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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 21

Delta Corp Posts Second Straight Quarterly Loss as GST Provision Reaches $46.7 Million

India's listed casino operator has now provided ₹4.44 billion for historical GST, a fraction of the ₹168 billion first demanded in 2023, and this quarter's charge covers demands it says it has strong grounds to contest. Casino revenue fell 13.4% in a quarter without King Casino and the Sikkim property.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 21

Gambling Commission Will Not Be Distracted From Financial Risk Assessments, Gardner Tells Regulators in Lima

Speaking to the world's gambling regulators in Peru, the Commission's acting chief executive answered critics of affordability checks and of her own survey data in unusually blunt terms. On the illegal market, the money has arrived but the new court powers have not.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Sports BettingOct 21

PointsBet Agrees Two-Day Ontario Suspension Over Unreported Jontay Porter Bets, Down From Five

Ontario's regulator has settled the first suspension it has sought against a licensed igaming operator, cutting five days to two and adding an independent audit. It has not said why the penalty shrank, when the site goes dark, or whether any money changes hands.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Prediction MarketsOct 21

Polymarket Sues Ohio Under the Commerce Clause, Calling Its Sports Gaming Licences Protectionist

Polymarket's US exchange went to federal court in Columbus on the day Ohio's cease-and-desist deadline expired, leading with a constitutional claim the Sixth Circuit has not decided. Governor Mike DeWine says the state will now file suits of its own.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Sports BettingOct 21

Turkish FA Bans 147 Club Officials for 45 Days Over Betting and Clears the Other 301

The disciplinary board gave every club official it found in breach the same sanction, the shortest the betting rule allows once its full discretionary discount is applied, and cleared two in three of those referred without published reasons. After referees and players, the boardroom phase of Turkish football's betting purge has drawn the lightest penalties of the three.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 21

Northern Ireland's Land-Based Gambling Turnover Rose 27% to £206.9m in 2024, Still 73% Below 2016

The Department for Communities' fourth annual gambling compendium shows turnover recovering on a revised series, betting office licences falling for a second year and the first count of machines under the new £500 prize limit. Its biggest number, a record £89 million in duty, is a modelled share of a UK tax.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 21

ANJ-Funded Study Finds 39% of French Teenagers Play Gambling-Style Games but Cannot Prove a Gateway

A survey of 5,000 French 15 to 17-year-olds funded by the Autorité Nationale des Jeux finds that teenagers who play both gambling-style video games and real-money games score far worse on problem gambling than those who only gamble. It shows an association and a sequence, not a cause, and its authors say so.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 21

L & L Europe Pays £900,000 After the Gambling Commission Finds Its One-Withdrawal-at-a-Time Rule Unfair

The operator of allbritishcasino.com and six other British-facing sites let customers request only one withdrawal at a time and held back every fifth or tenth withdrawal for some customers for manual review, the regulator found. The Commission is presenting the case as a warning that fairness breaches will be enforced as firmly as money laundering and harm failures.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 21

Spain Opens Its Player Portal and Starts Testing a €700-a-Day Deposit Limit Across Every Online Operator

Spain's consumer affairs ministry has switched on a regulator-run system that will add up each player's deposits across all licensed online operators and stop them at €700 a day, €1,750 a week and €3,300 over four weeks, plus a portal that shows players their whole market footprint. The limit binds from March 2027, and players can lift it themselves after three working days.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 21

New Jersey Makes 10 Problem-Gambling Triggers Mandatory for Online Operators, and Softens the Draft

New Jersey has written into regulation the automated triggers, three-phase interventions and account closures its online operators have run under regulator guidance since 2023. The rule is now enforceable, but on marketing to at-risk players it is narrower than the version proposed a year ago.

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

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

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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

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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

Delta Corp Posts Second Straight Quarterly Loss as GST Provision Reaches $46.7 Million

Gambling Commission Will Not Be Distracted From Financial Risk Assessments, Gardner Tells Regulators in Lima

PointsBet Agrees Two-Day Ontario Suspension Over Unreported Jontay Porter Bets, Down From Five

Polymarket Sues Ohio Under the Commerce Clause, Calling Its Sports Gaming Licences Protectionist

Turkish FA Bans 147 Club Officials for 45 Days Over Betting and Clears the Other 301

Northern Ireland's Land-Based Gambling Turnover Rose 27% to £206.9m in 2024, Still 73% Below 2016

ANJ-Funded Study Finds 39% of French Teenagers Play Gambling-Style Games but Cannot Prove a Gateway

L & L Europe Pays £900,000 After the Gambling Commission Finds Its One-Withdrawal-at-a-Time Rule Unfair

Spain Opens Its Player Portal and Starts Testing a €700-a-Day Deposit Limit Across Every Online Operator

New Jersey Makes 10 Problem-Gambling Triggers Mandatory for Online Operators, and Softens the Draft

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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