3 Tips To Maximize Your Global Gaming Expo Experience (G2E 2022)
The Global Gaming Expo (G2E) is less than a week away, which means 20,000 people from across the gambling universe will assemble at the Sands Expo for four days of business and pleasure. G2E can be pretty overwhelming for first-time attendees, and even people with a couple of G2Es under their belt find the experience […]
3 Upcoming Sports Betting Markets That Will Be Very Successful
Ohio Anticipated launch date: January 1, 2023 Ohio’s strength is in its numbers, as the Buckeye State ranks seventh in population, with nearly 12 million residents. Also, working in the state’s favor is a thriving sports culture that includes two NFL franchises (Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals), the Cleveland Guardians of the MLB, The NBA’s […]
A Newly Discovered Issue Could Delay Massachusetts Sports Betting
Hopes of a speedy sports betting rollout in Massachusetts are all but dashed. In its first hearing following the passage of Massachusetts’ sports betting law, regulators immediately pumped the brakes on an accelerated launch. With each subsequent Massachusetts Gaming Commission hearing, a 2022 launch looks less likely, and a 2023 launch looks more and more […]
Twitch Escalates Crackdown On Gambling Streamers
Twitch has announced a new policy concerning gambling streams for the second time in just over a year. Both updates have addressed the advertising of offshore online gambling sites by streamers on the popular site. In August 2021, Twitch restricted gambling links and affiliate codes on the platform. The hope was this would rein in […]
Maryland Sports Betting Launch: Everything You Need To Know
The sports betting world is abuzz with the news that the long-awaited launch of the MD sports betting industry is finally drawing near. Pundits are pointing to a late-2022 launch, which would be two years to the month after the state legalized sports betting. The abnormally slow rollout has been chalked up to two factors. […]
Is Sports Betting Bad For Society? Recent Survey Gauges Public Attitude
According to a Pew Research Center survey, 19% of US adults placed a wager on sports in the past year. While this is an exciting number, the breakdowns contained in the Pew survey are far more enlightening. There is a lot of conflation between what I’ll call a friendly bet and gambling. The simplest way […]
Another Wire Act Ruling That Doesn’t Solve The Underlying Problem
Last week a District Court in Rhode Island gave online gambling supporters the latest in a string of Wire Act victories. The case, International Game Technology PLC et al. v. Merrick B Garland & The United States Department of Justice, gave the industry more cover against potential prosecution. Still, the implications of the decision do […]
What Does Future Sports Betting Innovation Look Like?
If you dig through my voluminous archives of gambling articles, you’ll come across several thousand words on millennials. From 2014ish to 2017ish, millennials were the proverbial talk of the gambling town. Conferences were overflowing with presentations explaining the “Millennial Problem” and how such-and-such product or service could solve it. The funny thing is, the Millennial […]