World Series of Politics

Just in time for G2E, iGB brings you episode five of the World Series of Politics. We kick off looking at Brazil, where the competing presidential candidates go into a run-off at the end of October. This is likely to impact gambling across multiple channels. Not only sports betting may be on the line, but a reshuffling of the country's lottery sector and even integrated resorts are being held back...

It's a busy episode this week, with Brendan Bussmann and Brandt Iden kicking off by discussing the latest twists in the Wire Act saga. Could this mean the issue of whether it applies to sports betting or all forms of gambling is dead and buried once and for all? Also up for discussion is sports betting activity around National Football League kickoff, and some debate around when in-stadium books c...

The third instalment of the World Series of Politics has Brendan and Brandt updating listeners on the early stages of Kansas' legal sports betting market - and Missouri residents trying to take advantage. They also ponder the National Football League kick-off, Arizona's market one year on, and Brendan returns to one of his favourite subjects, New York's mobile tax rate.

In the second episode of the World Series of Politics, Brendan Bussmann of B Global and Brandt Iden of Sportradar discuss developments in Kansas - where regulators have made haste to launch sports betting on 1 September. Brendan and Brandt also look to California, where interest groups have already spent $350m on campaigning for and against ballot initiatives that could bring sports betting to the...

In the first episode of the World Series of Politics, Brendan Bussmann of B Global and Brandt Iden of Sportradar give listeners an idea of what's to come in this new look behind the curtains of legislative developments. Also up for discussion is Massachusetts, after lawmakers beat the buzzer with a consensus on legal sports betting.