A Singapore High Court ruling has stopped Venetian Macau Ltd from enforcing a HK$19.35 million (US$2.5 million) gambling debt against a VIP customer whose assets are held in Singapore. The September 4 decision involved Hu Yangning, a businesswoman who had been a VIP customer at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. According to evidence considered by the court, a client manager...
Chancellor John Healey is reportedly considering a higher tax rate on slot machines as the UK government assesses ways to raise additional revenue ahead of the October Budget. Treasury officials are examining how much money different increases to Machine Games Duty could generate. The duty applies to takings from machines offering cash prizes, including slot, fruit and quiz machines operating...
The Belgian Council of State has suspended the planned 15-year concession for the Grand Casino Brussels after incumbent operator Viage challenged the City of Brussels’ decision to select Napoleon Games. The ruling puts the future of the €750 million concession under review less than four months before the new licence is scheduled to begin on January 1. Viage has operated...
The American Gaming Association (AGA) expects Americans to wager $29.5 billion through regulated commercial sportsbooks during the 2026 NFL season. The projection represents only a slight increase from the $29.4 billion recorded last season and signals a marked slowdown in the growth that has defined US sports betting since the federal ban was overturned in 2018. The estimate includes preseason wagers, futures...
New research presented at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ 2026 International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking has examined why conventional measures such as house edge and variance do not always capture the full risk profile of blackjack. Chase McCloskey presented “Skewness, Kurtosis, Omega, and Risk of Ruin in Casino Blackjack” on May 26 at the conference in Las...
Michigan has had a soaring year in online gambling in 2025, so much that it’s now one of the big players on the national stage. You can see the effects everywhere, from all that extra money in the state budget to big debates at the statehouse over budgets and taxes. Anyone who studies gambling markets, especially on a global scale,...
The proposed Black Marlin Casino has cleared a key local hurdle after the Biloxi Planning Commission unanimously approved the project’s master plan, rezoning request and removal of 28 protected trees. RW Development presented the 119,000-square-foot casino resort during the commission’s Sept. 3 meeting. The development would occupy an 11-acre site around U.S. 90 and Veterans Avenue, where the Big Play...
New Zealand’s new technical standards for online casino gambling came into force on 8 July 2026, introducing formal requirements for random-number generation, game pacing and the way online casino games behave under the country’s developing regulated regime. The Online Casino Gambling (Minimum Standards) 2026, issued by the Department of Internal Affairs, requires game results to be acceptably random, prohibits adaptive...
The NCAA has concluded its investigation into the University of Cincinnati’s handling of former quarterback Brendan Sorsby’s sports betting activity, determining that the school and its football program did not violate NCAA rules. The decision brings an end to months of scrutiny that followed revelations about Sorsby’s extensive gambling activity during his collegiate career. The former Bearcats quarterback, who played...
Hundreds of employees at Encore Boston Harbor walked off the job Friday after negotiations over a new labor agreement failed to produce a deal, marking the start of a strike involving workers represented by two major unions. The labor action follows months of discussions between Wynn Resorts and representatives from UNITE HERE Local 26 and Teamsters Local 25. The unions...