Bill Ordine was a reporter and editor in news and sports for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Baltimore Sun for 25 years, and was a lead reporter on a team that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News. Bill started reporting on casinos and gaming shortly after Atlantic City’s first gambling halls opened and wrote a syndicated column on travel to casino destinations for 10 years. He covered the World Series of Poker for a decade and his articles on gaming have appeared in many major U.S. newspapers, such as the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald and others.
Nevada saw a four-month streak of $1 billion in sports betting handle broken in February as the state’s bookmakers handled about $780.8 million in wagers....
The world is still waiting for a major online sports betting venture in the U.S. to report any sizable profit. DraftKings, which is traded on the NASDAQ and is one of the most prominent sports betting operators in the U.S., reported a loss of more than $1.5 billion is 2021. It was more than $1.2...
The proliferation of legal, regulated sports betting in the U.S. is creating a shift in betting behaviors for March Madness, according to a survey conducted by the American Gaming Association, the gaming industry’s trade group....
NBC Sports Chicago and NBC Sports Philadelphia are partnering with online bookmaker PointsBet to present “BetCast". BetCast is an alternate live game coverage that merges traditional sports play-by-play with a sports-betting experience....
Flutter Entertainment, the Dublin-based international gaming giant, reported that for 2021 it had revenues of about $8 billion (6 billion UK pounds), up 37% from 2020 (on a pro forma basis up 17%)....