Kalshi Just Moved $7.87 Billion in a Weekend, Then Started Selling Player Props. Call It Whatever You Want, That’s a Sportsbook.
Prediction markets ran up $10.5 billion in notional volume over one college football Saturday and NFL Sunday, and Kalshi alone accounted for $7.87 billion of it. That’s $1.76 billion in taker volume on a single app, for a company that insists it’s a financial exchange and not a sportsbook. Three days later, Kalshi rolled out…
DraftKings and FanDuel Are Being Sued for Deliberately Making Microbetting Addictive
A public health group just accused the NFL, DraftKings, FanDuel, and Genius Sports of building a betting product designed to hook you on purpose. That’s the real sportsbook lawsuit right now. Not the old “risk-free bet” ad cases everybody keeps recycling. Those are dead and buried. The Public Health Advocacy Institute, the same outfit that…
Everyone on Betting Twitter Knows a Guy Who Got Rich Sports Betting. Nobody Can Ever Name Him.
Every group chat has one. Every parlay-Twitter reply guy swears he knows somebody who quit his job off three-teamers. Ask for a name and the trail goes cold every time. One very online bettor put words to the whole racket yesterday: 436 likes, 48 replies, and not a single receipt in the bunch. Just secondhand…
Nine Sportsbooks Are Running NFL Week 1 Bonus Bait at Once — and the Fine Print Is Doing a Lot of Work
Nine sportsbooks picked the exact same week to rediscover their love for new customers. DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, Caesars, Fanatics, bet365, BetRivers, Hard Rock Bet, and betPARX are all running new-account bonuses timed to NFL Week 1 kickoff. Nobody had to coordinate this in a group chat. The whole industry watches the same calendar and pulls…
The Unified Sportsbook Wallet Wasn’t Built for Your Convenience, It Was Built So You Never Log Off
FanDuel, DraftKings, Caesars and Fanatics all want you to believe the one-app-one-wallet thing is customer service. It’s plumbing. DraftKings rolled its Super App out in March, jamming sportsbook, casino, lottery and predictions into a single login and a single balance. Caesars beat them to it. Back in 2024, Caesars+ welded its sportsbook, online casino and…
LuckyLand Slots Is Shutting Down September 14. If VGW Can Kill an 8-Year-Old Brand This Fast, Nothing in Sweepstakes-Casino Land Is Safe.
LuckyLand Slots is dead. September 14, to be exact. That’s the date VGW Holdings pulls the plug on an app that’s been printing sweepstakes coins for eight years. Coin sales already stopped on August 3. Gameplay shuts off August 24. Whatever’s sitting in your account after that is on a countdown clock, and there’s no…
Texas Still Doesn’t Have Legal Sports Betting, So Enjoy Your Offshore Website Until At Least 2027
Texas has thirty million people, an NFL team half the country has strong feelings about, and exactly zero legal sportsbooks. Zero. No app, no retail counter, no state license anywhere near a sports bet. Demand isn’t the problem. The Texas Legislature keeps finding new ways to not pass a bill, and the guy who runs…
McGregor Wants His Bettors’ Money Back. Sportsbooks Said No.
Conor McGregor lasted 69 seconds at UFC 329, hurt himself doing a jumping kick, couldn’t continue, and now wants sportsbooks to issue refunds. That’s the reality we’re living in. McGregor posted on Instagram Stories five days after the fight demanding the result be ruled a no-contest and all bets returned. The knee buckled on his…
Malik Beasley’s Indictment Is a Five-Alarm Warning the NBA Has Been Ignoring
Malik Beasley allegedly grabbed his 4th rebound with one second left in a game against the Clippers so his co-conspirators could cash a prop bet. One second. The clock was basically expired and the man was still working the boards — not for the Bucks, but for the betting slip. That detail is in the…
The World Cup Has Broken Every Sports Betting Record Ever Set — And It’s Not Even Close
Every year the Super Bowl gets hyped as the biggest sports betting event on the American calendar. This July 4th, you can put that narrative to rest. The 2026 FIFA World Cup has already lapped the Super Bowl — and the tournament isn’t finished yet. H2 Gambling Capital projects $60 billion in global legal handle…
Something went wrong. Please refresh the page and/or try again.
Follow My Blog
Get new content delivered directly to your inbox.
