On the American Gaming Association's website, a counter has been climbing for months, tallying what the casino-and-sportsbook lobby says states and tribes have lost to prediction markets. On Thursday, it rolled past $1 billion, and the AGA moved fast to make a headline out of it, with President Bill Miller going on CNBC to warn […]
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Argentina’s bill would block crypto payments to illegal gambling sites and add prison terms of up to 6 years.
The same horse-racing board game has been published and republished for decades under at least seven different names — Dubble Kross (1991), The Horse Race Game (2004), Wooden Horse Races Game (2004), Horse Race (2005), The Racing Horse Game (2006), Horse Racing Game (2007) — plus a run of unnamed wood-and-metal editions. — Read the rest
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The tidal wave of legal sports betting has easily infiltrated schools and swept up boys. There’s still time for commonsense guardrails and effective education.
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Spain has blocked both prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi for operating without gambling licences. Spain’s gambling regulator, the Directorate General for Gambling Regulation, ordered internet service providers to block access to Polymarket and Kalshi after the Ministry of Consumer Affairs…
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I had been sitting down to churn out today’s edition of Pook-Emu Bee links when work fell into my lap. But it is now lunch, and lunch means it is time for links. 1. Humpback Whales Sometimes Hold Their Mouths Open for No Clear Reason. Tourists Are Helping Scientists Understand the Rare Behavior (Margherita Bassi […]
I had been sitting down to churn out today's edition of Pook-Emu Bee links when work fell into my lap. But it is now lunch, and lunch means it is time for links.
Maybe they're just messing with…
I had been sitting down to churn out today's edition of Pook-Emu Bee links when work fell into my lap. But it is now lunch, and lunch means it is time for links. 1. Humpback Whales Sometimes Hold Their Mouths Open for No Clear Reason. Tourists Are Helping Scientists Understand the Rare Behavior (Margherita Bassi...
Monday is here. So too after taking the weekend off are my Pook-Emu Bee links.
These sorts of troubling Brooklyn headlines are seldom about places I visit. That is mostly true in this case as well, but "Bush-Clinton Park in the Red Hook Recreation Area" caught my attention. I only walked by…
Monday is here. So too after taking the weekend off are my Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Maniac strangles 7-year-old boy in Brooklyn park: cops (Dean Moses for Brooklyn Paper. May 18, 2026.) These sorts of troubling Brooklyn headlines are seldom about places I visit. That is mostly true in this case as well, but “Bush-Clinton […]
The former boss of the Texas Lottery Commission has been re-indicted in an alleged $95 million gambling scheme.
The post Ex-Texas Lottery Commission Boss Re-Indicted over Alleged $95 Million Scheme appeared first on Breitbart.
Insider trading is rife on Polymarket:
Analysis by the Anti-Corruption Data Collective, a non-profit research and advocacy group, found that long-shot bets—defined as wagers of $2,500 or more at odds of 35 percent or less—on the platform had an average win rate of around 52 percent in markets on military and defense actions.
That compares with a win rate of 25 percent across all…
Prediction markets closed out Consensus Miami 2026 as the subject of a live debate on whether they are regulated financial derivatives or gambling products operating outside state law. Prediction markets closed out Consensus Miami 2026 on Thursday as the subject…
Brian Michael Hinds found accidental internet fame through a resemblance to the controversial manosphere figure. He’s still wrestling with what to do with it.
Legendary American investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett does not hold a charitable view of those who gamble their money on sports.
The post Warren Buffett on Sports Betting: ‘It’s a Tax on Stupidity’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Polymarket is a platform where people can bet on real-world events, political and otherwise. Leaving the ethical considerations of this aside (for one, it facilitates assassination), one of the issues with making this work is the verification of these real-world events. Polymarket gamblers have threatened a journalist because his story was being used to verify an event. And now, gamblers are…
Sponsored Content Neighboring Virginia recently declined a proposal that would’ve legalized real-money online casinos within the state’s borders. DC councilmembers are now making their own push. On April 9, Wendell […]
A Trump administration agency has sued other states that sought to regulate Kalshi, Polymarket and other prediction operations under their gambling laws.
Putting a market price on some prediction does not make it a ‘truth machine.’
The post This Is the Worst Argument for Prediction Markets appeared first on The American Prospect.
TORONTO, ON – Ontario Premier Doug Ford was on hand as he and other school administrators broke ground on the new FanDuel Toronto Primary School for students in Junior Kindergarten to Grade 8 in the Sugar Wharf community. Named after the sponsor and primary funder of the school, “FanDuel Primary”, as it has come to […]
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State of the Union: Gannon Ken Van Dyke won $400,000 on prediction markets bets about Venezuela.
The post U.S. Soldier Arrested for Betting on Venezuela Raid appeared first on The American Conservative.
Zeke Enriquez, who ran in the GOP primary for Texas’ 21st Congressional District, was fined and barred from the prediction market platform for five years. Two candidates in other states were suspended for the same offense.
A booming industry is inviting users to profit from human suffering
The post Prediction Markets Are Coming to Canada. Are We Ready to Bet on War? first appeared on The Walrus.
Prop bets — wagers on things like individual player performance — have been linked by advocates to gambling addiction and corruption in sports
WINNIPEG – Local crisis workers have sent 32-year-old Ronald Alexander to Victoria General Hospital for psychological tests following disturbing reports that he has “never put money down on a single sporting event” and how he, more concerningly, “likes to watch sports for fun.” News of Ronald’s fandom has shocked those close to him, as many […]
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In July 1993, a disguised player entered the World Open chess tournament in Philadelphia using the name of a mathematician who died in 1957. His real identity remained unknown—until now.
After years of legal battles to protect its business from criminal prosecution, Torch Electronics will suspend operations of its slot machines in Missouri under pressure from state Attorney General Catherine Hanaway and the U.S. Department of Justice. In a letter sent to retailers on Monday, the Wildwood-based company said it would turn its games off […]
Offset’s name continues to circulate following the recent shooting incident in South Florida, and now new reports are shedding light on what may have led up to the confrontation. According…
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Native American dice dating back 12,000 years rewrite the global history of probability and gambling