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Bernie Sanders has spent much of his time on the presidential campaign trail admonishing “casino capitalism”. On Monday morning he did so again – this time literally. “What we’re seeing in Atlantic City encapsulates the ugliness and the greed,” the Democratic hopeful told a crowd just off the famous...

A loophole allowing punters to place bets online during sporting events will be closed by the federal government as part of a comprehensive review. Gambling-safety advocates have broadly welcomed the recommendations of the O’Farrell review into the online sports-betting industry, released on Thursday, including the establishment of a national...

Advertisements for gambling would be treated like tobacco promotions and banned completely under a policy announced by the Greens. The Greens leader, Richard Di Natale, said on Friday the ban would “make it possible for people to sit down with their kids and watch a game of footy without...

A lottery security director who was convicted of fixing a $16.5m lottery jackpot also allegedly rigged several other lottery random-number generators to be able to predict the winning numbers, according to Iowa investigators. For several years, Eddie Tipton, the former security director of the US Multi-State Lottery Association, installed...

A new regulatory system meant to allow staff at betting shops to identify and bar problem gamblers has been criticised as ineffectual by addicts and campaigners. From this week bookmakers will have to conduct local area risk assessments to explain how they are going to mitigate crime and the...

An Italian prosecutor has called for more than two dozen top tennis players to be investigated by the Tennis Integrity Unit for possible links to betting rings. Roberto Di Martino has told the BBC that tennis authorities should be doing more with evidence he has gathered concerning at least...

The bookmaker Paddy Power is targeting minority ethnic communities with controversial fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs), according to a new analysis. The study, which uses Gambling Commission data, reveals that 61% of Paddy Power’s 349 betting shops are located in areas with above average levels of non-UK born population. The...

When Paddy Power launched a new advertising campaign with the tagline “You’re Welcome!” last year, its chief marketing officer told a trade magazine that “the Paddy Power brand has always been about two things – being as generous as we can with our customers, and behaving in a mischievous...

Bookmaker Paddy Power encouraged a problem gambler to keep betting until he lost five jobs, his home and access to his children, according to a report by the Gambling Commission. The company also failed to perform sufficient checks to ensure customers were not using its betting machines to launder the...

Bookmaker William Hill has announced a drop in operating profit of 22% for 2015, blaming gambling taxes imposed on its UK online and retail businesses. The company reported operating profits of £291.4m for last year, down from £372.2m in 2014. It said additional gambling duties of £87m resulted in...

The company that owns Sydney’s Star casino does not think it would make sense to extend the city’s controversial lockout laws to the venue, given its standing as a major tourist attraction. “I think that would make no sense at all,” Star Entertainment Group’s chief executive, Matt Bekier, said...

Sporting reputations are tumbling so fast, I doubt even Usain Bolt can keep up with them. We’ve had match-fixing in cricket and snooker, corruption in football, and doping in cycling, rugby, baseball and athletics. Now it’s the turn of tennis – and back to fixing matches. A joint Buzzfeed-BBC investigation...

The chips are being counted, the roulette wheels prepared, the gaming machines readied. From next week, the doors of the UK’s newest and shiniest casino will be thrown open, giving up to 2,000 people at any one time the chance to try their luck on the turn of a...

It wasn’t so long ago that poker was illegal in Catalonia. But Barcelona is rapidly styling itself as the game’s European capital, and is second only to Las Vegas as the most popular destination for the world’s top players. This weekend, 93 players sat down to the European Poker...

As G Force burst through to win the prestigious Betfred Sprint Cup at Haydock, I began celebrating my biggest priced winner of the flat season, having backed him at odds of 25-1. But my joy at such a profitable day’s gambling was soon tempered by the realisation that yet...