Gambling stories

If Canada’s Amaya Gaming was a hockey team, commentators would say their season was ruined by ‘off-ice distractions.’ Despite Amaya’s flagship PokerStars brand making its triumphant return to US shores and continued progress in diversifying beyond its pure poker roots...

Australia’s online sports betting market got a forced makeover in 2016, as legislators were forced to respond to operators’ ingenious but provocative methods of dodging the country’s online in-play betting ban.

2016 was the year in which Bitcoin truly made its presence known in the online gambling sector. Until recently, most bitcoin-friendly online gambling sites tended to be simple binary-outcome ‘dice’ games

The year saw a significant rise in eSports betting’s public profile, but as with daily fantasy sports in 2015, the press was largely negative. While bona fide wagering on the outcome of eSports events made inroads at traditional bookmakers...

Macau’s casinos broke their prolonged losing streak in August, posting their first year-on-year gaming revenue gains in 26 months. The positive momentum has continued for four months now, offering operators further hope that their long jurisdictional nightmare is finally behind them.

The Philippines, home to most of the Asian-facing online gambling industry, underwent a dramatic upheaval midway through the year when newly elected President Rodrigo Duterte used his first cabinet meeting to declare that “online gambling must stop.”

The Russian market welcomed its first officially licensed online sportsbook in February via Liga Stavok, which has since been joined by a flurry of other bookies...

Like boiling frogs, US casinos took a long time to realize that the millennial generation viewed giant halls of slot machines with the same level of scorn they reserve for land-line phones.

Only two US states made serious efforts to pass intrastate online gambling legislation in 2020, and neither was successful in pushing their bills over the finish line

The first gambling slots in Australia appeared as early as 1900s. But they were made illegal for 50 yrs. A company called aristocrat made the first slot machine called clubman.

The single biggest development in 2017 is already here and growing in importance with each passing day. Bitcoin officially ‘arrived’ in 2016 thanks to adoption by some farsighted mainstream operators...

Being addicted to gambling can seriously damage your physical and mental health but if you can control yourself, there will be no harm from online gambling and you can earn.

During the close of 2015, an Ivy League professor pronounced bitcoin dead. And yet here we are today. Despite the bumps, the popular digital currency has never looked stronger—reaching its all-time high market cap and outperforming other currencies and assets in 2016.

Nevada casinos and the state government are making a killing off unclaimed gambling winnings.

The win is the largest on Joker Millions to date, with previous big wins of €2.9million, €720,000 and €460,000 collected since March 2015.