If the expression, "It takes a thief to catch a thief," is true, could it also be possible to say, "it takes a gambler to combat illegal gambling?" In the beleaguered Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte is about to find out. Earlier this week, Duterte make a public statement declaring that he had been in contact…
FanDuel co-founder and former CEO Nigel Eccles; and co-founder Rob Jones are leaving the world of daily fantasy sports for an esports streaming startup called Flick. Jones and Eccles are the last of FanDuel's original five co-founders to leave the company. Jones' departure from the daily fantasy sports giant came as something of a surprise…
An effort by UK lawmakers to limit the maximum wager at fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBT) is meeting resistance from some of the very people it's designed to protect. Earlier this week, representatives of the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) came out against the effort being made by secretary of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport…
The US sports betting ban is becoming more and more porous as companies like DraftKings, FanDuel, and now WinView are proving. WinView is a Silicon Valley-based startup that's looking to disrupt the sports betting scene with a unique business model that emphasizes in-play predictions. WinView's operation is pretty original, but is based on familiar models…
Delaware's entry into the microscopic US online gambling market has always been a bit of a mystery to gaming industry observers. After all, with a population of just 961,939 it's the 45th smallest US State. From the beginning it was unclear whether or not that was big enough to support a robust igaming market. Despite…
Is Nick Xenophon, Australian gambling's biggest enemy, softening his stance on pokies in 2018? That's the impression that the long time anti-gambling agitator is giving to some of Australia's biggest news outlets. According to a report in the Australian, as reported on by CalvinAyre.com, the man who has fought hard to pull pokies and sports…
2017 was a good year for William Hill and its global gaming operations saw plenty of profit. But the company is moving into 2018 with a note of caution as a regulatory clampdown Down Under threatens to make operating in Australia a major headache. William Hill is stepping into 2018 on a very positive note.…
Daily fantasy sports giant DraftKings is bucking months of bad news about spiraling revenues and corporate layoffs with by moving into a shiny new corporate headquarters and hiring hundreds of new employees. The move is part of a larger effort to expand the company's media production capabilities and, maybe, expand into the world of regulated…
As election time looms in Australia, the Tasmanian Liberal Party has a message for voters; pokies are perfectly legal and should not be banned. It's a hot topic in the Australian state where Labor would like to ban pokies and say goodbye to the machines (and the tax revenue they generate) by 2023. The Liberal…
Anti-gambling critics and addiction counselors are tearing out their hair over Hit or Miss, a new online lottery product that offers players in Ontario, Canada new drawings every five minutes. Critics of the new game say that its fast pace and continuous drawings are just asking for trouble from players who are unable to control…
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