THE AMERICAS

Yahoo! announced it would enter the daily fantasy sports market; Lock Poker’s ponzi scheme appeared to have run its course; Wynn Resorts rejected Elaine Wynn’s quest for a board seat; Tropicana Entertainment inked a social casino deal with Ruby Seven Studios; Delaware’s regulated online poker market got a boost from interstate liquidity; Amaya Gaming’s insider trading probe was linked to a Hell’s Angels boss; the American Gaming Association asked the new US Attorney General to help fight illegal online gambling; Caesars Interactive boss Mitch Garber was named chairman of Cirque du Soleil; Rafi Farber took issue with reports that ‘vice’ spending is falling and Rebecca Liggero recapped the goings-on at Days One, Two and Three of the GIGse 2015 confab.

EUROPE

William Hill saw its Q1 numbers undone by winning punters and higher taxes; Ladbrokes had a similarly sucky Q1 and announced the restructuring of its struggling Irish retail business; Deutsche Telekom launched its German-facing sports betting site; gambling operators rushed to release new Apple Watch apps and Sweden dropped its jihad against gambling apps in the App Store; Italy considered a ban on television gambling ads before midnight; NYX Gaming Group’s revenue surged 46% in 2014; PokerStars launched its new Safecharge-powered StarsCard, expanded its casino options and parted ways with Jonathan Duhamel; Playtech went on a hiring binge; Inspired Gaming inked a VLT deal with OPAP; Germany’s online sports betting licensing plan continued to stumble; marketing maven Justin Brookfield revealed how UK sportsbooks can adjust to the market’s grim advertising costs and Raising For Effective Giving’s Louie Helm examined poker’s impact on society.