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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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Prediction MarketsOct 18

CFTC's Sportsbook Carve-Out Takes Effect on 19 October as the Clock Starts on Event Contracts

The Federal Register publishes the CFTC's two swap rules on Monday: the exclusion for licensed sportsbooks and casinos is in force that day, and the proposal to define event contracts as swaps opens for comment until 18 November. The rule text says the first changes no one's legal rights, and the second is not yet law.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

CorporateOct 16

GKL Chief Tells Lawmakers Osaka Resort Could Cut Its Revenue by 5% to 10%

Grand Korea Leisure's president put a number on the Osaka threat at the National Assembly this week, then corrected it: about a quarter of its Japanese revenue, or 5% to 10% of the total. An industry study presented the same day put the hit to Korea's foreigner-only casinos far higher.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 16

Brazil's Betting Ban Draws 99 Amendments, Several Rewriting It to Restore the Licences

Congress's record shows 99 amendments to Provisional Measure 1.394 when filing closed on 13 October, 94 of them still live. The most ambitious would not soften the ban but replace it, reviving the extinguished licences under a stricter rulebook, and the committee that must weigh them has no chair or rapporteur nine days before the licences lapse.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

CorporateOct 16

Universal Entertainment Colombo Quits Port City's Casino Resort Plot as Five of 10 Projects Fall Away

A casino applicant that studied the 10-hectare integrated resort plot at Colombo Port City has walked away during due diligence, officials told Sri Lanka's Parliament. Nobody has yet shown who stood behind it, and the casino rules any successor would need are still not in place.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 16

Macau's Prosecutor Calls for Law Change as Illegal Money Exchange Inquiries Rise 20.2% to 493

Macau's Prosecutor General says the offence created in 2024 to drive money changers from the casinos is hard to prove, because police often catch a suspect on what can be shown only as a first exchange. He wants objective criteria or a legal presumption, a fix that would make convictions easier and the defence harder.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 16

Skill Game Vendor Republic Amusements to Lay Off 81 as Pennsylvania Ban Takes Effect

A Camp Hill skill game vendor, whose subsidiary shares its name with a party to the case the Supreme Court decided in June, is cutting 81 jobs now that the machines are illegal. Its chief operating officer blames lawmakers, and Governor Josh Shapiro's push for "tax parity" with casinos.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Sports BettingOct 16

ITIA Bans Serbian Tennis Player for 24 Years After Match-Fixing Charges Go Unanswered

The International Tennis Integrity Agency has suspended Stefan Milićević until 2050 for fixing matches and recruiting other players into a corrupt network. No hearing was held: the player did not respond to the charges, so the sanction the agency proposed took effect by default.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 16

Oklahoma's Sweepstakes Casino Ban Takes Effect on 1 November With Felony Exposure for Suppliers

Oklahoma's ban on dual-currency sweepstakes casinos takes effect in a fortnight, after lawmakers overrode Governor Kevin Stitt's veto with no votes to spare in the House. The fine is small; the felony reaches suppliers and media affiliates as well as operators, and tribal gaming is carved out.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

CorporateOct 16

FanDuel Merger Defendants Ordered to Submit Withheld Legal Advice for Review

The former FanDuel shareholders suing KKR, Shamrock and FanDuel's old board over the 2018 Paddy Power Betfair merger have won a route into legal advice the defendants withheld as privileged. The order decides nothing about the merits, but it reaches the documents most likely to show how a $465.5 million valuation was set.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 16

Ninety Labour MPs Ask Healey for a Higher Machine Games Duty Rate on Category B Machines

Twelve days before the Budget, Halesowen MP Alex Ballinger and 89 Labour colleagues have asked the Chancellor for a new, higher duty rate on the Category B machines in adult gaming centres, betting shops and casinos. The letter cites a 40% rate without asking for one, and the industry says any rise would close venues and "kill the British seaside".

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

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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

CFTC's Sportsbook Carve-Out Takes Effect on 19 October as the Clock Starts on Event Contracts

GKL Chief Tells Lawmakers Osaka Resort Could Cut Its Revenue by 5% to 10%

Brazil's Betting Ban Draws 99 Amendments, Several Rewriting It to Restore the Licences

Universal Entertainment Colombo Quits Port City's Casino Resort Plot as Five of 10 Projects Fall Away

Macau's Prosecutor Calls for Law Change as Illegal Money Exchange Inquiries Rise 20.2% to 493

Skill Game Vendor Republic Amusements to Lay Off 81 as Pennsylvania Ban Takes Effect

ITIA Bans Serbian Tennis Player for 24 Years After Match-Fixing Charges Go Unanswered

Oklahoma's Sweepstakes Casino Ban Takes Effect on 1 November With Felony Exposure for Suppliers

FanDuel Merger Defendants Ordered to Submit Withheld Legal Advice for Review

Ninety Labour MPs Ask Healey for a Higher Machine Games Duty Rate on Category B Machines

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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