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Joe Lyons is a betting industry writer for GamblingIndustryNews with years of experience on reputable gambling websites. Joe specialises in long form content in the world of sports betting and gambling. Joe is recognised as an expert in sports fields such as horse racing, soccer, NFL and NBA.

Posts by Joe Lyons

October 22, 2025 by: Joe Lyons
The operator behind major UK gambling firm Unibet, Platinum Gaming, has been fined £10 million by the Gambling Commission. The fine was issued due to failures to enforce safer gambling and anti-money laundering measures. Platinum Gaming, which also owns Bingo.com, was issued with a warning by the UK watchdog and must now undergo a third-party […]
October 22, 2025 by: Joe Lyons
A pair of UK gambling firms have landed in hot water with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). Adverts for two operators, Kwiff and Betway, have been banned following complaints lodged to the UK’s regulator of advertising. Last month, the ASA ruled that a voucher promotion in William Hill betting shops encouraged irresponsible gambling. In Kwiff’s […]
October 21, 2025 by: Joe Lyons
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed a new sports betting tax on Illinois operators. Johnson’s 2026 budget includes a 10.25% local tax on sports betting revenue on top of the state’s levy, which his office released last week. The budget, worth over $16 billion, would take effect on New Year’s Day 2026 and the sports […]
October 21, 2025 by: Joe Lyons
The British Gambling Commission has been accused of foul play in Czech billionaire Karel Komárek’s successful bid to run the National Lottery. Fellow billionaire and media mogul Richard Desmond is suing the Gambling Commission for as much as £1.3 billion over alleged mistakes in the competition to award the licence. Desmond claims the watchdog told […]
October 20, 2025 by: Joe Lyons
The Netherlands’ gambling regulator is offering partial tax refunds to operators who were impacted by COVID-19. Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) will consider giving back to land-based firms that had to shut their doors during 2020 and 2021 in line with national pandemic lockdowns to help stop the spread of the virus. One operator who took a hit […]
October 20, 2025 by: Joe Lyons
Betfred has threatened to shut all betting shops across the United Kingdom if plans for tax harmonisation are made official. The firm’s co-founder and chairman Fred Done, who set up Betfred back in 1967 with his brother, admitted 7,500 jobs are at risk. Done told the BBC that 300 of his shops were “currently losing […]
October 17, 2025 by: Joe Lyons
Illinois governor JB Pritzker won more than $1.4 million gambling in Las Vegas last year. According to federal tax filings released by his campaign, the 43rd governor of the Prairie State won the money playing blackjack at a casino while on vacation with his wife and friends. Pritzker plans to donate the winnings to charity, […]
October 17, 2025 by: Joe Lyons
An English footballer was fined £50,000 – all of his winnings over a ten-year gambling career. James Byrne was slapped with the biggest FA fine in non-league history after admitting to placing a total of 992 bets on football matches from the start of 2015 to the end of 2024. Byrne amassed winnings of almost […]
October 16, 2025 by: Joe Lyons
Luis Ortiz and Emmanuel Clase of the Cleveland Guardians have been banned from the Dominican Winter League as the MLB continues its gambling probe. ESPN’s Enrique Rojas reported earlier this week that the DR Baseball League has prohibited the Estrellas Orientales from adding the pair to their active roster for the season. In July the […]
October 16, 2025 by: Joe Lyons
Paddy Power has announced it will close 57 shops across the UK and Ireland, putting nearly 250 jobs at risk. The closures make up nearly 10% of the firm’s 608 licensed betting offices and a decision was made following a review of their estate. Paddy Power’s parent company, Flutter Entertainment which also owns the likes […]
October 13, 2025 by: Joe Lyons
Investigations have began into suspicious betting patterns surrounding the Nobel peace prize. Wagers for Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado spiked on the Polymarket betting platform just hours before she was awarded the prize. Norwegian officials who oversee the Nobel peace prize are looking into the possibility of a rare leak from the secretive committee […]
October 13, 2025 by: Joe Lyons
William Hill is preparing to close up to 200 shops in the event of a widely expected gambling tax hike later this year. The operator behind William Hill, Evoke – formerly known as 888, which acquired the bookmaker in a £2 billion takeover in 2022 – is planning for disaster ahead of Rachel Reeves’ autumn […]
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