Malta Matters, iGaming Capital Lays Down Law, Gears Up For Mighty EU Legal Tussle
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iGaming NEXT Valletta 23: A Sneak Peek Behind the Agenda – Playstar!
Tomorrow, one of the most highly anticipated iGaming events of the Summer is kicking off in Malta, iGaming NEXT Valletta at the…
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Casino Cabbie: Letter From America 6
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Where’s My Pickle? The LeoVegas Slider Continues
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Our US partner Casino Cabbie continues to bring us its delicious wrap of sugar, spice and all things nice from across the…
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Latinx Marks The Spot As Codere Online Says “Si” To Significant Revenue Boost In Q1
Major Spanish and Latin American iGaming operator Codere Online has unveiled fine financial results for Q1, demonstrating substantial net revenue of €39.5…
Kambi Group Partners with WarHorse Gaming for On-Property Sportsbook in Nebraska
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While Xi Says Hi, It’s Wynn-Wynn For Wynn Resorts
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bet365 Passes On The Danish, Nutmegged By ManU’s Eriksen Who Scores At Last
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Prize money for the 2023 G1 LONGINES Hong Kong International Races (HKIR) has been upped to an all-time high of HK$118 million…
Ditching Junkets and Covid, Macau Steps Back From The Brink
So a man…invariably a man…sometimes with a bejewelled beauty on his arm…walks into a casino… It’s the foundational cliché of high-stakes gambling,…
Boosted By Bold Digital Turnaround, Caesars Entertainment Reports Strong Q1 2023 Financial Results
From vertiginous loss to near break-even in only a year, Caesars Entertainment’s bold digital gambit appears to be on the cusp of…
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Green shoots of promise and recovery across the eastern seaboard this week, as Casino Cabbie features items from New Jersey, Pennsylvania and…
Playing The FanDuel Advantage, Flutter Posts A Killer Q1.
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While “What Goes in Vegas Stays in Vegas” has been the norm since the birth of gambling in the desert kingdom, “What…
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Esports Masterclass: 2023 Roadmap to Sports Integrity Success!
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After months, if not years, of dither and delay the UK government is finally set to deliver reform to the world’s biggest…
Breaking News: Gambling White Paper To Be Published Today
The long-awaited White Paper on gambling reform is to be published today, the UK government has confirmed. Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer will…
More Slump Than Crash, Kambi Shares Slide And Dividend Shelved After Stuttering Q1
Citing the unspecified impact of “certain non-recurring costs”, Kambi has delivered a stuttering Q1, with an immediate impact of its share price…
Top Chinese Players Snookered By Match-fixing Charges
As the so-called World Snooker Championship enters the business end of competition this week, 10 Chinese players–among them former Masters winner Yan…
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Who needs a government gambling White Paper when it appears that reform is writing itself. That’s the message streaming out of the…
Embattled Ukraine Opens New Front In Gambling War Against Alleged Russian Agents
A new front has opened in Ukraine’s secretive and little reported parallel war against alleged Russian gambling interests in the embattled nation….
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More freshly-squeezed insight this week from our favourite stateside partners, Casino Cabbie. The Juice Is Back. New Jersey’s Caesars Tropicana Casino has…
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