The Dik**** thing is different from the recent deal for Party – The recent deal is all about sorting Party out – It means they have a lot more freedom in terms of megers, aquisitions, finance etc – It is very very big for them because a lot of big brands and companies were stand offish working with them before but will now be a lot more enthusiastic as Party is in effect “clean” now
Re USA – I think the recession will definitely help iGaming – Just look at California in huge debt and a shed load of poker players who see poker as a way of life – The decision makers in that state must already be looking at the revenue they can gain from a simple tax in the state for just those players – This would be massive and would certainly help the deficit there AND then hopefully other states would see this and realise actually iGaming could work and isn’t evil or corrupt but more importantly could sort their debt out –
Long time away I think but fingers crossed!