Alex Weldon
Latest Articles By Alex Weldon (119)
Las Vegas Casinos Can Now Deal Private Poker Games Following Changes to ‘Gaming Salon’ Rules
Private poker games are now officially legal at casinos in Las Vegas and throughout Nevada, so long as players bring at least $10,000 to the table, or the casino obtains special permission to lower the buy-in. The new games would fall under gaming salon rules, which are an exception to the general Nevada policy...
Aristocrat v. Light & Wonder: Dragon Train Slot Lawsuit Simmers On Amid Discovery Battle
It has been one year since Light & Wonder (LNW) was ordered by the U.S. District Court for Nevada to remove all instances of Dragon Train from the market, and the case...
Opinion: Poker Media Needs to Stop Treating Ossi ‘Monarch’ Ketola as a Harmless Eccentric
The emperor has no clothes, and 'Monarch' is a self-proclaimed cult leader who tweets racial slurs on the regular. Someone had to say it. If you've read about Ossi Ketola,...
Daniel Negreanu Signs on as Kalshi Ambassador, Cementing Ties Between Poker and Predictions Industries
Daniel Negreanu, poker's most visible living celebrity, has signed on as an ambassador to Kalshi, the foremost legal predictions market in the U.S. The first step of the new partnership will...
Kalshi, Polymarket Lines on ‘World’s Richest Person’ Swing Wildly After Larry Ellison Briefly Takes the Top Spot
Predictions market lines on who will hold the title of "World's Richest Person" at the end of 2025 have become a lot more interesting after heavy favorite Elon Musk briefly lost his...
California’s Sweepstakes Gambling Ban is Coming Down to the Wire
If California legislators are going to ban sweepstakes gambling this year, they'll have to do so by the end of the week. Assembly Bill 831 passed unanimously in the Senate...
Wild Single-Day Volatility on Kalshi Creates Arbitrage Opportunity as Supreme Court Fast-Tracks Trump Tariff Case
Yesterday's announcement by the U.S. Supreme Court that it would fast-track Trump's tariff case led to a brief but intense bout of volatility for a Kalshi market related to the case. When the dust...
Foxwoods’ New Poker Room Attracts Huge Line, Full-Capacity Crowd on Opening Day [PHOTOS]
Poker players turned out in droves to line up for Foxwoods Casino's new poker room, easily surpassing the room's capacity on opening day. CEO Jason Guyot thanked the "300 players" lined...
Statement on ‘Innovation’ by SEC and CFTC Signals Predictions Markets Are Here to Stay
"Federal financial regulators are now on a mission to support predictions markets like Kalshi, not impede them, as made clear by a joint statement last week from the Securities Exchange...
GhostRedirector: New SEO Fraud Scheme to Promote Online Gambling Believed to Originate From Chinese Hackers
Cybersecurity firm ESET is warning of a new malware-based scheme it calls GhostRedirector, which invisibly hijacks Windows-based internet servers to trick Google into promoting illegal gambling sites. According to the company's blog, We Live...
