Circa Sports Circa Survivor Hits Record-Breaking Guarantee of $15 Million, No Rake

High-Stakes Circa Grandissimo Sits at 49 Sign-Ups, Leading to Current Prize Pool of $4.9 Million.  Sign-ups End at 2 p.m. PT on Saturday, Sept. 6 for Circa Million VII, Circa Survivor and Circa Grandissimo.

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Spencer Rattler First Quarterback Benched Payout Odds 2025

If you look around the league, there are a handful of starting quarterbacks who are playing for their jobs, and history tells us a few will lose said job at some point this season.

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Top Trending: Verse Gaming Offers First Parlay Prediction Platform in US

A new app from Verse Gaming allows users to bundle predictions across sports, politics, entertainment, breaking news, and more as the company pivots away from its Daily Fantasy Sports model.

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Top Trending: Circa Owner on Prediction Market Parlays: 'Simply Illegal Gambling'

Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket were set to begin offering parlay betting in the coming days.  This doesn't sit well with one casino sportsbook owner. 

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Longtime Vegas Bookie Jimmy Vaccaro Talks Exclusively to Gambling 911 About Retirement

After more than 50 years as a legal bookmaker in Las Vegas, legend Jimmy Vaccaro recently retired.

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Drake Places a $300,000 Bet on Jannik Sinner to Win the US Open

Drake is betting big on Jannik Sinner, wagering $300,000 on the top-ranked men's tennis player in the world to win the U.S. Open.

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Top Trending: 'Sports Betting King' Mazi Smith Sentenced to 12-24 Months

Mazi, whose real name is Darnell Smith, has been transferred to DOC. It's unclear what institution he's currently at due to the site being down.

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Surge in Online Gambling Leaves Trail of Debt and Despair

South Africa is facing an alarming rise in online gambling that is destroying lives and draining billions of rands from families and the economy. 

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Netflix Gambling Film '‘Ballad of a Small Player’ Stars Colin Farrell

Ballad of a Small Player is a 2025 drama film directed by Edward Berger, written by Rowan Joffé, and based on the 2014 novel The Ballad of a Small Player by Lawrence Osborne. 

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Next Alabama Head Coach Odds Payout: Tommy Rees, Glenn Schumann, Lane Kiffin: Oddsmakers See Kalen DeBoer Firing Imminent

In his last 10 games as Alabama's head coach, Kalen DeBoer is just 5-5. 

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Top Trending: Trump Health Gambling Surges Amid Weekend Rumors, Scheduled Press Conference Tuesday

Gamblers at Kalshi give 48% chance of US President referencing "health" during Tuesday press conference. 

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Top Trending: Pai Gow Wow... Planet Hollywood Dealer Side Bet Cap Questioned

Vital Vegas reports that a Pai gow player at Planet Hollywood hit a $5 fortune bonus side bet for the dealer with five aces—should’ve been a $2,000 tip for the dealer, but management said wins are capped at $1,000 on side bets.

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Facial Recognition Hits the Casino Floor in Unexpected Way

The “eye in the sky” has always been what has watched casinos in Las Vegas and across the world. These casinos are designed for security cameras to cover every corner while staff walk the floors to spot anything unusual happening.

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Seminole Tribe of Florida General Counsel Jim Shore, 80, Passes Away

Jim Shore, 80, who served as General Counsel of the Seminole Tribe of Florida for more than four decades and guided the Tribe to unprecedented levels of success, died Saturday, Aug. 30, at Cleveland Clinic Hospital in Weston, Fla.

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Top Trending: NFL Gambling in 2025 Expected to Eclipse $30 Billion

The NFL season kicks off Sept. 4, with the Dallas Cowboys visiting the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. 

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Paid Leaves of Guardians Pitchers Clase and Ortiz Extended as MLB Continues Gambling Probe

Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz had their paid leaves extended indefinitely on Sunday as Major League Baseball continues an investigation to gauge their possible involvement in gambling during games.

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Top Trending: One Dead on Strip Following Early Morning Shooting

One person was shot on the Las Vegas Strip early Saturday morning, officials said. Scroll down for all the top stories from the world of gambling.

The shooting happened on the sidewalk during a fight between several men on South Las Vegas Boulevard near Flamingo Road around 12:15 a.m. Police took one person into custody, and there was no threat to the public, they said.

The shooting victim was rushed to the hospital for treatment and was expected to survive.  Scroll down for all the top stories from the world of gambling.

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Gambling911 College Football Week 1 System Plays Were Strong at 3-1

The two primary games for Sunday we do not have anything that stands out. We're talking Virginia Tech vs. South Carolina and the late game between Notre Dame and Miami. 

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Top Trending: An Egregious Example of Two Teams Playing for the Spread in Nevada-Penn State Week 1 Game?

In case you missed it - and there is a strong likelihood that you did - Penn State easily won over Nevada Saturday, 46-11.

The Nittany Lions, however, failed to cover the spread in the final seconds of the game.  This led to some conspiracy theories via social media platforms like X. 

Our own Thomas Somach noted that Penn State came into this game as the 42.5 point favorite, was up 43 points with 30 seconds left on the clock. 

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Catena Media Founder Scammed Out of $1.25 Million

"I feel ashamed and stupid," Erik Bergman reveals. 

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Top Trending: Nearly $69 Million Bet on Week 1 College Football at Kalshi Alone

Without a shred of doubt, the most wagered on game of the week was the 12 pm ET showdown between No. 1 Texas and No. 3 Ohio State at Ohio State. And one ALL sportsbook(s) wanted a Buckeyes win bad. 

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Lee Corso’s Last Pick: What Could it Be?

Also, the marketing team at BetOnline.ag created breakdown for each US State’s pick to win the National Championship.

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Top Trending: Bookie in Ohtani Interpreter Case Sentenced to Over a Year

https://www.casino.org/news/court-upholds-arkansas-referendum-blocking-legends-casino-russellville/Mathew Bowyer finally breaks his silence, speaks to CNN and Rolling Stone.

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Bookmaker Linked to Shohei Ohtani’s Interpreter Sentenced to Just Over a Year

A Southern California bookmaker who took thousands of sports bets from the former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani was sentenced Friday to just over a year in prison.

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Texas Longhorns vs. Ohio State Buckeyes Game Line Drops to a Pick'em... Back Up to Buckeyes -1.5

Gambling911.com was all over Ohio State as a PICK'EM, having announced its decision to back the Buckeyes on Friday. 

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Top Trending: L.A. City Attorney Sues Stake.us, Kick, Evolution in First of a Kind Case

Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto has filed a civil enforcement lawsuit against sweepstakes casino Stake.us, its owners, Kick Streaming, and several gaming content suppliers, including Evolution and its subsidiaries, for allegedly operating or aiding an illegal gambling enterprise in California.

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Scaling Your Poker Business with a Proven iGaming Platform

The poker industry has evolved rapidly over the past few decades. With the rise of online poker, operators now have the ability to reach players from all over the globe, offering them a thrilling and competitive environment right from their homes.

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UFC 322 Betting Odds - Islam-JDM and Shevchenko-Weili

Thursday evening, Dana White announced a blockbuster, title-fight doubleheader for UFC 322 at Madison Square Garden on November 15.

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Top Trending: Former Ladbrokes Owner Top Exec Charged With Bribery, Fraud

Kenny Alexander, former head of the parent company of Ladbrokes, is among 11 people who have been charged as part of an investigation into the provision of gambling services in Turkey.

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Online Super Series XL at ACR Poker to Guarantee $50 Million

The Online Super Series XL (OSS XL) is back—and it’s flexing harder than ever with over $50 million in guaranteed prize pools. We’re talking Main Events stacked higher than your favorite burger and enough multi-flight madness to make your mouse sweat.

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