Insight

In my 30 years of writing columns, I’ve focused mainly on the gaming industry. After all, it’s the business I’ve been in all these decades. But every once in a... Read more... more

The rapid and widespread adoption of sports betting legislation across the U.S. has met with little high-profile public resistance since 2018, but as the prevalence of the industry begins to... Read more... more

Highlighting the threat posed by unregulated operators on the legal market is understandable, even if the objectives are not always met. The size and reach of illegal online gambling operators... Read more... more

News headlines coming out of Macau this week focused on the government’s announcement that it had awarded provisional concessions to the six existing casino operators, each lasting 10 years. This... Read more... more

As I sit in my home office penning this editorial, it is now more than three years since I last stepped foot in Macau and for all I know it... Read more... more

According to reporting in the Times newspaper this week, the UK’s painfully protracted review of gambling regulation has been unboxed, dusted down, and elevated back into the light by the... Read more... more

Recently, I was having dinner with a friend who was in London on his way back to the United States, having taken a vacation in the Cotswolds, a beautiful area... Read more... more

On November 20, The New York Times published an article on sports betting. In classic Times’ fashion, the article sought to dig into the deepest past and darkest corners of... Read more... more

Recent articles by the New York Times on U.S. online sports betting were highly negative, but not surprising. The industry should expect more of the same and ensure it acts... Read more... more

When you gaze across a crowded casino floor and observe the guests playing card games, craps and roulette in the table games pit, and the folks engaged one-on-one with the... Read more... more