarion's expected 2027 EBITDA, part-funded by a £940 million share placing. The gambling industry's largest trade show is about to pass from private equity to a listed owner that names gaming as a growth category.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 6

Yokohama Looks Set to Sit Out Japan's 2027 IR Round as No Mayoral Candidate Backs a Casino

Seven candidates filed on Sunday for the 18 October election to replace Takeharu Yamanaka, and Yamanaka is one of them. The frontrunner, backed by four ruling and opposition parties, has ruled out an integrated resort, and the others oppose one, seven months before Japan opens applications for its two remaining licences.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 6

Gambling Minister Says the Aim to Permit Consultation Will Start Very Shortly, but Gives No Date

At her first policy panel as gambling minister, Vicky Foxcroft told a Labour conference audience that the consultation on scrapping the Gambling Act's "aim to permit" rule is coming "very shortly". She did not say when, or what will replace a principle that has governed every betting shop and arcade licence decision since 2007.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

CorporateOct 6

Kangwon Land's New Chief Puts Its ₩3 Trillion K-HIT Resort Plan Under Review

A month after taking office, Kangwon Land's first permanent chief executive since 2023 has set up a committee to diagnose the company and test the feasibility of its flagship resort plan. The review lands while the only casino open to Koreans is waiting on Seoul for the exemptions the plan depends on.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 6

Brazil's Licensed Betting Sites Go Dark and Point to the Government With No Ruling From Fux

Betano, Superbet, Sportingbet and EstrelaBet now send Brazilian visitors to a government page that says their platforms are offline by order of Provisional Measure 1.394. Justice Luiz Fux let the operators' midnight deadline pass without a decision, and R$1.33 billion of unclaimed player money now passes to the banks.

Antonina Tupikova

4 min read

RegulatoryOct 6

Pennsylvania Self-Exclusions Rise 18% to 9,677 as iGaming Revenue Grows 18%

Pennsylvania's regulator took almost 9,700 new self-exclusion enrolments in the year to June, more than in any year it has reported, and the monthly figure beat the year before in every month. The same week's reports show the state's casinos ended the year with 598 fewer staff as play kept moving online.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Prediction MarketsOct 6

Gaming Regulator Groups Urge the Supreme Court to Hear New Jersey's Kalshi Case

Two associations of gaming regulators have told the Supreme Court that the same Kalshi contract is shielded from state law in New Jersey and subject to it in Ohio, and that only the Court can end that. They follow a group of state lawmakers in backing New Jersey's petition; nobody has yet filed for Kalshi.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 6

Sweden Pulls Charm Entertainment's Casino Licences Over Accounting Crime Charges

Spelinspektionen has revoked the restaurant casino operator's licences with immediate effect, pending a final decision, because the people behind it face charges over a predecessor company that ran almost the same business. The regulator is treating tax and bookkeeping failures as a fitness question, not a side issue.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Sports BettingOct 6

Turkish FA Suspends 448 Club Officials for Betting, Trabzonspor's President Among Them

The federation has extended its betting purge from referees and players to the boardroom, provisionally suspending 448 current and former officials of top-two-division clubs on 30 September. The officials now face bans of three months to a year, and two of the best known say they bet through legal accounts.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Prediction MarketsOct 5

Federal Judge Blocks Illinois Licensing of Kalshi's Sports Contracts but Holds Off on the State's Tax

A Chicago judge has found that Kalshi's championship contracts are likely swaps and that Illinois likely cannot make the exchange take out a sports wagering licence. She has not yet ruled on the state's new 1.75% to 3.5% prediction-market fee, and her reasoning puts her at odds with a Wisconsin judge in the same circuit and with two federal appeals courts.

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

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%

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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

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

Informa Agrees to Buy ICE Owner Clarion Events From Blackstone for £2.24bn

Yokohama Looks Set to Sit Out Japan's 2027 IR Round as No Mayoral Candidate Backs a Casino

Gambling Minister Says the Aim to Permit Consultation Will Start Very Shortly, but Gives No Date

Kangwon Land's New Chief Puts Its ₩3 Trillion K-HIT Resort Plan Under Review

Brazil's Licensed Betting Sites Go Dark and Point to the Government With No Ruling From Fux

Pennsylvania Self-Exclusions Rise 18% to 9,677 as iGaming Revenue Grows 18%

Gaming Regulator Groups Urge the Supreme Court to Hear New Jersey's Kalshi Case

Sweden Pulls Charm Entertainment's Casino Licences Over Accounting Crime Charges

Turkish FA Suspends 448 Club Officials for Betting, Trabzonspor's President Among Them

Federal Judge Blocks Illinois Licensing of Kalshi's Sports Contracts but Holds Off on the State's Tax

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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