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Top 10 tips for playing at crypto casinos

With the massive popularization of cryptocurrency casinos and poker sites, there’s no shortage of options for those who want to gamble using crypto coins. That said, as this industry is fairly young in online gambling, many players avoid playing in crypto casinos.There are many advantages of playing in a crypto casino, and these sites shouldn’t be avoided because of a lack of understanding...read more

Casino City’s Friday Five: Casino construction, cruises, and ebbs and flows of US gambling

Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow used the words “one if by land, and two if by sea” to describe how Paul Revere arranged to signal if the British were coming into Massachusetts. The top news this week’s is a spin on that as we have two land-based casinos undergoing major renovations, while another casino company is pairing with a cruise line to offer rewards...read more

Massachusetts online sports betting off to a hot start

FanDuel, DraftKings, Caesars Sportsbook, BetMGM, WynnBET, and Barstool Sportsbook launched online sports betting in Massachusetts. (Photo courtesy of FanDuel.) While there’s still a little over a month until the Boston Marathon, residents of the Bay State are off and running with regulated online sports betting...read more

Top 10 bets to win the 2023 Men’s College Basketball Big Dance

On Sunday night, teams on the bubble either heard their name get called or slowly watched the bracket fill up to realize the NIT was the next stop for them. Now, we have 68 teams competing to make it to the Final Four of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at NRG Stadium in Houston.Yes, March Madness is here.Overall, it is very strange not to have North Carolina in the bracket this year as the Tar Heels became the first preseason No...read more

Casino City’s Friday Five: Massachusetts online sports betting goes live edition

It’s finally here! At 10 a.m. this morning, Massachusetts online operators began accepting mobile sports bets in the Bay State for the first time. We also have both Minnesota and Oklahoma making moves in hopes to get sports wagering legalized in their respective states...read more

Real Luck clearly doesn’t need any as it continues to put up record numbers

Luckbox brought in CAD $2.8 million in global betting handle for February 2023. When the name of your company is called ‘Real Luck’ there’s really no where to go but up, and that’s exactly what it’s doing in 2023 after finishing strong last year...read more

Two more US states make sports betting pushes

Both Oklahoma and Minnesota aim to move forward with sports betting. (photo by Flickr)This Friday, the long-awaited launch of online sports betting in Massachusetts will finally take place. The Bay State might have some new company in the future as both Oklahoma and Minnesota have sports betting bills moving in the right direction.Last week, Representative Zack Stephenson’s House Bill 2000 was moved forward by the Minnesota House Commerce, Finance, and Policy Committee...read more

Top 10 women's basketball teams to win the National Championship

It would be very easy for Casino City to pick South Carolina as the top D1 Women’s Basketball team heading into the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament, but we like to gamble, so we’re not going chalk.Sure, the Gamecocks are undefeated at 32-0 following their Southeastern Conference Tournament championship over the weekend, but a team hasn’t won back-to-back titles since UConn won four in a row between 2013-2016, and this isn’t going to be the year it happens again.The women will find out their fate Sunday night, 12 March, when the Selection Committee announces the team seedings for March Madness...read more

Casino City’s Friday Five: The next big thing for sports betting edition

After launching on 1 January, legal sports betting in Ohio started off with a massive bang. With that said, could another aspect of sports betting give these figures across the board an even bigger boost?Before we get into that, we have some other stories to turn our attention toward...read more

Flutter finishes off 2022 strong, especially in the US

Flutter reported a 67% increase as its total revenue grew to $3.2 billion in 2022. There was nothing unsteady yesterday about Flutter as it released its 2022 preliminary financial results for the period ending 31 December 2022.The online betting firm, which owns operators Sky Bet & Gaming, Paddy Power Sportsbook, Betfair, Sportsbet, PokerStars, and FanDuel, among others, posted a 27% increase in group revenue and EBITDA to £7.69bn and £918m respectively...read more