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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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RegulatorySep 28

Tengco Wants an Online Gaming Law by 2028 as Century Says It Knew in April Its Partner Lost Its Licences

PAGCOR's chairman wants the online market written into statute before his term ends, so that it "will not easily be scrapped". A Hong Kong-listed newcomer has meanwhile shown how much of that market still rests on the regulator's accreditations, and how quickly they can go.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatorySep 28

The Guardian Takes the Casino Secrets Leak to Britain, Naming Santeda, BC.Game and Stake

The newspaper's first reporting from the Curaçao regulator's files turns a licensing scandal into a question about who serves British players without a licence, and puts new documents behind its earlier reporting on the Santeda casino network. Its reporter also says the offshore trade is already moving on, to Anjouan and other lighter-touch licensors.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Prediction MarketsSep 28

Kalshi Files a Deposit and Trading Rewards Programme Worth Up to $5,000 a Customer

The two-year programme lets Kalshi match deposits and trading with bonus credits, target them by account age, inactivity and location, and confine them to sports contracts. It went to the CFTC as the exchange certified contracts on Premier League sanctions against Manchester City, days after reports of a verdict against the club.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Prediction MarketsSep 28

Sixth Circuit Rules 3-0 That Ohio and Tennessee Can Enforce Gambling Law Against Kalshi

A unanimous panel has held that Kalshi's sports contracts are not swaps, and that federal commodities law would not shield them from state gambling law even if they were. It is the second federal appeals court in a month to side with the states, leaving Kalshi with one win in three circuits as the Supreme Court weighs whether to take the question.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

CorporateSep 28

IGT Unveils a New Brand at G2E, 15 Months After Apollo Combined It With Everi

The Apollo-owned slot, systems and fintech supplier has replaced what its chief executive calls a "stuffy" corporate identity with one built around a "casino as a service" pitch. It arrives in the same fortnight as a new finance chief hired to sharpen cash flow.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatorySep 28

Florida Gives Google, Meta and TikTok Until 23 October to Stop Sweepstakes Casino Ads

Attorney General James Uthmeier has told five of the largest advertising platforms that promoting sweepstakes casinos to Floridians is a crime, and wants written proof they have stopped. After the operators and their payment processors, Florida has reached the marketing layer.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

GeneralSep 28

NCPG Executive Director Heather Maurer Resigns After Nine Months as Kalshi Exits Mount

The National Council on Problem Gambling has given no reason for Maurer's departure, which follows its director of programs out of the door and four state bodies out of its membership since it took $2 million from Kalshi in May. The board has started its second executive search in 20 months.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

M&ASep 28

GiG Signs a Binding Deal for 80% of 888AFRICA, With €10.3m Due Within 10 Months of Completion

GiG Software has signed a share purchase agreement for evoke's African operator and says the proposed deal will be finalised by 30 September. The signing puts a clock on the deferred payment and, for the first time, numbers on the business GiG is buying.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

M&ASep 28

Gaming1 Buys Carousel's Parent Pac-Man NV, Adding a Scarce Belgian Online Licence

The Liège group has bought 100% of the company behind Carousel.be, its partner since 2012, taking over a B+ online licence and the gaming hall in Harelbeke that Belgian law requires behind it. The price is undisclosed, and the sellers are keeping the 711 brand that grew out of Carousel.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatorySep 28

BGC Takes Its Machine Duty Fight to the Prime Minister's Constituency With "Back Our Betting Shops"

The Betting and Gaming Council has launched a campaign built on shop workers' stories and a poll of Andy Burnham's Makerfield seat, a month before a Budget that may double Machine Games Duty. Its job figures are its own; the think tank behind the proposal says the rise would raise up to £458 million.

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

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

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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

Tengco Wants an Online Gaming Law by 2028 as Century Says It Knew in April Its Partner Lost Its Licences

The Guardian Takes the Casino Secrets Leak to Britain, Naming Santeda, BC.Game and Stake

Kalshi Files a Deposit and Trading Rewards Programme Worth Up to $5,000 a Customer

Sixth Circuit Rules 3-0 That Ohio and Tennessee Can Enforce Gambling Law Against Kalshi

IGT Unveils a New Brand at G2E, 15 Months After Apollo Combined It With Everi

Florida Gives Google, Meta and TikTok Until 23 October to Stop Sweepstakes Casino Ads

NCPG Executive Director Heather Maurer Resigns After Nine Months as Kalshi Exits Mount

GiG Signs a Binding Deal for 80% of 888AFRICA, With €10.3m Due Within 10 Months of Completion

Gaming1 Buys Carousel's Parent Pac-Man NV, Adding a Scarce Belgian Online Licence

BGC Takes Its Machine Duty Fight to the Prime Minister's Constituency With "Back Our Betting Shops"

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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