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Kansas sports betting has record month in September

Kansas recorded its best month for sports handle in September, with wagers up by 37 per cent to $219.3 million.

Online sports betting increased by 30 per cent to $201.1 million, and retail betting was up by 242 per cent to $18.2 million.

September was the first month that online betting in [...]

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GI Games Round-up: Betsoft, Yggdrasil, Light & Wonder and more

This week’s games and platform integrations round-up from Gaming Intelligence features the likes of Betsoft Gaming, Playtech, Pragmatic Play, Pariplay, Yggdrasil, Light & Wonder, Inspired Entertainment, Wizard Games, Evoplay, Relax Gaming and Authentic Gaming.

Betsoft Gaming’s Rise of Triton

Betsoft Gaming has launched a new mythological-themed slot with the release of Rise [...]

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Toronto, Ontario

Ontario reports Q2 iGaming wagers of CAD$14.2 billion

iGaming Ontario has reported total iGaming wagers of CAD$14.2 billion (€9.84 billion) in the second quarter to 30 September 2023, an increase of 132 per cent year-on-year.

Online casino gaming was responsible for CAD$11.9 billion of Ontario’s wagers, which was 84 per cent of the total.

Sports wagers were CAD$1.9 billion and [...]

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Maryland sports bets reach $3 billion in 9M 2023

Sports bets in Maryland reached $3.02 billion in the first nine months of 2023, after September posted total wagers of $442.5 million.

Mobile betting accounted for $421.0 million of the monthly total and retail betting was $21.5 million.

There were 12 active mobile licensees in September and 13 retail betting locations, with [...]

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Pennsylvania lottery sales grow by 8% in August

Lottery sales in Pennsylvania grew by 8 per cent to $503.7 million in August, with sales increases in both the retail and online channels.

Retail sales were up by 6 per cent to $420.3 million. Sales of Scratch offs fell by 6 per cent to $269.2 million, but sales of draw [...]

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Goodwin to lead operations for Scientific Games instant game management program

Atlanta-headquartered lottery supplier Scientific Games has promoted Angela Goodwin to vice president of operations of its instant game management program.

Goodwin joined Scientific Games in 2007 and brings 16 years of lottery instant product manufacturing and management experience to her new role in the Scientific Games Enhanced Partnership (SGEP) program.

She previously [...]

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IGT

IGT extends long-running California Lottery partnership

International Game Technology (IGT) has agreed a new deal to continue as the primary lottery technology provider for the California Lottery, the second-largest lottery in the United States.

The contract amendment for a seven-year extension is expected to run through October 2033 and includes an additional five, one-year extension options.

As part [...]

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Maryland

Maryland casino revenue falls by 3% in September

Maryland’s six land-based casinos reported a revenue fall of 3 per cent to $155.1 million in September, with both slot machines and table games showing declines.

Revenue from the state’s VLT machines was $108.2 million, a decline of 1 per cent, and accounted for 70 per cent of Maryland’s gaming revenue [...]

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US horseracing wagers surpass $9 billion in 9M 2023

Wagering on US horseracing surpassed $9 billion for the first nine months of 2023, after September’s wagers fell to $880.6 million.

Data from Equibase shows that September’s bets fell by 6 per cent year-on-year, as spells of bad weather caused a 7 per cent decline in the number of race days [...]

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Light & Wonder brings in Kelsy Foster to lead Reno game design studio

Light & Wonder has appointed long-serving International Game Technology (IGT) executive Kelsy Foster to lead its game design studio in Nevada.

Foster will join the company in 2024 to lead a studio of game design talent based in Reno, Nevada.

She brings over two decades of experience from her time at IGT, [...]

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Texas Lottery lauds record year as sales top $8.7 billion

The Texas Lottery has generated over $2 billion for public education and veterans’ services for the first time as lottery sales hit a new high of $8.73 billion during the 2023 fiscal year.

Marking the lottery’s 13th consecutive year of record sales, total sales for the financial year ended August 31 [...]

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Churchill Downs

Churchill Downs names Patrick Neely as Exacta Systems president

Churchill Downs Incorporated (CDI) has promoted Patrick Neely to president of its newly acquired historical horse racing business Exacta Systems.

Neely will be responsible for the overall strategy and operations of Exacta, which was acquired in August and operates within CDI’s TwinSpires segment.

Neely has over 25 years of experience in law, [...]

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