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Gambling on eSports Becoming Mainstream
Competitive video games, or eSports, have seen their popularity grow by leaps and bounds in the last few years. Online streaming sites like Twitch have made the games more accessible to fans,...
William Hill Suffers Worst Week Ever as Profits Fall in Q1
William Hill saw profits fall by 19 percent in the first quarter of 2015, impacted by a number of factors including what the company called its worst week ever in its bookmaking...
Pakistani Cricket Official Sent Home From World Cup After Casino Visit
Cricket never seems to be short of scandals related to betting and match integrity, and while it’s not clear if there are any actual problems at this year’s Cricket World Cup, it...
China Cracks Down on Foreign Casinos Luring Chinese Gamblers
China is to launch a clampdown on foreign casinos targeting its citizens, its Ministry of Public Security announced this week. As Macau reports its first year-on-year decline in profits since casino laws...
Match-Fixing, Honey Traps, and Blackmail: Simply Not the Cricket World Cup ?
The Cricket World Cup is almost upon us, but before half the world stops reading, let us remind you that this story is about glamorous femme fatales, blackmail, criminal betting syndicates and...
Tough Times for Macau Casino Owners As They Lose Billions
Lawrence Ho was among many Hong Kong billionaires to lose big on casinos in 2014, though he's still optimistic about Macau rebounding in the next year. (Image: Thomas Lee/Bloomberg)Macau's casinos had a...
Match Fixing Scandals in 2014
For fans, organizers, and bettors alike, there's nothing more important in sports than the integrity of the outcome in each contest. For your typical fan, the important thing is knowing that you're...
Barrier Reef Mega Casino Receives Environmental Approval
A controversial plan to build an $8 billion mega-resort casino in the far north of Queensland, close to Australia’s famous Great Barrier Reef, gained momentum this week when its environmental impact statement...
Vietnamese High Roller Peter Tan Hoang May Have Gambled $1 Billion in Laundered Money
Even before Peter Tan Hoang was murdered in Sydney this September, the 36-year-old gambling "whale" was already the subject of intense speculation. The Vietnamese refugee was known to be a big spender...
Jorryt Van Hoof Leads as WSOP Final Table Down to Three
The World Series of Poker final table is down to three players, with Dutchman Jorryt van Hoof finishing yesterday’s play as he began, with the chip lead and bossing the table around....