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…
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…
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…
When it comes to the U.S. online gambling industry, the conventional wisdom is online poker is the past, sports betting is the present, and online casino is the future. While there is a lot of truth to that perspective, it’s perhaps oversimplified. A more nuanced view of the online gambling landscape would point to online…
The American Gaming Association released its annual survey on betting habits ahead of the NFL season. As always, the survey demonstrates a thirst among the American public to bet on NFL games. The topline numbers clearly indicate the popularity of betting and the NFL: Nearly 1-in-5 US adults will place a wager on NFL games…
The Chik-fil-A Kickoff looks to be one of the most exciting matchups for the first official week of college football. The Georgia Bulldogs will begin their title defense with a “neutral site” matchup against the Oregon Ducks. Both teams are currently ranked in the top 11, and both teams have aspirations of making it to…
There was a lot of chatter following the first batch of online gambling and sports betting market and revenue numbers by iGaming Ontario. The release covers the first three months of Ontario’s online gambling industry, which had a much-ballyhooed launch on April 4. After the buildup and excitement, the industry waited months for revenue numbers.…
California is the online gambling industry’s white whale. Operators have long sought to find an entry point to the country’s most populous state and the world’s fifth largest economy. The industry has discovered the state’s entry points are expensive, tightly sealed, and well-guarded by a trio of entrenched and powerful gaming interests and a political…
Every kid dreams of throwing down a monster dunk. Going downhill with a full head of steam, taking off, and finishing with thunder. Sometimes it’s a windmill, sometimes it’s a two-handed throwdown in traffic, but it’s always with authority. For most of us, that’s all it will ever be: a dream. Very few are gifted…
Ohio settled on Jan. 1, 2023, to launch its mobile sports betting industry. Once you overlook the somewhat ridiculous choice to launch at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Day, the Ohio sports betting industry is expected to be one the best performing in the country, with all the usual suspects involved. Based on…
The Kansas Lottery has announced a sports betting launch date of Sept. 1, setting the stage for an entire football season of sports betting in Kansas. The news comes just a couple of weeks after the Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission released its proposed sports betting regulations. Here are five things you need to know…
Florida is expected to be a sports betting paradise, but the state’s attempt to legalize sports betting has run into a mountain of problems. Rather than dealing with mobile sports betting the way other tribal gaming states did, by licensing tribes as commercial operators, the state and the Seminole Tribe decided to renegotiate its compact.…
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