THE AMERICAS

Daily fantasy sports had the week from hell after the ‘insider trading’ scandal broke wide open, leading to calls for federal regulation while New York’s Attorney General and a federal prosecutor in Florida opened investigations of the industry; New Jersey regulators told Amaya Gaming to fire four former PokerStars/Full Tilt execs as a condition of licensing; Caesars Entertainment took a kick to the balls after a judge said junior creditor lawsuits could proceed; a Washington meeting on the Restoration of America’s Wire Act attracted just one Congressional staffer; the Internet Society slammed Quebec’s IP-blocking plan as expensive and futile and Tatjana Pasalic sat down with WSOP livestream commentator David Tuchman in the latest episode of Chats With Tats.

EUROPE

A UK punter earned a record €17.9m playing Microgaming’s Mega Moolah slot on Betway; Ladbrokes wrangled £1.35b in financing for its Gala Coral merger; GVC Holdings set yet another new revenue record; Sportradar inked an eSports betting deal with the Electronic Sports League while the ESL announced a sponsorship deal with Betway and eSports Bet founder Mark McGuiness said eSports would ‘disrupt’ traditional online betting; Ireland’s central bank took issue with Playtech’s purchase of the Ava Trade online forex business; Finland opted to merge its three gambling monopolies into a single entity; Sweden and Norway each took a different approach to unauthorized gambling ads; the BBC’s Great British Bake Off program dealt with an insider betting scandal; Cyprus received six expressions of interest for its casino license derby; Resorts World Birmingham vowed to open on Oct. 21; Alex Dreyfus laid out the Global Poker League’s plans for world domination; PokerStars set a new Guinness record for largest online poker tournament while agreeing to sponsor Olympic snowboarder Zoe Gillings-Brier and cutting ties with tennis star Rafael Nadal while Rebecca Liggero quizzed industry notables on what industry figure inspired them the most.