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…
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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…
What’s In A Name? Euphemism and LLMs Replace Fear and Loathing in Prediction Markets
Paranoid? Worried about the impact of A.I. on your employment prospects? No need to be. AI has been consigned to the definitions…
Betting On The Future is a Family Affair, Trumpworld Powers Prediction Markets
Never has the ancient, back-handed Chinese rejoinder, I hope you live in “interesting” times, been more prescient. For, under the stewardship of…
New York City Casino Wars: Mega Hitters Move Over Mafia
The appetite for gambling in New York, the “City That Never Sleeps”, is vast and compelling. Just look at the Empire State…
Sports Betting High Stakes In Game Of Texas Hold’em
Playing true to its singular, “onery” moniker, Texas–along with California–is the last major territory holding out against the rising sweep of legal,…
Read My Lips: No New Taxes!
In the age of president Donald Trump 2.0 it seems that contentious word “taxes” has been banned from the Anglo-sphere. Instead we’re…
Burn It Down: Brazil Sports Betting Scores Spectacular Own Goal
EXCLUSIVE: Brazil, blessed with its vast Amazonian rainforest, spectacular northern desert of Lençóis Maranhenses and sprawling southern Pantanal wetlands, is known for…
Futures Imperfect, CFTC Derivatives Watchdog Looks To Ban Gambling On U.S. Presidential Election
To most of us America’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is a little known financial watchdog, if known at all. But it…
UK Election Special: Gambling On One Last Roll Of The Tumbling Political Dice
As England football fans have just recently been reminded to their delight and astonishment, it ain’t over until the Bellingham rings. Or…
SPECIAL REPORT: Gambling’s Odds In India
India has 10,000 Gods. And each one, they say, has 400 avatars. Thus imagine the betting permutations in this amazing world, both…
A Tale Of Two Archipelagos: Philippines Says Hello To iGaming But Indonesia Says No No
It’s a tale of two archipelagos. The iGaming course of ASEAN neighbours The Philippines and Indonesia, the two biggest island nations in…
Divide And Rules, California Sports Betting Dies Another Day
That old saw, ‘if California were a country, it would be the fifth richest in the world’, runs back and forth; reminding…
Malta At The Crossroads: Can Charles Mizzi Crack Corruption in The Capital of World iGaming
Amid the concerted bid to clean-up this Mediterranean island nation’s fractured image for corruption and money laundering, the appointment of Charles Mizzi…
Compliance? It’s A Black and White Affair For Entain
The drive to “clean-up” gambling may–quite literally, in the case of betting giant Entain–be a black and white affair, but the fading…
Shohei The Money Ohtani
Tis the season to be jolly and the thoughts of every good iGamer turns to–what else–that vital blessing: Money! So how’s this…
Slowly, Slowly Catchee Monkey, MGM’s Groundbreaking Japan Venture Inches Forward
Never has the ancient African proverb “slowly, slowly, catchee monkey” been more apposite. Doing business in Japan, to coin additional euphemisms, is…
Transaction Declined: Beware Of Aussies Bearing Credit Cards And Other Crypto Gifts
Gambling using credit cards to pay for bets is all set to be outlawed Down Under. Australia has given us many gifts:…
Betting On Green Pocket, Is No Zero Sum Game In Desert UAE
It may be illegal–‘Haram’–under the strictures of Islamic law but the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is fast approaching legalising gambling in the…
The BetMGM Slap That’s Set To Reverberate Around The World Of iGaming
With US megalith MGM Resorts International ditching Entain to launch BetMGM in the UK, the world of iGaming is all shook up….
It’s A Whole New iGaming World For Walt Disney
For some it’s been likened to a “Marriage A-la-Mode, for others it’s a cynical, if long overdue push into the booming North…
Yes We Khan, London Rescues Commonwealth Games
Fresh from his political drubbing for the “crime” of wanting to bring fresh air to the capital, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has…
Sleeping Beast Las Vegas Sands Awakes and Smells The Live Casino Coffee
Don’t let the name fool you. These days the Las Vegas Sands has very little to do with the Desert Queen herself,…
Malta Matters, iGaming Capital Lays Down Law, Gears Up For Mighty EU Legal Tussle
With its location at the heart of the Mediterranean and role as iGaming capital of the world, tiny Malta, an island nation…
Blood On The Track In The Sport Of Kings
“Havnameltdown”. Never has a name been so apposite in describing the existential crisis affecting horse racing, the sport of kings, on both…
Soon Big Apples Won’t Grow Here, Says Garden State
While “What Goes in Vegas Stays in Vegas” has been the norm since the birth of gambling in the desert kingdom, “What…
The Big Fade, White Paper Lands With A Flutter
In the end the White Paper hit with something of an anti-climax, perhaps representative of the measured, collegiate, head-boy style of Number…
UK Sports (Betting) Facing A Summer Of Disruption
Sport, and by extension sports betting, is facing a long summer of disruption and protest. For sport, its vagaries, its excitement, its…
Godzilla v. King Kong, Big Beasts Dugher and Lawson Face Off In The iGaming Jungle
Godzilla versus King Kong, there’s a metaphorical 500lb gorilla in the iGaming jungle. “Lots of hysterical nonsense is claimed about betting &…
Tiptoeing Through The Tulips, The Weird And Wonderful World Of Japanese Gambling
Apart from the embracing, indeed comforting, atmosphere of all-pervasive order, and the immaculate state of big city streets, the first time visitor…
Back In-play, Match Fixing Rears Its Ugly Header
Imagine, for a moment, a match between England’s two most storied football clubs, Manchester United and Liverpool. Imagine, moreover, that seven players…
Avatar: The Way of Indian iGaming
They say that India has 40,000 gods and goddesses, and that each one has four avatars. At the expense of exaggeration, it…
Amid The Great Depression, It Has To Be You
Amid the Great Depression, picture the scene. A down-at-heel punter, facing ruination, walks into a casino for one last throw of the…
With Gambling Reform on the Warpath, It May Be Time to Circle The Wagons
Gambling reform–perhaps more than most issues on this government’s agenda–has been buffeted and delayed by the chaos of Covid and internecine Tory…
Veni, Vidi, Vici Ventures, While Roc Renders Unto Caesars
You’ve got to hand it to the bricks-and-mortar guys. They might have taken a beating from Covid. But in The States, at…
Facing Buyer’s Regret, 888 is Drowning in Debt After Reverse Takeover of Storied William Hill
At the time–with the world awash with cheap money–it seemed like a master-stroke; a supreme marriage of convenience between the brash, ballsy…
Allwyn International On The Bounce, Given Blank-Check To Rule The World
Despite the fierce world economic headwinds, and their recent failure to launch on the New York Stock Exchange, Allwyn Entertainment, the soon-to-be…
California, IGaming’s Biggest Prize, Remains Just Out Of Reach
It could have been a classic and uplifting scene straight out of a revisionist left field western: a virtuous circle of “Cowboys…
Buckle Up, In a Thrilling Game of High-stakes Poker MGM Resorts Plans World Domination
Perhaps the salient clue lies in the name: LeoVegas, a cheeky appropriation of two of the biggest branding images of world gambling…
It’s A Sure Bet, The Sunak Always Rises
So it’s a one-horse race, after all. By the time you’re reading this, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak will no doubt…
Booze, Grass or Twitch, Nobody Surfs for Free, Amazon Ditches Riders Mid-stream
Stung by a steady stream of criticism over illicit betting and accusations of corrupting young minds, Amazon, owners of Twitch, have decided…
A Feast of Esports on the Menu for The Fat Banker’s SAS
Ever wondered how the Fat Banker got so fat? One answer could be because he/she/they ate the future for breakfast. And none…
On a Prayer and Parachute, In Michelle Donelan We Truss
Liz Truss, the UK’s fourth prime minister in six years, has made her keen right-wing supporter Michelle Donelan the new overlord of…
It’s A Whole New World For Codere As Online Progeny Steps Up To The River Plate
They say, with the deepest respect, that: “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” Yet, in rejoinder, and equally respectfully, it’s…
Online Flavours The Pot, But In The Stats Cook-off Between Citadels Vegas and Macau Someone Ate All The Noodles
Post-Pandemic and post-Liberalisation iGaming flavours the pot, but in the stats war between the twin citadels of straight gambling, Las Vegas and…
In “Race to the Top”, Flutter Lightens Load By Dumping Captain and Crew Overboard
A cynic may argue that in its “race to the top”, Flutter Entertainment, the world’s largest gambling group, has decided to lighten…
Howzat? Russian Punters Hit For Six in Indian Cricket Scam
It’s said that Russian punters will bet on anything. And so it has proved after an ingenious cricket betting scam in India…
Risky Business, 888’s Acquisition of William Hill International May Be a Bond Too Far
With the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine fuelling economic uncertainty and raging inflation, maybe now is not the time for 888’s debt-financed…
Someone’s Left the Cake Out in the Rain, Camelot Will Never Get The Recipe Again
In this world of luck, of ever-changing pronouns and mixed metaphors, “It Could Be You!” But, as Camelot, the improbable host of…
Belgium Betting Industry: Maigret and Magritte Puzzled By Proposed Ban on Advertising
In a double quandary that may have delighted two of the country’s most famous sons, surrealist artist René Magritte and the great…