3071 stories by Philip Conneller
World Cup Man-of-the-Match Betting Markets Scrapped Over Fixing Fears
Sportsbooks have pulled World Cup “man of the match” betting markets amid concerns that nefarious social media handicappers are directing their followers to manipulate results, The Daily Mail (DM) has discovered. The move follows a surge in betting on the market, which...
Kahnawake Mohawks Sue Ontario Over ‘Unconstitutional’ iGaming Market
The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) is suing the Ontario government in a bid to challenge the legality and constitutionality of its new online gaming market. The Mohawks of Kahnawake were early adopters of online gaming, and have licensed it from sovereign...
Grand Villa Casino Worker Stole Chips to Help Dying Brother, Spared Prison
A former employee of the Grand Villa Casino in Burnaby, Metro Vancouver, fired for palming thousands of dollars’ worth of chips off of gaming tables, has been spared prison. That’s after the Vancouver provincial court learned that Kim Shing Leung, 58, had...
Sports Betting Shouldn’t Be Widely Promoted, US Poll Responders Say
US poll responders broadly support legalized sports betting, but they don’t necessarily want it shoved in their faces. That’s the takeaway from a new Harris Poll that found that 54% of American adults have a positive opinion of sports betting, and two...
Detained Hong Kong Influencers Face Up to Seven Years for Gambling Promos
The issue of social media influencers promoting gambling has grabbed headlines this year, and even sparked a ban on Twitch. But in Hong Kong, it can get you up to seven years in prison. Between last Wednesday and Sunday, seven influencers were...
River Rock Casino Loan Shark Killer Gets Life Sentence Reduced
Last week, a British Columbia gambler sentenced to life in 2009 for the murder of a woman working as an illegal loan shark saw his sentence commuted. A jury of the BC Supreme Court in Vancouver took two days of deliberations to...
World Cup Betting: Whose Stock is Rising After First Round of Games?
Brazil’s win against Serbia in Qatar on Thursday night brought the first round of World Cup games to a close. So which teams saw their stock rocket in the first week like an unstoppable Saudi strike into the top corner? And which...
FIFA Threatened ‘Massive Sporting Sanctions’ in Row Over LGBT Armbands
FIFA threatened the England soccer team with “massive sporting sanctions” ahead of its opening game against Iran on Monday if any of its players wore "OneLove" armbands, as planned. Seven soccer federations, from England, Wales, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark,...
FTX Lawyer Was Key Figure in Notorious UltimateBet Poker Cheating Scandal
The chief regulatory officer of disgraced crypto exchange FTX, Dan Friedberg, has history. The Seattle Wash.-based lawyer was a key figure in one of poker’s most notorious cheating scandals. FTX, formerly one of the world’s biggest crypto exchanges, collapsed spectacularly earlier this...
Ex-Decathlete Sentenced for $45.2M Cannabis Ponzi Scheme Spent $8M in Casinos
A former UCLA decathlete who later represented the Philippines at track and field events has been sentenced to 17.5 years in a federal prison for fraud. American Philippine citizen David Bunevacz, 53, of Calabasas, Calif., stole more than $35 million from investors,...
