3300 stories by Philip Conneller
Backlash Over Crypto Deals in Elite Soccer After Man City Locks Out 3Key
Faced with the threat of losing revenue streams from gambling advertising, elite soccer teams are increasingly looking to commercial crypto deals to offset the expected hit. But on Friday, reigning EPL champion Manchester City was forced to suspend its partnership with crypto...
Vancouver Man Charged with Murder in Slaying of Alleged Money Laundering Kingpin
Vancouver police have charged a man with the murder of the alleged money launderer Jian Jun Zhu. Authorities believe Jian washed hundreds of millions of dollars in drug money through British Columbia casinos. Richard Charles Reed, 23, is accused of firing the bullet...
Cambodian Online Gambling Rogue Operation Frees 60 Trafficked Thai Workers
Some 60 Thai workers allegedly trafficked and ransomed by an online gambling outfit in Cambodia were repatriated Monday to their home country. According to The Bangkok Post, the victims were deceived into working for the illegal operation after answering false job advertisements...
MGM More Than Doubles Mandatory COVID Test Prices for Unvaccinated Hourly Workers
UPDATE: The OSHA emergency rule has been placed on hold by a US Appeals Court. MGM has not yet commented. MGM Resorts' unvaccinated hourly employees in Las Vegas will now have to pay $38 towards each COVID test they are required to...
World Series of Poker to Leave Rio, Moving to Bally’s, Paris Las Vegas in 2022
This is the final year that the World Series of Poker (WSOP) will be held at the Rio All Suites Hotel & Casino. From 2022, the event will move to the Strip, where it will be hosted jointly by Bally’s and Paris...
New York Court Combines DraftKings Lawsuits Alleging Impropriety in SBTech Merger
A New York federal court has consolidated two proposed class-action lawsuits brought against DraftKings executives by a group of shareholders. Both suits claimed the DraftKings board breached its fiduciary duty by failing to declare the alleged black-market operations of Bulgaria-based software provider...
Pennsylvania Lottery Fails to Analyze Suspicious Frequent Winners, Says Auditor General
The Pennsylvania Lottery does not do enough to analyze data on its customers’ winning patterns, the state auditor general, Timothy DeFoor, said Monday. DeFoor is concerned that this lack of oversight could be letting frequent winners get away with committing widescale fraud....
WSOP Final Table: German Koray Aldemir Leads Heading into $8M Finale
The WSOP final table is set. After six days of busted draws, all-in jams, bad beats, three-bets, four-bets, and a smattering of game-theory-optimized check-raising, nine players remain in poker’s biggest event. All are guaranteed at least $1 million. All are chasing the...
Betsson Sees Yellow for Offering Bets on In-Game Soccer Rule Violations
Swedish online gambling giant Betsson has been yellow-carded by the country’s gambling regulator for offering bets on… yellow cards. Betting on rule violations in sports has been against the rules in Sweden since last year, as part of a measure introduced to...
Arkansas Chef May Have Shot Coworker Dead Over Winning Casino Ticket
A chef at an Arkansas restaurant may have killed a coworker because he wanted to steal his winning casino ticket, court documents reveal. Prosecutors allege Martin Eduardo Tavarez Torres, 21, shot a fellow chef in the back of the head with a...
