Top Trending Gambling News; Sportsbook Execs Talk Prediction Markets

FanDuel's parent company CEO offered: “We are closely monitoring regulatory developments, and are assessing the opportunities and potential participation strategies this may present for FanDuel.”

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I Need to Switch My PPH Before Football Season

If you are dissatisfied with your current Pay Per Head provider, switching to a new PPH prior to the start of the football season is advisable...and actually quite simple.   This process typically takes under an hour depending on the size of your customer base. 

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Top Trending Gambling News: Polymarket Goes All In With WNBA Dildo Betting, Gets Plenty of Flack

Plus: Individual pleads guilty to distributing pills laced with fentanyl within a California casino and, could a 300 year-old British law sink U.S. sports betting for prediction markets like Kalshi?

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Top Trending Gambling News: FanDuel's Gross Gambling Revenue Best Ever

Plus, ‘one Extremely lucky’ gambler hits 389 jackpots in 1 day at Tampa casino, winning $1.8M .

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Top Trending Gambling News: Will DraftKings Enter Prediction Market Space?

Plus Flutter Net Income Down 88% But Revenue Up 16% to $4.19bn

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Top Trending Gambling News: Despite Full US Exit, Betway Reports Record Quarter

Super Group, the parent company of Betway and Spin Casino, announced its complete withdrawal from the US online gambling market last month.  Now comes word they have seen their best quarter ever in terms of revenue recorded (2025, Q2). 

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Top Trending Gambling News: DraftKings Reports Second Quarter Revenue Growth of 37% to $1,513 Million

Plus DraftKings CEO speaks out against Big Beautiful Bill gambling provision. 

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AG Letter to DOJ Assumes Offshore Sportsbooks Rely Heavily on US Banking Sector... They Don't

"Were the A-Gs advised that offshore sportsbooks over the last 20 years devised a system where they don’t use US banks, processors or TLDs, so there’s not much the DOJ can do?"

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Tech News: How Apps Have Changed the Online Casino Gambling World in Pennsylvania and The Rest of the USA

What a whirlwind. When you look at the online casino gaming market, it's sometimes hard to keep up with all the changes that are happening. It seems to be an industry that shows no sign of slowing down.

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50 Attorneys Generals Warn of Unregulated Sports Betting in US

50 US attorney generals sent a joint letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi asking for the U.S. Department of Justice to shut down illegal gaming outlets, seize related assets and block unlawful transactions.

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Sportico Compares Polymarket Parlays to Those of Traditional Sportsbooks

Sportico this week wrote a scathing piece comparing Polymarket's parlay odds to those of traditional sportsbooks. 

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Online Casinos Not Coming to Ohio Anytime Soon

“Basically, to put a casino in everybody’s hands, 24/7, I think is probably not a great idea,” DeWine said, per Cleveland.com. “And I think it will cause more pain and suffering …as far as gaming addiction.”

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Top Trending Gambling News July 24: More Than Half of Betr's Profits From Just 20 Players?

The accusation was made to the Australian Stock Exchange by the gambling company Pointsbet, which is resisting a hostile takeover bid by rival company Betr

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Circa Sports Kentucky Sportsbook Now Open at the Mint Kentucky Downs

The largest sportsbook in the state, and one of the largest east of the Mississippi, the massive venue features an 80-foot-wide LED screen, a 31-foot-wide odds board and over 5,100 square feet of action-packed space designed for the ultimate fan experience.

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World Sports Exchange Co-Founder Jay Cohen Writes Book

Three San Francisco traders became internet gambling pioneers after launching the first truly online sportsbook, but the fix is in as the professional sports leagues flex their muscle to game the system and turn its founders into fugitives, proving that no bet’s a sure thing.

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Gambling 911 Exclusive: Wind Creek Pulls Plug on Online Sportsbook

Wind Creek Casino in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania has terminated its online sports betting operation, Gambling 911 can reveal in an exclusive report.

The casino’s online sportsbook, which was run by British bookmaker Betfred, shut down earlier this month.

The actual sportsbook at the casino, also run by Betfred, continues to operate.

Wind Creek’s online casino also continues to operate.

A Wind Creek spokesman told Gambling 911: “Wind Creek stopped accepting online sports wagers on July 3.

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Las Vegas Locally: American Gaming Association 'Stabbed Every American Gambler in the Back Today'

Barstool Poker got into the fray as well: "The Big Beautiful Bill is trying to kill you, both your livelihood and your fun."

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Kelly in Vegas: 'Not Defending Tax Bill' But Also 'People Turning it into Bigger Deal Than it Really is'

"I’m not defending this bill. I do however, think the trust fund “sports bettors” have sensationalized and turned it into a bigger deal than it really is for a vast majority of people it will never affect."

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Top Gambling Industry Stories July 3: Big Beautiful Bill a Big Beautiful Tax Hike for Poker Players, Sports Bettors

Gamblers worried about a $1.1 billion tax hike buried in the Senate GOP’s tax bill that would slash their net winnings and potentially charge income tax when they break even or lose money.

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GoFundMe Account Set Up for Sports Betting Luminary Dave Sharapan After Receiving Cancer Diagnosis

Beloved professional sports bettor Dave Sharapan, known affectionately as the Sportsbook Consigliere, is set to undergo cancer surgery this coming week at the UCLA Medical Center. 

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FanDuel Site Begins Misidentifying Customers as NonHuman: Access Denied (Resolved)

FanDuel resolves matter in under 3 hours but some customers still not happy. 

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Rush Street 87-Year-Old Co-Founder Gaming Grudge Against FanDuel, DraftKings Profiled

Neil Bluhm doesn’t need anything. But what he seems to want more than everything else perhaps is revenge against two of the country’s biggest sports betting and online casino companies. 

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What Are the Payout Odds If Rafael Fiziev Wins vs. Ignacio Bahamondes?

Ignacio Bahamondes vs Rafael Fiziev (-120) takes place Saturday night with Fiziev paying out $125 with a win in what was expected to be a competitive matchup. 

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FanDuel to Lose Sportsbook at Phoenix Suns Arena

Reports suggest that the retail operation was not entirely profitable for FanDuel with revenues cratering in recent months.

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Louisiana Sports Betting Tax Set to Go From 15 Percent to 21 Percent

Louisiana becomes the first state to increase taxes specifically to fund college sports following a recent federal court settlement allowing universities to directly make NIL payments to student-athletes.

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Jeff Nadu to Host X Spaces Episode July 20 as John Murges Promises to "Expose WagerTalk'

What he intends to expose remains a mystery but inquiring minds want to know and will be watching.

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Brian Quintenz's Confirmation Hearing Touches on the Future of Prediction Markets

US President Donald Trump's U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) pick Brian Quintenz pledged clear crypto classification in written remarks for a Senate hearing on Tuesday.

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FanDuel Gives to Tornado Relief Efforts in Missouri

The company announced it will be donating $25,000 to Cardinals Care for St. Louis tornado relief efforts.

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FanDuel to Impose 50 Cent Fee on Bets

FanDuel, the US largest regulated sportsbook in terms of overall market share, appears to have found a work around to Illinois' marked tax increase from a 15% flat rate to a 20% to 40% graduated range.

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Attorney Suing DraftKings Talks to Gambling 911, Says Sportsbook Uses Deceptive Practices to Addict Bettors

Five Pennsylvania men, who bet on sports with online sportsbook DraftKings and lost big, are claiming in a lawsuit that the sportsbook caused and then took advantage of their addictions to gambling.

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