The final seven episodes of Game of Thrones will kick off on April 14, and let me tell you, I’m excited. After reading the books the show is based on, I could not wait to see how the story turned out. Because George R.R. Martin is too busy counting his money to finish writing the story, we’ll have to depend on the hit HBO show to wrap up the story for us. For those who want to make the show more interesting, we have odds from Bodog on who will finish the show on the throne.

High up in the odds are all of the remaining Stark children. Bran, or as he prefers to be called, the new Three Eyed Raven, is the odds on favorite to be King of Westeros at 2/3 odds. Some theories have it that he and the Night King (10/1) are one and the same, or that he will use his ability to warg to take control of the situation. Considering his impressive abilities, he’s a solid bet, if he decides to give up his day job as a creepy teenager.

The other Stark kids, Jon Snow (6/1), Sansa Stark (8/1) and Arya Stark (18/1) also come in with high odds. They’ve all had very different paths to get to get to season 8, and really good cases could be made for the current King in the North and the classic hero in Jon, or the rising politician in Sansa. Arya seems more likely to go off and become a serial killer, so maybe not her.

Oddsshark has made a case for Gendry (15/1), the alleged bastard son of the late king Robert Baratheon. It would come out of left field to have a character who’s been absent for four season become king, but it also wouldn’t be the biggest twist the story has seen.

Kyle Cartwright has the Midas touch when it comes to poker. The professional poker player has already racked up over $2 million playing on the WSOP Circuit and has one WSOP bracelet and eight WSOP Circuit rings. Even when he loses at the felt, which happens to the best of them, he still manages to come out a winner. Case in point, this past Tuesday.

Cartwright was participating in a WSOP Circuit game at the Rio in Las Vegas this week, ultimately finishing in 21st place at the $1,700 NLHE Main Event and taking home $11,913. He tried his luck at the $2,200 NLHE High Roller, only to bust out before reaching the cash. While he had a nice return on investment between the two events, what he did next was even better and might possibly be something the Guinness Book of World Records needs to look into.

After being sent to the rail, Cartwright hadn’t quite expended all of his poker energy and decided to sit down at a video poker machine. Playing five credits per hand, at $25 a pop, he was putting $125 on the line each time the cards were dealt. The gamble paid off, as Cartwright ultimate scored a Royal flush. To ensure he wasn’t accused of talking smack, he posted about it on Twitter, showing a picture of the game screen and commenting, “Guess I got 4th in the main…”

The probability of hitting a Royal flush in straight poker is 1/649,740, or 0.00015%. However, Cartwright hasn’t hit just one big hand. In the summer of 2017, he hit three royal flushes in the same number of months playing video poker, with all of them being Hearts. He also has recorded a fifth, which he found in April of last year. That, as opposed to the others, was not a Heart flush.

U.S. President Trump has become a favorite target of prop bets. He has already helped gamblers put some extra money in their pockets through some creative bets, including during a recent address to the United States. Bookmakers allowed gamblers to wager on how many “false statements” he would say or how many times he would verbally stumble, and many bettors came out on top. Trump is back on the books again and this time, the wagers center on the latest summit trying to find peace between the U.S. and North Korea.

Trump is wrapping up the second summit he has held with North Korea’s dictator—or chairman, as he likes to be called—Kim Jong Un. They have been in Hanoi, Vietnam, discussing a myriad of issues from most likely Dennis Rodman’s many tattoos to nuclear disarmament. The latter is one of the topics that has made its way into the prop betting market, with odds being placed on whether or not Kim will drop his nuclear program.

Odds of Kim not eliminating the program are -10000 for implied odds of 90.9%, while odds of his agreeing to dismantle the program sit at +2500. If the country decided to call off its nuke activity, a $100 bet would earn the gambler $2,500. (Spoiler alert: The program continues).

One bookmaker put up a prop bet for whether or not Trump would take fast food to the summit. Odds were +1000 for Yes and -5000 for No. Given his affinity for fast food, chances are good there were a couple of Big Macs or KFC drumsticks on hand.

The regulatory environment for online gambling in the UK could get a lot stricter soon. Deputy leader of the Labour party Tom Watson will ask for new laws for online casinos and bookmakers.

The Guardian reports Watson plans to make his request on February 28, and will note that current regulations are “inadequate,” and could lead to abuse and problem gambling. The current regulations stem from the Gambling Act of 2005, passed by Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair. Watson will call those laws “unfit for the digital age.”

In his proposals, Watson will want to put a limit on the amount and frequency of maximum bets, specifically in a move to bring online limits closer to those recently set for physical fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs).

He’ll also call for operators to put in a system to verify players aren’t playing with money they don’t have. This is something that has been proposed before by the Conservative government when they considered banning the use of credit cards as a payment option, for the same reasons.

Genting Malaysia’s revenues might be down, and investments might not have worked out the way they hoped, but profits improved regardless. That’s the news from their recent fourth quarter reporting to the Bursa Malaysia stock exchange.

The operator reported that Q4 profits rose 60.1% year over year in 2018, rising to MYR720.14 million (US$176.7 million). This was despite a 1.5% decline in revenue.

They accomplished this feat thanks to a change in taxes. In January 2019, the casino operator appealed to the Malaysian government for additional tax exemptions. That gambit paid off, and as a result the company saved MYR304.98 million per quarter (US$74.97 million).

Don’t take that for granted though. Japanese brokerage firm Nomura notes that the tax decision is not yet final. They wrote, “Note, however, that the final tax incentive decision of the courts will likely only come by third quarter 2019, so the outcome remains unclear.”

Bloomberry Resorts and Hotels Inc., the gaming subsidiary of Philippine-based casino company Bloomberry Resorts Corp., is headed to court. The company has received a summons to appear in a civil case in the U.S. tied to the online theft of $81 million from Bangladesh’s central bank in February 2016.

The case centers on the theft of the money through an account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York that was controlled by the Bank of Bangladesh. Millions of dollars were syphoned off and distributed through four accounts at a branch of Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. in Makati, part of Metro Manila. From there, investigators were able to determine that the funds were then moved to a number of casinos in the Philippines, but the trail went cold from there.

Bangladesh Bank has filed a lawsuit over the incident in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Among those named in the suit are Rizal, Bloomberry Resorts and Hotels and 15 other Philippine-based companies.

The suit is designed to “collect the amount allegedly lost by Bangladesh Bank from North Korean hackers who broke into Bangladesh Bank’s systems and sent multiple remittances orders to their account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York…” It asserts that the money was eventually “remitted to alleged fictitious accounts with Rizal Commercial Banking Corp, and from where they were transacted, converted and lost, a part of which went through Philippine casinos where they were used to purchase gaming chips and were played in the casino and junket rooms.”

Macau saw an increase in tourist arrivals of 9.8% for all of 2018, with 35.8 million arrivals recorded across the 12-month period. Things are already getting off to a good start in 2019 and, if the current pace is maintained, the overall figures for this year will be even greater. This past January, arrives jumped 25% year-on-year.

3.4 million tourist arrivals were logged in January. 1.78 million single-day visitors headed to the city – 41.8% more than in January 2018 – with the average visit lasting just under five hours. That was the same amount of time as was seen a year earlier. This segment made up the majority of the visitation, accounting for 52.1% of all of Macau’s visitors. In January of last year, the segment only accounted for 45.9%.

The overall average of a visitor’s stay was 1.2 days. Compared to the same period last year, this was a decline of one-tenth of a day. The number of visiting spending the night in the city increased 10.7%, reaching 1.64 million and the average length of stay was 2.2 days, one-tenth of a day longer than a year prior.

As is typically the case, Chinese visitation accounted for the largest segment and increased by 29.9% year-on-year. Almost 2.51 million Chinese mainlanders visited Macau in January, with the majority -1.14 million – originating in the Guangdong province. Next was the Hunan province, with around 98,000, followed by the Fujian province, with 79,000. Chinese tourists arriving as individuals – and not part of a tour group – increased 45.2% to just over 1.3 million.

According to eGaming Review (EGR), DraftKings is said to be considering a standalone mobile casino app. The app would be available for download and use to gambling fans in New Jersey and the gaming media outlet adds that DraftKings “is expected to launch [the app] in the coming months.” DraftKings has not yet issued a statement on the subject.

DraftKings has been in the news a lot over the past couple of years. It entered the U.S. market ahead of its major competitor, FanDuel, and never looked back. The company has been on a mission to take over the online sportsbook market in the U.S. and the launch of a standalone mobile casino will help it further its agenda.

The company already has a DraftKings Sportsbook app in New Jersey, which it introduced in August of last year. In December, it added a casino-style blackjack game to the app, a step deeper into all-things-gambling. With the addition of other games – such as poker, roulette and slots – DraftKings continued to forge deeper into the market and launching a standalone app would be the logical next step.

DraftKings has also become involved with Evolution Gaming, launching live-dealer games. It has shown to be a strong competitor and is probably one of the reasons Sheldon Adelson has become so nervous lately. The site knows it has the ability to shake things up and is more than willing to capitalize on its success. Company co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer Matt Kalish told NJGamblingSites.com last December, “I think DraftKings is unique in that we attract a real cross section of sports bettors and fans and now iGaming enthusiasts. We have a lot of customers that are new to iGaming and mobile casino who might have migrated from DFS to sports betting and are now checking out blackjack. And certainly we might attract some veterans of the iGaming space.”