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              <span class="date time published"><span class="day">05</span> <span class="month">Apr</span></span>
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              <p>PokerScout&#8217;s Q1 cash-game data shows the first double-digit traffic jump since the Covid-era boom, and the demographic breakdown is the real story. The average age of a new registered player on regulated US platforms dropped from 38 to 29 in twelve months. Streamers, short-form poker content, and a new wave of micro-stakes mobile formats are doing what years of marketing couldn&#8217;t. [&hellip;]</p>
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              <p>Brussels finally stopped pretending crypto gambling didn&#8217;t exist. A draft directive circulated this week would require stablecoin-only deposits, mandatory on-chain KYC attestations, and full segregation between gaming funds and treasury holdings. Stake, BC.Game and Rollbit all declined to comment. The compliance vendors, predictably, are loving it. Here&#8217;s what the draft actually says. [&hellip;]</p>
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              <span class="date time published"><span class="day">28</span> <span class="month">Mar</span></span>
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              <p>The 2026 WSOP runs May 26 through July 15 at Paris and Horseshoe Las Vegas, and the schedule is a monster. 103 bracelet events (up from 99), a new $250K Super High Roller, a mixed-games festival in Week 2, and &#8212; finally &#8212; a dedicated mid-stakes championship aimed at recreational players. The Main Event keeps its $10K buy-in. Here&#8217;s the full calendar and our early picks for value. [&hellip;]</p>
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              <p>Flutter, Entain, BetMGM, DraftKings, Bet365 and 888 quietly rolled out a shared behavioural-analytics layer this month, built in coordination with the US National Council on Problem Gambling. The system flags at-risk patterns in near-real-time and triggers tiered interventions &#8212; from a gentle reminder pop-up to a mandatory 24-hour cooling-off. Early data from the pilot period is cautiously encouraging. [&hellip;]</p>
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              <p>IGT, Aristocrat, Light &amp; Wonder and Everi all showed heavily skill-influenced cabinets at ICE London last month. The pitch: slot floors are aging out, Gen Z won&#8217;t touch a reel-spinner, and regulated skill-based hybrids are the bridge. The counter-pitch, from three casino floor managers we spoke to: younger visitors come for the bars and the sportsbook, and installing $30K cabinets to lure them is optimistic at best. [&hellip;]</p>
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              <span class="date time published"><span class="day">14</span> <span class="month">Mar</span></span>
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              <p>Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu and a field that included two A-list actors, one Hall-of-Fame quarterback and a surprisingly sharp tech-founder final-tabled the seventh annual One Step Closer Foundation event. Ivey took the trophy; the event took in a record $3.2 million for pediatric cancer research. We&#8217;ve got the hand-of-the-night and a word with the eventual winner. [&hellip;]</p>
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              <span class="date time published"><span class="day">09</span> <span class="month">Mar</span></span>
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              <p>H2 Gambling Capital&#8217;s 2026 mobile report puts emerging-market download volume up 47% year on year, with Brazil alone accounting for nearly a third of the growth. The country&#8217;s long-awaited regulated sports-betting market opened officially in January, and operators with local licenses &#8212; Betano, Superbet and KTO chief among them &#8212; are already posting numbers that suggest they&#8217;ll have serious regional scale by year end. [&hellip;]</p>
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              <span class="date time published"><span class="day">04</span> <span class="month">Mar</span></span>
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              <p>A consortium of US and Asia-Pacific operators confirmed a combined $800 million capex commitment to next-generation surveillance and advantage-play detection systems over the next 18 months. The upgrade covers computer-vision card-counting flags, cross-property facial biometrics (where legal), and an anomaly layer trained on a decade of table-game hand histories. Cheaters, you&#8217;ve been warned. [&hellip;]</p>
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