Author: Andrew Fletcher

Understanding how many entries end up in an Omaze Sweepstakes is one of the most common questions among participants looking to assess their real chances of winning a prize draw. The answer, frustratingly for hopeful entrants, is that Omaze does not publicly disclose the total number of entries for any individual campaign. Omaze Sweepstakes typically does not reveal exact participation or entries figures, making it difficult for players to calculate precise odds before entering. What is known is that the scale of participation is heavily influenced by the nature of the prize on offer. How Prize Value Shapes Omaze Sweepstakes…

Washington DC is the latest jurisdiction in the United States to put iGaming legalisation on the legislative agenda, with Councilmember Wendell Felder introducing a bill this week that would authorise real-money online casino gaming in the District while simultaneously banning the sweepstakes casino platforms that have operated under a legal grey area for years. The legislation, filed on April 9 as Council Bill 260656 and titled the Internet Gaming and Consumer Protection Act of 2026, was assigned to the Committee on Human Services with a hearing scheduled for April 21. The DC bill follows a wave of state-level activity in…

The idea of guaranteeing a lottery jackpot by purchasing every single possible number combination is one of the most enduringly popular thought experiments in gambling mathematics, and the question of whether it is possible to buy every lottery combination is one that raises fascinating issues of cost, logistics, taxation, and legal practicality. In short, the answer is yes in theory and almost certainly no in practice, for reasons that extend well beyond simply having enough money to fund the exercise. Is It Possible To Buy Every Lottery Combination: What The Numbers Say The UK National Lottery Lotto game requires players…

Isle of Man-based iGaming studio PopOK Gaming has secured one of its most significant distribution deals to date, inking a content partnership with Stake that brings the studio’s full portfolio of slots, crash games and live casino titles to one of the world’s largest crypto-native casino platforms. The deal, confirmed this week, is a strategic inflection point for a studio that has been building quietly but consistently since its founding in 2019. The collaboration places PopOK’s entire content library, including the popular Rico Series of slots and crash titles like Xmas Crash and the newly launched Matatu Juu, directly in…

DraftKings has spent the first quarter of 2026 managing a paradox that few companies navigate comfortably: reporting record financial results while simultaneously watching its stock price decline on concerns about what comes next. The Boston-based operator closed 2025 with its first full-year GAAP profit in company history, posted Q4 revenue of $1.99 billion — a 43 percent year-on-year increase — and then guided full-year 2026 revenue at $6.5 billion to $6.9 billion, roughly $400 million below analyst consensus. Shares fell sharply and have remained under pressure, sitting approximately 35 percent below their year-to-date high. The disconnect between the company’s execution…

Britain’s online casino and slots sector entered April 2026 facing the most significant fiscal shock in its history. The Remote Gaming Duty, the tax levied on operator profits from online casino games, slots and virtual sports, doubled from 21 percent to 40 percent on April 1. The increase was announced in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Autumn Budget in November 2025 and has been projected by the Treasury to raise over £1 billion per year, making it the centrepiece of the government’s most substantial overhaul of gambling taxation in more than a decade. The practical consequences became visible almost immediately. Evoke Plc,…

In the space of a single week, the same business model received a landmark legal endorsement from a federal appeals court in Philadelphia and a preliminary injunction from a state court in Nevada. That is the contradictory landscape now surrounding Kalshi, the prediction market platform whose legal battles are shaping what may become the most consequential regulatory dispute in US iGaming history. The outcome of these cases will determine whether prediction markets sit inside the gambling industry’s regulatory perimeter — or outside it entirely, protected by federal commodity law. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals delivered the ruling that Kalshi…

The launch excitement is over. For Brazil’s regulated online betting sector, which completed its first full year under a formal licensing framework at the start of 2026, the conversation at this week’s BiS SiGMA South America has shifted decisively from market entry momentum to the harder, less glamorous business of sustaining what was built in the rush to go live. The four-day event — running April 6 to 9 at the Transamerica Expo Center in São Paulo and drawing an expected 18,500 delegates, more than 400 exhibitors and 250-plus speakers — reflects that maturation in both its scale and its…

Sweden made history on April 1 by becoming the first European Union member state to impose a total ban on all forms of credit-funded gambling, with new legislation taking immediate effect across every licensed operator in the country. The reform, which has been years in the making under the stewardship of gambling regulator Spelinspektionen, goes considerably further than any comparable measure enacted in Europe to date, closing loopholes that even the UK’s 2020 credit card gambling ban left open. Under the previous rules, Sweden’s Gambling Act already prevented operators from extending credit directly to players, but a substantial gap remained.…

Alberta has officially confirmed July 13 as the go-live date for its regulated online gambling market, making the Western Canadian province the second jurisdiction in the country to open its sports betting and online casino sector to private-sector operators, following Ontario’s landmark launch in April 2022. The confirmation came in a letter to industry stakeholders from Minister of Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction Dale Nally on March 30, and it sets in motion a final preparation period that operators, regulators, and investors across North America have been anticipating since Alberta passed the iGaming Alberta Act in spring 2025. The…