Penn’s Gibraltar trading hub move criticized
The news came in a LinkedIn posting from Patrick Jay, previously hired by theScore to head up its sports trading division and now apparently changed with the same gig for Penn National. Jay said the company was looking to build “the best North American Sports Betting Risk and Trading Team in the business” from a […]
Analysis: Breaking down minor European players’ US impact
When looking at market share charts for the bigger states, particularly New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Colorado, the ‘others’ slice of the pie often contains a multitude of operator names that have failed to make their mark on the wider punting public. Foremost among the names – if that’s the right word to use for brands […]
European giants look at global expansion
A tweet from a renowned British racecourse bookie in the last week of December mistakenly suggested that every major sports-betting and gaming brand in the UK was now under the one roof of Entain. It was swiftly deleted after his followers pointed out that three of the companies named – Paddy Power, Betfair and Sky […]
Who trades in the U.S.?
As the size of the online sports-betting opportunity has grown in the last three years, so has the wellspring of trading talent in the US. So why is PointsBet making claims otherwise? In comments during a company presentation to the Jefferies Digital Sports Betting and iGaming Summit in New York at the start of the […]
Commentary: Comments from DraftKings’ Robins shows pros and cons of profitable players
Jason Robins caused quite a stir last week when he took the opportunity of a fireside chat with analysts to suggest that DraftKings wasn’t interested in players who were “doing this for a profit.” Suffice to say, this didn’t go down well with #GamblingTwitter as poster after poster took to the social media airwaves to […]