online gambling

(Newser) - The world of poker is suddenly under fire from all sides, with new tax rules, state bans, and a YouTube crackdown threatening the livelihoods of professional players and reshaping how fans watch and play the game. The pressure is coming from three main fronts: a last-minute tax change buried in...

(Newser) - Britain's richest woman didn't start out that way. As the Guardian reports, 57-year-old Denise Coates grew up as the daughter of a "moderately successful" businessman, and part of his business included brick-and-mortar betting parlors. In the early 2000s, Coates bet big that the future of gambling lay...

(Newser) - After the Supreme Court lifted a federal ban on sports gambling in 2018, a flurry of new players in the online gambling space emerged. Among them were "social sportsbooks" that take bets using "virtual currency," reports the Washington Post . With loose age restrictions (most are rated for...

(Newser) - A group of men in a remote Indian village put up a makeshift cricket stadium and managed to scam Russian online betters, at least for a while—a tale that reveals how far corruption and match-fixing runs in the "gentleman's sport" as well as online gambling. Sports Illustrated ...