The odds are in favor of former Michigan congressman Mike Rogers to lead the FBI following the sudden dismissal of director James Comey.

Since Comey’s ouster, the roster of candidates who could potentially replace him—all with various levels of law enforcement and legislative experience—continues to change. Joe Lieberman had been considered a front-runner and had even met with U.S. President Donald Trump to interview for the top FBI position, but the former senator withdrew from consideration, citing the potential of a conflict of interest, The Wall Street Journal reported.

And now that Lieberman is out of the running, two other prospects are being floated to lead the bureau: Rogers and former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating.

The two candidates were both former FBI agents, but Rogers, 54, is said to have the edge over Keating, who is 73. Rogers, who retired from Congress in 2014 after seven terms, also has the backing from the former and active agents’ associations, who cited his experience serving in the FBI as well as his time in Congress as the reasons for their endorsement.

Macau casino boss Lawrence Ho has criticized his former joint venture partner James Packer’s company Crown Resorts for its aggressive marketing to high-rolling gamblers in China.

In an interview with the Financial Times published late Tuesday, the Melco Resorts & Entertainment CEO said the 18 Crown staffers arrested last October and the South Korean casino representatives detained in 2015 had failed to be “discreet” in their dealings with mainland Chinese gamblers.

Chinese law prohibits gambling operators from promoting gambling activity on the mainland but Ho said the Crown staffers and the South Koreans had been “running around offering credit, talking about collection.” Ho said the reaction of the Chinese authorities was “like what the hell, you’re deliberately spitting on our faces.”

A spokesman later said that Ho wasn’t “singling out Crown” with his comments, only making “general comments on the industry overall,” but Ho isn’t the first industry figure to criticize Crown’s promotional activities.

A quick round-up of the second day of action in the $300,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl including an update on the trials and tribulations of one Kevin Hart.

Had anyone else screamed, fist pumped and humped the table like Kevin Hart did during the Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB) there would have been a lynching.

But it’s Kevin Hart.

The man who has vowed to make poker fun again was the star of Day 1 when he eliminated Phil Hellmuth.

888Poker has delivered the perfect tonic to poker players with very little time to partake in a spot of cards by reducing the time limit in BLAST Poker games to two minutes with their new Fast BLAST games.

Watching online poker rooms evolve is like looking at a bunch of kids playing Simple Simon Says.

Full Tilt creates Rush Poker, and everyone follows.

Winamax creates Expresso Poker, and everyone follows.

Partypoker ambassador, Patrick Leonard, takes a time out from his exploits in the India Poker Sports League to answer some questions about the new Diamond Club VIP program.

The incredible marketing and branding expert Bernadette Jiwa sent me another nugget in the cyber mail, today.

The headline was Ten Things Your Competitor Doesn’t Do.

I was about to get stuck into it like a stick in wet sand when I received another sheaf of paper from cyberspace, this time from partypoker ambassador Patrick Leonard, who had this to say about the new Diamond Club VIP program.

A lurid tale of a Saudi prince’s nine-figure gambling spree, during which he bet and lost several wives, turns out to have been too good to be true.

An online article making the rounds claimed that Prince Majed bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud lost $359m over a six-hour gambling spree at the Sinai Grand Casino in Egypt’s Sharm El Sheik resort zone.

Adding to the prince’s woes, the reports claim he became so desperate for cash that he put up five of his wives in exchange for another $25m in casino credit, which he also lost, then left behind his matrimonial chattel when he finally exited the casino.

The report quoted casino director ‘Ali Shamoon’ saying that it wasn’t the first time that “a customer bets a living creature,” although Shamoon noted that this usually meant camels or horses. Upping the ante, the report then quoted Egypt’s actual foreign minister saying the wives would likely be returned to their homeland within a week, assuming the prince honored his marker.

The Delhi Panthers has won Season 1 of India’s Poker Sports League securing $225,000 in prize money, with the CEO and co-founder, Pranav Bagai, vowing to return for a second season.

Is the Poker Sports League (PSL) anything more than a caricature of the Global Poker League (GPL)?

Only time will tell, but the game of poker in India has just been lifted into a Batman-style spotlight after the PSL completed their first Season, and by all accounts, it was a spectacular success.

For five days, 12 teams, consisting of a mentor, two local pros, two live qualifiers, two online qualifiers, and two wild card entries, battled it out in the Deltin Casino Royale in Goa in a broad range of games such as turbo events, freezeouts, and heads-up Hold’em and Omaha.

Philippines-based gambling operators are but one presidential signature away from new anti-money laundering requirements.

On Tuesday, the Philippine Senate unanimously approved the third reading of Senate Bill 1468, which seeks to include gambling operators – land-based, online and shipboard – as well as junket operators as ‘covered persons’ under the country’s Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA).

The Senate’s vote came one day after the House of Representatives unanimously approved its own version of the plan. All that’s required now is for President Rodrigo Duterte to sign the measure into law, a step Duterte is expected to take early next month.

The votes came in the dying days of the current legislative session, as legislators were attempting to meet a June deadline imposed by the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG), which had urged the Philippines to rectify its refusal to include gambling operators as ‘covered persons’ when it approved the AMLA several years ago.

Gambling operators in Kenya have been spared punitive tax hikes after members of parliament opted to remain the status quo.

On Tuesday, Kenya’s National Assembly voted to scrap plans to impose a uniform 50% tax on all gambling revenue that the government had claimed was necessary to reduce gambling-related harms among its citizens. Betting operators will continue to pay 7.5%, lotteries will pay 5%, gaming operators will pay 12% and prize competitions will pay 15%, exactly as they did before this whole mess kicked off two months ago.

In late March, Kenyan Treasury Secretary Henry Rotich shocked the gaming industry with his 2017-18 budget, which contained the dramatic tax hikes. A flurry of protests ensued, including a legal challenge of the tax plan’s constitutionality by local betting operator Sportpesa.

Last Thursday, MPs voted to maintain the sports betting tax at 7.5% while imposing the new 50% rate on other forms of gambling. But objections were raised almost immediately after the vote by legislators who claimed that a quorum wasn’t present and thus the vote wasn’t official. National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale invoked parliamentary procedure to require a fresh vote on the subject.

The Law Commission of India is seeking public input to help craft its report on whether the government should legalize sports betting and gambling.

Late last year, India’s Supreme Court tasked the Law Commission with studying the potential for legalizing sports betting in the world’s most populous country. The Court’s request was based on recommendations made by the Lodha Committee, which suggested that legalized betting could help reduce highly public incidents of tampering with Indian sports, most notably cricket.

On Tuesday, the Law Commission issued an appeal for input from both gaming industry stakeholders and the general public with regard to legalizing not only sports betting but other forms of gambling, as well. The Commission reasoned that “gambling is very closely associated with betting” and considering one without the other “may render the whole exercise futile.”

Specifically, the Commission wants to know if legalizing betting and gambling will help reduce illegal activity and allow the government to earn “substantial” revenue and generate jobs. The Commission also wants input on whether legalizing gambling will be “morally correct in the Indian circumstances.”