A new bill making its way through the US Congress is aimed at treating gambling, especially sports betting, as a public health issue. If passed into law, the SAFE Bet Act would have a huge impact on how US-facing gambling operators advertise and use AI in their marketing plans. Sponsored by Congressman Paul Tonko (D-NY),…
One of the biggest criticisms of regulated sports betting, in the US and abroad, is that gaming operators saturate their markets with wall-to-wall advertising. According to the critics, this barrage of advertisements encourages problem and under age gambling - and Louisiana State Representative Shaun Mena wants to see it banned entirely. Mena is the lone…
Former Jacksonville Jaguars accountant Amit Patel will be sentenced this week for his role in stealing $22 million from the team to use for sports betting and to purchase luxury items such as cars and cryptocurrencies. Patel, who is an admitted gambling addict, faces up to 20 years in prison and substantial restitution in the…
Encore Boston Harbor is learning the hard way that Massachusetts-facing sports betting operators are not allowed to take action on local college games. This week, the locally named sportsbook was hit with a $40,000 fine from the Massachusetts Gaming Commission for accepting wagers on a women's basketball game played at nearby Boston College. It's the…
When the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday, they weren't the game's only big winner. Thanks to an avalanche of wagers from across the country, the US-facing sports betting business was also a big winner, and its future looks equally bright. According to GeoComply, the company that…
Fallout from last year's college baseball betting scandal involving the exchange of insider information continued this week as the NCAA and local authorities issued new sanctions in the matter. Former Alabama baseball head coach Brad Bohannon and Bert Neff both faced fresh punishments for their role in the scandal that broke last May. At the…
New England Patriots wide receiver Kayshon Boutte, 21, was arrested last week in Louisiana on charges of illegal gambling by a minor related to bets he placed while in college at Louisiana State University (LSU). Charges against Boutte include a felony count of computer fraud and a misdemeanor count of gambling prohibited for persons under…
LIV Golf is taking a major step towards the mainstream of the sporting world after announcing a new partnership with US Integrity. As one of the best-known integrity monitoring services in the industry, US Integrity will watching various sportsbooks, watching for anomalies and other signs of suspicious betting activity that could impact the honesty of…
Is running a sportsbook that only focuses on micro-betting not all that it's cracked up to be? That seems to be the case at YouTube personality Jake Paul's micro-betting app Betr. Launched just two months ago as a trendy, youth-focused micro-betting platform, the company is pivoting its business model to include pre-game and in-game spread,…
Minnesota lawmakers are considering a regulated gaming expansion that would legalize sports betting in the Land of 10,000 Lakes and put complete control of the newly expanded market in the hands of the state's tribal groups. It's a unique approach to gaming expansion that could bring huge, new revenue streams to a group of operators…
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