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Rush Street Interactive grew third-quarter revenue 39%, but North American revenue rose only 14% and October trends point to the low end of its guidance. Management is pinning its hopes on new online casino states.

Lower room rates cut MGM Resorts' Las Vegas Strip earnings by 12% in the third quarter, while MGM China posted record revenue and a record share of Macau. With the People Inc. bid gone, management turned to buybacks and to roughly $1 billion a year of spending on MGM Osaka in 2027 and 2028.

Barry Diller's People Inc., MGM Resorts' largest shareholder, has agreed to stop buying at 29.9% and to back MGM's board on any sale that meets four conditions. MGM stays free to buy back stock even if that lifts People past the cap.

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.

Alberta's window for grey-market operators to move into the regulated market closed on 13 October, and published counts of who made it range from 29 to 51. The regulator registers companies, the Crown corporation approves sites, and the two official lists do not match.

Entain's British online business grew 14% under the new 40% gaming duty, while customer-friendly football results and a Brazilian unit that shrank by more than a third before the ban held the group to 2%. Guidance survives with profit pinned to the bottom of the range, and the chief executive used the update to lobby the government before the Budget.

The Federal Trade Commission has begun an early-stage review of online sportsbooks such as FanDuel and DraftKings, The Washington Sun reported, citing three sources. Nothing is on the record yet: DraftKings says it has had no civil investigative demand and the agency declined to comment.

BetMGM's third quarter was its joint-best for adjusted EBITDA on the figures it has published since 2025, against a weak comparison a year earlier. It still expects 2026 to land at the bottom of guidance that has already been cut once, which needs a fourth quarter bigger than any it has reported.

The senator whose name is on the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act and the CFTC chairman who implemented it have told the Supreme Court that Congress never moved sports betting from the states to the commodities regulator. The American Gaming Association, 145 tribes and tribal groups and Atlantic City's casinos filed too, and there is still nothing on the docket for Kalshi.

DraftKings and FanDuel gave $3.5 million each in the latest reporting period, taking Tax Relief Nebraska's fundraising to $14.65 million for two online sports betting measures on the 3 November ballot. The committee registered to oppose them had reported nothing raised or spent by the same date, on Ballotpedia's count.

Pennsylvania's gaming regulator approved two consent agreements over paperwork failures, one against a casino group that was the subject of a takeover bid until yesterday. It also added ten people to its exclusion lists, including a gambler who left a five-year-old alone in a casino garage.

People Inc. has walked away from its June proposal to take MGM Resorts private, and MGM shares fell 8.6% after hours to $34.61, far below the $48.30 that was on the table. Diller keeps his roughly 27% stake and says he is still open to "a range of alternatives".

Encore Boston Harbor produced $62.8 million of the three casinos' revenue, up from $95.7 million in July across the state, and the seven mobile books plus three retail counters generated just over $47 million of taxable sports revenue. DraftKings settled $275.1 million of it, nearly twice FanDuel, in the last full month before the NFL.

The Indian Gaming Association chair told Gaming America that more tribal lawsuits are coming after the Ninth Circuit, that DraftKings' tribal partnerships in Connecticut, Arizona and Washington are at risk over its prediction-market push, and that the Supreme Court will rule against Kalshi. CNIGA's James Siva: "We're keeping track."

New Alabama filings show the Chumba Casino owner gave the Republican governor candidate a further $100,000 on 31 August, $170,000 to a PAC funded by DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM and the Poarch Band, and $10,000 to $20,000 apiece to six state senators, 36 contributions in five months in a state with no lottery and no regulated online gambling.

Eilers & Krejcik's first combined forecast credits sportsbooks with $31.7 billion and the exchanges with an $8.4 billion "handle analog", a translation of exchange volume into sportsbook terms that it has not published. The AGA sees sportsbooks flat at $29.5 billion; Week 1 data suggests the exchange share may be larger.

New Jersey's total gaming revenue fell 4.1% to $615.7m as eight of nine casino floors lost ground and a late football calendar cut sports betting revenue to $61.4m. Online casino rose 4.4% to $259.3m but came off July's record, and for a second month the floor out-earned the internet. The summer as a whole was the resort's best in ten years.

An Instagram ad showed the Bayern Munich defender's father arrested over a vault of cash, cleared, and then urging viewers to play the same casino, with an AI Drake for good measure. The link went to a Comoros-licensed site two months after Alberta opened a regulated market that bans athletes from casino ads altogether.

LeoVegas Group has brought its proprietary Tiger sportsbook to the United Kingdom, deploying it simultaneously across three brands in one of the world's most competitive regulated betting markets. The move completes the platform's rollout through Denmark, Brazil and Sweden and marks the group's most consequential statement yet of intent to own its own technology stack.

The BetRivers operator lifted second-quarter revenue 46% to a record $393.8 million and raised its full-year guidance, as an online-casino-led approach and a 58% jump in active users drove record profit.

Kalshi, Polymarket and Robinhood's Rothera took roughly 27% of all legal US sports-betting volume during the tournament, up from about 9% in January, according to H2 Gambling Capital. Kalshi drew more daily app users than either DraftKings or FanDuel.

Kalshi, Polymarket and Robinhood's new Rothera venue combined for more than $50 billion in trading volume in June, dwarfing the handle traditional US sportsbooks are projected to take across the entire World Cup. The tournament has become the clearest evidence yet that event contracts are competing with regulated betting, not sitting beside it.

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Chicago's 10.25% sports betting tax has taken effect after operators withdrew an injunction request, though a constitutional challenge remains active while state lawmakers propose bills to preempt the city's levy.