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1 month ago | 
casinoreports.com | Jeff Edelstein |Richard Schuetz
Opinion Organization fought against legalizing betting but thinks it’s OK to highlight The Rizzler’s picks What in the actual f***, NCAA? I am speechless. But not wordless. Here we go. On the one hand, you have the NCAA, which for decades fought as hard as humanly possible against the idea of legalized sports betting. Now that it’s legal, the NCAA brass is still fighting against it. Charlie Baker, the NCAA president, believes prop betting on college athletes should be banned, for instance.
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1 month ago | 
casinoreports.com | Jeff Edelstein |Richard Schuetz
Opinion Experts may diss the app, but its player-friendly approach sets it apart for at least one customer I stand before you to tell you this: ESPN BET and its Hollywood Casino offering are the best combo package in the sports betting/online casino world for the recreational player as it stands today. Yes. That’s right. ESPN BET. I feel like I’m admitting something weird or deviant by copping to this, like I collect human fingernails or I’m Sam Rockwell guest-starring on White Lotus.
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1 month ago | 
casinoreports.com | Eric Raskin |Richard Schuetz |Jeff Edelstein
Opinion ‘Last Week Tonight’ piece, though one-sided, calls attention to predatory practices About 26 minutes into the 32-minute examination of the U.S. sports betting industry that served as the centerpiece of this Sunday night’s episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the show aired a 2024 clip from CBS News of an unnamed woman in Gamblers Anonymous talking about her struggles and the way gambling operators seemed to prey on those struggles: “I’m accountable, 100 percent, for being an...
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1 month ago | 
casinoreports.com | Jeff Edelstein |Richard Schuetz
Opinion We have a name or a phrase for just about everything else in gambling, right? They got a name for the winners in the worldI want a name when I loseThose lyrics above are from Steely Dan’s “Deacon Blues,” and it got me thinking about one of my favorite topics in gambling: tilt. Yes, tilt is one of my favorite topics. I’m fascinated by it. Mostly because I suffer from it. I can tilt with the best of ‘em.
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1 month ago | 
casinoreports.com | Eric Raskin |Chris Altruda |Jeff Edelstein |Richard Schuetz
Industry Plus: Kalshi’s unaired ad, Wizard of Oz slots, pardoning Pete, moose crossing, and more Welcome to “Spin Cycle,” Casino Reports’ weekly Friday roundup of all things impactful, intriguing, impressive, or idiotic in the gambling industry.
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1 month ago | 
casinoreports.com | Jeff Edelstein |Richard Schuetz
Opinion As the New York Times blames shoppers for addiction while vilifying gambling companies, it’s time to question the double standard And now, for a Jonathan Swift-style Modest Proposal. It is high time for the federal government to step in and limit advertising, ban sales and bonuses, prohibit credit card purchases, institute affordability checks, and raise taxes to upward of 51%. No, I’m not talking about the SAFE Bet Act for sports betting. I’m talking about shopping.
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2 months ago | 
casinoreports.com | Richard Schuetz |Jeff Edelstein
Opinion On Steve Wynn, the value of journalism, and the laws and precedents that protect it “The rich are different from you and me.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald“Yes, they have more money.”— Ernest HemingwayHoward Stutz is a Las Vegas journalist with over four decades of experience. More importantly, he is a journalist who deserves that title, and, unfortunately, it seems there are few journalists left in the world. He is careful in his work and is painstakingly accurate.
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2 months ago | 
casinoreports.com | Jeff Edelstein |Richard Schuetz
Opinion There’s an asteroid out there that’s a +4240 underdog to hit Earth — which isn’t nothing My wife is much smarter than me, both intellectually and emotionally, and, based on my 50-plus years on Earth, I’d put her in the 95th percentile in both. She’s wise. An old soul. Whatever you want to label it. But when it comes to probability? Oh, she’s a blithering idiot. Just like most people.
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2 months ago | 
casinoreports.com | Jeff Edelstein |Richard Schuetz
Opinion A bunch of former spies say a casino in Tysons, Virginia is a security risk, but maybe it’s just a ‘risk’ to their suburb? I love this story: More than 100 former spies and intelligence officers wrote a letter to Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and members of the Virginia General Assembly, urging them to not allow a proposed casino to be built in Tysons. Why? In the interest of national security.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
casinoreports.com | Jeff Edelstein |Richard Schuetz
Opinion A 51% tax rate, bank account checks, advertising bans, and prop and live bet bans highlight aggressive proposal First things first: As most watchers of the legalized gambling space have noted, the odds of this new batshizz crazy Massachusetts sports betting bill passing is somewhere between “nope” and “never.” But that doesn’t stop me from sounding like a 15-year-old teenager from 2013 when I look at it, groaning out an eye-rolling, “I can’t even.” As in, I can’t even fathom that here...
