DraftKings and FanDuel Duopoly Facing Existential Threat From Prediction Markets
It’s the oldest trick in the book: If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. But despite their much-heralded move into the Prediction…
André Dubronski
DraftKings Delivers Super FY25 Fiscals, Predicts New Year Boom
DraftKings has reported positive net income and record quarterly revenue and adjusted EBITDA for Q4 2025, alongside issuing fiscal year 2026 guidance…
Every Bet You Make, We’ll Be Taxing You, Plans Michigan Governor
Spurred by the example of neighbouring Illinois, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is proposing to embrace a new tax-per-bet regime, with the specific…
The Andrew Rhodes Well Travelled, UKGC Boss Announces Exit
Andrew Rhodes, the highly-regarded Chief Executive of the UK’s regulatory Gambling Commission (UKGC) is moving on after five-years in the top job….
Predicting A Bigger, Bettor New Wave DraftKings
Online dominator DraftKings has upped its bid to crack New Wave iGaming (NWiG), aka predictions markets. The Massachusetts-origin iGaming pioneers has just…
Loto-Québec Launches iGaming Titles with Incentive Games
iGaming operator Loto-Québec has confirmed a partnership with B2B supplier Incentive Games to introduce real-money titles to players in the province of…
Drake Maye Win Super Bowl LX For The Patriots
A president afraid to turn up because he expects a capacity crowd to scream insults, a Puerto Rican superstar being stalked by…
iCasino Remains The Cherry On Top But Going Good Almost Costs Betsson A Turkey In FY25
Like every great leader, Betsson driving-force and CEO Pontus Lindwall warned the troops and investors about the so-so news ahead in a…
Amid Good Times, Bad Times, Evolution Reports Stable iGaming FY25
Evolution–still locked in mortal legal combat with its arch-rival Playtech, amid allegations of skullduggery by ex-Israeli Mossad Secret Service agents–has published its…
ICE Unlikely To Freeze iGaming Action At Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics, being held in Italy for the fourth time, is upon us, with iGaming on a packed sporting schedule unlikely…
BetMGM Posts Spectacular FY25 With Mega iGaming Revenue and EBITDA Growth
BetMGM has issued a spectacular Trading Update for FY25, reporting stronger-than-expected performance across its iGaming and online sports betting operations in North…
AfriMillions Launches Lottery with ATL Group Support
AfriMillions has completed the launch of its lottery product, supported by technology and services from The All Things Lottery Group (ATL), marking…
Come Die With Me: Evoke’s Big Squeeze Running Up That William Hill
In what may go down as the longest whinge in iGaming history, Evoke CEO Per Widerström is continuing to evoke last year’s…
Prediction Polymarket Under Investigation By Israel Secret Service Shin Bet
Controversial prediction markets site Polymarket–at the centre of an alleged insider betting scandal over the sequestration of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro by…
Stench of Corruption Emanating From U.S. Prediction Markets
The stench of corruption emanating from U.S. prediction markets has become undeniable. From the controversial decision of the highest authority in the…
Betway Parent Super Group Issues Billion Dollar 2025 Update
Super Group, the NYSE-listed parent of iGaming brands Betway and Spin, has issued a Trading Update for Q4 and Full-Year 2025 and…
What A Difference A Good Game Makes For Interim Manchester United Manager Michael Carrick
If possession is “nine-tenths of the law” then the odds have considerably shortened on Michael Carrick becoming the next full-time manager of…
Amid Profit Warning, Betsson’s Pontus Lindwall Building Bridges At ICE Barça
EXCLUSIVE: Betsson CEO Pontus Lindwall was busy pressing the flesh at ICE Barcelona today, tamping down the negative fall-out of his company’s…
Calls For VPN Crackdown On Illegal Gambling Sites Following Compulsive Bettor’s Suicide
Regulatory authorities and top iGaming industry stakeholders have called for a renewed crackdown on VPNs which allow compulsive bettors to swerve controls…
Invasion Or No Invasion? Venezuela Roils The Unregulated World Of Prediction Markets
Does the seizure and sequestration of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro by the United States signify a bona fide invasion, or no invasion? …
Walking On Thin Glasner, Oliver Emerges As A Favourite To Take On Troubled Manchester United
Former Austria defender and current Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner has fast-emerged as one of the favourites to replace Ruben Amorim as…
iGaming 2026: Predicting Another Year Of Living Dangerously
Predict. Now that’s a good start, because with U.S. giants FanDuel, DraftKings and BetMGM all set to embrace the prediction markets phenomenon…
Merry Christmas Mz. Denise Coates
From humble portakabin in a car park to Queen of Stoke-on-Trent, once again it’s a very merry £260 million Christmas for bet365…
Paper Tigers Dallas Cowboys, Manchester United, Still Roar On The Field Of Pay
It’s been almost 30-years since they won their last Super Bowl, but–like Manchester United–their lustre, somehow, still shines and they remain the…
Only When I Larf, Flutter Entertainment Sent To The Back Of The Class For A Lesson And A Half
Flutter Entertainment, the owner of Paddy Power Betfair, has been fined £2 million (US$2.66m) by the UK’s regulatory Gambling Commission for Social…
New York City Set For US$5.5 Billion Casino Bonanza
And then there were three. Not definitely maybe but the president, alleged insider trader and Malaysia’s finest, New York City is finally…
For Sale: Evoke Provoked Now Broke Chokes No Joke
BREAKING NEWS: UK gambling giant Evoke, the shattered, deracinated shell of once mighty 888 Holdings has put itself up for sale. Last…
Numbers Up For Cambodia Casino Bombed By Thai Jets
In perhaps the most bizarre gambling-related news of the year, Thai F-16 fighter jets have bombed a casino on the Cambodia border,…
Both Sides Now: Kalshi Trumps Trump With New CNN Prediction Market Deal
No doubt emboldened by its US$11 billion valuation, Kalshi–hitherto President Donald Trump’s favourite prediction markets site for correctly predicting his return to…
Done It Again, Betfred Fined £825,000 For AML Breaches By UKGC
Iconic British betting brand Betfred have done it again. Barely two-years after paying a massive £3.25 million settlement for breaching AML protocols,…
Trifecta Perfecta, The Casino Wolves of Wall Street Are Howlin’
It’s taken a dozen years but the Great New York City Casino Race has finally found its three winning finalists – and…
The Morning After The Budget Before
What are we to make of a company that still hasn’t made its mind up how to spell its own name? Or…
“Turkeys” Vote For Christmas: In Major Budget PR Coup iGaming Tackles Child Poverty Turns Tables On Critics
In a day of high dudgeon, if not high treason, featuring a chaotic pre-Autumn Budget leak and red faces from the Treasury…
UK Chancellor Slams iGaming, Hikes Online Gambling Taxes
In a blistering attack on online betting, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves slammed iGaming today and hiked remote gambling…
UK Budget Latest: Gambling Taxes To Rise, Raising Extra £1.1 Billion
BREAKING STORY: In another major embarrassment for the UK government, full details of today’s Autumn Budget, outlining a £1.1 billion increase in…
Budget Preview: Ghost In The Tax Machine or iGaming Quantum of Solace?
After seemingly aeons of leak and speculation the ground-shifting British Budget is nigh, amid very real fears that big much-touted hikes in…
Over The William Hill Exits Most Africa Markets
Trouble seems to stick to William Hill owner Evoke like an elephant being stalked on a Big Game hunt. Now–following a recent…
Don’t Massachusetts With Us, Triggered By Prediction Markets Civil War Breaks Out in American iGaming
Some time back when the prediction markets story began to break big this publication, with some prescience it now appears, ran the…
Looking To Seize Zeitgeist And Profits, Flutter To Launch Predicts Site In GoldStar States
COMMENTARY: Well versed in self-promotion, with its much-touted “Flutter Effect”, Flutter Entertainment–best known as the parent company of leading U.S. sports book…
“Sino” Non Qua: China Checks POGO Scam Centres Across Asia
SPECIAL REPORT: In my previous life as a foreign correspondent I once had the dubious honour of interviewing the opium warlord Khun…
Chronicle Of A Divorce Foretold: PENN And Disney’s ESPN Cave To The FanDuel-DraftKings Power Duopoly
Much as foretold in these pages when their unlikely marriage was announced, PENN Entertainment and Walt Disney-owned ESPN have filed for divorce…
DraftKings Posts Q3, Revises FY25 Outlook Up
DraftKings reported third-quarter 2025 revenue of US$1.14 billion (£870.1m), up four percent, year on year, citing continued customer engagement, efficient acquisition and…
Pure Play Drives Shining Growth For Brightstar In Q3
Brightstar Lottery–the world’s biggest lottery tech provider, formerly known as IGT and now owned by mega investment funders BlackRock–has reported a seven…
Super Super Group Reports 26 Point Q3 Revenue Surge, Lifts 2025 Guidance
Super Group, parent company of online sports betting and iGaming brands Betway and Spin, has reported revenue of US$556.9 million (£425.97m) for…
Uncle Can You Spare A Crime, Now Thailand Goes To War With Gambling
Barely a month since the ousting of prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra for the crime of calling neighbouring Cambodia strongman Hun Sen “Uncle”…
And Behold Trump Predicts A New Truth Is Born
It’s difficult to gauge whether President Trump’s new prediction market ally was speaking tongue-in-cheek or fervently believed the spiel he was spinning…
Boosted By China And BetMGM But Dragged By Vegas, MGM Resorts Reports Flatline Q3
MGM Resorts International reported flatlining net revenues of US$4.3 billion (£3.26m) for the third quarter of 2025, up only two percent, year-on-year,…
Trump’s Truth Social Partners With Crypto.com To Offer Prediction Markets
Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. (Nasdaq, NYSE Texas: DJT), the operator of Truth Social, has announced an exclusive partnership with Crypto.com…
It’s No-No For Caesars In Yo-Yo Q3 As Both Vegas And Digital Drag
Shares in U.S. gambling big hitter Caesars Entertainment have fallen by more than two percent following a lacklustre Q3, which failed to…
Betsson, Who Loves Ya Baby? Pretty Much Everybody Says Q3
Swedish iGaming playmakers Betsson AB released their Interim Report for the first nine months of the year, ending September 2025, today and…