Geoff Zochodne Talks DraftKings, Alberta and Jeff Marek

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A lot for the canine days of summer season, at the least in terms of the enterprise of sports activities betting and gaming in Canada and the USA of America.

Geoff Zochodne, the veteran gaming trade beat reporter for Covers, took a break from listening to hearings, transcribing interviews and tapping the keyboard to return as our visitor on the most recent episode of the Gaming Information Canada Present. Among the many many matters we lined over a prolonged dialog:

• What’s motivating DraftKings to, in Zochodne’s phrases, “plan to hit profitable gamers with a ‘gaming tax surcharge’?

• What make sense by way of timing for regulated sports activities wagering and on-line gaming to arrive in Alberta and what’s going to that market appear like?

• Jeff Marek’s departure from Sportsnet seems to have concerned each the NHL and Nevada Gaming Management Board.

• And what’s the dilio as regards to sports activities betting regulators and limiting?

Zochodne additionally supplied his perspective on the Ontario Court docket of Enchantment case contemplating the growth of on-line poker and every day fantasy sports activities, consolidation of the U.S. sports activities betting trade (and why it hasn’t occurred in Ontario), and extra.

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