Jake Paul, the social media influencer and professional fighter, is being asked some challenging questions in his quest to work in the Massachusetts regulated sports betting industry. Paul, who is launching a micro-betting app called betr, was grilled by members of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission who queried about his past brushes with the law, and…
Black market gambling sites are a serious problem, but they're not an excuse for relaxing regulations on legal gambling sites. That's the message UK Gambling Commission deputy CEO Sarah Gardner sent to operators during a recent speech to to Danish regulator Spillemyndigheden commemorating the seventeenth anniversary of the 2005 Gambling Act. Gardner acknowledged the inherent…
Lawmakers in Nebraska are readying a bill that would allow state residents to wager on the home team in games that are played in-state. It's a measure that would close an odd loophole in the state's recently opened regulated sports betting market, and will likely be a boon to a fund that provides scholarships to…
DraftKings is hoping to cash in on Super Bowl advertising hype with an advertisement featuring NFL great Rob Gronkowski attempting to kick a field goal on live TV. If Gronk makes the kick, everyone who makes a $5 or more wager on the big game with the operator will split $10 million worth of free…
UK football clubs are under fire from anti-gambling advocates for their role in bringing branded sportsbooks to Premiere and Champions League football stadiums. That criticism is currently focused on Sheffield Wednesday and William, the first football team/operator duo to enter an arrangement to develop a Home Shop at the team's Hilsborough Stadium. Though gambling operators,…
Risk-free bets are a marketing cornerstone of the contemporary sports betting industry. In the United States, where the regulated sports betting sector is still in its infancy, operators use so-called "risk-free" bets as a promotion that's usually written off on the company's tax bill. The pervasive nature of risk-free promotions make Penn Entertainment's recent decision…
Regulated sports betting came to the state of Ohio on New Year's Day with disgraced baseball legend Pete Rose making the state's first legal wager. Ohio is jumping on a regulated sports betting bandwagon that's sweeping the country, and is now the 31st state to legalize betting on sports. Regulated sports betting is predicted to…
Gaming revenue in the state of Nevada is on track for a record-breaking year, despite the damage inflicted last month by sports betting raconteur Mattress Mack. Nevada's gaming revenue for the month of November totaled just over $1.2 billion, which was down from November 2021, but still very healthy. While November's numbers were hardly bad,…
On January 1, PokerStars will be combining the liquidity pools of its New Jersey and Michigan players in tournaments and regular play. It's a move that US-facing online poker operators have been working towards since the post-Black Friday re-birth and could prove to be a driving factor in the online poker segment. Shared liquidity is…
Employees at Malta-based iGaming operator Genesis Global got some extremely unwelcome news this holiday season as the company laid off its entire workforce. The move came on the heels of the company's declaration of insolvency in a Maltese courtroom and is the latest in a string of extinction-level events that have plagued the company since…
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