A minor crime syndicate has been broken up in Nevada, as a William Hill embezzlement operation was detected and stopped up by the Nevada Gaming Control Board recently. Unfortunately, this was not until the criminals had pilfered over $100,000 from the company. Control Board Agents were tipped to the thefts back in December, when William Hill reported potential fraud to the agency using internal information from their sports betting kiosks. And while the full impact of the crime has not been disclosed, the company (which is owned by Caesars) has well over a hundred sportsbooks locations in the state. There…

The amazingly bad timing of the William Hill Nevada app and kiosks crashing on Super Bowl Sunday was a blow to the company. Not just from a PR perspective, but in a massive loss of betting volume. And now that the app and betting stations are back up and running, it’s going to cost them even more. The Nevada Gaming Control Board is investigating the cause of the outage. It is certainly within their purview to issue a fine… if they felt it was appropriate. Whether or not that happens remains to be seen. But the company is going to…

You just knew this was coming! With gambling expansion still on fire, there was more Super Bowl betting this year in America than at any time in the past. Who’s surprised? Most likely not too many people… but it’s still news, and still nice to hear about. The numbers have been crunched by our good friends at GeoComply, a geolocation company making sure bettors are where they say they are. And according to their numbers there were 100 million bets made om the big game last weekend. That’s 25% more than last year! It may have helped that this year’s…

On the biggest sports betting day in America, the William Hill app crashed for bettors in the state of Nevada just prior to kickoff. Well, they do say that timing is everything. How could such a thing happen? Were they simply not prepared for such a massive volume of traffic? I mean, William Hill is one of the largest bookmakers in the United Kingdom, so surely they have experienced large spikes to their apps before. And they’ve been in Nevada for several years… even before the US sports betting revolution. So surely they knew what was coming. So, some players…

It’s Super Bowl Sunday! But with the excitement of the game, and the added excitement of American sports betting being a reality, we’re sure to see some bumps along the way. A while ago, we discussed some of the potential problems that we could see with the growth of the industry. One of those problems is the growth of advertising and marketing. We caught up with the American Gaming Association to discuss some of the dynamics and potential issues of marketing for sports betting. Chris Cylke, the Senior Vice President for Government Relations at the AGA, speaks with us about…

It seems that sports bets in the Keystone State are not enough for at least one legislator there. Representative Ed Neilson believes that Pennsylvania esports betting will be the next big money maker, and that the activity could quickly be legalized and regulated there. According to an article in Fortune Business Insights, the he esports industry has now grown to a value of over $1.2 billion annually, and continued growth could see the business reach to $5.5 billion over the next five to six years. Neilson’s comments came while he was speaking at the Casino Esports Conference in Atlantic City…