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News reports cover rulings and operator moves that reach players, written up once the facts settle.
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| No. | Report | Game type | Filed by | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. 170 |  The Tim Donaghy NBA Referee Betting Scandal On the morning of July 20, 2007, an NBA referee walked into a federal building in San Francisco to confess his crimes. What followed was the biggest integrity scandal in professional basketball history. | NWNews | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 166 |  Joe Hachem's 2005 WSOP Main Event: Australia's Poker Hero On May 31, 2005, an accountant from Melbourne beat six thousand eight hundred eighty-five other players to win the World Series of Poker Main Event. The outcome was documented. The method was not. | BWBig Wins | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 161 |  The History of Live Dealer Gaming: From Studios to Streaming Live dealer gaming started in 2003 with one grainy camera and a roulette wheel. Today it is 35% of online casino revenue globally. Latency improved from 10 seconds to under 1 second. Cost per table is dropping. The model is no longer experimental. | HSHistory | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 152 | The Frank Sinatra Vegas Years: Music, Mobsters, and Tables Sinatra's Vegas years were a masterclass in casino marketing before casino marketing existed. Analyze the mechanics of how celebrity, venue, and lifestyle built empire. | CECelebrities | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 144 | The Venetian Ridotto: The World's First Legal Casino The Ridotto opened in 1638. It was not the first gambling house. It was the first gambling house operating under state license, with regulated rules, open to the public, and designed to extract maximum revenue from players while maintaining the appearance of order. | HSHistory | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 138 | Evolution Gaming: How One Studio Defined Live Casino Evolution Gaming transformed live casino from novelty to global standard. Their mathematics, operations, and licensing made broadcast gambling simultaneously profitable and trustworthy. | LVLive Casino | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 129 | How Steve Wynn Reshaped the Las Vegas Strip Steve Wynn purchased the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas in 1973. He was 31 years old. He inherited a casino that was profitable but aging. | NWNews | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 123 | Howard Hughes' Bizarre Takeover of the Desert Inn and Vegas Howard Hughes purchased the Desert Inn in November 1966, and this purchase marked a pivotal moment in Las Vegas history. | CECelebrities | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 104 | Bally, IGT, and the Companies That Built the Slot Industry I spent a lot of time trying to beat slot machines. Probably 400,000 dollars over five years. What I learned is that I was not fighting machines. I was fighting the people who built them. | SLSlots | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 99 | How AI Dealers Could Change Online Table Games There's talk of AI dealers handling the cards in online casinos. On the nose talk, that is. Might sound like progress. Is it, though? | NWNews | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 90 | The Sands, Caesars, and the Mob-Era Casinos of Las Vegas Vegas had a particular style in the 1960s. Certain properties defined it. Some got torn down. Some survived and adapted. | HSHistory | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 85 | How Regulators Approach Loot Boxes and Gambling-Like Mechanics Loot boxes sit in a regulatory gray zone. They are technically not gambling because the player gets something regardless of outcome. But regulators are watching, and some jurisdictions are moving to ban them. | NWNews | Filed by The SonicBet Desk |