Gaming Articles

Redskins make gambling history by 'winning' without scoring a point in ugly loss

• Oct 22, 2019

Washington, who were 9.5/10-point underdogs, became just the second team in 25 years to cover a spread without scoring a single point:

G2E: Caesars executives talk ‘reinvention’ of sports books

• Oct 21, 2019

Caesars had a plan for the next generation of sportsbooks when they opened their new sportsbook concept at the Linq on the Las Vegas Strip in September 2018. Thirteen months later, with sports betting continuing to expand across the country, Caesars executives are calling the concept a ‘big success’ and working to spread some of the Linq concepts, where physically possible, into their books elsewhere.

Google continues to relax gambling advertising policies

• Oct 21, 2019

Technology colossus Google’s gambling advertising policies have been updated to permit gambling promos in additional US states as well as several international markets.

NFL refs need to be investigated for corruption asserts Super Bowl MVP

• Oct 18, 2019

Desmond Howard is a former wide receiver and return specialist who played in the league for ten years before launching a new career as a college football analyst with ESPN. He was watching this past Monday’s contest between the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers and wasn’t happy with what he saw.

Trump’s Impeachment Odds Go from +210 to +110 on Average; Bovada Favors Impeachment at -125

• Oct 18, 2019

Is US President Donald Trump about to face impeachment? The list of people who believe so seems to grow daily. It would appear that those in favor may even include the man himself.

Gambling near-misses don't encourage your brain to keep betting after all, study suggests

• Oct 18, 2019

Researchers at the University of Alberta found an absence of evidence for the popular psychology theory

MLB strikes new partnership with Fox Bet

• Oct 17, 2019

The multiyear deal means the newly formed betting operator will be granted access to use MLB’s official data feed and League marks across its FOX Bet sports betting app and FOX Sports Super 6, its free-to-play game available nationwide.

G2E: Pro sports leagues, state regulators and casino operators to talk betting integrity, other issues

• Oct 17, 2019

The meeting is the second of the year-old U.S. Sports Betting Forum and the the first in which the leagues would participate. The goal of the Forum is to ensure sports betting in the U.S. is conducted with integrity, free from criminal and corrupting elements. The participants of the conference weren’t disclosed, but several sports leagues and the NCAA have a presence at G2E.

G2E panel: Good vision, good technology make sportsbooks work

• Oct 17, 2019

Despite sportsbooks’ reputation for carrying a low profit margin, operators can enjoy significant revenue by being smart about their audience and investing in technology that makes betting easy, a panel of experts said Monday at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas

Sam Darnold’s return sparked NFL gambling bloodbath

• Oct 16, 2019

Baseball’s Awkward Dance with Gambling

• Oct 16, 2019

For years, MLB argued in courts to prevent states other than Nevada from legalizing sports gambling. But then Major League Baseball and MGM Resorts announced last November that they had entered into an agreement to promote legalized gambling just in time for the 2019 season, and ever since, the gnats of irony have been buzzing about.

SG Digital predicts NFL sports betting to be worth $30bn by 2030

• Oct 15, 2019

As well as the worth of NFL sports betting, SG Digital also predicted that American Football would be the third most popular licensed betting sport worldwide by 2022, two places up from its current position as the fifth most popular.