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A federal judge in Philadelphia gave the scheme's most prolific recruiter 72 months, two months above the bottom of his guideline range, and let him stay free until 1 December. The sentence sets the marker for the players and fixers still to come before the same court.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control has designated Club La Molienda, a horse racetrack on the edge of Nuevo Laredo that Treasury says shared a betting arrangement with Casino Centenario, the casino it accused in April of serving as a drug stash house and a place where the cartel tortured its enemies. It is the second US action in six months to put a Mexican gambling venue on the sanctions list.

The leagues' new campaign with the National Council on Problem Gambling tells fans that trading on a prediction market puts their money at risk just as a sports bet does, weeks after the NBA was reported to be close to its first prediction-market deals. The release names no budget, no creative and no start date.

A Justice Ministry ordinance published on Tuesday writes a Division for the Repression of Illegal Betting and Sports Manipulation into the Federal Police's structure, inside a new money-laundering coordination. It names two posts and no headcount, and the prison terms the government wants are still a bill in Congress.

The Hellenic Gaming Commission wants one identity check for every online player in Greece and a clear view of how operators treat their biggest customers. A bank-run version of the check was halted because no law provides for it, and nothing has yet been formally decided.

Kalshi is reviewing three small trades that backed Katie Zacharia at 1 and 2 cents before Donald Trump named her White House press secretary. The exchange's own trade record shows the fills, and shows the price climbing to 45 cents before the time outlets give for the first reports.

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.

Wyoming's Select Committee on Gaming has voted to back a draft bill that would make running an online sweepstakes casino, or knowingly supplying one with payments, geolocation or game content, a felony. Its definition of sweepstakes currency is wider than California's, but the bill still needs a sponsor the committee may not be able to supply itself.

Interim results from a state-funded University of Nevada, Las Vegas study suggest 7% of Colorado's sports bettors report serious gambling problems, in a year when the state's sports betting tax take rose 28% to $47.2 million. On the reported numbers, the figure rests on about 20 sports bettors in a 500-person sample, and the full method has not been published.

Spain's gambling regulator has put its common risk-detection model back out for comment until 22 October after a data protection review. Once in force, one model trained on clinically diagnosed players would decide who every licensed operator treats as at risk, in place of in-house systems that flag from 0% to 13.6% of accounts.

The State Department's 2026 Trafficking in Persons Report says senior Cambodian officials benefited from and protected scam compounds, that no scam centre trafficker was prosecuted, and that casinos with a documented history of hosting scam centres were licensed in January. It lands as Cambodia sends inspectors into casinos to enforce its online gambling ban.

The Department of Internal Affairs has named the 11 entities that won New Zealand's 15 rights to apply for an online casino licence, at a single price of NZ$15 million each. SkyCity, Stake, TAB New Zealand and companies linked to Super Group and Entain are on the list, but none of them holds a licence yet.

The former Secretary General of the European Gaming and Betting Association is the first Director General of the World Gaming and Betting Alliance, a Swiss association whose listed members are bet365, Entain, FDJ United, Flutter and EGBA itself. The Geneva commercial register shows it was founded on 9 July and already had Haijer as a signatory before EGBA announced he was leaving.

Japan's tourism ministry says the Osaka integrated resort still meets the required standards, but for a third year it finds the demand forecasts have only been checked, not reworked. Those forecasts still promise 20 million visitors a year, while the planned initial investment has risen by 40% since the plan was first filed.

The Irish Presidency's revised negotiating box for the EU's 2028 to 2034 budget lists five new revenue sources, and a levy on online gambling is not among them. Europe's racing bodies, who had asked Dublin days earlier to keep horserace betting out of any such levy, welcomed the omission but warn the idea still has strong support in the European Parliament.

A senior coroner has told the Gambling Commission that people who self-exclude through GamStop can still play National Lottery draws online. The Commission says it needs up to 12 months of discovery before deciding what, if anything, to change.

US states spent about $145 million of the $188 million they allocated to problem gambling services in FY2025, and 48% of funded states spent at least 5% less than their budgets, according to the national association of state administrators. The share has barely moved since FY2023, which makes it a capacity problem rather than a one-off.

Budget 2027 left Ireland's 2% tax on stakes untouched and gave racing €2.9 million more, on condition of welfare and integrity reform. The one new betting measure is a 25% charge on pool betting commissions, written for a market the new regulator is about to open up.

Betfred's group accounts for the 52 weeks to 29 March 2026 show turnover of £995.6m, online at 45% of it, and a machine duty bill larger than its profit after tax. They close three days before remote gaming duty reached 40%, and arrive weeks before a Budget that could double the duty on shop machines.

The Betting and Gaming Council says doubling Machine Games Duty would force some casino operators to consider closing up to a third of their venues, with half the threatened closures in the North of England and Scotland. It publishes no method, and a year ago it put a similar job toll on a far smaller rise.

The president of the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region has switched off the only court order that let a licensed operator trade through Brazil's betting ban, on the ground that one exception undermines a rule meant for everyone. Stake says its site and app have been down again since 10 October.

France's gambling regulator has broken its 2025 online sports betting figures down by sport and found growth built on more matches, a 24-hour live offer and operators steering payouts to the 85% cap. The sharper finding is who bets on the obscure end of the menu: mostly players its own algorithm flags as excessive.

Denmark's liberalised gambling market shrank year on year in August for the first time in 2026, and sports betting accounts for more than the whole fall. The comparison is with an exceptionally strong August for bookmakers last year, and the data cannot say whether Danes staked less or simply lost less.

Police recorded 1,951 gaming-related crimes in Macau between January and September, while casino operators filed 2,968 suspicious transaction reports, both up on a year earlier even as overall crime fell and gaming revenue weakened through the third quarter. Fraud and illegal money exchange drove the rise; the loan-sharking and detention cases of the junket era kept falling.