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Sports
July 16, 2025
2025 Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 400 NASCAR Odds, Time, and Prediction
Our last two NASCAR picks won comfortably – we backed Shane van Gisbergen each time. But we can tell you that we’re not picking SVG to win the 2025 Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 400. He’s a +35000 underdog, and there’s a reason for that. He just doesn’t do well on track like this. Instead, the track […]
Business
July 16, 2025
FanDuel Doubles Down on Suspending Bettors Who Harass Athletes
From hecklers to death threats, professional and even amateur athletes, not to mention student-athletes, have been the target of people who have wagered on their performance and came up empty-handed. Irate Bettors Who Lose Their Minds and Issue Threats Are Now Fair Game Student-athletes are increasingly targeted by online abuse, with 12% of all social […]
Sports
July 15, 2025
Undercover Spotters Catch Wimbledon Betting Spies
This year marks the first time Wimbledon officials have used undercover operatives embedded within the crowd to detect “courtsiders.” These are syndicate agents who transmit live point updates faster than the official broadcast to exploit split-second delays in betting markets. Wimbledon Deploys Undercover Agents to Catch Betting Spies Some of these courtsiders have already been […]
Sports
July 15, 2025
Betano Joins Denmark’s 3F Superliga as Official Betting Partner
Denmark’s top-flight soccer league, the 3F Superliga, has unveiled a major new partnership with Kaizen Gaming’s Betano brand. Under the agreement, the sports betting and gaming operator will serve as the league’s official betting partner. Betano to Sponsor the 3F Superliga The 3F Superliga lauded Betano as an internationally recognized brand in the realm of […]
Industry
July 15, 2025
UK Considers Gambling Tax Hike to Fill Budget Gap
The UK Treasury is once again thinking about raising gambling taxes as a means of filling a large gap in public finances, according to The Observer. Chancellor Rachel Reeves, who must come up with as many as £30 billion ($40.3 billion) in extra revenue, has already made it clear that increases to income tax, VAT, […]
Business
July 15, 2025
DraftKings In Strong Financial Position to Gain, Says Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley has issued a new assessment of DraftKings’ business, arguing that the sports betting company, which is supposedly making overtures for Railbird, a prediction market platform, is set to far surpass its $225m EBITDA in Q2 2025. DraftKings’ EBITDA Forecasts Stronger Than Expected This figure is already higher than DraftKings’ own guidance set at […]
Business
July 15, 2025
DraftKings Eyeing Prediction Market Platform Railbird
DraftKings has been trying to get skin in the prediction market game for a long while now. The company has attempted to launch a proprietary platform, DraftKings Predict, which registered with the National Futures Association (NFA), but there has been little to expand on this after the fact, not least because the company’s registration with […]
Sports
July 15, 2025
BetMGM to Roll Out $2.50 Minimum Wager in Illinois on Wednesday
Sports bettors in Illinois are in for a rude awakening, with planned changes to the betting landscape occasioned by the passage of a new law that will raise the financial pressure on sportsbooks. BetMGM Bucks the Trend, Tries to Capitalize on Change While FanDuel and DraftKings said that they would charge $0.50 on their customers’ […]
Industry
July 15, 2025
iGB L!VE Delivers: Bringing the Gambling Industry’s Finest in Record-Setting Event
The recently concluded iGB L!VE 2025, held at ExCel London as part of a special relocation, was one of the industry’s crowning events, attracting more than 15,000 top-tier iGaming operators, tech vendors, affiliates, suppliers, and other industry stakeholders. The event aimed to bring together the world’s iGaming elite while tackling some of the most pressing […]
Sports
July 15, 2025
ANJ Fines Operator €75,000 over Serious Data Compliance Deficiencies
France’s gambling regulator, l’Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ), has fined a licensed online betting operator €75,000 ($87,500) for repeated failures to follow obligatory data compliance rules. A thorough investigation uncovered significant shortcomings in the way the operator processed customer betting data, necessitating this intervention. The ANJ remains vigilant, ensuring French consumers can wager safely and […]