Letter From America 51
Welcome to the New Year and the first Letter From America of 2026. We’re kicking-off by diving straight into the Venezuela prediction…
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Without You: What Does Maduro’s Fall Mean For Venezuela’s iGaming Industry?
EXCLUSIVE: The seizure and sequestration of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro by U.S. Special Forces opens up unique opportunities for the oil-rich nation’s…
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? …
Brightstar Lottery to Deliver Engaging Instant Tickets in California with New Six-Year Contract
Brightstar Lottery PLC has secured a six-year contract with the California Lottery to provide instant ticket printing and related services, following a…
New Year, New Threats: iGaming And The AI Arms Race
It was nearing the end of the year when Mickey Carol, a science and tech reporter for Britain’s Sky News, received an…
PENN Entertainment Announces New Organizational Structure
PENN Entertainment has outlined a new corporate organisational structure intended to align more closely with its strategic priorities, including a sharper focus…
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…
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…
New York Grants Bally’s Licence for Bronx Casino Project
The New York State Gaming Commission has granted a Gaming Facility License to the entity developing Bally’s Bronx, authorising Bally’s Corporation to…
Caesars Entertainment Adds Wazdan Games in West Virginia
Caesars Entertainment has added Wazdan content to its online casino platforms in West Virginia, extending its igaming offering in the regulated US…
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…
Arizona Neuters Fantasy Sport’s Underdog
The Arizona Department of Gaming (ADG) has notified fantasy sports operator Underdog that it is revoking its licence due to its partnership…
EasyWin Closes First Seed Round at $15.5M Valuation
EasyWin, a Poland-based real-money gaming startup with operations in the U.S., has announced the close of its first seed funding round at…
Letter From America 50
Welcome back to another unmissable posting of Letter From America, led this week, sine qua non, by Missouri, which officially became the…
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…
bet365 Betano Cleared Of Mexico Drug Cartel Money Laundering Smears
EXCLUSIVE: When the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Bureau, FinCEN, denounced 10 Mexican casinos for laundering cash from the Sinaloa drug cartel…
Hard Rock Bet Debuts Online Sportsbook and Casino in Michigan
Hard Rock Bet has launched its online sportsbook and casino in Michigan through a partnership with Island Resort & Casino and the…
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…
theScore Bet Goes Live in 21 U.S. Jurisdictions
PENN Entertainment has completed the rebrand of its online sports betting platform to theScore Bet and has launched the product in Missouri,…
BetMGM Rolls Out Mobile and Retail Sports Betting in Missouri
BetMGM has launched mobile and in-person sports wagering in Missouri through its partnership with Century Casinos, enabling players to bet statewide via…
Better Collective Set for Missouri Launch as Betting Goes Live
Better Collective is preparing to enter Missouri’s newly regulated online sports betting market, expanding its North American footprint to 25 states plus…
Caesars Sportsbook Goes Live with Mobile and Retail Betting in Missouri
Caesars Entertainment has launched mobile and in-person sports wagering in Missouri, with the Caesars Sportsbook app now accepting bets statewide and new…
DraftKings Introduces Spanish-Language Option for Sportsbook
DraftKings has launched a Spanish-language experience within its Sportsbook & Casino app, expanding accessibility for customers in the United States and Ontario….
Letter From America 49
Autumn leaves may be falling but powered by the return of across-the-board sporting action revenues everywhere are up, marking the U.S. market’s…
DraftKings to Launch Mobile Sports Betting in Missouri
DraftKings will launch its mobile sportsbook in Missouri on 1 December 2025 after receiving a temporary direct mobile sports wagering licence from…
Less Is More In Illinois As New Tax Shifts Betting Paradigm
Illinois’ new per-wager tax is, remarkably, reshaping sports betting in the great American prairie state, with players placing fewer bets but risking…
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…
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…