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Ontario and Alberta, the only two provinces with open markets, will argue alongside Flutter, GGPoker's parent and the Canadian Gaming Association that pooling poker and fantasy players with other jurisdictions is lawful under the Criminal Code. Four Crown lottery corporations say it is Ontario conducting gaming outside Ontario. Every other province's monopoly turns on the answer.

Around 300 of the roles are in Stoke-on-Trent, where bet365 is the biggest private employer, and 40 across Gibraltar and Malta. Voluntary redundancies come first. Every one of the five largest British gambling firms has now cut staff since remote gaming duty rose 19 points.

Flutter has put a number on the retail review it declined to quantify in August. Up to 100 of 506 shops go before the end of the year, with about 400 jobs at risk, and the company names the Budget.

Federal prosecutors allege a Curaçao shell company was used to make a Brazilian betting operation look offshore before regulation arrived, and that the structures behind it were adapted rather than abandoned once it did. NSX Brasil says it operates lawfully.

A Schedule 13G filed on 7 August puts the billionaire behind 28,581,386 DraftKings shares. He already controls more than a quarter of Flutter, and his vehicle Candle Lake has an unsolicited bid on the table for Evolution. One investor now sits across both halves of the US duopoly.

France's state-controlled horseracing monopoly PMU has signed a technology agreement with BetMakers to extend its pool and fixed-odds betting services internationally, a deal that arrives as BetMakers completes its AU$267m acquisition by Tabcorp and builds out a growing roster of global operator partnerships.