Stakers Ltd., a Swiss-based gambling operator working under a UK gaming license, has its license suspended by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) this week. It's the third time this year the increasingly aggressive UKGC has taken such an action concerning one of their licensees. Details of the Stakers Ltd. suspension are currently pretty vague and…
Novel coronavirus, aka COVID19, is impacting all aspects of life in China from what people are eating to whether or not they're able to purchase lottery tickets. While Chinese consuers have thus far had ample access to food and other necessities during quarantine periods, they haven't had access to lottery ticket retailers and sales figures…
Should tribal gaming interests have an exclusive lock on sports betting and online gambling in Connecticut? That's a question that Connecticut lawmakers and the Mohegan tribe are hashing out in a battle that's questioned the once unquestionable exclusivity of the Mohegan's gambling domain in the state. At the core of the issue is the question…
Seven months ago, Puerto Rico officially joined the cavalcade of US States and territories that are embracing regulated sports betting as a means of increasing tax revenues to pay for vital services. This week, the island nation put out a request for proposals (RFP) from industry authorities to help them draft rules and regulations for…
The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) is easily one of the busiest governmental agencies in the world when it comes to doling out fines to scofflaw gambling operators. To wit, this week the UKGC handed out a massive £3 million ($3.86 million USD) fine to an operator called Mr. Green for what it described as massive…
How badly did the recent closure of Macau casinos impact the bottom lines of the impacted casinos in Asia's most boombastic gambling hub? According to recent reports, the collective casinos of Macau suffered the worst downturn in enclave's history with gaming revenue falling an astounding 88 percent. While that number is quite shocking to look…
The eternal question of games of skill versus games of chance is the gambling world's equivalent of what came first, the chicken or the egg? It' a question that's challenged in almost every market in some way or another. That includes everything from innocent claw games (which were recently banned in Thailand) to online poker,…
Regulated sports betting in the United States is an increasingly attractive option for state governments that are looking to boost their tax revenues. That idea seems to be working in places like New Jersey, but that's definitely not the case in Oregon. For the fiscal year ending June 30 Scoreboard, the state's regulated sports betting…
Billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson does not like online poker; he does not like online slots; and he does not like mobile sports betting. Adelson has long been of the belief that online gambling will somehow siphon business from his lan-based casinos and the very idea of regulated online gambling in the United States keeps…
Anti-gambling activists have had a tremendous amount of success in the past few years in getting governments to clamp down on gambling operators. In the UK, the maximum stakes on fixed-odds betting terminals have been cut 98 percent; in Spain, operators can only advertise between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m., but these were just the…
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