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The Gaming Supervisory Authority opened an account, funded it and bet on sports results, then took the evidence to the Vilnius Regional Administrative Court. Internet providers must block the site and payment firms must stop dealing with Adventure One QSS. It is the first prediction market Lithuania has treated as an unlicensed bookmaker, and the 2,204th site it has blocked.

The Ohio Casino Control Commission's June resignation letter surfaced at a Massachusetts Gaming Commission meeting last week, where commissioners decided to stay "for now". The national problem-gambling body says taking Kalshi's money is not an endorsement. Three state bodies have decided it is.

A University of Toronto and ICES study of 14 years of hospital records finds visits 154% above the expected level among males aged 10 to 29 and 116% above among men aged 30 to 44, with no change in females. The authors call it a caution for Alberta and every province considering private online operators.

The Protect College Sports Act cleared cloture 74-24 the same afternoon the CLARITY Act died. Buried in the committee-reported text is a line that lets conferences bench a student athlete for "sports wagering activities or sports-related event contracts", the first federal bill we have seen headed for a floor vote that puts the two in the same sentence.

Preston Banks says he spent three years tracking an "Argentina Scheme" of up to 150 patrons on unverified funds, that executives called the behaviour "cultural", and that he was dismissed 27 days after his final report while the casino banned 28 of the patrons and chased $12 million in unpaid credit. Resorts World calls the suit frivolous.

Two days after calling betting "a disease", the president told a podcast there is "no good bet and bad bet" and that his campaign is weighing measures before the election. The licensed operators' association says the cases he cites predate regulation, and warns of a "paradox" in which a ban pushes the vulnerable into the illegal market.

Cambodia's prime minister says some licensed casinos "operate from a single shophouse" and contribute little to the economy. The order lands as the regulator drafts renewal criteria and a month before the October deadline to close the online loopholes it found in 195 inspections, 72 of which ended in closure.

Fourteen months after the "Big Beautiful Bill" cut deductible losses to 90%, the Ways and Means Committee has attached the fix to a crypto tax bill and sent it to the floor. It still needs the House, the Senate and the President before 1 January, and the House is about to leave town.

A second unanimous panel in three weeks has ruled against the exchange, this time for two California tribes under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. The court held that IGRA and the Commodity Exchange Act "simply address two different questions", and sent the case back for an injunction. Lawyers on the tribal side are already talking about geofencing reservations.

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.

A consumer-protection body in Espírito Santo has served nine celebrities with a 58-page recommendation to reassess their bookmaker deals, citing a R$38.8 billion social cost and a survey in which 57% said celebrities influenced them to bet. It declares nothing illegal, and says that is the point.

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.

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.

Judge Lorna Schofield heard the commission argue that the Commodity Exchange Act pre-empts New York's $3.4 billion gambling case against Coinbase and Gemini, and pressed its lawyers on why she should enjoin the state when other federal courts have declined to. She did not rule from the bench.

The ANJL wants the platforms to run a permanent programme to find, remove, de-index and block the influencers who funnel Brazilians to unlicensed betting sites, and to stop the accounts coming back under new names. It puts the illegal market at 38% to 44%.

Richard Harris says the group's best growth lever is converting venue players to digital, that the new MyMecca app has lifted sign-ups, and that a UK market "unlikely to provide tax tailwinds" rewards small targeted projects over big ones. On the day Entain cut 400 jobs, that is a different way of reading the same Budget.

A roundtable on the International Day of Democracy concluded that protecting the "European lottery model" is a matter of civil society, not sectoral interest. The figure is from March; the framing is new, and it is aimed at the institutions that decide what the model is allowed to be.

The affiliate that made it said the man was not real, so he had no age. The ASA said his "casual and youthful presentation" was the point. On the same day it cleared White Hat Gaming's casino ads on an esports site because nothing showed its audience was more than 25% children.

The regulator asked players what "informed choice" means to them and found a gap between information being present and consumers feeling informed. The proposed definition puts rules, mechanics and risks on equal footing with promotions, and gives operators a duty that runs through play, not just before it.

A state that bans sports betting and casinos spent Tuesday studying "the sudden inundation of prediction market gambling". The casino lobby told senators to sue in state court; Kalshi told them a ban would send Texans offshore. The session that could act on it opens on 12 January.

Bondholders tendered 68% of the lottery group's 2028 notes and Brightstar will pay for them with a new €500 million issue priced last week at more than double the coupon. The €1.4 billion Italy Lotto instalment is why the balance sheet needed the room.

The Ladbrokes owner says up to a fifth of its 2,000 customer care roles could go, weeks after an H1 that beat expectations and days after its chief executive wrote to the Prime Minister about machine games duty. The cuts are global; the argument is aimed at 28 October.

The NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL and MLS and their players' unions have sent a joint memo to state gaming regulators asking for mandatory lifetime exclusions, a shared list and a single reporting channel. Five states already do something like it. The memo does not reach the bettors on prediction markets.

Eighteen months after its management bought it out of Endeavor, OpenBet is adding a Hungarian supplier that has served World Lottery Association members for over a decade. No price, no customer names and no headcount were disclosed.