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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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RegulatoryOct 22

Ireland's Bookmakers File 163 Notices for In-Person Licences Six Weeks Before the 1 December Switch

Ireland's gambling regulator has now published 235 notices of intent to apply for a licence, and most of the recent ones come from racecourse and high-street bookmakers whose Revenue licences expire on 30 November. Its own register shows how far it still has to go: one in-person betting licence issued so far.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 22

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Launch a Problem Gambling Caucus as a Bill to Cap Online Deposits Is Filed

Four legislators from both parties have formed what local broadcasters call Pennsylvania's first caucus on problem gambling, promising "common-sense guardrails" for online betting. Two of them co-sponsor a bill, filed the same day, that would limit players to two deposits a day and ban microbets.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 22

Latvia's Bill to Raise the Gambling Age to 21 Heads for a First Reading Two Years After It Was Filed

The Saeima's budget committee has sent the government's gambling bill, which would raise the minimum age to 21, shut venues from 6am to 9am and cap online play at 21 hours a day, to a first reading. No date is set, the outgoing parliament's mandate ends on 3 November, and the committee's chair concedes the text is out of date.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

CorporateOct 22

New York Casino Revenue Rises 220% to $184.3m as Resorts World NYC Joins the Count and Upstate Stays Flat

New York's commercial casinos took $184.3 million in September, more than three times a year earlier, but almost all of the rise is Resorts World New York City moving from the video lottery reports into the casino ones. On a like-for-like basis the Queens property grew about 63%, and the four upstate casinos were flat.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Press ReleaseOct 22

Barcelona to Host the MOVE Cup, a New Elite Chess Tournament, With Magnus Carlsen First in the Line-Up

Launched together with the MOVE Foundation and powered by BETBY, the MOVE Cup will bring eight of the world's top grandmasters to Barcelona from 18 to 20 January 2027, during ICE Barcelona week. Its €300,000 prize fund will be matched by the same amount for charity.

Press release

2 min read

CorporateOct 22

Brightstar Extends Its Central System Contract With Spain's ONCE but Discloses No Term or Value

Brightstar Lottery has renewed the technology contract behind the lottery of Spain's national organisation of the blind, a relationship that dates back to 2002. The release calls it multi-year and stops there: no end date, no value, and a scope limited to software and the central system.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

Sports BettingOct 22

Wilf Walsh Resigns as Racecourse Association Chair With Racing's Funding Fights Unresolved

The former Coral managing director will leave the racecourses' trade body on 31 December, ten days after it replaced him on the British Horseracing Authority board. No reason was given and no successor named, six days before a Budget that could raise machine games duty.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

RegulatoryOct 22

Peru Consults on Online Betting Rule Changes With Lower Fine Caps and Stricter Ad Warnings

Peru's tourism and trade ministry has published draft amendments to the regulations behind its licensed online gambling market, with 15 days for comment. It would spell out detailed advertising rules, but also cut the maximum fine for the most serious breaches from 200 to 70 tax units.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Sports BettingOct 22

Bristol Study Finds Premier League Shirt Ban Moved Gambling Logos to Sleeves and Training Kits

The first opening weekend without gambling brands on the front of Premier League shirts still carried 11,205 gambling messages across seven live matches, according to the University of Bristol's fourth annual count. Shirt-front logos all but vanished, sleeve and training kit branding rose 362.7% on the three-year average, and pitchside boards held steady or grew.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 22

KSA Fines EOD Code a Record €37.25m for Illegal Play on Instantcasino, Skyhills and 10 Other Sites

The Dutch regulator worked out a fine of €292.6 million from search data, then had to cut it to €37.25 million because the law caps penalties at 10% of worldwide turnover. The operator ignored a penalty order, left €840,000 in penalty payments unpaid and never answered the regulator.

Antonina Tupikova

3 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

Ireland's Bookmakers File 163 Notices for In-Person Licences Six Weeks Before the 1 December Switch

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Launch a Problem Gambling Caucus as a Bill to Cap Online Deposits Is Filed

Latvia's Bill to Raise the Gambling Age to 21 Heads for a First Reading Two Years After It Was Filed

New York Casino Revenue Rises 220% to $184.3m as Resorts World NYC Joins the Count and Upstate Stays Flat

Barcelona to Host the MOVE Cup, a New Elite Chess Tournament, With Magnus Carlsen First in the Line-Up

Brightstar Extends Its Central System Contract With Spain's ONCE but Discloses No Term or Value

Wilf Walsh Resigns as Racecourse Association Chair With Racing's Funding Fights Unresolved

Peru Consults on Online Betting Rule Changes With Lower Fine Caps and Stricter Ad Warnings

Bristol Study Finds Premier League Shirt Ban Moved Gambling Logos to Sleeves and Training Kits

KSA Fines EOD Code a Record €37.25m for Illegal Play on Instantcasino, Skyhills and 10 Other Sites

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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