DraftKings is upping its connections with professional sports as it signs on as the official sports betting partner of Wrigley Field. It's another sign of American professional sports leagues' complete capitulation to regulated sports betting. Under the terms of the deal, DraftKings is to take the mantle of "the official sports betting and daily fantasy…
Bodog sportsbook is one of the internet's oldest and most establishment bookmakers. They've weathered some pretty severe crises over the years but, like every gambling operator, they're doing everything they can to stay ahead of the chaos that is 2020. Fortunately, Bodog has the NBA and MLB, in their truncated forms, to help keep the…
Is online the poker the cure for online casino's catastrophic quarantine revenue losses? While poker may not be the savior of all online gambling operators, it's certainly helping out the French-facing online gambling business. According to a new report from the French gambling regulator Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ), the French online poker business has…
News that MGM Resorts will be permanently laying off at least 18,000 employees is something that seems all to inevitable for the struggling land-based casino business. After all, even the busiest, most successful casinos in the world have trouble operating at half-capacity in a year that included a three-month forced shutdown. What's really awful is…
Las Vegas casinos are slowly coming back to life after being locked down for months. July 2020 marked their first full month of operation since Nevada's casinos re-opened in June. Their revenues were down plenty over previous years, but look like major victories compared to March, April and May. According to a recent report from…
Which industry is worse when it comes to targeting children with online ads - the gambling business or the junk food business? According to a recent report from the UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), gambling operators are actually worse. The findings are part of year-long study that's being conducted by the ASA that monitors more…
The UK Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) is an organization that seems to live by the rule, "If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will." That's likely why they've been so keen touting the results of an analysis done by Enders Analysis that found their "whistle to whistle" ban on gambling advertisements during…
Gambling operators across Europe and the United Kingdom are under siege from lawmakers who think that certain industries are just too dangerous to be running advertisements to the general public. Their concern, they say, is that operators are enticing and inducing perfectly innocent people into a life of debauched and compulsive gambling. While concern over…
Remember when one of the indelible sounds of a casino was the jingle-jangle of piles of coins pouring out of slot machines? That memory may not date you as much as you might think. The COVID-19 pandemic, and its attendant shortage of cash and coins, are sending casino operators scrambling to come up with enough…
Are video game loot boxes a form of gambling? Do video game companies deliberately induce compulsive behavior? Those are the questions that may, or may not, be answered as a class-action suit against video game giant Electronic Arts (EA). The lawsuit was brought on by video game player Kevin Ramirez and involves 100 other players.…
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