Don’t Massachusetts With Us, Triggered By Prediction Markets Civil War Breaks Out in American iGaming
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Caesars Enables Early Registration for Missouri Sportsbook
Caesars Entertainment has opened early registration and funding for its Caesars Sportsbook mobile app in Missouri ahead of the state’s official sports…
Letter From America 48
Welcome back for another whirlwind tour of the latest breaking news from the U.S. iGaming industry. Welcome to the latest edition of…
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…
Brightstar Extends Texas Lottery Technology Contract
Brightstar Lottery PLC has signed a two-year contract extension with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, which oversees the operations of…
Taking A Mega India Hit, Flutter Posts Q3 Update and Launches FanDuel Predicts
Flutter Entertainment plc has released its Q3 2025 trading update, reporting a 17 percent year-over-year increase in group revenue to US$3.79 billion…
Evoplay Celebrates US Lottery Market Entry
Evoplay has expanded its presence in North America with its official entry into the US lottery market, marking a key step in…
80 Percent Of U.S. Bettors Believe Athletes Fix Play For Bets
More than 80 percent of U.S. sports bettors believe professional athletes alter how they play to influence the outcome of bets, according…
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…
PENN and ESPN Agree to End U.S. Online Betting Partnership
PENN Entertainment, Inc. and ESPN, Inc. have announced a mutual agreement to terminate their exclusive U.S. online sports betting partnership, with the…
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…
Between Hard Rock And A Slick Place, Seminoles Launch Online Slots In The Sunshine State
Amid the dystopian subset of U.S. gambling, Florida’s gaming Seminole Tribe, who have a monopoly on betting in the Sunshine State, have…
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…
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…
Letter From America 47
Packed with headliners. There’s no other way to describe Letter From America this week, as we feature a clutch of compelling stories…
Controversial Sweepstakes: The View From The Bridge
Once able to operate under loosely-defined promotional laws in almost every U.S. state, a tide of new legislation is ending the ambiguity…
betOcean Partners with RubyPlay to Expand NJ Content Offer
RubyPlay has strengthened its position in the US igaming market through a new partnership with Ocean Casino Resort’s online platform, betOcean.com, in…
Mafia-Backed Betting Scandal: 34 Arrested In Sweeping FBI Raids
The biggest betting scandal in modern U.S. sports history erupted yesterday, as the FBI arrested 34 suspects, including Portland Trail Blazers coach…
It’s Getting Better All The Time? Embattled iGaming Software Giants Evolution Report Flat To Minus Q3
If this is progress then what’s Evolution? One may well ask, as the Swedish-origin iGaming software and games developer, mired in controversy…
Hoping This Railbird Will Fly, DraftKings Joins The Great Prediction Markets Race
DraftKings, the number two digital sports book and iGaming outfit in the United States, has officially joined the great prediction markets race…
Playtech Hits Back In Its Battle Of The iGaming Software Heavyweights
Like two heavyweight Sumo wrestlers vying for the title of world iGaming software top dog, Playtech’s and Evolution’s sensational court case–involving alleged…
Mossad Connection As Playtech Shares In Freefall Following Evolution Claims Of Malpractice
BREAKING NEWS: Playtech Plc shares crashed by 25 percent today–and may fall further–after Evolution AB alleged that Playtech used a private intelligence…
Kalshi And Prediction Markets Question Continues To Roil U.S. iGaming Legislators
This week the Michigan Gaming Control Board (MGCB) fired a prediction markets warning shot across the bows of America. And guess what?…
Boosted By BetMGM Sprog, Entain FY25 Is Sunny Side Up
Boosted by its increasingly profitable sprog, UK gambling giant Entain today reaffirmed a sunny side up outlook for its Full Year 25….
BetMGM Raises FY25 Guidance After Strong Q3 Performance
BetMGM, the joint venture between Entain and MGM Resorts International, has reported better-than-expected results for Q3 2025, driven by strong performance across…
Go East Hot Gambler As Storied Las Vegas Sands Runs Out Of Digital Time
Hit the road Jack, and don’t you come back no more, no more…one can almost hear the storied Rat Pack of Frank…
Bally’s High, Corporation Completes €2.7bn Sale of International Interactive to Intralot
Intralot’s €2.7 billion (£2.35bn/US$3.12bn) acquisition of Bally’s International Interactive business, creating a global iGaming and lottery group with enhanced scale and diversification,…
Return Of The Prodigal Son, Polymarket’s U.S. Future Boosted By US$2 Billion Investment
Predictions site Polymarket’s fully-fledged return to home U.S. territory has been considerably boosted by a US$2 billion (£1.48bn) investment from the owners…
Native American Tribal Gaming Legend Ernie Stevens Jr. Laid To Rest
American Tribal gaming leader and legend, “warrior” Ernie Stevens Jr. was laid to rest at the weekend. The towering 6ft 7in Ernie,…
Scoop, Push or Scrape, Trump Organisation In Potential NYC Golf Casino Scandal
Hole-in-one or illegal “penalty” shot, a looming scandal in which the Trump Organisation is set to make millions of dollars may soon…
Bally’s Outlines Plans for New Las Vegas Integrated Resort
Bally’s Corporation has announced its vision for Bally’s Las Vegas, a new integrated resort to be developed on the site of the…
BetMGM Appoints Jarrod Schwarz as Chief Operating Officer
BetMGM has promoted Jarrod Schwarz to the role of Chief Operating Officer, a newly created position within the business. Previously serving as…
NCPG Loses Control: What’s Next For 1-800-GAMBLER Helpline?
Responsible Gambling Education Month in the U.S. is typically a celebration of progress in safer gambling, but this year it ends with…
A Bad Run For Caesars Entertainment
Caesars Entertainment is having a spectacular run of bad luck. Today (September 22), the Las Vegas-born gambling giant was officially demoted from…
It’s The Devil’s Highway Not The Great White Way For Caesars Broadway Casino Bid
Superstar rapper Jay-Z and the controversial Reverend Al Sharpton have failed in their bid to bring a casino-resort to The Big Apple’s “Great White Way”. iGF Editor-in-Chief André Dubronski reports on the latest controversial twist in the compelling New York City casino story….
Trump Tariffs Trigger Massive Mexico Gambling Tax Hike
EXCLUSIVE: Mexico, Latin America’s largest gambling market, is facing a massive 50 percent hike in direct betting taxes, and the move has…
Sale Of Snaitech Has Made Playtech Mor Weizer In Surging H1
Boosted by the recent sale of its Italian Snaitech operation to Flutter Entertainment for €2.3 billion (£1.98m), Playtech has reported a strong…
Punters Are Leaving Las Vegas…Sort Of
Bill Hornbuckle may disagree. And as boss of the biggest beast on the storied Strip he’s got powerful reasons to counter negative…
New NFL Season Signals Start Of US$30 Billion Betting Bonanza
The biggest betting bonanza in world sport–worth an estimated US$30 billion (£22.33bn)–kicked-off early this morning (September 5 BST 02:20hrs), with the start…
Letter From America 44
Welcome to the latest Letter From America. We lead this edition with the break-out news that the Ohio Casino Control Commission (OCCC)…
Cracks Appear In California Tribal Gaming Alliance
EXCLUSIVE: Under increasing pressure from an unholy trio of sweepstakes casinos, prediction markets and their long-term heavy hitter national sportsbook opponents, serious…
DFS 3.0, The Big Heat: FanDuel, DraftKings Coming For Prediction Markets
Flutter Entertainment’s FanDuel–which entered the pre-PASPA U.S. sports betting space as a DFS pioneer, along with DraftKings–has thrown down the gauntlet to…
Power Play: FanDuel Enters Prediction Markets
Breaking: In an overnight development that will surprise few, U.S. market leader FanDuel announced–subject to Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approval–its entry…
Letter From America 43
Welcome to our latest Letter From America. It’s a bumper edition this week, so we’re diving right in. First stop, the progressive…
Building a Casino Brand for the US Market by FanDuel
FanDuel Casino’s rapid ascent to become the #1 iGaming brand in the US was built on a fundamental shift in approach. Asaf…
PENN Launches Stand-Alone Hollywood Casino app in WV
PENN Entertainment has rolled out its stand-alone Hollywood Casino app in West Virginia, expanding the operator’s igaming portfolio across the state. The…