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Mar 20, 2025 | 
casinoreports.com | Jeff Edelstein |Matthew Bain
Industry While the SAFE Bet Act isn’t the law of the land, some of its proposals are getting into other bills And now, for my next trick, I will marry the SAFE Bet Act with Poltergeist, specifically with one of the most iconic and spooky scenes in movie history.
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Mar 19, 2025 | 
lotterygeeks.com | Brett Smiley |Matthew Bain
Analysis ‘Everyday Americans buy lottery tickets with consistency because of the ability to purchase a dream’ In the Financial District of the financial capital of the world last week, CEO of lottery courier Jackpot.com Akshay Khanna took the stage for the discussion “Predictions 2026” alongside fellow gambling industry chief executives to kick around top-of-mind issues today and also peer into the crystal ball.
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Mar 3, 2025 | 
lotterygeeks.com | Eric Raskin |Matthew Bain
Analysis All the numbers to know as a major shift in lottery economics nears It’s been about 10 months since Lottery Geeks broke the news that the Mega Millions ticket price is increasing for only the second time in the history of the game, and now the dramatic alteration is nearly ready to become reality. We are entering the final month before the changeover occurs. In this article, we’ll break down all the numbers you need to know.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
casinoreports.com | Eric Raskin |Brett Smiley |John Brennan |Matthew Bain
Industry Plus: Caesars and Rush Street earnings, a poker player flips out, social media, hyperlinks, and more Welcome to “Spin Cycle,” Casino Reports’ weekly Friday roundup of all things impactful, intriguing, impressive, or idiotic in the gambling industry. Pull up a chair, grab a stack of chips and a glass of your beverage of choice, and take a spin with us through this week’s news cycle …It’s been a truly wild last 10 days in the world of Texas Lottery.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
lotterygeeks.com | Jeff Edelstein |Matthew Bain
Analysis Authorities in Texas are falling all over themselves to figure out what’s going on but it all seems much ado about nothing GAMBLING CZAR: Let’s call this meeting to order, and first item for business is the stripping of “Texas” from “Texas hold‘em,” with the reason being politicians and authorities in Texas treat gambling like it’s a biblical plague and thus it should lose the naming rights to the game. Do we have a second? Good. New ideas? The representative from New Jersey, yes?
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
lotterygeeks.com | Matthew Bain
Features In an era of ever-increasing digitization, the lottery market is poised to make more waves in the upcoming year The year 2024 may be remembered as when the wider gambling industry started seriously paying attention to the sheer size of lottery revenue and potential for more— especially online lottery. See: DraftKings buying Jackpocket for $750 million in February. Enough said, truly.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
lotterygeeks.com | Matthew Bain
Analysis A seismic shift in the landscape is coming if the FanDuel parent company makes one of these moves The rich will just keep getting richer in the U.S. gambling landscape. At least that’s the way it looks for Flutter, owner of FanDuel, whose share price has surged nearly 50% since switching to the New York Stock Exchange for its main listing in May.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
lotterygeeks.com | Eric Raskin |Matthew Bain
Features When is it appropriate to hand out lotto tix? Should you expect a cut if they win? (And so forth) It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Especially if someone hands you a piece of paper as a holiday gift and it turns out to be worth a lot of money. That’s the receiving end of things. On the giving end, the holidays can be a challenging time of year because you have to think of gifts for so many of the people in your life. Gifts for your immediate family. Gifts for close friends.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
thevarsity.ca | Matthew Bain
Those who regularly bike around U of T were in for a shock when Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced his plan to remove three of the largest bicycle lanes within Toronto. Under the provincial government’s proposed Bill 212 — Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, the bike lanes running along Yonge Street, University Avenue, and Bloor Street — which were completed this year — are all slated to be removed.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
casinoreports.com | Matthew Bain
Industry ‘The brain isn’t going to say, Well this is inherently safer because it’s not real money’ Sweepstakes gaming is the buzziest of buzz topics in today’s U.S. gambling industry. State regulators have sent certain operators cease-and-desist letters. Opportunistic lawyers are filing class-action lawsuits alleging financial damage from apps held out as free to play. California tribal interests have put the operators in their crosshairs, and have begun to plan a multi-pronged offensive.
