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2d ago
Sportsbook reported inconsistencies in prop betting markets
Forward currently listed as out because of personal reasons
The NBA has opened an investigation into Toronto two-way player Jontay Porter amid gambling allegations. Raptors coach Darko Rajaković says he learned of the news shortly before the team’s game on Monday night. ESPN first reported the investigation, which it said was focused on Porter’s performance in games on 26 January and 20 March. In both games, Porter played briefly before leaving citing injury or illness. Porter was not with the team on Monday and the Raptors said tha ..read more
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3d ago
Ippei Mizuhara allegedly took millions from star’s account
Dodgers star says he has never bet on baseball
Shohei Ohtani addressed the media on Monday after allegations emerged that his former interpreter stole millions of dollars from his bank account to pay an illegal bookmaker.
The Los Angeles Dodgers star, the most famous active baseball player in the world and a huge celebrity in his native Japan, addressed journalists in a press conference but did not take any questions from the media ..read more
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5d ago
Inside Gambling Anonymous, the 12-step program offering compulsive gamblers help, and hope
Each man enters the room, one by one, escaping the dark night outside. Before long some two dozen are sitting in a horseshoe. They hail from different worlds and different generations, but have been united by the same problem.
For decades, Gamblers Anonymous (GA) has offered compulsive gamblers a place to share their stories, and listen to others, in the hope of turning their lives around. Veterans of the 12-step program say it is now experiencing a sharp rise in interest from troubled young addicts.
Fin ..read more
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1w ago
Like every other US sports league, baseball pushes betting on its fans at every turn. Now its biggest star is associated with a gambling fiasco
This is Major League Baseball’s worst nightmare. The face of the league, its one, true international star, who this past offseason joined one of its biggest teams on a $700m contract, is associated with allegations around an illegal sports betting operation.
The story so far: the Los Angeles Dodgers fired Ippei Mizuhara, the interpreter for Shohei Ohtani, the team’s two-way phenom, on Wednesday after an investigation revealed $4.5m in wire transfers se ..read more
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1w ago
There will be more money riding on the NCAA Tournament than ever before in 2024. But with higher stakes comes more pressure on the athletes
March Madness is famously capricious, but as the tournament gets under way one prediction seems safe – there will be more money riding on it than ever before. But higher stakes carry increased risks and the threats and abuse directed at student-athletes are growing.
Americans will legally wager an estimated $2.72bn on the men’s and women’s March Madness events this year according to the American Gaming Association, a trade group. That is only a small fract ..read more
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1w ago
Ippei Mizuhara admits to have run up gambling debts
Ohtani is world’s most famous baseball player
The interpreter for Shohei Ohtani, the biggest star in baseball and one of the most famous people in Japan, has been fired after lawyers for the player said there had been a “massive theft” from the slugger’s account.
ESPN reported that several sources said Ippei Mizuhara had run up large debts to a Californian bookmaker. Initially a spokesperson for the player said Ohtani had transferred $4.5m to cover Mizuhara’s debts. But when ESPN asked further questions, the spokesperson backed away from th ..read more
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1w ago
With concern focused on online casinos, the firms who run ‘adult gaming centres’ have been expanding fast – and glad-handing dozens of MPs
‘I’d keep loading £20s in. I could be in a daze’
In the corner of a dimly lit room, the face of a middle-aged woman is bathed in the greenish-yellow glare of a giant slot machine. Next to her, an increasingly agitated man jabs furiously at the “spin” button, as the jackpot eludes him yet again.
It is early afternoon on a weekday and they are among half a dozen punters robotically feeding banknote after banknote into the mesmerising terminals of an “adult ..read more
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1w ago
As ‘adult gaming centres’ spread across the UK, one woman tells of how she kept playing even after getting a cancer diagnosis
How slot machine operators are taking over UK high streets
Jackie Olden can pinpoint the troubling origin of her mum’s gambling addiction. “She was the kind of person who’d go to one shop where milk was a penny cheaper and another where bread was cheaper,” Olden recalls.
“This [gambling] would never have entered her head ..read more
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1w ago
Call for stricter rules for betting firms to stop use of promotions with references to popular culture that appeal to under-18s
Tougher rules are required to crack down on betting firms’ use of “sneaky” social media postings and campaigns that may lure young people into gambling, warns a new report.
Researchers at Bristol University have reported a rise in gambling promotions that typically blur the line between advertising for a betting company and popular cultural references, from ET to Gladiator ..read more
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2w ago
Exclusive: Syndicate agreed to lend up to €640m to Allwyn in 2020, two years before contract awarded
The company behind the national lottery was borrowing millions from Kremlin-owned banks when it won the UK’s largest public-sector contract, the Guardian can reveal.
Russia’s two largest lenders, VTB and Sberbank, were part of a syndicate that agreed to lend up to €640m (£545m) to Allwyn in 2020, two years before the pan-European gaming specialist was named the “preferred bidder” for the £6.5bn lottery contract ..read more