In a bid to develop an 85,000 square foot accommodation for a new form of gambling for the historic racetrack, Churchill Downs Inc. plans to invest $60 million. A form or type of betting where people use electronic gaming machines to bet on races that have already taken place is called historical or instant racing.

Boston-based DraftKings being the largest and Scotland-based FanDuel being the second largest daily fantasy Sports Company based on their revenues were merging.

With the high-profile sporting events based in Russia, like 2018 soccer World Cup and International Operators likely to partner with the domestic company, Russia’s licensed sports betting market is all set to more than double over the coming five years, as per Bookmaker Ratings.

U.S is waiting for the biggest upcoming super-fight between boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and UFC fighter Conor McGregor on August 26 in Las Vegas, which would invite a huge betting action.

Romania is preparing to take stern measure on gambling advertising, following the opening of its gaming and sports betting market to regulated international operations.

With Badminton World Federation launching Sports betting and Integrity policy and because of a number of high-profile cases of betting and gaming issues within sport, Badminton England showed super fast response and gave out its intentions to do anything to protect the players and member from the threats that unethical activity in and around the game can bring and safeguard the integrity of the Sport in England.

PokerStars and BetStars have come together to provide for the players an experience of sports betting and poker play in a $2 fun themed online tournament The Big Race on 18th June.

The Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has recommended a 35% tax on betting, lotteries and gaming activities. President Kenyatta made this recommendation to the Speaker of the National Assembly in a memorandum.

Betway, the leading sports betting company has made its way to the South African market. Betway has a wide range of services to offer.

What looks like a (Casino) Industrial revolution is when a group of the largest lobby is making extreme efforts to annul the ancient 25-year-old federal laws that ban sports betting in most of the states.

Poland is the newest member of the regulated online gambling landscape in Europe. After being approved by the government last year, a new gambling regulatory establishment came into effect from 1st April’17 with the intentions to liberalise the local market, though not much of liberalisation took place.

Into 10 months of regulated service in online gaming revenue, Portugal made around €82.2m ($92.1m), during the time period of late May 2016 to March 31, 2017.

Clarion Gaming, industry corporate events organiser is launching their first ever “Sports Betting USA” conference, scheduled November 14-15 2017 at the Convene in New York City.

Proving the odds of old age that you can bet on anything The Drone Racing League(DRL) and Betfair have come into partnership. This step was taken to cover the sports betting on the final race at Alexandra Palace in London of the Allianz World Championship circuit on June 13.

The expansion of off-track betting sites was voted by the state House of Representatives for an East Windsor Casino on Wednesday morning. The house granted final legislative approval that the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes can build a satellite casino that would be visible from Interstate 91, north of Hartford.

Government betting regulatory body, Lotteries and Gaming Regulatory Board (LGRB), closed 30 illegal sports betting centres in areas of Kampala city and Wakiso district, making the total of 78. Last month about 48 centres were shut down in the city suburbs and Mukono district.

The non-profit Esports Integrity Coalition (ESIC), in UK, has signed a memorandum of understanding, which will have a partnership with the Gambling Commission to prevent and better detect malpractice in eSports.

The latest internet sensation currently drawing slack over its controversial issue is online bookmaker Sportsbet for reportedly featuring Olympic drug cheat Ben Johnson. The sprinter —lost his gold medal at the Seoul Olympics after testing positive for anabolic steroids.

Fantasy sports sites in Texas still hold in a dark place, a year and a half later after the Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion bringing it at par with illegal gambling and its likely to remain the similar way.

Eurobet which is one of the leaders in the sports betting industry, in a successful attempt to change the Italian regulated market’s current in play picture launched the Super Live Soccer content of Metric Gaming. This makes Eurobet the first company in the country that is related to the real-time markets offering in-play football betting.