Slot Streamers and the Twitch Gambling Ban
For a stretch of 2021 and 2022, the most reliable spectacle on Twitch was not a video game at all. It was a spinning…
Betting Exchanges and Bookmakers: How They Differ
A bookmaker and a betting exchange both display odds on the same football match, yet they are running opposite businesses. The bookmaker is a…
Sweepstakes Casinos and Real-Money Casinos: The Difference
Sweepstakes casinos look almost identical to conventional online casinos: the same slot titles, similar lobbies, jackpot counters ticking upwards. Legally, the two operate in…
Inside Live Casino Studios
Behind every live blackjack table on a casino site is a physical room: studio lighting rigs, multiple broadcast cameras, a dealer working a scheduled…
The Sphere: How a Venue Became a Media Format
On September 29, 2023, U2 opened a 40-show run of “U2:UV Achtung Baby Live” inside a 366-foot-tall globe just east of the Las Vegas…
How Super Bowl Week Took Over Las Vegas
When the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 in overtime at Allegiant Stadium on February 11, 2024, the game was in…
How Progressive Jackpots Work
On 21 March 2003 a 25-year-old software engineer from Los Angeles put about 100 dollars through a Megabucks machine at the Excalibur in Las…
How Betting Odds Are Set: Inside the Trading Room
The popular image of an odds compiler is a man with a cigarette and a form book, scribbling prices on a whiteboard. That world…
Atlantic City and Las Vegas: Two Recovery Stories
America’s two gambling capitals went dark within days of each other in March 2020, and the parallel largely ends there. Las Vegas reopened on…
Cash Out: How It Works and What It Costs
Cash out is the most successful product innovation in betting since the accumulator. Betfair introduced it on its exchange in 2011, letting customers lock…