This Week in Gambling

This week’s US gambling news finds that casinos, online gambling, and sports betting generated nearly $5 billion in the month of April! The second highest revenue totals of all time! On top of that, sports betting in America continues to expand and could get a huge boost as soon as next year! Hello friends! Here we are all together again! We have sports betting news from California, poker news from Las Vegas, and of course a brand new game review! But first, we have to do it: This week’s big story: Gambling in America has been kicking ass and taken…

While the company has been hemorrhaging cash for several years, Caesars sports betting is now expected to be generating a profit for the company by the fall of 2023. This according to their CEO, Tom Reeg . In a story reported on Yahoo! Finance, Caesars online gaming and sports betting lost over $550 million in just the first quarter of this year. But according to Reeg, the company has a plan. First up, they will cut their marketing spend, saving over $250 million. The second step in the recovery process is for Caesars to narrowly target their more “profitable customers”…

The Blazin’ Bullfrog online slot comes with 5 reels, 3 rows and 243 paylines! There are Wilds, Expanding Wilds, and Scatter symbols! Plus Re-Spins and Wild Scatter substitutes for all symbols! You can even take the Blazin’ Bullfrog slot with you on your mobile device! Yup, the Blazin’ Bullfrog slot is Play’n GO‘s try at a sequel, of sorts, to the Fire Toad slot. However, putting aside the names and the burning amphibians, there are few similarities between the games. Blazin’ Bullfrog can be played on mobile devices and desktop computers with stakes between 10 p/c to £/€100 a spin….

Gambling revenue in the United States is still setting records, despite the troubling economic clouds on the horizon. April of this year was the second best month ever recorded for American gaming, only trailing March of this year when the all-time revenue record was set.. Nearly $5 billion was generated in gambling revenue for April, which was a gain of well over 12% from the year before. Traditional casino gaming accounted for over $4 billion of that total, while online gambling chipped in over $415 million. Sports betting managed to contribute nearly $500 million, which was close to a 75%…

Our friends at SBC, while working with VIXIO Gambling Compliance, have uncovered some interesting findings about US sports betting. It seems that executives in the gambling industry, as well as regulators and even legal advisors, feel that the activity could be regulated in as many as 45 states by the year 2025. These numbers are derived from a survey conducted by the company prior to the SBC Summit North America in December 2021. They asked nearly 150 top executives involved with sports betting in America about their beliefs on the continued growth of the market. However, there were some serious…

The leader of DraftKings has a lot of optimism when it comes to California sports bets. Of course, his opinions may be somewhat skewed by the fact that his company has a rather large investment in that market. And of course, DraftKings could profit plenty if and/or when that market eventually opens up. CEO Jason Robins optimistically believes that California sports bets could be live as soon as next year. And why not? After all, DraftKings is pushing one of the ballot referendum which voters will consider this November. DraftKings is part of a larger coalition which was able to…