For online casino and lottery operators, 2020 presented a minefield of challenges and a pathway to real success. On the one hand, casino and lottery operators had to be very careful not to take advantage of locked down players who were desperate for entertainment options. On the other hand, the complete lack of land-based competitors…
When UK reality star Sam Gowland took to Instagram to celebrate some recent sports betting wins, he didn't think that anyone would care. But in the UK, where regulators like the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) and the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) watch gambling operators like hawks on mice, nothing involving betting, wagering, gambling or gaming…
GVC Holdings, one of the best known operators in the world, is re-branding itself as a new entity known as Entain. As part of the change, GVC Holdings will be exiting grey markets across the world. It's a move aimed at bringing the company to a 100 percent regulated market strategy. In a press release…
A VIP player is suing the Park Lane Casino in Mayfair over an alleged promise to refund a sizable share of his wagers. It's a promise the casino says it never made and it's now up to Judge Gavin Mansfield to sort the whole matter out. At the heart of the dispute is an allegation…
If you've been following international gambling news over the past few years, you've probably had a feeling that the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) is handing out a whole lot more than it used to - you're right. According to an annual report produced by the UKGC called, Raising standards for consumers Compliance and Enforcement report…
Problem gambling is never a good thing, but the prospect of problem gamblers being locked in their houses with nothing else to do was the stuff of nightmares in the early days of the pandemic. Nowhere was this fear more pronounced than in the UK, where anti-gambling forces are keen to point out any perceived…
The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) is reporting a sizable drop in gambling activity across the country as the COVID-19 quarantine drags on. The August 2020 dip suggests that gambling critics were a bit off base in their predictions about what would happen to locked down punters. Overall, August 2020 gambling activity was down across the…
The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has had its eyes on VIP programs for quite a while and had, in recent years, seemed as though they may ax the popular marketing schemes entirely. Fortunately for UK-facing gambling operators, the UKGC has decided that they can retain VIP programs but there are some important restrictions that could…
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson hit the UK horse racing industry with a bit of the old good news/bad news this week. On the good news side, the PM will allow the races to go on (sort of) as planned. But that news was combined with the gut-wrenching news that all proposals to have fans…
The British horse racing industry took another big hit this week when health officials reinstated restrictions on how many in-person attendees can be at tracks for live racing. As it stands today, spectators are allowed at the tracks, but only six at a time. That number is now so small that the tracks might as…
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