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Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani Monday (25 March) vehemently denied that he ever bet on sports, sent money to an illegal bookmaker or “willfully” paid off gambling debts for anyone during a press conference at the Dodgers facility regarding the sports betting scandal swirling around his former interpreter. The comments were in response to
A former DraftKings employee has accused the company of “aggressive smearing” of his reputation in a response to attempts to block him from working with Fanatics. Michael Hermalyn worked at DraftKings as senior vice-president of both its business development and growth departments, spending three and a half years with the company. Hermalyn then departed for
Welcome to iGB’s State of the Union, a look at the biggest sports betting stories we’ve covered this week and briefs on others we found interesting. As the world of sports betting continues move at warp speed, we’re doing our best to keep up, and keep you in the know. Cavaliers coach: Gambler threatened me
Investment group Penta Investments is working alongside JP Morgan to explore the potential sale of Fortuna Entertainment Group. Penta is exploring its options for Fortuna, which currently operates in Poland, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, running sites and betting shops under the Fortuna, Casa Parulior and PSK brands. Any sale of Fortuna could
The Los Angeles Times claims lawyers for baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani are accusing the ballplayer’s interpreter of stealing money and placing “bets with an allegedly illegal bookmaker who is the target of a federal investigation.” The Los Angeles Times broke the story today (20 March) claiming baseball superstar Ohtani’s lawyers are accusing the ballplayer’s interpreter
Delaware has posted a year-on-year increase in online gambling and sports betting revenue during February. Looking first to igaming, revenue in February hit $3.9m (£3.1m/€3.6m). This was up 254.6% from $1.1m in Delaware last year and, interestingly, 14.7% ahead of January’s $3.4m total. Video lottery games accounted for $2.8m of all revenue, with online table games at
Minnesota’s Senate Tax Committee has voted to double the proposed tax rate in a bill that would allow for legal statewide mobile sports betting from 10% to 20%. The bill, SF 1949, has been through six Senate committees, and is now on its way to Senate Finance. Should it pass out of the Senate, the
Early returns from North Carolina’s sports betting launch indicate the state will be an competitive and potentially lucrative market according to GeoComply’s review of the first 48 hours of legal wagering. Geolocation specialist GeoComply tracked 5.4 million location checks from 370,000 active accounts between noon 11 March-13 March. This beats the two million checks from
A statewide mobile sports betting bill got its first hearing in the Georgia House Tuesday (12 March). With just over two weeks remaining in the legislative session, and more than five weeks after the Senate passed SB 386, a statewide mobile sports betting bill got its first hearing in the Georgia House Tuesday. There was
