Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is once again threatening his country's online gambling industry. In a speech delivered earlier this week, the authoritarian leader threatened to "suppress" online gambling throughout the country due to its connections to criminal activities, such as kidnapping. Duterte's threats were not followed by any specific policy actions and were later softened…
West Virginia's first month of regulated sports betting was something of a success with two bookmakers accounting for $7.5 million in wagers. The big numbers came in the wake of months of controversy and held a few surprises for those watching the emerging US sports betting vertical. Of that $7.5 million, $7.07 million was taken…
When the executives at William Hill US entered the nascent regulated American sports betting market they must have assumed that they would, eventually, wind up in a courtroom for one reason or another - that's just the nature of the business. What they likely weren't predicting was that they would be suing their American rival,…
For most gaming companies, protecting gambling addicts from accessing and/or abusing their products is a very important aspect of their business. Ethical gaming operators are pretty scrupulous when it comes to enforcing rules like self-exclusion but even the most scrupulous companies still run afoul of civil law when it comes to this end of their…
The mystery surrounding the disappearance and apparent kidnapping of sportsbook owner 5Dimes Tony (aka William Sean Creighton) came to end this weekend when his body was found in Costa Rica. Creighton had been missing since early last week when his family reported his absence and his wrecked Porsche Cayenne was found by police. Details regarding…
5Dimes management is reassuring clients and employees that all is well and operational at the company, despite the disappearance of its owner William Sean Creighton (popularly known as "Tony"). Tony has been missing in Costa Rica, where 5Dimes is based and where he's lived for decades, since September 24. The statement, which was given to…
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is hardly known as a soft touch to UK-facing operators, but they are dropping several complaints against LeoVegas subsidiaries 32Red and www.21.co.uk. Both companies were accused of marketing their services to young people. They were also accused of glamorizing gambling by suggesting that it imbues players with heightened toughness…
Law enforcement officials in Costa Rica have confirmed that they are looking for 43-year-old William Sean Creighton (AKA Tony) who disappeared and hasn't been heard from since the end of September. Tony is well known in the online gambling world as the owner of the legendary 5Dimes sportsbook, which drew the template for offshore gaming…
New Jersey is currently the US leader when it comes to online gambling innovation and will always hold the title as the first to legalize online poker. New Jersey is also responsible for taking on, and winning, the fight to legalize sports betting in the United States. But now that both forms of gaming are…
One of the most vexing dilemmas in the online gambling era has been this, how do local governments regulate offshore gaming operations? And how do they actually punish operators who run afoul of their laws when those operators could be based in another country? These are questions that have proven to be nearly impossible to…
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