The Sky Ute Casino Resort made history this week as the first tribal gaming concern to enter the US sports betting market. It's a huge achievement that, hopefully, will get a boost from the increasing number of professional sporting events for players to actually wager on. Located in Ignacio, Colorado, in the southern part of…
When the world went into quarantine during the spring of 2020, one of the big concerns for European governments was the impact lockdown would have on their citizen with gambling problems. Would chronic gamblers lose their minds and shirts while stuck at home? Would gambling operators see them as easy prey? Most European governments weren't…
French online gambling operators were something of an anomaly during the recent COVID-19 lockdown. In fact, they might have even transcended into the category of unicorn. They were, in fact, some of the only businesses on the planet that actually saw revenue gains as their countrymen hunkered down in quarantine. According to a report on…
The glittering casinos of the Las Vegas Strip are (mostly) open for the first time in 78 days. The latest incarnation is one where masks are encouraged, temperatures are taken, and the crowds are sparse. But that appears to be the new reality for the forseeable future as the casino industry attempts to make some…
Bet365 has symbolically end an era of sports betting this week when it shut down its telephone betting services in the UK, according to a report on the Racing Post. It's a legacy service that, frankly, has been lucky to hang on this long. Regardless, many a punter will likely have a few fond memories…
Online poker is a game in which even a very small advantage can propel a player far beyond his or her opponents. That's why Canadian poker player Elisabetta Bertucci alleges a technical glitch in the poker software offered by Loto-Quebec, was particularly egregious and offered some players a significant advantage over others. Bertucci believes that…
GVC Holdings recently came out 1-1 in battles against UK ad regulators regarding the content of some of their advertisements. The stories of these two fights speak volumes about the power anti-gambling forces have over government regulators, as well as the lengths gambling operators must go to to defend some pretty innocuous content. In the…
The world of online casinos is a lot more like your sophomore year of high school than most folks in the industry would care to admit. That's partially because an operator's perceived credibility is also often linked to its popularity among consumers. So it was that the Kindred Group's Maria Casino was recently taken to…
UK gambling revenue from October 2018 to September 2019 dipped down over previous years due to a crackdown on wager sizes and the shuttering of retail shops. This downward trend was so significant that real growth in the online sector failed to help offset the losses. Sadly, this period of downward growth will likely be…
During times of fiscal crisis, governments of all kinds look to regulated vice, like sports betting, to help fill in those budgetary gaps. That's exactly what lawmakers in California had in mind last week when they introduced a new sports betting bill aimed at helping the state dig itself out of a COVID-19 induced monetary…
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