View image in fullscreen Legal March Madness gambling generates $2.7bn – and plenty of abuse for players There will be more money riding on the NCAA Tournament than ever before in 2024. But with higher stakes comes more pressure on the athletes March Madness is famously capricious, but as the tournament gets under way one
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View image in fullscreen MLB star Shohei Ohtani’s translator fired after allegations of ‘massive theft’ Ippei Mizuhara admits to have run up gambling debts Ohtani is world’s most famous baseball player The interpreter for Shohei Ohtani, the biggest star in baseball and one of the most famous people in Japan, has been fired after lawyers
View image in fullscreen In the grip of slot machine addiction: ‘I’d keep loading £20s in. I could be in a daze’ As ‘adult gaming centres’ spread across the UK, one woman tells of how she kept playing even after getting a cancer diagnosis Jackie Olden can pinpoint the troubling origin of her mum’s gambling
View image in fullscreen Masters of spin – how slot machine operators are taking over UK high streets With concern focused on online casinos, the firms who run ‘adult gaming centres’ have been expanding fast – and glad-handing dozens of MPs In the corner of a dimly lit room, the face of a middle-aged woman
View image in fullscreen ‘Sneaky’ social media ads are luring young into gambling, say campaigners Call for stricter rules for betting firms to stop use of promotions with references to popular culture that appeal to under-18s Tougher rules are required to crack down on betting firms’ use of “sneaky” social media postings and campaigns that
Sports & Casino: Luke Garrison Luke Garrison is a professional writer who grew up just outside of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He currently works at the Canadian Press and enjoys the outdoors in his free time. MLB Teams Located in Canada Presently, the Toronto Blue Jays are the only MLB team located north of the border.
View image in fullscreen National Lottery operator had borrowed millions from Kremlin-owned banks Exclusive: Syndicate agreed to lend up to €640m to Allwyn in 2020, two years before contract awarded The company behind the national lottery was borrowing millions from Kremlin-owned banks when it won the UK’s largest public-sector contract, the Guardian can reveal. Russia’s
View image in fullscreen Worth its weight in gold: how to make a killing predicting the Oscars The TV audience may be in decline, but a passionate community of amateurs has been monitoring every tremor of buzz long before the ceremony Jason Turer has been an Oscars obsessive since he was a teenager. The first
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Sports & Casino: Luke Garrison Luke Garrison is a professional writer who grew up just outside of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He currently works at the Canadian Press and enjoys the outdoors in his free time. Many Canadian provinces still have a long way to go when it comes to offering the full gamut of lotto,
About 228m bets placed on Super Bowl LVIII were on illegal platforms despite legalization, according to a new analysis by Callum Jones in New York This month’s Super Bowl, in the neon glare of the Las Vegas Strip, capped online betting’s extraordinary rise from pariah to the luxury box of top-flight sports. Tens of millions
View image in fullscreen Online slot machine stakes to be capped at £5 in Great Britain Maximum will be £2 for younger adults but campaigners say government has not gone far enough The amount that can be staked on the spin of an online slot machine will be capped at £5, or £2 for younger
Lance Armstrong’s cancer battle started in 1995, and it took two long years of worry and pain, but against all odds, the bicyclist was able to make a full recovery. Read along to learn more, and feel free to use the navigation panel below to jump to a relevant section of the blog post. Who
View image in fullscreen UK online gambling operators braced for £2 stake limit on digital slot machines Government-imposed maximum to be announced on Friday could cost companies hundreds of millions in revenue The gambling industry is braced for new limits of as little as £2 a spin for online slot machines, the Guardian understands, in
View image in fullscreen ‘It changed my life’: how a UK charity is helping female gambling addicts For women put off by male-dominated Gamblers Anonymous meetings, a treatment centre in Wolverhampton offers a lifeline At the height of her addiction at the age of 21, Megan Vanderson lost £4,000 in 10 minutes gambling on games
View image in fullscreen Mornington Peninsula hotel owner forced to sell business after gambling watchdog finds payout error cover-up by staff Owner of Rye hotel hit with $80,000 fine and required to sell business after staff falsified records to cover up an erroneous cash payout Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get
View image in fullscreen Man sues Powerball lottery after being told his apparent $340m win was error Game’s administrators said their website only showed John Cheeks’s numbers as the winning combination by mistake A man who thought he had won a $340m Powerball jackpot is suing the lottery after the game’s administrators said their website
View image in fullscreen MPs seek assurances that new national lottery operator will increase donations Concerns also raised about Allwyn’s commitments to safer gambling and its ownership structure MPs have demanded assurances from the gambling regulator about the new national lottery operator, Allwyn, raising concerns about its commitments to safer gambling and donations to good
Sweden’s Government Proposal and AGT’s Response The Swedish government (Regeringen) has plans to hike the gambling tax rate from 18% to 22% of the gross gaming revenue. If approved, this change will come into effect on July 1st, 2024. As stated, this tax rise will bring an additional 540 million SEK in tax revenue each
If you decide to try a new hobby, then know that playing chess in the Philippines is one of the trendy options. The ancient game is drawing attention because it is available to everyone, and there is no special equipment required besides the chess board and pieces. In this blog post, you can find out