Entain Focussed On Fiscal Growth As Guidance Holds In Q1
UK gambling heavy-hitter Entain has reported a three percent increase in group Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) for the first quarter of 2026,…
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LeoVegas Rolls Out Tiger Sportsbook via GoGoCasino
LeoVegas Group has expanded its iGaming offering in Sweden after its GoGoCasino brand was granted a betting licence by the Swedish Gambling…
BetMGM Reports iGaming Growth in Q1 2026 Update
BetMGM has reported iGaming revenue growth in its Q1 2026 business update, with overall performance reflecting continued expansion across North American regulated…
Entain Reports FY25 iGaming Growth and EBITDA Rise
Entain plc has reported its Full-Year 2025 results, with the iGaming and sports betting group delivering growth in net gaming revenue and…
Serendipity Calling Sri Lanka Is Open For Business
SPECIAL REPORT: Sri Lanka, the fabled Serendipity of yore, is set to become an iGaming paradise as Southeast Asia’s next big hub….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Led By Stella The Warrior, Entain Looks To The Fiscal Uplands
The great Entain reset continues with the UK’s top gambling omnichannel reporting a seven percent increase in Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) in…
Champagne Supernova, BetMGM Expecting US$150m+ EBITDA in 2025
Leading U.S. sportsbook BetMGM is anticipating 2025 Full Year revenue of US$2.7 billion (£2.02bn), with EBITDA of over US$150 million (£112.35m), the…
And Then There Were Eight, It’s Crunch Time For Aspiring Big Apple Casinos
Wynn Resorts and Las Vegas Sands dropped out prematurely, leaving a so-called lucky eight operators to contest the three open slots to…
MGM Yonkers Submits Casino License Bid in New York
MGM Yonkers Inc., a subsidiary of MGM Resorts International, has formally submitted its commercial casino license application to the New York Gaming…
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…
21st-Century Cybersecurity: Getting Ahead Of The Hack
Despite ever-increasing investment, cybersecurity threats and attacks have become more prevalent, sophisticated and costly in the gaming industry. In 2023, two of…
Soon Come: EBITDA-Positive Dream Nears For BetMGM
The dream of going EBITDA-positive by year’s end becomes ever more tangible for MGM Resorts-Entain iGaming joint-venture BetMGM, following a successful FY…
MGM Resorts International Reports Record 2024 Q3
MGM Resorts International has reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2024, showcasing record consolidated net revenues and significant growth…
Just As Jette Ordered, Euro Expansion Saves Entain Blushes In H1
They say a prophet has no honour in their own land but if there’s one unemployed former top level CEO smiling today…
BetMGM Retains Bronze Medal In H1 Fiscal Olympics
BetMGM, America’s third-placed fantasy sports betting and iGaming operator behind leaders FanDuel and DraftKings, retained its bronze medal winning fiscal slot in…
MGM Resorts International to Acquire Tipico’s U.S. Sportsbook Operations
MGM Resorts International has announced that its subsidiary, LeoVegas Group, has reached an agreement to acquire the U.S. sportsbook and online casino…
MGM Resorts International and Technology Leader Playtech Partner to Launch Proprietary Live Casino Content Directly from Las Vegas
Playtech and MGM Resorts International, are today announcing a strategic partnership which will offer new and unique live casino content to operators…
Savouring Entain At Bay, MGM’s Hornbuckle Posts Ominous Q1
As Big Bill Hornbuckle, CEO and President of MGM Resorts International, looks out of his penthouse office suite at 3600 Las Vegas…
Entain: Feeding Frenzy or Break-up To Make-up?
BetMGM, bwin, Coral, Ladbrokes, PartyPoker, Sportingbet, STS, et al; who will buy these storied brands? That’s the question being posed by gambling…
Bye, Bye Barry, The Man Who Almost Saved Entain’s World
Amid the chaos and churn of its recent travails, the bad dice keep tumbling for troubled UK gambling giant Entain. Barry Gibson,…
Entain Scrambling To Save Its Ship of State
In further desperate measures to right its sinking ship of state, British betting leviathan Entain–which posted an £879 million (US$1.12bn) FY23 loss…
Bad News, Good News, Entain’s Annus Horribilis Ends On A Bum Note
Good news? Bad news? First the bad news: For Entain there is no good news. After posting a loss, after tax, of…
MGM Resorts Achieves Record Results in Q4 and Full Year 2023
MGM Resorts International, a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MGM, reported its financial results for the…
X Marks The Spot: Elon Musk and BetMGM Sign Ground-breaking iGaming Deal
In a ground-breaking, disruptive move that could crash on the rocks of ambition or power aggregation in the highly-competitive iGaming industry, social…
Baby Boomer BetMGM Gets Up, Walks, Talks in FY23
Whatever the travails currently assuaging its British co-parent, Entain, premier US sportsbook BetMGM has delivered a sterling FY23 that keeps it well…
Casino Cabbie: Letter From America 16
In ‘The Year of the Dragon’, what could be more apposite than kick-starting our 2024 America coverage with the latest Letter From…
Phat City: The Magic Is Back In Macau
Macau, the storied Chinese gambling enclave that was almost floored by draconian travel bans and lockdowns during the recent pandemic, is back…
Stalking Horse Or Pale Rider, What The Sandler Effect Signifies For Entain
Stalking Horse or Trojan Horse, Pale Rider or Roughrider, the equine idioms to describe Ricky Sandler, a new non-executive Director of troubled…
Entain CEO “Private Jette” Nygaard-Andersen Jets Off Into The Corporate Sunset
Today as she jets off into the corporate sunset; trailing queries of “was she pushed or did she jump”, who cares; the…
Two Billion Dollar Baby, New York, New York, So Good You Gotta Say It Twice
Powered by “The City That Never Sleeps”, New York State has smashed the US$2 billion sports betting handle for the second month…
Bowed And Bloodied But Entain Still Standing
There’s something deeply disquieting about witnessing the imminent humbling of a gambling industry giant that appears to have lost its way yet…
December Day Of Dread For UK Gambling Giant Entain
Amid a cauterwal of crises–the biggest money laundering fine in gambling history, for example, bolshie US investors, an over-ambitious expansion strategy, regulatory…
Dodge & Cox, Today What’s In Entain?
As we celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s “First Folio”–the very first assemblage of the Bard’s collected plays–, it seems strangely apposite,…
Tumbling Dice, Entain Shares Fall As Supergroup Issues Revenue Warning
Shares in Entain plunged by nearly 12 percent in early morning trading Monday–the biggest faller in the FTSE-100–, as the UK-headquartered supergroup,…
Push Gaming Expands After Acquisition by MGMRI’s LeoVentures
In recent developments within the igaming sector, Push Gaming, a notable B2B gaming supplier, has marked a significant step in its growth…
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….
The Future’s Bright, The Future’s MGM Resorts International
When Big Bill Hornbuckle the CEO of MGM Resorts International sits down at his desk in Las Vegas today he’d be forgiven…
MGM Resorts Appoints Daniel Yang as Chief Customer & Innovation Officer
MGM Resorts International has announced the appointment of Daniel Yang as its new Chief Customer & Innovation Officer. In this newly created…
Where’s My Pickle? The LeoVegas Slider Continues
When Big Bill Hornbuckle, the boss of MGM Resorts International, flips open his cheeseburger today, checking on the status of that all-important…
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…
Wham, Bam, Thank You Mam, MGM Resorts International Roars Back To Life
Buoyed by a big increase in its Las Vegas Strip action, the end of the China Covid19 lockdown and its ground-breaking billion-dollar…
Praise The Gambling Gods: Entain, Its US$170 Billion Baby And A Steady-As-She-Grows FY22
Under the canny stewardship of Chief Executive Jette Nygaard-Andersen, steady-as-she-grows Entain just gets better and better. The FTSE-100 Omnichannel has just upped…
Entain Is In The Room, Omnichannel Reports Big Rise In 2022 NGR
Omnichannel Entain–owners of Ladbrokes Coral–has reported a big rise in year-on-year Net Gaming Revenue (NGR). Thanks to a significant retail bounce-back, following…