Players who want to wager on NCAA and NFL football but don't want to do it with a regulated sportsbook have a new option this week as Robinhood rolls out its new football prediction markets. It's a brazen move from a corner of the financial world that's labelled sports betting as an investment vehicle and…
Circa CEO Derek Stevens is experiencing the extreme highs and lows that can be an earmark of both the gaming industry and gambling itself. On the up side, Circa Sports was granted one of just two untethered sports betting licenses in the State of Missouri. That victory was quickly overshadowed by this week's announcement that…
In the world of sports, and sports betting, everyone always likes to root for the underdog. While that's not always the situation when it comes to sports betting operators, the State of Missouri just gave a major underdog a major advantage in the newly opened Show-Me-State betting market. Late last week the Missouri Gaming Commission…
The world of regulated sports betting that opened when the US Supreme Court overturned PAPSA back in 2018 it inadvertently opened a Pandora's Box of troubles for professional and college athletes. These woes ranged from prop-betting-related death threats to career-ending allegations of play impacted by gambling. And, according to some recent comments made by NBA…
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have selected Hard Bock Bet as their official sports betting operator in a deal that was announced earlier this week. It's the kind of deal that's become commonplace in post-PAPSA America but is still noteworthy for one meaningful reason...Hard Rock Bet is the only authorized Sportsbook in the entire state of…
When the NFL recently acquired a ten percent stake in ESPN, it quietly made a bit of history. It turns out that in purchasing that small slice of America's biggest sports news outlet, the venerable NFL also picked up a small share of the ESPN BET Sportsbook. In doing so, the NFL went from being…
One of the biggest innovations of the online gambling era is the development of in-play micro betting. Players love the idea of betting on the outcome and details of every single play and operators really love the additional revenue stream. But if a New Jersey lawmaker has his way, micro betting will be a thing…
Cleveland Guardians relief Pitcher Emmanuel Case has been placed on leave until August 31 while Major League Baseball officials investigate potential sports betting issues. It's a case that focuses on the hot button issue of microbetting and could put more pressure on sports betting operators to ban the activity entirely. Case is no back-bencher and…
Aggrieved bettors are making life hell for athletes at both the college and professional level. That's the message Boston Red Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito recently shared with MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred in a private conversation. Giolito related the story, and his pitch for gamblers to take a chill pill, with Baseball isn't Boring podcast host,…
Deposit bonuses have long been the marketing lifeblood of the gaming industry, but may be about to change. Across the country the practice is being challenged in court by aggrieved players who say that bonus deposits contain playthrough requirements and other hoops to jump through that make using those bonuses all but impossible. A recent…
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