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The Dirección General de Juegos de Azar has used its first two resolutions to stop new betting shops opening and to give operators one month to own up to the ones they opened outside the rules. Declaring a shop buys no licence, and the list goes to the tax authority.

PointsBet Holdings says tighter compliance cost it turnover from its highest-value Australian customers, and AFL results went against it as it chased mass-market sports bettors. The six-month loss it now expects is many times the one it reported for the nine months before, and Alberta, the growth market it is counting on, is still not live.

GiG Software says PowerPlay is its fourth brand live in Alberta and the first to run its SportX sportsbook in the province. In May, PowerPlay said its 13 July launch date was "locked"; its arrival was reported on 1 October, and neither company has said what held it up.

Finance Minister Magín Díaz has sworn in the administrator of the National Lottery to run the Dirección General de Juegos de Azar until it is built. He keeps both his existing posts, although the law that created the regulator bars its director general from holding any other public office.

The State Police's third notice closes the route Pace-O-Matic says it will take, disabling terminals rather than removing them, and puts bars' liquor licences on the line. None of the six skill game bills has left committee.

Pennsylvania's regulator took almost 9,700 new self-exclusion enrolments in the year to June, more than in any year it has reported, and the monthly figure beat the year before in every month. The same week's reports show the state's casinos ended the year with 598 fewer staff as play kept moving online.

Costa Rica's Ministry of Finance says every casino it inspected in late September sold gaming chips without issuing electronic receipts, and some declared zero profit or zero VAT. The sanctions, worth about $780,000, test a casino tax regime built on counting tables in a country that still has no licensing framework for online gambling.

Messages taken from the jailed banker's phone by the Federal Police show Banco Master's legal director telling Daniel Vorcaro he "cannot appear" after the Finance Ministry asked who stood behind a fund that owned part of Bet.Bet, Valor Econômico reports. A dispatcher from Minas Gerais was later named instead.

The Department of Internal Affairs opened bidding on 29 September for the right to apply for one of up to 15 online casino licences, with a reserve price it will never disclose and no idea, it says, of what the auction will raise. Alongside it, a draft testing regime spells out what the winners will have to prove about their games and platforms.

The Mecca and Grosvenor owner says a doubling would shut about a third of its estate and hit around 2,000 staff. Its own accounts suggest the arithmetic is real: on a rough estimate, the rise on Mecca's machines alone would exceed what its bingo clubs earn. The new gambling minister, touring one of its casinos this week, has so far spoken about bingo licensing rather than tax.

PAGCOR's chairman wants the online market written into statute before his term ends, so that it "will not easily be scrapped". A Hong Kong-listed newcomer has meanwhile shown how much of that market still rests on the regulator's accreditations, and how quickly they can go.

Bookmakers are not licensed in Uruguay, so when a visiting Brazilian side plays in Montevideo with a betting sponsor on its shirt, the state fines CONMEBOL, CONMEBOL passes it to the AUF, and the AUF passes it to the home club. With the Copa Libertadores final at the Centenario on 28 November, President Orsi calls that "a kind of absurdity". He also says the law will not change.

The ANJL has sent Romeu Zema, the Novo party's candidate whose campaign wants betting abolished outright, an extrajudicial notice demanding a public correction of "false" statements about the regulated market, under threat of a damages claim. It is the association's second notification this week and its third target this year.