Zoe Samios

Sydney

Reporter at Australian Financial Review

Covering gaming and sports business @FinancialReview | Ex media writer @smh @theage & @australian | Views are my own | [email protected]

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Former AFL boss Andrew Demetriou launches new private members club in Melbourne

1 day ago | afr.com | Zoe Samios

Jun 7, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The ground floor of Pullman Melbourne on the Park is probably the last place you would expect to find a former AFL boss, an English cricket legend, a Tour de France champion, and a former rugby league player.
High-risk junkets accounted for 14pc of Star’s revenues for five years

2 days ago | afr.com | Zoe Samios |Max Mason

Star Entertainment’s high-risk junket business generated 14 per cent of the company’s revenues over a five-year period before the casino giant was undone by the COVID-19 pandemic and an investigation which revealed it had turned a blind eye to high-rollers laundering money in its venues. Star, which runs casinos in Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast, made the admission in documents filed in the Federal Court as part of a lawsuit brought by AUSTRAC, the agency which pursues financial crimes.
Tax breaks offered to sponsor athletes under new AOC, Australian Sports Federation program

2 days ago | afr.com | Zoe Samios

Jun 6, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Australians will be able to make tax-deductible donations to aspiring summer and winter Olympians under a new scheme designed to provide financial support for low-income athletes.
Entain chief executive Dean Shannon to step down ahead of AUSTRAC remediation

3 days ago | afr.com | Zoe Samios

Jun 5, 2025 – 10.05am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Dean Shannon, chief executive of the British bookmaker behind Ladbrokes and Neds, will step down at the end of the month in an attempt to improve the business relationship with the financial crimes watchdog.
Japanese entertainment giant Mixi improves bookmaker PointsBet takeover offer by Betr

5 days ago | afr.com | Zoe Samios

Jun 3, 2025 – 6.36pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Japanese entertainment giant Mixi has lobbed a higher bid to buy PointsBet and stave off a takeover of the business by local bookmaker Betr.
CoStar considers Domain rebrand after buying Homes.com.au

5 days ago | afr.com | Zoe Samios

Jun 3, 2025 – 12.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? CoStar has spent more than $22 million buying Homes.com.au in a sign of how the American real estate giant plans to reshape the local property listings industry after it acquires Domain in a $3 billion takeover.
Cricket Australia, with Insight Enterprises, is a finalist in the Creativity and enterprise category of the 2025 The Australian Financial Review AI Awards.

5 days ago | afr.com | Zoe Samios

Jun 3, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? It’s 9.37pm on March 4 (AEDT) and Indian bowler Ravindra Jadeja delivers the 10,000th ball of his career. Better yet, it’s his 59th career maiden, a term used to describe an over in which no runs are scored against the bowler.
Gambling billionaire Laurence Escalante seeks total control of Virtual Gaming Worlds

6 days ago | afr.com | Primrose Riordan |Zoe Samios

Jun 2, 2025 – 1.25pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Perth billionaire Laurence Escalante has moved to take control of Virtual Gaming Worlds and buy out minority shareholders in a deal that would value the online gambling and gaming business at $3.2 billion.
Blackstone’s Crown Perth nears its final regulatory hurdle

1 week ago | afr.com | Tom Rabe |Zoe Samios

May 26, 2025 – 10.48am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Blackstone’s Crown Resorts could clear its last regulatory hurdle within months as the West Australian government finalises a suitability assessment of its Perth casino after years of strict oversight.
The Premier League turns into Optus’ biggest headache

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Zoe Samios

May 23, 2025 – 11.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? In a matter of months, the English Premier League will reap the benefits of what it claims is the largest domestic sports rights agreement the United Kingdom has ever seen – a monster deal that runs for four years and is worth £6.7 billion ($14 billion). But in reality, it isn’t really a record.