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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

Latest News

CorporateOct 21

Flutter Puts Up to 1,400 UK and Ireland Jobs at Risk and Blames the 40% Remote Gaming Duty

Paddy Power's owner expects up to 1,400 redundancies from a restructure of its UK and Ireland business, eight days before a Budget that could raise machine duty. The tax set the size and the timing; the shape looks like the cost programme Flutter was already running.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

M&AOct 21

SkyCity Opens Its Books to Bidders for the Whole Group After Capping Its Online Bet at Two Licences

SkyCity Entertainment Group will give interested parties due diligence information on the entire business, though its chair told shareholders that no new or improved proposal has arrived since the two it rejected. The same morning its chief executive said it bid for two online casino licences rather than three to stay within its return targets.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Prediction MarketsOct 21

Utah Sues Kalshi and Market Maker Susquehanna in State Court, Casting Liquidity Providers as the House

Utah's Attorney General has sued five Kalshi companies and two Susquehanna firms in Salt Lake County, alleging that the market makers taking the other side of retail trades are gamblers and bookmakers under Utah law. A gaming lawyer calls it the first state enforcement action aimed at a prediction market's liquidity providers.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 20

Chile's Betting Bill Draws Two Amendments to Ban Private Operators as the Government Misses Its Deadline

The Senate president and the chair of the committee handling Chile's online betting bill have each filed a replacement text that would outlaw private platforms rather than license them. The government filed nothing by the 16 October deadline and now has until 26 October; nothing has been voted.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

M&AOct 20

Raketech Settles Its €20.3 Million Casumba Earnout for €8.2 Million, and Its Shares Jump 62%

The Stockholm-listed affiliate will pay the sellers of a Japan-focused business it bought for €2.0 million in 2019 about 40% of what it still owed them, mostly with a Bank of Valletta loan. Before the news the market valued the whole company at about a quarter of the old bill; the deal still waits on the bank.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 20

iGaming Ontario Shelved a Problem Gambling Study After Rates Came in Higher Than Expected, Star Reports

The Crown agency that runs Ontario's online market kept a prevalence study it had promised to publish confidential once the baseline came back worse than expected, according to records obtained by the Toronto Star. A privacy commissioner's order shows how hard even the redacted records were to prise out.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Prediction MarketsOct 20

Crypto.com and Novig Sue Missouri as Hanaway's 30-Day Deadline Runs Out

Two of the six prediction market operators Missouri ordered to stop offering sports event contracts went to federal court on Friday rather than comply. Both cases sit in the Eighth Circuit, which has yet to decide the question that has already split three other appeals courts.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 20

Curaçao's Regulator Calls Its Portal Breach Criminal Conduct, but Its Own Timeline Shows Nine Months Undetected

The Curaçao Gaming Authority has set out its fullest account yet of the breach of its licensing portal, blaming a German researcher and weighing civil action. The same document dates the unlawful access from December 2025 to September 2026, and says nothing about what was taken or who has been told.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 19

ACMA Sets No Follower Threshold for Australia's Ban on Notable People in Betting Ads

Australia's media regulator has published its first guidance on the ban on athletes, celebrities, influencers and prominent individuals in wagering advertising, and it draws the line wide: there is no follower count, no time limit on "former", and the legal risk sits entirely with the bookmaker. The rules start on 1 January 2027.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 19

Trinidad and Tobago's Senate Votes to Raise the Gambling Age to 25, Online Play Included

The Senate has passed a bill that would make it an offence for anyone under 25 to gamble "by any method, electronic or otherwise", in a country that is about to license online gambling for the first time. The House still has to agree the Senate's amendments, and no start date has been set.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Flutter Puts Up to 1,400 UK and Ireland Jobs at Risk and Blames the 40% Remote Gaming Duty

SkyCity Opens Its Books to Bidders for the Whole Group After Capping Its Online Bet at Two Licences

Utah Sues Kalshi and Market Maker Susquehanna in State Court, Casting Liquidity Providers as the House

Chile's Betting Bill Draws Two Amendments to Ban Private Operators as the Government Misses Its Deadline

Raketech Settles Its €20.3 Million Casumba Earnout for €8.2 Million, and Its Shares Jump 62%

iGaming Ontario Shelved a Problem Gambling Study After Rates Came in Higher Than Expected, Star Reports

Crypto.com and Novig Sue Missouri as Hanaway's 30-Day Deadline Runs Out

Curaçao's Regulator Calls Its Portal Breach Criminal Conduct, but Its Own Timeline Shows Nine Months Undetected

ACMA Sets No Follower Threshold for Australia's Ban on Notable People in Betting Ads

Trinidad and Tobago's Senate Votes to Raise the Gambling Age to 25, Online Play Included

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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