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UK Gambling Sector Remains Healthy Despite Increased Taxes

A recent analysis by Regulus revealed that the UK’s leading gambling operators appear to have adapted to the recent tax hike without shifting much of the extra burden to customers. Despite these outward signs of stability, analysts remain cautious, maintaining a bearish outlook for the market and e…

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The Future of Bally’s Hangs in the Balance

In Friday’s Q2 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Bally’s Corp. admitted it was facing severe financial difficulties that could affect its future operations. The gambling giant warned investors that it might not be able to continue as a going concern due to its significant debt. To…

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Alpaca Braces for Prediction Markets Foray

Alpaca, a provider of a developer-first API for stock, options, and crypto trading, is preparing to capitalize on emerging opportunities by entering the hot prediction markets sector. To that end, the company has submitted the necessary applications in a move that would broaden its business. Alpaca…

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Evoke Shareholders Greenlight Bally’s Intralot Acquisition

Evoke announced the results of its recent general meeting, saying that an overwhelming majority of shareholders have voted in favor of the previously announced acquisition by Bally’s Intralot. As a result, the deal has moved closer to completion, despite earlier concerns about Bally’s ability to ma…

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Polymarket Testing Parlays, er Combos, Ahead of Football Season

Polymarket Testing Parlays, er Combos, Ahead of Football Season

Polymarket U.S. is beta testing combination bets, also known as combos, ahead of the start of the 2026 football season. The prediction market operator refers to the combined contract wagers as Combinatorial Athletic Outcome Contracts, or CAOCs. Polymarket filed with the Commodity Futures Trading Co…

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Encore Boston Harbor Workers Threaten Strike Unless Casino Antes Up Benefits

Encore Boston Harbor Workers Threaten Strike Unless Casino Antes Up Benefits

Encore Boston Harbor’s operations could be impacted beginning Sept. 1 unless Wynn Resorts agrees to a new collective bargaining agreement with the property’s largest unions. Unite Here Local 26 and Teamsters Local 25 tell Casino.org that they’ll conduct a strike authorization vote among their 1,350…

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NorthStar Gaming Names Corey Goodman as Permanent CEO

NorthStar Gaming Holdings announced a major C-suite change, appointing its interim chief executive officer, Corey Goodman, as its permanent CEO. The company said that it reached this decision after Goodman proved his mettle by leading the business through a period of financial and operational stabi…

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South Korea orders Polymarket blocked over illegal gambling concerns

South Korea orders Polymarket blocked over illegal gambling concerns

South Korea has joined France, Australia and Germany in restricting access to Polymarket on gambling-related grounds, with authorities ordering the crypto prediction market to be blocked in the country. Polymarket told South Korea’s media and communications review commission that it had removed its…

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Alpaca registers with CFTC to enter prediction market sector

Alpaca registers with CFTC to enter prediction market sector

Alpaca, an API-first brokerage technology provider based in New York, has taken a key regulatory step toward entering the prediction market sector after its subsidiary, Alpaca Derivatives LLC, registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a futures commission merchant (FCM) and…

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Novig Sues Wisconsin in Fifth State Challenge Over Sports Event Contracts

Novig Sues Wisconsin in Fifth State Challenge Over Sports Event Contracts

Novig has filed a lawsuit against Wisconsin, the fifth state the prediction market operator has sued since launching its sports event contracts nationally on Aug. 4, seeking to shield its platform from state sports betting and gambling regulations. The 45-page federal lawsuit was filed in U.S. Dist…

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Bally’s Atlantic City appoints veteran casino exec Tom Pohlman as president

Bally’s Atlantic City appoints veteran casino exec Tom Pohlman as president

Bally’s Atlantic City has appointed veteran casino executive Tom Pohlman as its new president. Pohlman confirmed the appointment on Monday, accepting the position after 15 years in Atlantic City’s Marina District. “Standing at the legendary intersection of Park Place and the Boardwalk, Bally’s is a…

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Is the Gambling Boom Over? Gallup Poll Suggests Fewer Americans Are Gambling

Is the Gambling Boom Over? Gallup Poll Suggests Fewer Americans Are Gambling

Gambling is seemingly everywhere, but a new Gallup poll suggests fewer Americans are being enticed to participate despite relentless advertising and the public’s growing exposure to casinos, sports betting, lotteries, prediction markets, and iGaming. Gallup, among the most respected public opinion…

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Couple Marries at Las Vegas Hospital When Baby Arrives Early

Couple Marries at Las Vegas Hospital When Baby Arrives Early

A Kansas couple who traveled to Las Vegas to get married had an uninvited guest at their wedding: their baby. They were scheduled to get married on Aug. 15 at the Little White Chapel, but the universe had other plans. While sightseeing along Fremont Street the night before, the bride-to-be’s water…

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Interview: Moon Partners and PPC teams on the affiliate relationship

Interview: Moon Partners and PPC teams on the affiliate relationship

Trust is the foundation of any working relationship, and in performance marketing doubly so. Everything changes on the fly, and in that kind of turbulence it's especially important to know you can rely on your partner. This interview with Moon Partners and PPC teams unpacks the affiliate-program-an…

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Ireland tightens anti-money laundering rules for gambling sector

Ireland tightens anti-money laundering rules for gambling sector

Ireland is introducing tighter anti-money laundering (AML) controls for the gambling sector as part of the country's first national anti-money laundering strategy, including mandatory closed-loop payments and enhanced scrutiny of cryptocurrency transactions. Under the new approach, gambling operato…

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Down $4.2B on Flutter, Kenneth Dart Takes Stake in DraftKings

Down $4.2B on Flutter, Kenneth Dart Takes Stake in DraftKings

Billionaire investor Kenneth Dart is reportedly staring at a $4.2 billion paper loss on his stake in Flutter Entertainment (NYSE: FLUT), but that’s not stopping him from amassing a sizable stake in DraftKings (NASDAQ: DKNG), Flutter’s primary rival in the U.S. A recent DraftKings Form 13G filing wi…

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