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Sportech confirms full sports betting launch in Connecticut

Within the next two weeks, sports betting is scheduled to go live across the supplier’s seven remaining venues. This new announcement comes after the company had signed an agreement on 13 August 2021 with the Connecticut Lottery Company, to deliver sports betting in its Connecticut venues. The deal from August saw Winners OTB and Bobby […]

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Sportsbet fined for gambling advertising breaches in Australia

The investigation revealed that between October 2020 and March 2021, Sportsbet account holders received prohibited gambling advertisements via email from the company, after withdrawing consent to further receive direct marketing; repeated attempts to unsubscribe were unsuccessful due to the confusing functionality of the unsubscribe option. Between 2 and 24 November 2020, a desktop audit of

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Chinese Police arrest team that made over $4m by buying losing betting accounts

The scheme consisted of buying up hundreds of money-losing accounts and exploiting the perks afforded to big-betting but unsuccessful gamblers. According to the police, the “core p” of the syndicate was the owner of an Internet Café in Wenzhou; the owner was identified only as ‘Shi.’ Shi himself allegedly lost big amounts of yuan on

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Spotlight Sports Group releases first study on betting and iGaming suppliers

The research’s core is a visual that showcases six segments – platform providers, trading, e-commerce, data, content and iGaming – and all the major businesses that feature in each. The study was conducted internally by a team of Spotlight Sports Group researchers who benefited from the support of independent industry experts and focused on the

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Western Sydney Wanderers renew responsible gambling partnership with GambleAware

The Australian football club will continue to work with the organisation’s Office of Responsible Gambling through the end of the 2021/22 season. As part of GambleAware’s ‘Reclaim the Game’ initiative, the Wanderers will collaborate with the charity on a new campaign to address the normalisation of sports betting and advertising. On Monday 15 November, the

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Michigan’s sportsbooks generate $500m in wagers for October

Michigan’s online sportsbooks accepted a record of $463.6m in bets for October, up 31% from September and surpassing the previous record of $359.5m set in March. Combined with $34.2m in retail betting, the state’s total handle set a record of $497.6m in wagering, up 29% from the previous month. Online sportsbooks won $24.3m in gross

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Entain: 2021 will be a “bumper year” for betting on cricket

So far, punters from around the world have placed 2.8 million bets on cricket with the company, a p that Entain expects will skyrocket by a further half a million bets in December alone. And its estimate isn’t just wishful thinking. The company believes that cricket’s rising popularity among international audiences, especially the rise of

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