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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

Genting Closes Its Coventry Casino and Warns More Will Follow if Machine Duty Rises

Genting has shut its Coventry casino after a month-long staff consultation, blaming costs and tax rises the sector has already absorbed. The closure lands four weeks before a Budget that may double Machine Games Duty, and both sides of that argument are already using it.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 2

Seized Messages Show Vorcaro Discussed Hiding His Stake in Bet.Bet

Messages taken from the jailed banker's phone by the Federal Police show Banco Master's legal director telling Daniel Vorcaro he "cannot appear" after the Finance Ministry asked who stood behind a fund that owned part of Bet.Bet, Valor Econômico reports. A dispatcher from Minas Gerais was later named instead.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 2

Datafolha Finds 78% Back Brazil's Betting Ban as Broadcasters Go to the STF

Brazil's betting ban polls far better than the market it replaced, but most voters say it will not decide their vote, and Lula has now said the election is why he acted. Broadcasters, operators and six football clubs have asked the Supreme Court to step in before licensed sites go dark on 6 October.

Antonina Tupikova

4 min read

CorporateOct 2

Maverick Files to Close Eight More Washington Card Rooms, With 850 Jobs Going on 30 November

Notices filed with Washington's Employment Security Department put eight of Maverick's card rooms on course to close at the end of November, on top of two in Tukwila on 1 November. The company says a buyer in its Chapter 11 case could keep some open, and one Pasco councilman says that is already happening.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Prediction MarketsOct 2

CFTC Sends the White House Rules to Define Event Contracts as Swaps and Exclude Casino Games

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has asked the White House to clear a rule defining event contracts as swaps, the classification on which its claim to exclusive jurisdiction rests, and a second that would exclude "casino-style gambling products" with immediate effect. Neither text is public, and both arrive days after a second federal appeals court rejected the swaps argument.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 1

New Zealand Starts Its Auction for 15 Online Casino Licences as DIA Drafts the Testing Rules

The Department of Internal Affairs opened bidding on 29 September for the right to apply for one of up to 15 online casino licences, with a reserve price it will never disclose and no idea, it says, of what the auction will raise. Alongside it, a draft testing regime spells out what the winners will have to prove about their games and platforms.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 1

IMF Says Cambodia's Vetting of Casino Owners Is Deficient Ahead of 2027 Renewals

The International Monetary Fund's 2026 review of Cambodia finds that the casino regulator checks little more than applicants' criminal record certificates and that beneficial owners face no fit and proper test at all. With most casino licences due for renewal around 2027, it wants the gambling law amended first.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

CorporateOct 1

Macau's September GGR Falls 1.2% to MOP18.1 Billion, Its Lowest Month of 2026

Macau's casinos won MOP18.06 billion in September, 1.2% less than a year earlier and 17.5% less than in August: the fourth monthly decline in a row and the weakest month of the year. It came in below a comparison base that a typhoon had already cut, and almost exactly at the figure Citigroup cut its forecast to ten days ago. It was published on the first day of Golden Week.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

CorporateOct 1

Gentoo Media Cuts Guidance Again as the Juroszek Family Funds a €100 Million Refinancing

The affiliate has lowered its 2026 outlook for the second time in five weeks, blaming Brazil's ban and a weak third quarter, and has lined up a €50 million loan and a €50 million share issue from its largest shareholders to clear €91.5 million of bonds due in December.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 1

Mayors Take Brazil's Betting Ban to the STF as Congress Files Amendments to Narrow It

A national association of mayors has filed a third direct action against Provisional Measure 1.394, Flamengo has been admitted to the Supreme Court's betting cases, and the first 12 amendments in Congress include a slots-only rewrite. None of it has yet stopped the clock: licensed sites go dark on 6 October.

Antonina Tupikova

4 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%

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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

Genting Closes Its Coventry Casino and Warns More Will Follow if Machine Duty Rises

Seized Messages Show Vorcaro Discussed Hiding His Stake in Bet.Bet

Datafolha Finds 78% Back Brazil's Betting Ban as Broadcasters Go to the STF

Maverick Files to Close Eight More Washington Card Rooms, With 850 Jobs Going on 30 November

CFTC Sends the White House Rules to Define Event Contracts as Swaps and Exclude Casino Games

New Zealand Starts Its Auction for 15 Online Casino Licences as DIA Drafts the Testing Rules

IMF Says Cambodia's Vetting of Casino Owners Is Deficient Ahead of 2027 Renewals

Macau's September GGR Falls 1.2% to MOP18.1 Billion, Its Lowest Month of 2026

Gentoo Media Cuts Guidance Again as the Juroszek Family Funds a €100 Million Refinancing

Mayors Take Brazil's Betting Ban to the STF as Congress Files Amendments to Narrow It

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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