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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 2

NagaCorp's Nine-Month Gaming Revenue Falls 21.5% as VIP Play Collapses and Mass Tables Turn Down

NagaWorld's operator says gross gaming revenue for the first nine months of 2026 fell to $417.9 million, with VIP rollings down by more than half. Set against its half-year results, the figures imply a third quarter about 43% weaker than a year ago, and this time the mass market fell too.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 2

Fux Takes the Cases Against Brazil's Betting Ban and Gives the Government 72 Hours to Answer

The Supreme Court's betting rapporteur now holds every action against Provisional Measure 1.394, and has asked the Attorney General's Office to respond before he decides anything. Its deadline lands as licensed sites go dark, while Congress has pushed its own amendments past the election.

Antonina Tupikova

4 min read

Sports BettingOct 2

Bettor Sues DraftKings, Alleging Its AI Model Steered Promotions to Likely Losers

A proposed class action filed in Boston accuses DraftKings of using customers' data to find the gamblers most likely to lose, then sending them more offers, in breach of its own privacy promises. It leans heavily on the New York Times investigation, and DraftKings says it does not use AI that way.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Prediction MarketsOct 2

DOJ Says the Green Beret's Maduro Contracts Are Swaps Even Under the Sixth Circuit's Test

Federal prosecutors say contracts on the capture of Nicolás Maduro "are inherently economic" and so qualify as swaps, whatever two appeals courts have said about Kalshi's sports contracts. The question decides whether the first insider-trading prosecution over prediction-market trades survives, and argument is set for 7 October.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Prediction MarketsOct 2

Czechia Adds Kalshi to Its Gambling Blocklist, 11 Weeks After Polymarket

The Ministry of Finance has listed kalshi.com as a site offering prohibited gambling, and internet providers must block it by 15 October. The order covers the website only, but it puts the largest US prediction market on the same footing in Czechia as an unlicensed online casino.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

CorporateOct 2

Betsson Moves Its Charity and Sport Projects Into a Malta Foundation but Names No Budget

Betsson Group has set up the Betsson Foundation to coordinate its community and sports giving. It has published a governance outline and one project in Peru, but no funding commitment, no board and no spending figures to judge it by.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 2

Dutch Regulator Revokes a Lottery Licence a Fraudster Obtained by Posing as Quick Boys' Chairman

The Kansspelautoriteit says an impostor got a lottery licence in the name of a Katwijk football club and used it to sell tickets on eight websites. The regulator calls it a new risk, and it has tightened the checks behind the licence register it tells consumers to trust.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 2

Gambling Commission's Acting Chief Welcomes Phil Walker and Concedes "Teething Issues" at the National Lottery

Sarah Gardner used Allwyn's player protection conference to welcome the National Lottery's interim chief executive, five weeks after two MPs asked the regulator what it knew about him. She also warned that the Lottery's standing is "a high wire act where one wrong step can cause big problems".

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

CorporateOct 2

Jeju Dream Tower's Casino Revenue Fell 45% in September on Its Lowest Table Hold Since 2023

Lotte Tour Development drew a record 66,393 casino visitors to Jeju Dream Tower in September and kept the smallest share of their table play in almost three years. Its two listed rivals grew in the same month, and the company is calling it a run of bad luck that October will correct.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 2

Cambodia Says 24 Casinos Have Shut Down Online Gambling and Removed the Equipment

Cambodia's anti-scam commission says inspectors confirmed that 24 casinos in three provinces ended livestreamed gaming, football betting and online lotteries by the 30 September deadline and moved the equipment out. It has not said how many casinos were running online operations in the first place.

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

Liam O'Brien2 min read

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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

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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

NagaCorp's Nine-Month Gaming Revenue Falls 21.5% as VIP Play Collapses and Mass Tables Turn Down

Fux Takes the Cases Against Brazil's Betting Ban and Gives the Government 72 Hours to Answer

Bettor Sues DraftKings, Alleging Its AI Model Steered Promotions to Likely Losers

DOJ Says the Green Beret's Maduro Contracts Are Swaps Even Under the Sixth Circuit's Test

Czechia Adds Kalshi to Its Gambling Blocklist, 11 Weeks After Polymarket

Betsson Moves Its Charity and Sport Projects Into a Malta Foundation but Names No Budget

Dutch Regulator Revokes a Lottery Licence a Fraudster Obtained by Posing as Quick Boys' Chairman

Gambling Commission's Acting Chief Welcomes Phil Walker and Concedes "Teething Issues" at the National Lottery

Jeju Dream Tower's Casino Revenue Fell 45% in September on Its Lowest Table Hold Since 2023

Cambodia Says 24 Casinos Have Shut Down Online Gambling and Removed the Equipment

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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