FOX Bet is calling it quits, Penn ditches Barstool, Wynn exits 8 states, and quite a few others have announced either permanent or temporary shutdowns in recent months. To get right to the point – it’s obviously not a great look, but there are a few possible contenders trying to make an entrance. To help […]
The 2023 World Series of Poker is wrapping up and all of the poker media has been reporting on the Main Event ‘smashing’ the record for most entries. Well now that the easy poker media talking point and all of its related low-hanging fruit has thoroughly been run into the ground, this will be a […]
After a bit of a hiatus due to onboarding a new team member and the associated re-work of much of our marketing-related material (much more on those things in an upcoming piece), I took some time to compare and contrast Satoshi and others’ early thoughts with all of the recent news and shenanigans of the […]
It was a bright spot in the otherwise bleak Aussie gambling scene. Peta Murphy, chair of a committee in Australia’s House of Representatives, grilled SportsBet CEO Barni Evans on the practice of limiting and banning bettors that are winning. She said she personally knew of someone affected by this, and it became quite apparent from […]
It’s a record that nobody in the gambling industry ever wants to break. The issues stem from repeated failures to adhere to AML and ‘social responsibility’ standards. More on the nebulous social responsibility aspect further down, but first let’s jump right into the facts and figures and get a few things out of the way. […]
If you’ve watched any sports recently then you most likely have noticed the near-constant barrage of gambling ads. Even much of the non-sports programming has them quite regularly. The blitz of gambling ads may have brought in a lot of new users, but it seems like it will also bring about some sweeping changes in […]
It’s a story that has garnered a lot of attention this week, largely from media outlets who are more than a little skeptical of the WWE’s plans – to put it nicely. At first glance I was also. But after digging into it and giving it a little thought, I’m now thinking it could be […]
So what is GambleFi, some of you may ask? Well, GambleFi is one of the newer buzzwords referring to blockchain-powered gambling. Opinions vary wildly, depending on who you talk to and largely on how much they understand of the current online gambling climate and GambleFi. Many of us who were around for the earliest projects […]
The American Gaming Association (AGA) recently held their yearly State of the Industry presentation. It touched on a wide range of topics and had some interesting facts and statistics alongside their usual industry pitches and platitudes. I sat through it so you don’t have to, but it is worth watching just to get a better […]
It’s a story that FanDuel would probably like to forget and sweep under the rug. But it is one that all bettors should be aware of. The payout glitch couldn’t have come at a much worse time for FanDuel, as it happened just a few months after sportsbetting was legalized in New Jersey. It was […]
