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Gambling group says 4% of revenue comes from players at high risk of addiction
- Feb 8, 2021
Kindred the first operator to publish figure as UK government considers stricter betting laws
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Iowa In-Person Registration Ends, January Sports Betting Soars
- Feb 7, 2021
With Iowa’s in-person registration requirement having ended, bettors in the state started the new year setting state records in total sports betting handle, mobile handle and revenue for a month.
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Sports gambling could be the pandemic’s biggest winner
- Feb 7, 2021
The economic fallout of the coronavirus has sped up momentum for sports gambling. Voters in Louisiana, Maryland and South Dakota approved sports-betting ballot measures in November, while legislators in Virginia and Washington state enacted bills earlier last year.
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Illinois Sets Sports Betting Handle Record At $449.2M For November
- Feb 4, 2021
The Illinois Gaming Board released its full sports betting figures for the month of November on Monday, and the Land of Lincoln set a new standard for the sixth month running with a traditional handle of $449.2 million.
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Big Bucs: Bettor's calculated risk on Tom Brady's move to Tampa pays off
- Feb 4, 2021
Professional sports bettor Mark DeRosa believed Tom Brady was going to leave New England in the offseason and that Tampa Bay was one of the most likely landing spots. Sportsbooks, however, disagreed and listed the Buccaneers around 50-1 in their odds on where Brady would play in the 2020 season. Bookmakers made Brady returning to New England a heavy, odds-on favorite.
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AGA Estimates Super Bowl LV to Bring Out 23.2 Million Americans
- Feb 4, 2021
AGA predicts strong betting handle for Super Bowl LV with 23.2 million Americans flocking to the betting windows, and the majority choosing to play online. Regardless, the pandemic will diminish the total betting handle staked.
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Media Views: Growing acceptance of sports betting emphasizes Rose must remain banned from baseball
- Feb 3, 2021
Rose, baseball’s career hits leader, has been barred from the game since he accepted a settlement in 1989 that includes a lifetime ban for wagering on Cincinnati Reds contests when he was managing the team. While he has been allowed to attend a small number of functions, he remains persona non grata in general and specifically at the Hall — in which he surely would have been inducted long ago if not for his transgressions.
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Ringleader pleads guilty in sports gambling ring allegedly involving now-pardoned Casey Urlacher
- Feb 3, 2021
Vincent Del Giudice, 55, who goes by the nickname “Uncle Mick,” pleaded guilty at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse to gambling conspiracy and money laundering charges, and faces up to about a year and a half in prison under preliminary sentencing guidelines.
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As Sports Gambling Grows, So Do Appetite-Whetting Sure Bets
- Feb 3, 2021
Online gambling sites are offering can’t-lose propositions, giving away easy money to attract new customers to a nascent multibillion-dollar industry. These come-ons should reach a peak just ahead of the Super Bowl.
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Super Bowl gamblers have a “sure bet” in Tom Brady
- Feb 2, 2021
The quarterback won all of his Super Bowl rings with the New England Patriots, having been with the team from 2000 to 2019. He appeared in nine Super Bowls during that time and has a distinctive, perhaps intentional and methodical, approach to the game. In all nine games, he never led the Pats out of the gate quickly, with the opponents winning the first quarter each time.
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PGA Tour to debut second-screen broadcast geared toward gamblers at Waste Management
- Feb 2, 2021
NBC Sports will produce a second-screen broadcast geared specifically to gamblers and broadcasted on Peacock Premium, in partnership with PointsBet, an official betting operator of the PGA Tour and the official betting partner of NBC Sports.
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Virus may reduce total Super Bowl bets, but online to surge
- Feb 2, 2021
The American Gaming Association, the gambling industry’s national trade group, released a report Tuesday predicting that the number of people planning to make a bet on the big game will decrease this year.
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