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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

Wynn's Billings Breaks Ranks With MGM and Caesars on Prediction Markets

On the opening main stage at G2E, the chief executives of MGM Resorts and Caesars called prediction markets illegal, "obscene" and a risk to the whole industry. Wynn Resorts' Craig Billings said his company had no "skin in the game", and recalled what the Strip lost by fighting California's tribes.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Prediction MarketsOct 5

Nevada Calls Kalshi's Bid to Wait for the CFTC "Just Another Attempt at Delay"

Kalshi has asked the Ninth Circuit to hold its rehearing petition until the CFTC rewrites its rule on gaming contracts, which the agency says will be final within two months. Nevada's answer is that the court already knew the rule was changing, and that the panel's ruling never depended on it.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Prediction MarketsOct 5

MP Urges Regulators to Act as Polymarket Takes Bets on HSBC and Lloyds Failing

Polymarket's offshore exchange lists contracts on whether 19 of the world's biggest banks, HSBC and Lloyds among them, will fail by the end of 2026. The sums are small, but a Treasury Committee MP warns that a market on a bank's collapse could help cause one, and Britain's regulators have so far said little more than that they are talking to their counterparts abroad.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

CorporateOct 5

Paradise Posts a Record ₩268bn Quarter on Better Hold as GKL's Third Quarter Stalls

Paradise Co's four foreigner-only casinos took more in the third quarter than in any quarter before it, even though customers bought fewer chips than in the second. Grand Korea Leisure recovered in September, but its quarter was barely ahead of last year's.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 5

Thai Cyber Police Arrest Anti-Corruption Activist Atchariya in Online Muay Thai Betting Probe

Police say a money trail from a boxing betting network worth more than 1 billion baht leads to Atchariya Ruangrattanapong, a campaigner who has spent years accusing officers of taking money from gambling. He denies all four charges and says the case is fabricated.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 5

Philippines Arrests 244 Foreigners in Largest POGO Raid of 2026, Nearly Two Years After the Ban

Immigration officers, the National Bureau of Investigation and the army raided two sites in Zamboanga Sibugay on 2 October and found some 3,000 mobile phones. The Bureau of Immigration calls it this year's biggest offshore gaming bust, which says as much about the ban as about the raid.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 5

Trinidad and Tobago Lifts Its Remote Gambling Ban, With Licences Promised by 1 January 2027

Both houses of Parliament have unanimously approved an order that removes the offence of running remote gambling from Trinidad and Tobago. The licensing regime it depends on has sat unproclaimed since 2021, and the Attorney General has now promised it by New Year's Day.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 5

Brazil Shuts Pix, TED and Boleto to Betting and Orders Sites Redirected as the Licensed Market Goes Dark

Three Central Bank resolutions write the betting ban into the rulebooks of Brazil's main payment rails, and a Finance Ministry ordinance gives operators until Wednesday to hand over every player's balance. The tool for clawing back Pix payments to illegal sites still does not exist, and the government page licensed sites are told to point to was not live on Monday morning.

Antonina Tupikova

4 min read

RegulatoryOct 5

Brazil's Attorney General Asks the STF to Void the Betting Laws as Operators Press Fux to Rule Before Midnight

The government's lawyer has told the Supreme Federal Tribunal that the laws which created Brazil's licensed betting market are unconstitutional, reversing the position it took in 2024. It did so in a different case from the one in which Justice Luiz Fux gave it 72 hours, and operators, clubs and Flamengo want his answer on the ban before licensed sites go dark at midnight.

Antonina Tupikova

4 min read

RegulatoryOct 2

Costa Rica Sanctions 10 Casinos ₡361.5 Million Over Unbilled Chips and Undeclared Tables

Costa Rica's Ministry of Finance says every casino it inspected in late September sold gaming chips without issuing electronic receipts, and some declared zero profit or zero VAT. The sanctions, worth about $780,000, test a casino tax regime built on counting tables in a country that still has no licensing framework for online gambling.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

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Corporate

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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

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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

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

Wynn's Billings Breaks Ranks With MGM and Caesars on Prediction Markets

Nevada Calls Kalshi's Bid to Wait for the CFTC "Just Another Attempt at Delay"

MP Urges Regulators to Act as Polymarket Takes Bets on HSBC and Lloyds Failing

Paradise Posts a Record ₩268bn Quarter on Better Hold as GKL's Third Quarter Stalls

Thai Cyber Police Arrest Anti-Corruption Activist Atchariya in Online Muay Thai Betting Probe

Philippines Arrests 244 Foreigners in Largest POGO Raid of 2026, Nearly Two Years After the Ban

Trinidad and Tobago Lifts Its Remote Gambling Ban, With Licences Promised by 1 January 2027

Brazil Shuts Pix, TED and Boleto to Betting and Orders Sites Redirected as the Licensed Market Goes Dark

Brazil's Attorney General Asks the STF to Void the Betting Laws as Operators Press Fux to Rule Before Midnight

Costa Rica Sanctions 10 Casinos ₡361.5 Million Over Unbilled Chips and Undeclared Tables

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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