THE AMERICAS

Amaya Gaming said its new casino and sportsbook verticals would account for 13% of 2015 revenue; Minnesota legislators killed their state lottery’s online operations; a bad month for Caesars Interactive shook up New Jersey’s online gambling revenue chart; New York’s new/old online poker bill scrapped its bad actor clause; DraftKings inked an exclusive deal with NASCAR but Bill Beatty warned that daily fantasy sports could face the same fate as online poker; federal prosecutors hit Paul Phua with a fresh conspiracy charge; Intertain forecast an eightfold revenue increase in 2015; sportsbooks revised betting lines following Tom Brady’s four-game ‘deflategate’ suspension; Caesars Entertainment faces a $20m fine for anti-money-laundering-lapses; Baha Mar’s developers denied rumors of a Genting buyout; high school athletes were found to be more prone to problem gambling behavior and a couple human poker players narrowly edged out artificial intelligence in a battle of wits.

EUROPE

GVC Holdings confirmed it had made a reverse takeover bid for Bwin.party; Paddy Power brushed off punter-friendly results and welcomed a new chairman; the Belgian Gaming Commission fined 79 gamblers for patronizing BetClic; Russia detailed new requirements for online sports betting operators; a German court ruling spelled doom for federal online sports betting licensing; 666Bet gave customers a May 24 deadline for withdrawal requests; live dealer specialists Evolution Gaming posted a new quarterly revenue record; William Hill unveiled the prototype of a virtual reality betting app; Ladbrokes inked a £2m sponsorship with Scottish football while Ayr United inked up Emma Glover; the UK Gambling Commission said online operators must fund a nationwide self-exclusion scheme; Full Tilt launched in Demnark and Latitude’s Lloyd Cooke offered case studies on achieving international SEO success.