3799 stories by Philip Conneller
Ex-Gambling Kingpin ‘Skinny’ Joey Merlino Denounces ‘Crazy’ Pennsylvania Ballot-Fixing Allegation
Reputed Philadelphia Mob boss ‘Skinny’ Joey Merlino has been reluctantly dragged into President Donald Trump’s ballot-fixing conspiracy. The former gambling kingpin, who once offered odds on his own trial, has been forced to denounce a story that he helped manufacture 300,000 illegal...
Tennessee Sports Betting Books $27.4 Million in First Week, But Are Operators Ignoring Minimum Hold?
Tennessee’s online-only regulated sports betting market got off to strong start at the beginning of November, with nearly $27.4 million wagered the first week of its existence, according to figures from the Tennessee Lottery. When the state’s Republican Governor Bill Lee begrudgingly...
Bags Stuffed with Cash at BC Casinos was Asian ‘Cultural’ Quirk, Claimed Regulator
An inquiry into money laundering at British Columbia casinos has heard an astonishing allegation. The operator-regulator BC Lottery Corp once suggested that Asians appearing at gaming establishments with bags stuffed with cash was a “cultural” norm. In an internal 2013 newsletter titled...
EA Now Lets Players Set Spending Limits on FIFA 21 FUT Packs
FIFA 21 publisher Electronic Arts (EA) rolled out new player protections for the globally popular soccer simulation video game Tuesday. These include the ability for players to set limits on the time and money they are spending on the game. The new...
Crown Resorts Believed Chinese Operations Were Legit Prior to ‘Gambling Crimes’ Arrests
The Crown Resorts board did not believe it was breaking Chinese law when 16 of its staff members were imprisoned in China in 2016. This was despite warnings a year earlier that a crackdown against recruiting Chinese citizens to gamble overseas was...
COVID-19 Spike Shuts Down Table Games in Colorado
All table game action in Colorado has been killed as part of new measures to repel a surge of coronavirus cases, The Colorado Springs Gazette reports. This comes ten days after residents voted to allow casino towns to raise per-hand betting limits....
Rogue Online Gaming Hub Curaçao Vows to Clean Up Its Act in Return for COVID-19 Rescue Package
Curaçao’s days as a haven for shady online gambling sites may be numbered. A financial bailout package from the Dutch government this month comes with conditions -- the island has been told to clean up its act. Travel restrictions imposed to combat...
US Deputy AG Rosen Shot Down DOJ Case Against Ryan Zinke for Connecticut Casino Statements
US Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen blocked a move by the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section (PIN) to prosecute former interior secretary Ryan Zinke for allegedly lying to federal investigators about a Connecticut casino proposal. As first reported in The New York...
GVC Holdings to Change Its Name to Entain and Exit All Gray Markets by 2023
Online gaming giant GVC Holdings is changing its name to “Entain.” The operator announced Thursday that the rebrand was part of a new “sustainable growth strategy” that would also see it exit all gray markets by 2023. GVC said that currently 96...
US Election Shatters Political Betting Records, Brits Trade Almost $800 Million on Betfair
The 2020 US presidential election proved, as expected, to be the biggest political betting event the world has ever seen. Betfair, the world’s biggest betting exchange, said Wednesday around £600 million ($793 million) was traded on the platform in the UK alone...
