Single Event Betting Off To Flying Start
After years of delays, single event sports betting is now finally legal in Canada. Not surprisingly locals have been scrambling to try out the new betting options, with the first weekend having now officially passed. It has, without quest...Read More
Sports Betting Could Become A $2 Billion Market
As single event sports betting passes into law in Canada speculation is already running wild. Researchers have wasted no time in doing some calculations, checking the signs, and throwing out a few incredible predictions. Some go as far as...Read More
Entain Enters The eSports Betting Market
Entain, the prominent online and land-based sportsbook operator in the United Kingdom, is said to have signed a deal to acquire Unikrn Incorporated. The American eSports betting provider will form something of a doorway into the market fo...Read More
Single Event Sports Betting Set for August 27th
It seemed like it would never actually arrive, but the date has now been marked down as official. From August 27th Canadian sportsbooks can officially accept single event sports bets. Delay after delay made it seem as if Bill C...Read More
Canlan Sports And theScore Ink New Deal
theScore has just announced that it will be partnering up with Canlan Sports, the sports betting company based in Toronto. theScore will promote Canlan Sports brand throughout Canada and will allow both firms to benefit from promotion acr...Read More
US Cop Gets 15 Months For Illegal Sportsbook
Nicholas Stella, a disgraced Chicago police officer, has been handed a 15 month sentence in a federal prison. He plead guilty to participating in an illegal sportsbook operation, but ultimately managed to get a reduced sentence. The judge...Read More
Bill C-218 Moves Forward With Royal Assent
Currently Canada has a restrictive set of gambling regulations in place, allowing only parlay bets for sports betting. Single bets are entirely restricted, much to the ire of local bettors. But this is all set change with the much-anticip...Read More
Sports Illustrated To Launch 2021 US Sportsbook
Legendary magazine publisher Sports Illustrated has announced that it will be entering the fast-growing US sports betting market. Working alongside operator 888 Holdings, the two are aiming to create a world-class online sportsbook unlike...Read More
Ontario Pushing For Single-Sports Betting
Wayne Gates of Niagara Falls, Percy Hatfield of Windsor-Tecumseh and Lisa Gretzky of Windsor West have all sent a letter to Premier Ford urging him to take advantage of Bill C-218. The MPs believe that the legislation will help create new...Read More
Bob Baffert Suspended After 2nd Test Fail
Legendary Kentucky Derby trainer Bob Baffert has been suspended from Churchill Downs for two years. This after Baffert’s prize Derby runner, Medina Spirit, recently failed a second postrace drug test by testing positive for the ster...Read More
Ibrahimovic Fined for Sports BettingTies
Soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimovic has dodged a bullet. The AC Milan and Sweden forward was recently fined €50,000 for his financial interest held in Swedish betting giant Bethard. Ibrahimovic however narrowly escaped a three-year ban fr...Read More
Kyle Lowry Says Toronto Is Home To Him
Playing more NBA championships, winning more, and money: these are the things that matter to Kyle Lowry. And if he can have all these things while staying on with the Toronto Raptors, then he’ll be all the happier for it. Because To...Read More
Study Shows Sports Betting More Addictive Than Gambling
An insightful new study published by the University of Guelph offers an interesting opinion on the connection between sports betting and problem gambling. According to the study, sports bettors are exponentially more prone to develop prob...Read More
Bob Baffert Suspended After Failed Drug Test
Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert is playing the cancel culture victim card after Kentucky Derby longshot Medina Spirit failed to pass a routine drug test. The famous trainer revealed at the start of the week that Medina Spirit, which won ...Read More
Mattress Mack Goes All In On Kentucky Derby
Legendary furniture store owner and sports punter Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale is back at it and making sports betting headlines once again – this time with plans to make a multimillion-dollar bet on horse racing’...Read More
Ibrahimović Faces FIFA Ban Over Betting Shares
The Union of European Football Associations, or UEFA, has just launched an official investigation into allegations of gambling links involving Swedish champions league player Zlatan Ibrahimović. An ethics and disciplinary investigator ha...Read More
Canada Soon A Legal Sports Betting Market - {{mm-yy}}
The passing of Bill C-218 is beginning to now look like a more likely event than ever before. And according to Canadian Gaming Association President and CEO Paul Burns, bringing single-event sports betting out of the offshore dark and int...Read More
Man Sentenced For Ponzi Betting Scheme
A fraudster from Kansas City, Missouri, has been sentenced to eight years and one month behind federal prison bars, and without the possibility of parole. 51-year-old Matthew R. Peterson, who got handed his sentence by US District Court J...Read More
DraftKings Named First UFC Betting Partner
Sportsbook and daily fantasy betting giant DraftKings have nabbed quite the new partnership privilege. The Boston-based sports betting and entertainment provider announced on Thursday that it has completed an historical deal by being name...Read More
U.S. Lawmaker Contests Sports Betting Loans
Tennessee lawmaker and state representative Darren Jernigan has declared war on a sports book that offers payday loans to its customers. Jernigan has said sports betting and payday loans don’t belong together on a shared menu. And ...Read More
DraftKings And NFL Moving Into Canada
DraftKings, the official daily fantasy sports partner of the National Football League (NFL), is taking its operations north of the border to Canada. Forged back in September 2019, the partnership’s operations were until now restrict...Read More
Canada Hot And Cold On Sports Betting Bill
Canadians may have to wait a little while longer than expected to enjoy legal single-event sports betting in the country. This after the successful passing of the necessary legislation, most recently the 2020 introduction of Bill C-13, ha...Read More
Canada’s Sport Betting Bill Headed For 3rd Reading - {{mm-yy}}
Legalised single event sports betting is well and truly back on the table for Canada. A combined effort by the federal and Ontario governments late last year has laid the foundation for the decriminalisation of single event sports betting...Read More
OneComply To Facilitate FansUnite Expansion
Licensing and regulatory compliance specialist OneComply Inc. has been tasked with assisting sports betting and entertainment giant FansUnite Entertainment Inc. as it makes its way into additional gaming jurisdictions in North America. On...Read More
Raptors And Suns Link Arms In Solidarity
The NBA on Wednesday reacted strongly to the storming of the Capitol by an angry mob of Trump supporters – a day fittingly described by President-elect Joe Biden as one of the darkest days in the history of the U.S. nation. Raptors...Read More
Obsolescence The No. 1 Enemy Of Greener Tech
Doing away with a disposable smartphone blueprint which underscores obsolescence is the secret to greener technology and electronics, Earth advocates are now saying. And this change in approach has to do with a great deal more than just s...Read More
Alphonso Davies Named L’Equipe World Player
Edmonton native and star soccer fullback Alphonso Davies on Monday became one of 4 current Bayern Munich players to be named by prominent French sports daily L’Equipe as part of its world team of the year for 2020. The 20-year-old C...Read More
More U.S. States Say Yes To Sports Betting
While the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election may have resulted in a fair quota of excitement on the governance front, the ushering in of a new President and era wasn’t its only focus. Several more decisions were made by way of the ball...Read More
2020 A Game-Changing Sports Betting Year
According to data published by the American Gaming Association, 28 U.S. states had by the end of 2020 either already launched a regulated sports betting market or signed into force the legislation necessary for regulation in the near futu...Read More
Canada Sports Betting Bill Gets Green Light
Regulated single-event sports betting is coming to Canada. This will be made a reality by the passing of Liberal Government MP Kevin Waugh’s Bill C-218, better known as the Safe and Regulated Sports Betting Act. Sports betting in C...Read More
DraftKings Facing Legal Action Over Proxy Bet
Sports betting and fantasy sports operator DraftKings may have to defend its decision not to permit the placing of bets by means of a proxy after freezing a Florida man’s New Jersey mobile sports betting account in October. This onl...Read More
Cross-Party Sports Betting Bill Getting Cross-Party Support
Canada has moved another step closer to legalised single-game sports betting. MP Kevin Waugh put the facts to the table with the second reading of a bill that would allow Canadians to benefit not only from taxable revenue generated by par...Read More
NetEnt Hyped About Expanded DraftKings Deal
Top online slots and casino games developer NetEnt remains fully focused on U.S. expansion. To this end, the Stockholm-listed iGaming provider has now expanded its existing partnership with American daily fantasy sports and sports betting...Read More
Derek Stevens Waves MLB Bet Payday Goodbye
Las Vegas casino mogul Derek Stevens is expected to lose two major MLB bets bound to see him literally thousands of dollars out of pocket. Thanks to calculated money wagered on the Miami Marlins winning the National League as well as the ...Read More
US Sports Betting Hits a Record High
Despite a year bringing about more challenges than what the world has witnessed in a very long time, sports betting, at least, seems to be on the road to recovery. Figures recently published by the American Gaming Association show August ...Read More
Upcoming Kentucky Derby To Run Without Fans
Initially scheduled for May 2, this year’s Kentucky Derby, which will now be run on Saturday, September 5, will this year be raced with only very limited number of spectators present in the stands. The original expectation was that...Read More
Illegal Sports Book Arrests Made In Ontario
Illegal gambling and sportsbook operations remain a major challenge for Canadian lawmakers. This once again made news headlines when Ontario Provincial Police charged several people following an illegal gambling ring raid conducted provin...Read More
BCLC Sportsbook Now Powered By SG Corp.
The BCLC has roped in the expertise and services of Scientific Games and its OpenTrade Managed Trading Services (MTS) product for the purpose of upgrading and expanding the Crown corporation’s online sports betting service offerings...Read More
BCLC Announces Exciting New Betting Upgrade
Now that the British Columbia Lottery Corporation has officially extended its existing partnership with leading iGaming and sports betting platform provider Scientific Games Corporation, B.C. players can expect to be treated to quite the ...Read More
Canadian Leagues Pushing For Legal Sports Betting
Legalised single-event sports betting in Canada is a conversation that’s in recent years seen its fair share of ups and downs. But it’s also a conversation that’s gained increased traction ever since the ban on professio...Read More
Ontario’s LHRA Says About Live Horse Races
Ontario’s horse racing industry certainly faces challenging times as it continues to try and navigate towards a public health-compliant new normal. Following a strategy similar to what Woodbine Entertainment has begun implementing, ...Read More
3rd Push For Legal Sports Betting In Canada
The push for a legal Canadian appears to be a never-ending one. Legalised single-game sports betting is yet again under the looking glass following a third attempt at successfully passing a bill and this time round by politicians and spo...Read More
BC Telescope Provides Insight Into FRBs
Trying to figure out the exact nature of what they are and where they originate from is not all that different to a celestial game of Clue. Astrophysicists all around the world have been playing a cosmic game of cat and mouse ever since f...Read More
Malindi Elmore May Be Headed For Tokyo
B.C. native Malindi Elmore made her Olympic debut some 16 years ago. The year was 2004 and Elmore had qualified to run the 1,500 at the Olympic Games that was hosted by the city of Athens that year. But Elmore missed qualifying for the se...Read More
DraftKings Look Into Celeb Cheat Allegations
Sports betting giant DraftKings has officially launched in-house investigations into whether Bachelor in Paradise celebrity couple Tanner Tolbert and wife Jade Roper Tolbert had been in unfair cahoots that led to the type of unfair advant...Read More
London’s SBC 2019 Awards Shows The Gold
With London’s expanded SBC 2019 Awards now declared a done and dusted success, the industry officially has a better idea as to who was responsible for making the year the super-nova success that it turned out to be. This year&rsquo...Read More
How Legalised Sports Betting Has Benefitted the USA
May 2018 was a monumental month for the USA’s gambling industry. The US Supreme Court overturned PASPA, legalising sports betting and opening the way for the country to benefit from it in various ways. According to a...Read More
2019’s Biggest Gaming Mergers and Acquisitions
The never-ending game of musical chairs that is mergers and acquisitions in the gaming world continued at full swing in 2019. Many of the biggest deals were inked in the last few months of the year, and all of them poi...Read More
California Sports Betting Talks Postponed To 2020
The now-legal framework for sports betting is taking the US by storm, and what with each state being at liberty to decide for itself whether or not to adopt the new framework, California appears to be next in line to r...Read More
Top Canadian Sportspeople of 2019
There are wow moments in Canadian sport every year, but 2019 has seen some truly spectacular performances, especially among the country’s rising stars. Sportsmen and women have proven themselves to be examples of tru...Read More
NFL Suspends Josh Shaw For Betting On Sports
Arizona Cardinals defenceman Josh Shaw has been suspended for betting. The NFL recently issued a formal statement providing details around the suspension, reiterating yet again that no action threatening the integrity ...Read More
Sportsbook Now Offering Betting On Trump’s Mistruths
Imagine being a man best known for being the ultimate fact-checker buster. And in no good sense of the word either, meaning that one tends to err on the side of the lie instead of the truth. If this sounds American, an...Read More
US Sports Betting To Reach $7bn Mark By 2025
The latest news on the US sports betting front is the updated projection that by the time the door is officially closed on 2025, or five years from now, the industry will be worth an astonishing $7 billion. It’s a bo...Read More
Positive Attitude To Betting On the Rise In The USA
The 2018 repeal of PASPA and the nation-wide ban on sports betting by the US Supreme Court is most likely the reason behind more Americans now than ever before having done a complete one-eighty regarding their feelings about putting mo...Read More
CGA Supports Call To Legalise Sports Betting
The positives flowing from the legalisation of betting on single sports events far outweigh the possible concerns. This is the explanation offered by the Canadian Gaming Association (CGA) when diluted to its most basic...Read More
NFL Shines Spotlight On Sports Betting Winning’s Tax
The old adage yet again rings proverbially true, and this time round for the global sports betting industry. There are only two certainties in life: death and taxes. And if you’re one of the millions of bettors expec...Read More
Rhode Island’s Underperforming Slots Get The Boot
The Rhode Island State Lottery is intent on severely minimizing the money that is “bleeding” from the two casinos in the state. The casinos are operated by Twin River Worldwide Holdings. Twin River will now be forc...Read More
US Sports Betting Market A Revenue Machine
Sports betting is now legal and sportsbooks officially open in a total of 13 US states. And needless to say, the US sports betting industry is experiencing its heyday and generating literally billions in revenue income. But according to ...Read More
Area 51 Event Attracts Bettors Interest
Members of a Facebook group supposedly intent on actually raiding Area 51 have caught the attention of an unlikely party in its house of nonsense and theatre of comedy. Online bookmaker Bovada is intent on playing ball and making a buck o...Read More
Nevada Beats NJ Sports Betting Revenue
Nevada has emerged the latest victor in the battle of sports betting revenue income against the state of New Jersey. The garden state used to lead by a mile and then some but it now appears as if the tables really are starting to turn. Re...Read More
Playtech Breaks Wimbledon Bets Record
Fansof tennis the world over weren’t the only ones revelling in the theatre of sports that was the epic Wimbledon finale between the legend that is Roger Federer and the 2019 men’s final winner, namely Novak Djokovic. Top iGa...Read More
New SoftSwiss Logo Teases Sports Betting
iGaming provider SoftSwiss is getting ready to embrace a new day, as attested to by its brand new logo. SoftSwiss at the time of the new logo reveal also made use of the opportunity to make known some of its future plans; plans involving...Read More
NASCAR To Offer Live Bets From September 15
It’s a wondrous and momentous thing when a plan finally comes together. And for NASCAR fans it will be a sweet moment indeed when they are finally able to fully embrace all of their stock car race betting fantasies w...Read More
PokerStars Debuts Novelty Game Tournaments
Iconic Canadian brand PokerStars’ classic novelty cash games have received a makeover. Three of the site’s original novelty titles that were launched last year are now available in an innovative multi-table tournament format. ...Read More
How Gambling Almost Made For An NBA No-Show
Now a US marriage made in heaven, it’s hard to imagine that gambling once almost stopped the NBA from extending its reach into Canadian territories. The year was 1993 and a very resolute then NBA Commissioner David Stern had at the ...Read More
Leafs Secure Two Promising Free Agent Trades
Not being overwhelmed by the free agency frenzy isn’t easy. Ask anyone. But in particular, ask the Leafs. Toronto on Monday managed to swing fate’s pendant in their favour when the team secured a giant-sized trade ...Read More
One Bad Boy Wins The 160th Queen’s Plate
One Bad Boy is no one’s playmate. The king of the races cemented his name into the pages of horseracing history when he recently kicked dust in the faces of his opponents in the annual Queen’s Plate event at Woodbine. He was ...Read More
Rift Rivals 2019 Roundup
The continents of Europe and North America are home to some of eSport’s top elite players. And there’s nowhere better to witness the battle of the rivals play out that at Rift Rivals, which is widely considered to be the No. 1...Read More
Bookies Announce Props For WSOP Main Event
Whoever assumed that the bookies are only interested on offering bets on sports events have it all wrong. In fact, there are few things as exciting as a good old prop bet. Prop bets are wagered on everything from politics to Prince Harry&...Read More
US Family Owns Up To Illegal Bookie Charges
A family who make their home in Texas, Houston, has owned up to the fact that they have for going on 30 years, been running an illegal bookmaking business. Larry and Judy Tillery, and son Brian Tillery, recently pleaded guilty to a variou...Read More
How Drew Gonzales Got Saved By Twitch
Drew “BetOnDrew”Gonzales is a man who considers streaming to be a big part of who he is; not only as a lover and player of online Poker, but as a human being. Streaming; especially streaming Poker; is Drew’s life, his &l...Read More
Pettersson Wins Rookie Of The Year Trophy
Elias Pettersson has become the first Canuck to win the prestigious NHL’s Calder Trophy for rookie of the year in almost 3 decades of NHL history. The 20-year-old Swede and Vancouver Canucks centre staked out his claim to the covet...Read More
Google Now Welcoming Sportsbook Ads
It appears as if search engine giant Google isn’t busy with a gambling witch hunt after all. Google recently announced that it will allow sports betting operators to advertise their services and products on the platf...Read More
Colorado Heads Towards Legal Sports Betting
A public vote with regards to an increase in taxes is the final hurdle to be crossed for the US state of Colorado to offer fully legalised retail as well as online sports betting. Lawmakers are no doubt exhaling a sigh of relief as they ...Read More
NCAA Sticking To Its Sports Betting Guns
The National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) will not budge with regards to its views on sports betting, and specifically that college-level athletes should not be permitted to bet on sports or come into contac...Read More
GVC Legally Enters Nevada Thanks To MGM Deal
Gambling giant GVC Holdings, thanks to a spot of innovative thinking and planning, is officially now the holder of a Nevada betting-industry passport. The group recently signed off on a partnership deal with US casino and entertainment gi...Read More
Gambling As A Legitimate Career Path
Whether or not it’s actually possible (read: profitable) to make a full-time career out of gambling is a question that has captivated and also boggled the minds of many. To the person who just loves a good old bet; whether standard ...Read More
Casinos Hosting Race Tracks Want In On Bets
When PASPA was finally declared dead, buried and abolished last year, the race towards legalised sports betting in most US states was officially on, and the only real remaining question was who would be next to sign off on the legal sport...Read More
Brexit Bets Bomb as May Quits
In an emotional statement on 24 May 2019, Theresa May announced her resignation as Britain’s second female prime minister. Political commentators have said that May, like Margaret Thatcher before her, ultimately met her downfall thr...Read More
Kane Kalas Announces His WSOP Prop Bets
Prop bets. They put the wild and wacky fun into bets. And what with 50th anniversary of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) now right around the corner, we’re seeing a fair share of these popping up all over the show. If any...Read More
Beckie Scott’s WADA Bullying Claim Dismissed
Canadian and former pro-skier Beckie Scott is a true pioneer for clean sports and considered to be a real fire-cracker in the field ever since she fought for more than 24 months to have a bronze medal that had been awa...Read More
ESPN And Caesars To Launch Branded Studio
ESPN is a brand that is exclusively sport-driven and it’s become synonymous with some of the biggest sports tournaments in the world. When talking gambling and betting, the same can be said of Caesar’s Entertainment. Combine t...Read More
AGA Launches Sports Betting Advertising Code
The American Gaming Association (AGA) has announced by means of a special press release that it has, in partnership with the operator-members of the association, formulated a responsible marketing code that aims to regulate marketing and ...Read More
Disqualification Fiasco At Kentucky Derby
Never before in the history of America’s most prestigious horse race, the Kentucky Derby, has any winning horse been disqualified as a result of having interfered with other horses during a race. Until this year’s instalment ...Read More
Kentucky Derby Smashes Betting Records Again
The Kentucky Derby has done it again. It has yet again managed to smash all records of bets placed on any which event hosted at Churchill Downs. On Saturday, bettors showed up in their drones to take a stab at who they...Read More
March Madness Attracts $106M In Bets In NJ
Much like its basketball tournament’s namesake, March really was a month of madness for New Jersey’s sports betting industry. Basketball’s March Madness tournament has seen record betting figures being tallied, and the ...Read More
888 Acquires Costa Bingo
888 Holdings has acquired Costa Bingo thanks to their willingness to put up £18 million in cold hard cash. The purchase price will be paid to soon-to-be-former owner Jackpot Joy Group (JPJ) in two instalments; £12 million as a...Read More
Colorado Wants In On Sports Betting Too
Sports betting and the promise of a whole new world of excitement have changed the way we do entertainment. The US finally abolished the ban on legalised sports betting when the US Supreme Court declared PASPA void, and ever since, it&rsq...Read More
Pennsylvania Heads Towards Online Sports Betting
Residents of Pennsylvania will soon be able to able to place online bets on sports events; and if all goes according to plan, as soon as within the next two to three weeks. Doug Harbach, spokesperson for the Pennsylvan...Read More
Bettor Wins $1.2 Million Backing Tiger Woods
A decade plus ago, nobody would have as much as bat an eyelid about putting it all on Tiger Woods. But in the lead-up to this year’s Masters, betting anything more than a couple of bucks on Woods winning the tournament would no dou...Read More
Possible Lotto and Sports Betting Collaboration On The Cards
ust when you think that sports betting in the US has managed to be all that it can be since the strike-down of its PASPA chains, an event regarded as being nothing short of historical, the industry presents yet another untapped area of im...Read More
Sports Betting On The Verge Of Regulation
Ontario may very well soon claim its share of the sports betting market from the neighbouring US. A draft budget this week saw the light and it appears as if Ontario’s progressive conservative government has been paying heed to wha...Read More
James Holzhauer Makes Jeopardy! History
Professional sports bettor James Holzhauer is a man well acquainted with a simple truth and the mantra of many a pro-gambler: the size of the win will always be directly proportionate to the size of the risk. The Illinois native made hist...Read More
Spraggy Goes Bald In Reno After Losing A Bet
Prop bets: spicing things up since 19-way-back-when. A prop bet was yet again the cause of much humour and excitement when Poker pro Benjamin “Spraggy” Spragg was forced to go bald for a day thanks to having lost a bet involvi...Read More
Venture Capital Firms Zoom In On Sports Betting
More and more venture capital firms are starting to show a definite interest in the legalised US sports betting market. The 2019 strike-down of the federal ban on sports betting by the US Supreme Court has literally op...Read More
Pennsylvania To Issue 2 More Betting Licenses
Operating a sportsbook in the newly regulated US state of Pennsylvania doesn’t come cheap. But according to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) this doesn’t appear to be slowing anyone down in their quest to obtain a ...Read More
William Hill US To Sponsor NHL
London’s William Hill is one of the few operators whose name is linked almost exclusively to sports betting. William Hill is a bookie first and an online casino operator second. The sports betting giant last Thursday revealed via a ...Read More
NY Casinos Cut Back On Slots to Cut Costs
Two of New York City’s upstate casinos have approached the New York State Gaming Commission for permission to reduce the number of slot machines on their floors. Tigoa Downs owner Jeff Gurrall has tried to humour the curious by sayi...Read More
Rhode Island Approves Online Sports Betting
There’s been a lot of speculation about which US state would be the next in line to take the plunge and legalise online sports betting. When the US Supreme Court abolished PASPA, allowing for legal bets to be placed ...Read More
Player Ordered to Pay Back Winnings
A California man has learnt the hard way that breaking the law never really pays. He was recently ordered to pay back a dizzying $93,000 in winnings to New Jersey’s gambling regulators. According to the state’s gambling laws, ...Read More
Ontario Horse Racing To Receive Major Boost
Ontario’s horse racing field is about to receive financial aid to the tune of an annual CA$10 million contribution. The province’s Minister of Finance and pro-sportsbetting advocate, Vic Fedeli, recently made the announcement....Read More
Canada Ponders Fully Legalising Sports Betting
The US recently put a hot spark to the flint of interest when it abolished its PASPA ruling (The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992) and legalized sports betting in its entirety. And whilst it’s true that gamblin...Read More
No Bets On The Sports Betting Ballot In California
Californian tribal casino operators are quickly becoming sports betting’s most notorious enemy in the state. The state is a complicated playing field not just in as far as it relates to betting on professional sports...Read More
MGM Resorts Closes Red Sox Sponsporship Deal
Of all of the US’s major pro-sports leagues, Major League Baseball (MLB) has been the sports betting industry’s toughest customer to win over. The league has in the past voiced major concerns about allowing bets to be placed o...Read More
Canada Defeated by Australia At Vancouver Sevens
Losing steam and momentum is one thing, but when you’re the national Canadian Sevens team and you’re playing the Challenge Trophy final, it’s no longer a case of dusting yourself off and having another go. Suddenly now,...Read More
ESPN To Air Daily Sports Betting Show
It wasn’t exactly ages ago that Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger declared with bold confidence that despite the fact that Disney-owned global sports network ESPN recognised the prominence of the sports betting industry, its parent company (...Read More
1995 Winter Games Time Capsule On Display
Anyone who has ever had the privilege of opening up a time capsule will tell you that it’s a very unique and special experience; the ultimate recognition of the tangible passing of time. And yet, not too many people have had the opp...Read More
New Leadership For Ocean Resort Casino
138,000 square ft. of pure gaming entertainment perfectly complimented by breathtaking views of the ocean. One can almost not imagine how this kind of potential can be mismanaged. And yet, it must be possible, as most of the operati...Read More
NGCB Sticks To Its Guns Re Pre-Season MLB Bets
The MLB (Major League Baseball) appears to be, for the first time in many years, concerned about bets placed on pre-season contests. It recently filed an application with the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB), to the effect that it want...Read More
MGA Suspends & Terminates iGaming Permits
The Malta Gaming Authority has suspended the licenses of four of the gambling companies under its jurisdiction, and has ordered them to cancel their online operations with immediate effect. The MGA is seemingly getting much stricter on l...Read More
Indiana Proposal to Enable Online Betting, Casino
Just last week, the Senate Public Policy Committee of the US state of Indiana cleared a proposal which would legalize sports betting and casino gaming state-wide, and allow two new casinos to be constructed from 2020. The announcement ha...Read More
Survey Proves Bets Help Sports Viewership
A poll conducted by a New Jersey university has discovered that sports betting actually aids sports viewership. This is excellent news for the television networks that stream major league games, as in recent years, the US league has exper...Read More
Nevada Beats NJ in Super Bowl Bet Figures
Wagering on this year’s Super Bowl has been described as anti-climactic for many, especially when it came to betting volumes (not to mention the games). The NFL marquee contest was something of a let down on the field, but it did ma...Read More
Prof. Redlick Talks Canadian Betting Laws
Since the US Supreme Court overturned PASPA last year, the US’s sports betting market has grown exponentially in size. However, this growth has given rise to another question, namely: where does this leave Canada’s own wagerin...Read More
Oregon Working to Permit Super Bowl Bets
Oregon, US residents are reportedly going to be able to bet on the NFL soon, and might even be able to enjoy some of the prop bets offered by the legendary Super Bowl. However, they will unfortunately have to wait until 2020 in order to e...Read More
Women Power Gambling Growth in the US
Traditionally, gambling has always been considered a pastime for men. Many women were banned from entering casinos and gaming saloons altogether during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, and it was only in...Read More
Women Battling Bias in eSports
Among many of her peers, Susie Kim thinks that female gamers are definitely out there. She would know, too, being the general manager for an iconic championship eSports team. However, Kim is still not surprised that none of these ladies a...Read More
Louisiana Governor Gets Behind Sports Betting
Louisiana might soon become the latest in a long line of US states to legalize sports gambling if the state’s governor’s plans go well. Gov. John Bel Edwards has publicly voiced his support for the industry, noting that revenu...Read More
NY Senators Reviewing New iPoker Proposal
The new year has already brought around favourable changes for the online poker scene in the US state of New York. State lawmakers have again contemplated iPoker legislation, thanks to a bill that was recently forwarded to the Senate for ...Read More
Bettors Welcome Year’s 1st BC Baby
Novelty betting is one of the most popular ways to wager for thousands of Canadians. The British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) is well aware of this widespread interest, and knew exactly how to keep its punters hooked throughout the...Read More
American Sports Gambler The Most Influential Person Of 2018
In a turn of events that is nothing short of astounding, mind-blowing even, the collective representative the “American Sports Gambler” has been named the most influential person of the year by top media publicatio...Read More
The Stars Group Awarded Swedish Online Licence
It’s official: PokerStars parent company, The Stars Group (TSG), has just been welcomed into Sweden’s newly regulated online gambling fold. The Stars Group, together with four other operators, have become the latest operators ...Read More
NBA Names The Stars Group As Gaming Partner
Canadian-based The Stars Group, owners of the world-famous PokerStars brand, have managed to secure its very first partnership with a US pro-sports league. The group was recently named the official gaming partner of the National Basketbal...Read More
Unibet Takes First Steps Into The US Market
The US sportsbetting and gaming market beckons to all those who are willing to heed the call. One such company is Unibet. Thanks to a live casino partnership with the undisputed masters of live casino, the company will be making its first...Read More
Sir Mix-a-Lot To Star In New Bluberi Slot
Celebrity super-stars are warming up to the idea of being associated with casino brands, which is good news as it indicates higher levels of acceptance of the industry. The latest celeb to have added his name to the growing list of star-a...Read More
OLG To Put Sports Betting Plans Into Motion
Sports betting is, for the most part, illegal in Canada. Operators are not permitted to run retail betting shops or on-location kiosks. This is quite ironic, as Canada is a sports-loving nation. As a result, Canadian players have had to ...Read More
Red Sox CEO Gets Behind Sports Betting
Not too long ago, pro-sports leagues were the main spanners in the sports betting legalisation works. Big-shot managers were lashing out at anyone even suggesting a re-consideration, let alone a reform, and the general picture that was pa...Read More
William Hill Trims Down On Digital Deadwood
Many are the benefits mergers and acquisitions. And yet, you cannot have the good without being prepared to stomach just a little bid of the bad. William Hill’s acquisition of MRG (Mr Green) is expected to establish job security for...Read More
Lightning Box Enters North American Market
Thanks to the expansion of an existing agreement between SG Digital and specialist slots developer Lightning Box, the latter is now in the very fortunate position of being able to extend its global presence by entering brand-new territory...Read More
Business Booms for Bede Gaming in 2018
Bede Gaming, the popular developer of online and mobile gaming software, has hailed 2018 as its ‘most successful year’ to date, thanks in part to its completion of no less than ten content integration deals. Another developme...Read More
Online Gambling To Bring in $73 billion by 2020
$1 million in online payment transactions every day. This is the golden number that was recently released by the European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) and refers to the average value of the payments processed by its members every...Read More
CA Sports Cease Use of the Term ‘Midget’
Sports leagues across Canada’s provinces have long made use of the term ‘midget’ when referring to youth sporting groups. However, the term has many negative connotations, particularly for those with the conditio...Read More
UK Gambling Brands Move Advertising Online
Gambling companies over in the United Kingdom are spending notably more on online and mobile marketing channels than on traditional TV ads. This news comes despite the current doctrine that public channels are already saturated to capacit...Read More
US’s Betting Legalization Pressures Canada
Moves towards boosting players’ experiences and introducing regulated sports betting offerings have been waxing and waning unsuccessfully over the years in Canada. Another motion was indicated recently, however, as Canadian legisla...Read More
Legal Sports Betting Coming to Rhode Island
Eager punters in the US state of Rhode Island will finally be able to get their hands on legal wagering options. The regulated sportsbook offerings for the state will officially begin to hit the market from Monday, November 26 onwards. L...Read More
Mississippi Casinos Suffer as Sports Betting Grows
The sports betting operations at Mississippi (MS) casinos have reported a small increase in their overall wagering handle for the month of October. However, revenues for the establishments dropped by more than three-quarters during the sa...Read More
Virginia Set to Legalize Lotto & Betting
A bill aiming to repeal Virginia’s current online sports betting and lottery bans was reportedly pre-filed with the Virginia General Assembly (VGA). The bill was filed by Delegate Mark Sickles on November 20, 2018. As it is pre-fil...Read More
US Sports Betting Scene Keeps Evolving
Industry insiders firmly believe that the world of US sports changed forever when the Supreme Court abolished a law that prevented states from deciding whether or not to legalize sports betting between their borders. Before the ruling, o...Read More
Legal US Sports Betting Hits Canada Hard
It was in 2017 when the US Supreme Court abolished a long-time ban that prevented the majority of its states from offering legalized sports betting services. The historic decision led to a flurry of activity by allowing individual states ...Read More
Bet365 Enters the New York Betting Market
Online gaming and sports betting operator Bet365 has just announced that they have signed an exclusive, 20-year partnership deal with Empire Resorts. As the result, the operator will soon be entering the valuable New York gambling industr...Read More
Alleged Lotto Betting ‘Threat’ Disproved
Online ‘lottery betting’ operators across the pond in Ireland are systematically disproving the notion that they are negatively impacting the revenues earned for good causes by the Irish National Lottery (INL). A recent repor...Read More
Florida Green-Lights Anti-Casino Measure
The recent midterm elections have resulted in a big win for Florida giants Disney and the Seminole Tribe of Florida – the owner of the Hard Rock brand. According to the experts at Ballotopedia, entertainment behemoth Disney and the ...Read More
US Casinos Mull Cross-Border Operations
Casinos in the US state of Pennsylvania (PA) have used up 28 of the available 39 interactive gambling permits during two recent application periods. The 11 permits now remaining for the state represent tens of millions of dollars in poten...Read More
William Hill Looking To Buy MRG
British betting brand William Hill is reportedly aiming to purchase online gaming firm Mr Green & Co for a consideration of £242 million (around $308 million). According to the popular bookmaker’s CEO Philip Bowcock, the ...Read More
Famous Celebs Who Were Successful Athletes
Most people don’t realise it, but many successful actors and celebrities started out as high-achieving athletes, before turning their attention to entertainment, acting or politics. Actors such as Burt Reynolds, Forest Whitaker, De...Read More
NHL Signs Exclusive Betting Deal with MGM
The Canadian Gaming Association (CGA) has recently extended a warm welcome to the National Hockey League after the latter organization announced its first-ever sports betting partnership with MGM Resorts International this week. The dea...Read More
Indiana Encouraged to Legalize Betting
Since the US Supreme Court’s May ruling to , state after state has begun to legalize the profitable industry under their own sets of rules. Lawmakers are also continuing to investigate what legal betting could bring to their domain...Read More
US Elections May Impact Online Poker
In just a few short weeks, voters across several US states will be casting their votes to decide the fates of various pressing issues. These include, among other things, online poker and sports betting. Right now, it is t...Read More
SG Set to Acquire Don Best Sports Corp.
Mere weeks after joining the Global Lottery Monitoring System, US-based gaming systems developer has revealed the inking of a deal allowing it to purchase Don Best Sports Corporation (DBS) along with it...Read More
Poker Pro Hired by Mavericks
Marc Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks has hired pro poker player and expert sports bettor Haralabos ‘Bob’ Voulgaris as the team’s newest director of quantitative research and development. ...Read More
Nevada Gaming Revenue Hits a Low In August
The absence of the Money Fight in August meant fewer visitors to Nevada, and with those smaller numbers came the state’s weakest numbers this year. The state’s total gaming win dropped 7.7% from $989.5m to $913m year-on-year. ...Read More
Big Expansion Plans for The Stars Group
A few years back, The Stars Group was struggling with debt after being shaken by an insider trading scandal involving its founder and CEO David Baazov. After paying off its debts from the acquisition of PokerStars...Read More
FanDuel Pays Out Full $82k Erroneous Win
Daily fantasy sports giant FanDuel has opted to pay out the full $82,000 to New Jersey-based punter Anthony Prince on a $110 bet he made on the Denver Broncos versus Oakland Raiders game ...Read More
Quebec Fights Against Supreme Court Ruling
The government of Quebec is reportedly planning to appeal the Supreme Court’s ruling that stated that its amendments to online gambling bans are ‘unlawful’. The aforementioned law requires ISPs to block players’ a...Read More
First-Time Bookmaker Sponsorship for F1
Formula One, the king of auto racing sports brands worldwide, has surprisingly decided to change its age-old negative stance towards sponsorship by bookmakers. On Tuesday, the owner of the brand Liberty Media revealed that it has inked ...Read More
Everything You Need to Know about eSports and Betting
In today’s tech-driven world, eSports is rapidly becoming one of the largest online betting markets in the world, and a topic that seems to crop up with increasing frequency in sports news pages. While really just a bunch of guys pl...Read More
SBG Growth Drives Stars Group’s Revenues
CEO of Canada’s The Stars Group, Rafi Ashkenazi, has described after the recently purchased business demonstrated fantastic growth across its key financial verticals for the year ended on June 30, 2018. Total revenues for SBG for ...Read More
Legal Sports Betting Could Benefit NASCAR
After the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the PASPA law against sports betting in May, major organizations quickly had to rethink their views on local wagering. NASCAR is one of the organizations now investigating the potent...Read More
888sport Moves In To New Jersey
888 Senior Vice President Yaniv Sherman has officially been relocated to the firm’s New Jersey office to spearhead its new expansion plans across America after its 888sport brand was launched recently in the Garden State. With 888&...Read More
NFL’s Sports Betting Revenues Set to Soar
The National Football League’s revenues are apparently set to soar by more than $2.3 billion per year thanks to the recently . The news comes according to a recent Nielsen Sports study, which was commissioned by the American Gaming Associ...Read More
IGT & William Hill Bag Sports Betting Deal
Leading gaming systems developer IGT (International Game Technology) has at long last revealed that it has been chosen in partnership with the American arm of British bookie William Hill to supply the Rhode Island Lottery with a new serv...Read More
FanDuel Co-Founder Opposes $465m Takeover
Nigel Eccles, a co-founder of daily fantasy sports giant FanDuel, has reportedly filed a lawsuit against British bookmaker Paddy Power Betfair. The case is based on the sports betting operator’s recent $465 million takeover of the a...Read More
NJ Punters Wager Nearly $4 Million in July
Bettors in the US state of New Jersey placed just less than $4 million in wagers during the first full month of legal sports betting for the region. New Jersey was the state that first began the push towards the abolishment of the long-ti...Read More
US Leagues Call for Betting Integrity Fee
According to new reports, New York could become the first American state to regulate its through a clause involving a specialized fee. This proposed fee, dubbed an ‘integrity fee’ by its attached legislative bill, would be pa...Read More
Sports Betting for Canada’s Border Cities?
Is an expansion of the sports betting industry on the cards for Canucks? The rise in popularity for online gambling worldwide is continuing apace, and Canada is no exception. Additionally, this sector is seeing some of the biggest amounts...Read More
MGM and GVC Partner in US Betting Venture
This has been a year packed with M&A activity for the world’s largest casino firms, and the trend is showing no signs of slowing year. In the spirit of this phenomenon, global operators MGM Resorts and GVC Holdings h...Read More