Industry Updates

A new online casino is coming to New Jersey. Online lottery courier service Jackpocket has announced it has secured market access in the Garden State through a skin agreement with Caesars Entertainment.

Gambling.com Group Limited is acquiring Roto Sports Inc. Roto Sports operates RotoWire.com, a longstanding sports and daily fantasy news and information website. The deal is subject to closing conditions but should be completed by January 2022. With the acquisition, Gambling.com Group can expand its presence in the US sports betting market. Gambling.com plans to use…

Earlier this year, we reported on an interesting new collaboration between DraftKings and NFT (non-fungible tokens) platform Autograph, co-founded by NFL quarterback Tom Brady.  Last week, DraftKings expanded on its platform by unveiling plans to launch a gamified NFT collection featuring NFL players during the upcoming season.

After a 35-year run at Binion’s Horseshoe, the World Series of Poker called the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino home since 2005. The storied poker tournament will have a new home in 2022. Actually, it will have two new homes, as Caesars Entertainment announced the 2022 series would take place at two of its Strip…

After years of handcuffing players with a zero-tolerance policy for gambling and speaking out against the ills of sports betting, the NFL appears to be fully embracing not only sports betting but gambling in general.

DraftKings gift cards are a line of self-branded prepaid gift cards that bettors can use to fund their sports betting, daily fantasy, and casino accounts securely and quickly. DraftKings Sportsbook gift cards provide the advantages of privacy and simplicity for bettors with cash on hand because they don’t require customers to share their private banking…

The National Council on Problem Gambling has an admirable mission and is full of great people who do great work. What the organization has always struggled with is funding. And that lack of funding causes the NCPG to spend a lot of time trying to secure funding. That time would be better spent achieving its…

After a one-year hiatus, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) has returned to The Rio, and thus far, despite lingering COVID concerns and restrictions, the series has gone off without a hitch. Part of the festivities every year is the Poker Hall of Fame nominations and induction ceremony.

Yesterday, the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut announced that the venue is suspending bets on WNBA games. The decision was made due to a potential conflict of interest involving the casino’s ownership connection with the Connecticut Sun WNBA team. The Mohegan Tribe owns the team as well as the casino venue.

G2E week provides a constant barrage of news. From the panels to the showroom floor to the timed press releases. One bit of information that caught my attention was a collaboration between Conscious Gaming, IXUP, and GeoComply that, as the press release states, creates “a next-generation technology solution to help facilitate safe and responsible gambling…