UK football clubs are under fire from anti-gambling advocates for their role in bringing branded sportsbooks to Premiere and Champions League football stadiums. That criticism is currently focused on Sheffield Wednesday and William, the first football team/operator duo to enter an arrangement to develop a Home Shop at the team's Hilsborough Stadium. Though gambling operators,…
Risk-free bets are a marketing cornerstone of the contemporary sports betting industry. In the United States, where the regulated sports betting sector is still in its infancy, operators use so-called "risk-free" bets as a promotion that's usually written off on the company's tax bill. The pervasive nature of risk-free promotions make Penn Entertainment's recent decision…
Regulated sports betting came to the state of Ohio on New Year's Day with disgraced baseball legend Pete Rose making the state's first legal wager. Ohio is jumping on a regulated sports betting bandwagon that's sweeping the country, and is now the 31st state to legalize betting on sports. Regulated sports betting is predicted to…
Gaming revenue in the state of Nevada is on track for a record-breaking year, despite the damage inflicted last month by sports betting raconteur Mattress Mack. Nevada's gaming revenue for the month of November totaled just over $1.2 billion, which was down from November 2021, but still very healthy. While November's numbers were hardly bad,…
On January 1, PokerStars will be combining the liquidity pools of its New Jersey and Michigan players in tournaments and regular play. It's a move that US-facing online poker operators have been working towards since the post-Black Friday re-birth and could prove to be a driving factor in the online poker segment. Shared liquidity is…
Employees at Malta-based iGaming operator Genesis Global got some extremely unwelcome news this holiday season as the company laid off its entire workforce. The move came on the heels of the company's declaration of insolvency in a Maltese courtroom and is the latest in a string of extinction-level events that have plagued the company since…
Gaming Innovation Group Inc. (GiG) is purchasing AskGamblers, and several other prominent casino affiliate sites, for €47 million ($45 million USD). It's a deal that involves some big name affiliate brands and greatly enhances GiG's place in the casino affiliate business. The deal is structured in a series of payments that GiG will be making…
Flutter Entertainment CEO Peter Jackson shared his views about impending gambling reforms in Ireland in a recent editorial in the Irish Times. The corporate honcho voiced support for Ireland's gambling reforms, while expressing his hope that the regulators handling the day-to-day work of regulation are well-funded enough to do the job. Jackson says he and…
Fallout from the New York Times' recent expose on the connection between big-time American universities and gambling operators continued this week as personal finance guru Dave Ramsey called the relationship "stupidity on steroids." Ramsey is just one of a growing chorus of critics who have come out in the wake of the New York Times'…
US Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) is calling for US colleges to end their marketing relationships with sports betting operators like Caesars Entertainment. The Senator was moved to make the call after reading a recent New York Times article titled, “How College and Sports-Betting Companies ‘Caesarized’ Campus Life“, which exposes the deals made between big-time universities…
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