Vegas’s seedy soul will save Sin City
Las Vegas is in trouble, but as anyone who has ever loved Vegas knows well, you are only one big win from turning it around
Gambling
Wednesday
You can’t kick Dave Portnoy out of a movement he was never a part of
Forget the Fox hits: the Barstool founder is not a conservative
Thursday
Ludere in Leone: who made money from the new pontiff?
Something odd seems to have been happening on at least one online gambling platform
Friday
Rein in the rainmakers: gambling apps aren’t going anywhere
Too many people simply can’t handle online sports betting
Monday
Why I quit poker
The game had consumed my brain
Dave Portnoy is the degenerate gambling king
Apparently the New York Times just found out
Friday
Football is now going hog-wild for legal betting
You can bet the game’s embrace of its sportsbook partners will turn out better for them than for bettors
Thursday
What does ‘Barstool conservative’ even mean?
Plus: The issues that matter most to early state voters
Wednesday
Dave Portnoy’s inevitable return to owning Barstool Sports
It’s back to the pirate ship, to manning the cannons, to plundering
Thursday
Microbetting will change sports and gambling forever
Live bets placed in the moment on hyper-focused aspects of the action are the future
Sunday
The unstoppable march of the gambling giants
The golden age of sport betting has barely begun
Tuesday
New York’s ‘hypocritical’ crackdown on bar gambling
Kathy Hochul continues her predecessor’s war on fun
Saturday
Please don’t take your kids to Vegas
Sometimes the answer to the ever-present ‘is it kid-friendly?’ question should be ‘no, it’s really not’
Wednesday
If this is Aaron Sorkin’s riposte to those who criticise his portrayal of women, God help us
Molly’s Game marks the directorial debut of Hollywood’s most celebrated screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin, and is based on his adaptation of the memoir by Molly Bloom. Nope, me neither, but she’s the one-time Olympic skier who, at the age of 26, started a high-stakes poker game for ‘the richest, the most powerful men in the world’ and ended up with the FBI in her face. Poor Molly, we’re meant to think, when the FBI ends up in her face, but I was delighted. Bang her up! This has been posited as the antidote to all those male-driven, big money Wall Street films, with Sorkin even declaring Ms Bloom a ‘feminist icon’.
