Mark Goodram and Jon-Ross Watson thought their ship had arrived the day they purchased a UK lotto scratch ticket that paid off to the tune of £4 million ($4.88 million USD). UK lottery officials, however, said, "not so fast" when they discovered that the pair purchased the winning ticket with a debit card that didn't…
Irish lawmakers are considering imposing a ban on gambling products that allow players to wager on the outcome of a lottery, whether it's in Ireland, or anywhere else. Irish bookmakers, the ones who've been providing exactly that kind of product to players for more than a quarter of a century, aren't so sure that's a…
Lottoland is a Gibraltar-based gaming outfit that's dead set on disrupting world lottery markets. But judging by the fights they've had trying to stay in the Australian market, it's pretty clear that local and federal governments don't have much interest in seeing their lottery markets disrupted. Last year, at the behest of Australian news peddler…
How addictive are lottery tickets and scratch cards? Though they seem innocuous, they present just as much of a threat to a gambling addict as a slot machine or a craps table. But most people, including gambling addicts, don't see it that way and lawmakers in the state of Florida are looking to change that…
When the US Department of Justice recently re-wrote its interpretation of the Wire Act of 1961 to ban interstate gambling, it had not intention of impacting interstate lotteries such as the Powerball. That's what Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told a judge in a memo recently filed in a case filed by the New Hampshire…
How young is too young to be playing the lottery? That's a question that UK gambling operators are facing this week after UK Sport Minister Mims Davies announced her desire to raise the minimum age for purchasing lottery tickets and scratch cards from 16 to 18. Davies made her comments in an interview with House…
Lottoland, the Australian digital lottery operator, just can’t seem to catch a break in the Land Down Under. Ever since a bruising legal battle halted Lottoland from offering wagering on Aussie lotteries, the company has tweaked its business model to emphasize wagering on financial markets instead. That tweak has spawned not one, but three separate…
Digital lottery operators got a rare, and much-needed, boost from a University College Dublin economist Jim Power who says that their business model presents, "no meaningful threat" to national lotteries. Power presented his findings in a report titled, An Assessment of the Online Gambling Market in Ireland, which was funded by the the European Lotto…
A German judge ruled late last week that Lottoland, the digital lottery operator, does not have a legal right to offer its services in Germany. It's just the latest big legal challenge for a company that's seen its business model vigorously challenged by governmental entities across the globe. The latest setback for Lottoland came when…
The United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UKGC) has been turning the screw on gambling operators for more than a year and now their efforts are causing other operators to reconsider whether or not doing business in the UK is worth the effort. Late last week, Czech lottery operator Sazka announced that it was scuttling plans to…
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