3799 stories by Philip Conneller
50 Percent of EPL Jersey Sponsors Are Now Sports Betting Operators, Most Focused on Unregulated Asian Markets
English Premiere League teams are still winning big with bookies, but with brands many domestic fans have barely heard of. The elite soccer league will enjoy a tenth successive record-breaking year of revenues from jersey sponsorship when the teams kick off in...
Macau Regulator Tightens Screws on Junkets After Chinese State Media Attack on Suncity
Macau gaming regulator, DICJ, said it will continue to conduct random spot checks on the enclave’s junket operations, Inside Asia Gaming reports. The increased oversight of the industry follows the denunciation by Chinese state media earlier this month of Suncity, the biggest...
UK Threatens to Prosecute Video Games Publishers Over Skin Gambling
Loot boxes cannot be considered gambling under the law in the United Kingdom, but the government wants to hold video games publishers like Valve directly responsible for “skin gambling,” even though it occurs on third-party websites. That was the takeaway from a...
Japan Pro-Casino Ruling Coalition Wins New Term, But Time Running Out for Osaka’s 2025 Masterplan
Japanese leader Shinzo Abe declared victory for the pro-casino ruling LDP/Komeito coalition on Sunday, having secured a majority in upper house elections that should see him become the country’s longest-serving prime minister ever, despite being beset by corruption scandals over the past...
Seneca Nation Asserts Right to Offer Sports Betting Despite New York’s Declaration of Compact Violation
The Seneca Nation said Friday it was “making preparations” to launch sports betting at its three casino properties in western New York State. The statement comes as the first legal sports book opened its doors last week at the Rivers Casino in...
Kenyan Online Betting Operators Sportpesa and Betin Sue Government Over Industry Shutdown
Kenya’s top two online betting companies, Sportpesa and Betin, have initiated legal action against the country’s government and biggest telecommunications provider, as they push back against the state’s dramatic shutdown of the industry. Earlier this month, the state ordered Kenyan telecoms giant,...
STRAT’s ‘Defensive Spending’ Will Help Rejuvenate North Las Vegas Strip: Analysts
The renovation of the casino formerly known as The Stratosphere will coincide with a “shift of energy” back towards the north side of the Strip, Macquarie hospitality analyst Chad Beynon told the Las Vegas Review-Journal this week. New owners Golden Entertainment have...
Wells Fargo Sues Chukchansi Tribal Casino Operator for Violating Terms of $250M Loan
California tribal operator the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi is facing lawsuit a from Wells Fargo for allegedly violating agreements on a $250 million loan in an effort to avoid repayments, The Fresno Bee reports. The Chukchansi took out the loan in 2012...
Ontario Police Smash ’Ndrangheta Crime Clan That Laundered Millions Through Province’s Casinos
Police in Ontario have arrested nine suspected high-ranking members of the powerful ’Ndrangheta crime family, which they believe laundered more than C$70 million ($53.5 million) through the province’s casinos in the past few years. The group also operated its own backroom casinos,...
Paddy Power Soccer Jersey Sponsorship Revealed as Clever Marketing Hoax
Bookmaker Paddy Power’s eye-popping jersey branding of English Championship team Huddersfield Town was revealed to be a hoax on Friday morning, but not before it had been condemned by a senior-level politician, vilified by fans on the terraces, and ridiculed by everyone...
