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Today is the big hearing related to the tax changes impacting gamblers and their ability to declare losses as part of a provision that was added to last year's "Big Beautiful Bill", that most high stakes gamblers, including poker players, considered to be far from beautiful. We also have The Odyssey opening this weekend and our friends at BetOnline were offering a wealth of prop bets surrounding the film, including opening weekend box office number totals.
Gambling News
1win Expands Its Prediction Markets with Crypto Forecasts
Friday July 17, 2026 (9:13 am EDT)
Cryptocurrency has become one of the fastest-growing categories within prediction markets, as traders and investors increasingly look beyond price charts to speculate on major industry milestones. Reflecting this trend, international betting brand 1win has expanded its Markets product with a series of new cryptocurrency prediction markets covering some of the sector's most closely watched digital assets.
Gambling News
Gambling Tax Hearing Today
Friday July 17, 2026 (9:04 am EDT)
A number of individuals are set to appear (both are gambling tax pros) & several poker players / gamblers to speak at Friday's IRS tax hearing on the 90% gambling loss deduction cap. This IRS panel doesn't have the power to change the rule but hopefully there will be some takeaways from testimony and panel comments to bring to Congress.
Box Office
The Odyssey Betting for Oscars, Box Office and Ratings
Friday July 17, 2026 (9:04 am EDT)
BetOnline.Casino, which is currently running an Odyssey-themed slots game, has the cool prop bets for the flick. The Odyssey Total Box Office Domestic Opening Weekend: Over/Under $110 million, Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Over/Under 92.5% and more.
Open Championship
The Open Championship Odds
Friday July 17, 2026 (9:07 am EDT)
Opening Odds
Scottie Scheffler
+650
Rory McIlroy
+850
Matt Fitzpatrick
+1300
Tommy Fleetwood
+1500
Jon Rahm
+2000
Chris Gotterup
+2700
Xander Schauffele
+2700
Robert MacIntyre
+2700
Viktor Hovland
+2700
Collin Morikawa
+3000
Wyndham Clark
+3300
Justin Rose
+3300
Ludvig Åberg
+3300
Cameron Young
+3500
Tyrrell Hatton
+3500
Si Woo Kim
+4000
Shane Lowry
+4500
Sam Burns
+4500
Russell Henley
+5000
Min Woo Lee
+5500
Justin Thomas
+5500
Tom Kim
+5500
Patrick Reed
+6000
Patrick Cantlay
+6000
Aaron Rai
+6500
Alex Fitzpatrick
+6500
Bryson DeChambeau
+6500
Joaquin Niemann
+6500
Hideki Matsuyama
+7000
Brooks Koepka
+8000
Jordan Spieth
+8000
Harris English
+8000
JJ Spaun
+8000
Rickie Fowler
+10000
Maverick McNealy
+10000
Brian Harman
+10000
Adam Scott
+10000
Nicolai Højgaard
+10000
Kurt Kitayama
+10000
Kristoffer Reitan
+10000
Akshay Bhatia
+10000
Ben Griffin
+10000
Corey Conners
+12500
Matt Wallace
+12500
Eugenio Chacarra
+12500
Alex Noren
+12500
Ryan Gerard
+12500
Keegan Bradley
+12500
Victor Perez
+12500
Alex Smalley
+15000
Tom McKibbin
+15000
Cameron Smith
+15000
Jacob Bridgeman
+17500
Sepp Straka
+17500
Bud Cauley
+17500
Marco Penge
+17500
Haotong Li
+17500
Jordan Smith
+17500
Ryan Fox
+17500
Max Homa
+17500
Casey Jarvis
+17500
Jason Day
+17500
Nick Taylor
+17500
Keith Mitchell
+17500
Harry Hall
+17500
J.T. Poston
+17500
Johnny Keefer
+17500
Michael Thorbjornsen
+17500
David Puig
+22500
Jake Knapp
+22500
Andrew Novak
+22500
Rasmus Højgaard
+22500
Sahith Theegala
+22500
Max Greyserman
+22500
Gary Woodland
+22500
Eric Cole
+22500
Thomas Detry
+22500
Michael Kim
+22500
Pierceson Coody
+25000
Sungjae Im
+25000
Sam Stevens
+25000
Jayden Schaper
+25000
John Parry
+25000
Laurie Canter
+25000
Angel Ayora
+25000
Michael Brennan
+25000
Ryo Hisatsune
+25000
Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen
+25000
Sami Valimaki
+35000
Hennie du Plessis
+35000
Daniel Berger
+35000
Daniel Hillier
+35000
Bernd Wiesberger
+35000
Lucas Herbert
+35000
Jackson Suber
+35000
Scott Vincent
+35000
Stewart Cink
+35000
Nico Echavarria
+35000
Matt Mccarty
+35000
Matthew Jordan
+35000
Aldrich Potgieter
+35000
Shaun Norris
+50000
Billy Horschel
+50000
Keita Nakajima
+50000
Francesco Molinari
+50000
Daniel Brown
+50000
Kota Kaneko
+75000
Jesper Svensson
+75000
Andy Sullivan
+75000
Antoine Rozner
+75000
Francesco Laporta
+75000
Alejandro De Castro Piera
+100000
Peter Uihlein
+100000
Naoyuki Kataoka
+100000
Baard Bjoernevik Skogen
+100000
Nevill Ruiter
+100000
Marcus Plunkett
+100000
Matthew Southgate
+100000
Dan Bradbury
+100000
Tiger Christensen
+100000
MJ Daffue
+100000
Travis Smyth
+100000
Ryutaro Nagano
+100000
Matthew Baldwin
+100000
Jeong Woo Ham
+100000
Sam Bairstow
+100000
Fifa Laopakdee
+100000
Martin Couvra
+100000
James Nicholas
+100000
Cameron John
+100000
Padraig Harrington
+100000
Joakim Lagergren
+100000
Lev Grinberg
+100000
Ren Yonezawa
+100000
Kazuma Kobori
+100000
Kazuki Higa
+100000
Jack Buchanan
+100000
David Duval
+100000
Mason Howell
+100000
Stuart Grehan
+100000
Michael Hollick
+100000
Caleb Surratt
+100000
Jack McDonald
+100000
Frederic Lacroix
+100000
Jose Luis Ballester
+100000
Darren Clarke
+100000
Adrien Saddier
+100000
David Howard
+100000
Henrik Stenson
+100000
Tom Sloman
+100000
Jiho Yang
+100000
Mateo Pulcini
+100000
Austen Truslow
+100000
Alistair Docherty
+100000
Tim Wiedemeyer
+100000
Joe Dean
+100000
- Chris Costigan, Gambling911.com Publisher
