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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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Prediction MarketsOct 5

Ohio Orders 10 Prediction Markets to Stop Sports Contracts a Week After Its Sixth Circuit Win

The Ohio Casino Control Commission has told Polymarket, Robinhood, Coinbase and seven other platforms to stop offering sports event contracts to Ohioans and confirm it in writing within 14 days. Kalshi, the company that lost in the Sixth Circuit, did not get a letter: its $5 million penalty case is already under way.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

CorporateOct 5

Malware in Jurojin and IntuitiveTables Updates Exposed High-Stakes Hole Cards

A cheater reached high-stakes online poker players through the table-management tools on their own computers, not through the poker rooms. The rooms hold the hand histories and the money, and they are now deciding what to refund and how to stop it happening again.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 5

Dominican Gambling Law Takes Effect, With 12 Months for Operators to Register

Law 86-26 is in the Gaceta Oficial and the new regulator has an interim chief, but the decade-long licence freeze has not started. It begins only when a register of existing operators is published, more than a year from now, and the months before then decide who is inside it.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Sports BettingOct 5

Maine Has No Rule on AI in Gambling, and Its Draft Online Casino Code Does Not Add One

Maine's regulator says it is monitoring the use of AI "locally and nationally" after the New York Times report on DraftKings, which takes about four in every five dollars bet with the state's mobile sportsbooks. Its draft rules for online casino, the product at the centre of the Times investigation, are open for comment until 30 October.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Prediction MarketsOct 5

DeWine on Kalshi: "These Guys Are Pigs," and Ohio "Will Certainly Enforce the Law"

Ohio's governor has called prediction markets "really gambling, nothing more than that" and promised enforcement after the Sixth Circuit ruled for the state. The commission's proposed $5 million penalty against Kalshi has been pending since April, and Kalshi says the ruling will not survive further review.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Prediction MarketsOct 5

Polymarket Takes Its €420,000 Dutch Penalty to Court, Arguing It Sells Financial Products

Polymarket has confirmed it is challenging the Dutch gambling regulator's order in court, after being charged for blocking Dutch users a day late. Its case is that event contracts belong with the financial markets supervisor, an argument that, if it won, could land it under the Netherlands' indefinite ban on selling binary options to retail clients.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 5

Hungary Strips Its Gambling Regulator of Concession Powers, With 30 Days to Hand Over the Files

A law in force since 1 October ends the Supervisory Authority for Regulated Activities' veto over concession contracts, including casino concessions, and abolishes the Concession Council it dominated. The regulator must pass its concession files to the finance minister by the end of the month, as the government weighs whether to close it altogether.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 5

Remote Gaming Duty Receipts Doubled to £590m in July as the 40% Rate Kicked In

The first month to reflect the higher rate brought in 108% more online gaming duty than a year earlier, more than the rate rise alone explains. The industry says one month proves nothing; the Treasury, three weeks from a Budget that may double Machine Games Duty, may read it differently.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 5

Upper Tribunal Cuts Jumpman's £13.2m Free Spins Duty Bill to Nil

The Upper Tribunal has ruled that free spins won on a free promotional game fall outside Remote Gaming Duty, reversing the First-tier Tribunal and wiping out the assessment against the Super Group subsidiary. With the duty now at 40%, the ruling reaches well beyond one operator, unless HMRC appeals or Parliament changes the law.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Press ReleaseOct 5

"If Every Answer Sounds Like a Press Release, We Haven't Done Our Job": Inside iGaming SkyTalk

The team behind iGaming SkyTalk, the new interview series recorded on a parasail 200 metres above Golden Bay, explains why the industry needs another show, why it opened with an architect rather than a chief executive, and why the format is only half the pitch. "The setting gets your attention. The conversation has to earn the rest of it."

Press release

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Corporate

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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

Ohio Orders 10 Prediction Markets to Stop Sports Contracts a Week After Its Sixth Circuit Win

Malware in Jurojin and IntuitiveTables Updates Exposed High-Stakes Hole Cards

Dominican Gambling Law Takes Effect, With 12 Months for Operators to Register

Maine Has No Rule on AI in Gambling, and Its Draft Online Casino Code Does Not Add One

DeWine on Kalshi: "These Guys Are Pigs," and Ohio "Will Certainly Enforce the Law"

Polymarket Takes Its €420,000 Dutch Penalty to Court, Arguing It Sells Financial Products

Hungary Strips Its Gambling Regulator of Concession Powers, With 30 Days to Hand Over the Files

Remote Gaming Duty Receipts Doubled to £590m in July as the 40% Rate Kicked In

Upper Tribunal Cuts Jumpman's £13.2m Free Spins Duty Bill to Nil

"If Every Answer Sounds Like a Press Release, We Haven't Done Our Job": Inside iGaming SkyTalk

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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