PREMIER LEAGUE SOCCER TO RESTART NEXT MONTH
By Erik Gibbs Germany’s Bundesliga may have been the first major soccer (or football, depending on which side of the pond you’re on) league to get back into action, but it soon won’t be alone. The UK’s Premier League announced yesterday that…
NIGERIA SPORTS BETTING SECTOR REPORT 2020-2021
Iwo Bulski This report presents market trends, focusing on the needs of customers across multiple industry segments, use cases, and geographies. Markets and Subjects Analysed Core Research Key Questions Answered Key Topics Covered Companies Mentioned For more information about this…
WILL ESPORTS HYPE SURVIVE PAST COVID-19?
Asia Gaming Brief is pleased to release details of the next edition of its AGB Webinar Series, titled: ‘Can Esports Fill the Void?’ Held on Thursday 28th May 2020 at 2 pm HKT, the webinar will aim to explore the…
BETGENIUS: THE SOUND OF SILENCE… WHAT IMPACT DOES AN EMPTY STADIUM HAVE ON TRADING?
Ted Menmuir As football leagues around the world prepare to return behind closed doors, Betgenius’ Head of Trading Dmitri Agapov assesses what a lack of fans means for both pre-match and live pricing. In normal times, tonight’s match between Borussia…
WHY ESPORTS AND BITCOIN ARE A NATURAL MATCH
Esports, aka competitive video game tournaments, is one of those ideas that’s been touted as perfect for Bitcoin since the beginning. Easy payments and prize pools, portable game item ownership, provably fair games with permanent and transparent records, anti-cheating measures,…
ICYMI: TO DRIVE OUT ILLEGAL MARKET, MEDIA MUST STOP PROMOTING OFFSHORE, UNREGULATED SPORTBOOK.
By Bill Miller, AGA president and CEO As we mark two years since the Supreme Court’s decision to invalidate the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA)—the federal prohibition on sports betting—venues from Madison Square Garden to T-Mobile Arena and…
INTERNATIONAL BETTING OPERATORS CALL FOR GLOBAL SPORTS DATA STANDARDS
The International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) has called on all parties engaged in the supply chain of sports event data for betting to adhere to global best practice standards. IBIA said in a release Thursday that it believes this is the most…
ITALY: SPORTS BETTING TAX CONFIRMED
Italy has gone ahead with plans to introduce an additional tax on sports betting to finance a “Save Sport” fund. Italy.- The Italian Council of Ministers has gone ahead with the introduction of a new temporary tax on sports betting…
IS CASINO UP UNDER COVID-19 LOCKDOWN?
As novel coronavirus (Covid-19) swept the globe and lockdowns followed, concerns were raised over a potential “boom” in online casino. But to what extent has play in the vertical actually grown, and is it sustainable or does it represent a…
A SECOND POKER BOOM
A couple of weeks ago, I was the moderator for a panel at the SBC Digital Summit. The topic was ”Poker to the Rescue?” referring to whether online poker revenue can replace sports betting revenue now that there are no…