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Easygo spins off the studios behind Stake's exclusive games as Juice, a Melbourne-based supplier led by former Easygo chief strategy officer Brais Pena. More than 100 games from Twist Gaming, Massive Studios, Knucklehead Syndicate, Monstrums and The Originals open to other operators for the first time, with Roobet the first to carry the full catalogue.
$12bn
Launched 8 September 2026 - bet365's online sportsbook goes live in Washington, D.C. with more than 100 sports for pre-match and in-play betting, arriving alongside a multi-year partnership with Monumental Sports & Entertainment covering the Capitals, Wizards and Mystics. The launch takes bet365 to 18 US states plus the District of Columbia, following its West Virginia debut in August.
Launched 27 August 2026 - bet365's sportsbook and online casino go live in West Virginia, its 18th US sports betting state, ahead of the college football and NFL seasons.
Definitive proxy filed 26 August 2026 - Caesars schedules a special meeting for 22 September 2026 at which shareholders vote on Fertitta Entertainment's ~$17.6bn all-cash acquisition at $31 a share, taking the company private; closing is still not expected until 2027.
Statement 24 August 2026 - Evolution's board recommends shareholders reject Candle Lake's mandatory SEK 695 per share cash offer, arguing it does not reflect the company's fair market value given the discount to the prevailing share price; the acceptance period runs until on or around 15 September 2026.
Disclosed 18 August 2026 - Caesars' proxy filing reveals Carl Icahn's $34-a-share bid, $3 above Fertitta Entertainment's $31, failed to displace the agreement during two extended go-shop windows that closed on 10 August, with Caesars citing an incomplete and unsigned debt commitment letter for Icahn's offer. The board keeps its recommendation of the ~$17.6bn Fertitta deal ahead of a shareholder vote, with the Nevada Gaming Commission having already amended Caesars' permits and a ticking fee due if closing slips past June 2027.
Announced 17 August 2026 - evoke shareholders clear a key condition of Bally's Intralot's recommended all-share takeover, with 99.91% of scheme shares backing the deal at the court meeting and 99.63% of votes cast supporting the special resolution at the general meeting. Bally's Intralot holds its own shareholder vote on 18 September, and court sanction and completion are still expected in Q4 2026 or Q1 2027; evoke investors receive 0.537 new Intralot shares (or cash, capped at £117.1m) per share, valuing the William Hill and 888 owner at about £243.1m.
£243.1m
Announced 13 August 2026 - Kenneth Dart's Cayman vehicle Candle Lake makes a mandatory cash offer of SEK 695 per share after crossing the 30% threshold, valuing the live casino market leader at about SEK 131.7 billion. Candle Lake calls the bid a financial investment rather than a move for control; if its stake passes 90% it intends to start compulsory redemption and promote a delisting from Nasdaq Stockholm. Acceptance period runs 17 August to 15 September 2026.
SEK 695/share (~SEK 131.7bn)
Announced 13 August 2026 with H1 results - Entain sells a 20% stake in Entain CEE, the STS (Poland) and SuperSport (Croatia) joint venture, back to partner EMMA Capital for €425m, cutting its own holding from 67.5% to 47.5% and implying a €2.1bn enterprise value. Completion expected early Q4 2026, with proceeds earmarked to bring group leverage below 3x.
€425m for 20%
Announced 10 August 2026 at A$0.17 per share, a 41% premium to the prior close, reversing the collapse of earlier takeover talks; expected to complete Q1 2027 subject to shareholder and regulatory approval.
A$195m
Flutter Entertainment completes its planned departure from the London Stock Exchange, leaving New York as the company's only public listing.
Completed 3 August 2026 - first announced in March, the deal brings the Casino Days brand alongside Betsafe in Ontario and opens the door to Alberta's newly launched iGaming market, plus B2B technology assets.
€64.5m
Agreed 30 July 2026 - the London-listed trading platform buys the US daily fantasy and prediction markets operator for roughly $1.1bn upfront plus a $200m earnout, led by former Paddy Power Betfair CEO Breon Corcoran.
up to $1.3bn
Announced 27 July 2026 - Fanatics buys Water Street Labs, a CFTC-registered designated contract market, and CX Clearinghouse, its derivatives clearing organisation, from BGC, bringing in-house the regulated infrastructure behind Fanatics Markets ahead of a planned push into financial event contracts.
undisclosed
Easygo launches moon.com, a perps and leveraged trading site, in beta in late July 2026.
Announced 22 July 2026; shares trade as GRSD from 23 July 2026. The rebrand draws a clear line between Grandstand the company and Gambling.com the consumer brand.
Terminated 21 July 2026 - Evolution walks away from the two-year-old $85m takeover of the US table games supplier after the 17 July outside date passes with two regulatory approvals still outstanding, paying a $5.2m termination fee; the existing commercial licensing relationship continues.
$85m deal scrapped
Would combine evoke's William Hill and 888 brands into Bally's Intralot; expected to close Q4 2026–Q1 2027, still pending as of now.
£243m
Enters via stake.bet.ar under an IPLyC licence, in partnership with local operator Dynamo Tyche - Hotel Casino Tandil.
Announced 28 May 2026 - Tilman Fertitta's holding company pays $31 a share in cash, a 49% premium, to take Caesars private and delist it from Nasdaq; CEO Tom Reeg stays on and a go-shop period runs until 11 July, with closing not expected until 2027.
$17.6bn incl. $11.9bn debt
Adds a media network of 25+ sports and betting sites, including Covers.com and Casino.org, to Genius's data business.
$1.2bn
After a 14-month Hellenic Competition Commission review found Novibet was the only operator capable of challenging OPAP's dominance, both sides jointly abandon the deal.
€217m deal scrapped
Opens stake.dk under a five-year Danish Gambling Authority licence, operating out of Copenhagen's Parken Stadium from 1 March.
Tabcorp CEO Gillon McLachlan and BetMakers chair Matt Davey held informal talks since 2025; no formal offer emerged and discussions ceased in February.
Nevada-based gaming solutions supplier, expanding North American capability.
Completed 16 January 2026: closing consideration of $1.53bn for the 62.3% majority stake. Founders Adam Wexler and Jay Deuskar retain the rest.
$1.53bn
Unified fan hub replacing the individual NetEnt, Red Tiger, Big Time Gaming, Nolimit City and Sneaky Slots sites - games, leaderboards, tournaments and streamer content under one roof.
Easygo's remote gaming server moves to engine.io and trades simply as Engine, dropping the Stake name as it prepares multi-casino support so operators beyond Stake can carry its games. Its developer licence still ties releases to Stake's Curaçao operator, Medium Rare N.V.
After ESPN Bet fails to gain significant market share, Penn ends the partnership early and migrates customers to theScore Bet.
Completes the purchase from Endeavor and OB Global Holdings, adding rights across 70+ sports federations.
$225m
Banijay Group combines Tipico with its existing Betclic business to create a new sports-betting group across six European markets, valuing Tipico at roughly $5.4bn.
Announced 21 October 2025 - the CFTC-licensed event contracts exchange gives DraftKings the federal licence and technology behind the DraftKings Predictions app launched two months later in 38 states.
$50m + up to $200m earnout
OPAP stops operating as an independent listed company and folds into Allwyn; OPAP's commercial identity is set to be replaced by the Allwyn brand from Q1 2026.
~€16bn
Bally's trades Gamesys/Jackpotjoy and its other European consumer brands for a 58% majority stake in Intralot, which rebrands as Bally's Intralot.
€2.7bn
Announced 26 September 2025 - a new in-house slot studio debuting with Nip Tuck, built from scratch in the Evolution RNG portfolio and using Nolimit City's xMechanics.
Announced 22 September 2025: Allwyn pays $1.6bn cash for a 62.3% stake in the largest US daily fantasy sports operator, implying an upfront valuation of around $2.6bn.
$1.6bn
Completed 1 September 2025 - the Las Vegas events and tickets booking platform, a first step beyond betting into live entertainment.
$8m + up to $22m earnout
Buys out the remaining 15.51% of Stoiximan Group's Greek and Cypriot business.
€191.6m
Ossi "Monarch" Ketola's second casino, built on a "zero house edge" marketing pitch; later courts controversy with an Andrew Tate promotional deal.
Boyd had held a legacy 5% stake since the original 2018 FanDuel deal; Flutter now owns 100%, though a dormant Fox Corp option to buy in still exists.
$1.55bn
GAN delists from Nasdaq as SEGA SAMMY takes it fully private.
Closed May 14; creates the enlarged Flutter Brazil business.
$674m
Completed 30 April - Flutter's Italian online share rises to roughly 30%. Playtech returns up to €1.8bn to its own shareholders from the proceeds.
€2.3bn
OB Global Holdings takes ownership; OB Global keeps managing IMG Arena in the interim, pending its separate sale to Sportradar.
$450m
Lays the groundwork for a licensed Danish launch the following year.
Completed 1 January 2025 - OddsJam and OpticOdds bring real-time odds data and enterprise subscriptions.
$80m + up to $80m earnout
Flutter is forced to shut down Junglee Games entirely as the new law takes effect.
Announced 30 December; Novibet keeps its brand and founding management team after the deal closes.
€217m + earnouts
Announced 11 November as Endeavor exits the betting business entirely, partly to facilitate its own take-private by Silver Lake.
$450m
France's national lottery operator completes a tender offer for Kindred, owner of Unibet and 32Red, on 3 October.
€2.45bn
Completed 1 April 2024 - Freebets.com, WhichBingo.co.uk, Nettiskasinot.com, Vedonlyonti.com and related affiliate assets; Sportradar took XLMedia's North American sites the same year.
up to $42.5m
A lottery-courier app, expanding DraftKings beyond sports and casino.
$750m
Takes over from Camelot after 28 years, as the National Lottery's 4th licensed operator.
Secures Stake an Italian gambling licence through the acquisition.
NeoGames and Aristocrat's own Anaxi unit combine into Aristocrat Interactive.
$1.2bn
PointsBet exits the US to focus on Australia, Canada and India; its US brand continues briefly as "PointsBet, a Fanatics Experience."
$225m
Playtech, which bought Snaitech in 2018, sells it on to further consolidate Flutter's Italian business.
€2.3bn
The corporate name changes; the 888 consumer brand stays.
56% stake in Brazil's 4th-largest operator, combining with Flutter's existing Betfair Brazil business.
$674m
Adds fixed-odds pricing technology.
A$1.5m
A data supplier becomes a media owner — Sportradar had already been feeding these sites live sports data since 2022. XLMedia sold its Europe/Canada assets to Gambling.com Group earlier the same year and became a cash shell after this deal.
$30m
The sportsbook relaunches under the ESPN Bet name on 14 November.
Betting on the standalone unikrn.com sportsbook ends on 20 October; Entain repositions Unikrn's esports technology and brand inside its own platform instead of selling it.
A Dutch betting and gaming operator.
A locally licensed Colombian sportsbook brand - a separate entity from Flutter's Betfair, just sharing the name under a local licence.
Strengthens Betsson's position in Belgium's newly regulated market.
A rival bid from DraftKings later pushes the final price up to $225m.
$150m
The slot-machine giant's biggest move yet into online iGaming and iLottery technology.
$1.2bn
The Japanese entertainment conglomerate moves to acquire the US B2B gaming-technology and international sportsbook operator, at a 121% premium.
The planned Artemis Strategic Investment Corporation listing is called off; Novibet stays private.
Becomes the operator of the Illinois state lottery and picks up US iLottery technology.
Owner of Betway and Spin, completed via a SPAC merger.
Barstool Sports is sold back to founder Dave Portnoy; Penn signs a 10-year deal to rebrand its book as ESPN Bet.
$1.5bn licence
Poland's leading sportsbook operator, bought via the Entain CEE joint venture with EMMA Capital.
£748.6m
Brings daily fantasy sports contests into the Dabble app.
Brings BtoBet, Pariplay and AspireCore under NeoGames a year before Aristocrat buys NeoGames itself.
$480m
Completed 4 August, taking Flutter's Italian online market share to roughly 20%.
€1.9bn
Completed 22 June 2022 - the slots studio behind the xNudge, xWays and xSplit mechanics, founded in 2014 by Jonas Tegman and Örpen Kisacikoglu, joins the Evolution content family alongside NetEnt and Big Time Gaming.
€200m + up to €140m earnout
The all-stock merger closes on 5 May.
NDC Media acquisition completed 31 January 2022 - a fast-growing North American bonus affiliate.
Completed 1 January 2022 - the fantasy sports news and data platform accelerates the US push.
$27.5m
The sports-merchandise giant enters betting directly, ahead of any acquisitions.
Supplies its sportsbook to two of the biggest crypto casinos as commercial partners - not acquisitions, Betby owns neither.
A planned Nasdaq listing via Artemis Strategic Investment Corporation - later abandoned in 2023.
$625m valuation
Easygo launches a US sweepstakes-style casino and, separately, the live-streaming platform Kick to market Stake to new audiences.
SAZKA Entertainment AG becomes Allwyn AG as the group consolidates around one consumer-facing brand.
Sells its lottery business to Brookfield Business Partners, which keeps the Scientific Games name; the remaining games business rebrands as Light & Wonder.
$5.8bn lottery sale
OPAP sells its 36.75% stake in Kaizen Gaming's international Betano business to its own parent Allwyn, keeping full control of the domestic Stoiximan brand.
€50m + earnouts
Buys the outgoing National Lottery operator's UK business ahead of taking over the licence itself.
A Croatian sports-betting operator.
MGM Resorts buys the Swedish-listed mobile-gaming operator outright.
Closed at a revised £1.95-2.05bn, bringing the Mr Green brand family along with it.
~£2bn
Splits its lotteries and Keno business into a separately listed company, leaving Tabcorp focused on wagering and media.
A$10.5bn
Cash-and-stock deal, replacing the earlier (incorrect) 2021/Scientific Games entry.
$800m
Racing form and ratings data provider.
Values Dabble at ~A$165m; comes with a board seat and follows Tabcorp's earlier sale of its eBet business the same month.
A$33m
Priced 22 July 2021 at $8 per share under ticker GAMB, after slashing the range and deal size; began trading 23 July 2021.
$42m raised
Mainly to secure William Hill's US sportsbook licences.
~$3.7bn
An esports-betting platform.
£50m
SAZKA Group, newly rebranded Allwyn, is selected over 28-year incumbent Camelot to run the UK's National Lottery from 2024.
Merges with dMY Technology Group II to list on the NYSE.
$1.5bn valuation
Brings Jackpotjoy, Virgin Games, Monopoly Casino and Heart Bingo into the Bally's portfolio; former Gamesys CEO Lee Fenton becomes Bally's CEO.
$2.7bn
Adds the creator of the Megaways slot mechanic, already licensed out to rivals like Playtech.
€450m
Lists on Nasdaq via a traditional IPO after SPAC merger talks with a Todd Boehly vehicle collapsed.
$8bn valuation
A deal for Italy's leading omnichannel betting, gaming and lottery operator, bought from CVC Capital Partners.
€1.9bn
Penn buys Score Media and Gaming, owner of theScore, adding a Canadian media and betting brand.
Having only wanted the US operation, Caesars agrees to sell the non-US business to 888 Holdings.
£2.2bn
An all-stock deal adds Golden Nugget's iGaming brand to DraftKings.
~$1.5bn
Exercises the option agreed in 2018.
Gains the Optibet brand and Baltic market leadership, right as Entain was fending off an $11bn takeover approach from MGM.
SEK2.8bn / £250m
Turns BetMakers into a leading global tote-technology supplier.
A$56.2m / £34m
An audacious attempt to buy Tabcorp's core wagering and media business goes nowhere; BetMakers refocuses on its B2B supply model instead.
$4bn (bid)
Completed in December, folding NetEnt's slots catalogue - including the recently acquired Red Tiger - into Evolution's live-casino business.
SEK19.6bn / ~€1.9bn
GVC completes its rebrand to Entain plc on 9 December.
Completed 5 May - creating, at the time, the world's largest listed online betting company.
$6.95bn
Eldorado Resorts completes its takeover of the old Caesars Entertainment and keeps the Caesars name.
~$17.3bn
Built on Penn's 2020 stake in Barstool Sports, co-branding a new sportsbook.
Twin River Worldwide Holdings licenses the Bally's name from Caesars, part of the divestitures required to clear the Eldorado-Caesars merger.
A three-way merger takes DraftKings public and folds in betting-technology supplier SBTech.
$3.3bn raised
Closes the deal and tops up its stake to 84.48%, taking sole control of Stoiximan's Greek and Cypriot operations.
Rush Street lists via a SPAC merger, staying independent of the larger consolidators.
Relaunches the CSGORoll audience as a crypto casino and dice site.
The deal's earnout terms are later disputed in a London lawsuit by BtoBet's own co-founders.
The group renames itself Flutter Entertainment plc.
A deal for the owner of PokerStars, Sky Betting & Gaming, BetStars and Fox Bet.
~$6bn
Agrees to buy a 51% stake in Stoiximan Group's Greek and Cypriot betting business.
€94.9m
A slots studio deal that, a year later, helps make NetEnt itself an acquisition target.
A crypto-payments processor launched by a SOFTSWISS co-founder, serving operators across the industry.
Completed 28 March - GVC becomes the UK's largest high-street bookmaker, with 3,500+ shops.
£4bn
Barely a year after launch, Shannon sells his second Australian bookmaker to the same buyer as his first.
A$68m
A 61% stake forms FanDuel Group, ahead of the US sports-betting boom.
$158m paid in
A 50/50 joint venture to attack the newly regulating US online-gaming market.
Playtech takes full ownership of the Italian omnichannel operator - a stake it holds for seven years.
€846m
The in-house game studio becomes its own standalone brand within the SOFTSWISS Group.
Launches in Malta as an independent B2B sportsbook supplier, later licensed by the MGA in 2020.
Co-founder "Joe" winds the site down after two years, ahead of relaunching as Duelbits.
Buys a majority stake in Croatia's largest sports-betting operator, later sold on to Entain in 2022.
Adds a live-dealer supplier with a strong footing in the Americas.
Brings the sports-betting platform OpenBet into the Scientific Games portfolio.
Georgia's leading online gaming operator.
€41.3m
Launches in Prague as a dedicated B2B esports odds and risk-management supplier, distinct from Betby's traditional sportsbook focus.
Closed February 2018 - Bookies.com, Bookmakers.co.uk, FootballScores.com and 76 sports betting and casino domains; relaunched as the lead US sportsbook portal.
£6.5m
Creates a combined Australian wagering-and-lottery group under the Tabcorp name.
A$11.3bn enterprise value
GVC agrees terms for what will be, by far, its largest deal yet.
up to £4bn
Easygo launches its crypto casino and sportsbook under a Curaçao licence.
Adds affiliate-marketing software to the group's B2B toolkit.
Two rival CS:GO skin-gambling sites launch the same year - both founders later relaunch as crypto casinos: Duelbits and Duel.com.
Ed Craven and Bijan Tehrani found Easygo in Melbourne, building on their earlier Bitcoin-dice site Primedice.
Combines Australia's biggest wagering operator with its biggest lottery operator to fend off offshore rivals like William Hill and Paddy Power.
A$6.4bn
KKCG and EMMA Capital merge their lottery and gaming assets - OPAP, Casinos Austria and a new 32.5% stake in Italy's Lottoitalia - into SAZKA Group.
Betgenius, a data supplier to the betting industry, merges with SportingPulse International to form Genius Sports.
The two bookmakers merge to form Paddy Power Betfair - 52% former Paddy Power holders, 48% former Betfair holders.
~£5bn
GVC wins a bidding war against 888 Holdings for bwin.party.
£1.1bn
After nearly two decades of competition scrutiny, Ladbrokes and Gala Coral merge - a company GVC swallows whole in 2018.
~£2.3bn
Unibet Group plc renames itself Kindred Group plc.
Tipico's founders stay on as shareholders alongside the private-equity firm.
~€1.4bn valuation
Unibet Group (later Kindred) spins off its odds-and-trading arm as the independently listed Kambi Group.
Begins building a stake in Greece's national betting and lottery monopoly that eventually becomes a majority holding.
GVC finalises its share of the 2012 Sportingbet carve-up.
Dean Shannon's first Australian bookmaker exit.
A$22m
Ed Craven and Bijan Tehrani launch the Bitcoin dice site Primedice before forming Easygo and launching Stake.com.
The two rivals jointly buy Sportingbet; William Hill takes the Australian and Spanish arms, GVC takes the rest of the business.
£485m
Adds NordicBet and Triobet, cementing Betsson as the largest private alternative to the Nordic gambling monopolies.
€65-85m
Spun out of Neil Bluhm's Rush Street Gaming casino business in Chicago.
Karel Komárek's investment group buys the historic Czech national lottery - the seed of what becomes Allwyn.
bwin Interactive Entertainment merges with PartyGaming to form bwin.party - a company GVC buys whole five years later.
Strengthens Betsson's Nordic and Baltic position; all 148 staff, including the founders, stay on.
~€33.4m
Splits off its casino business as the separately listed Echo Entertainment Group, keeping wagering, media and gaming.
The domain purchase anchors the flagship portal - the brand that defines the next decade of the company.
$2.5m
Gaming VC Holdings reorganises as GVC Holdings, based on the Isle of Man.
Launches in Greece; grows into the country's second-largest online gambling brand.
Paddy Power begins acquiring the Australian bookmaker, reaching full control by 2011.
Ivan Montik and Dmitry Yaikau found the company in Belarus, initially as outsourced development work.
A joint venture to power William Hill's digital sportsbook and casino.
The deal adds online bingo and casino to Unibet's sportsbook business.
Founded in Sweden to livestream real dealers online, recreating the feel of a physical casino.
An Australian lottery-and-wagering merger of equals - a company Tabcorp buys whole eleven years later.
Charles Gillespie and Kevin McCrystle, friends since high school, start the business in Dublin with personal savings and angel money.
624 shops make William Hill the UK's biggest bookmaker by shop count; regulators later force the resale of 78 of them.
£504m
Unibet acquires the Belgian sportsbook operator, gaining a Benelux foothold.
Brings New South Wales into Tabcorp's wagering footprint.
Investors incorporate Gaming VC Holdings in Luxembourg to buy Casino-Club - the seed of what becomes Entain.
Founded in Germany; it grows into the country's leading sports-betting brand.
Finally goes public after nearly 70 years of changing private hands.
Founded in Switzerland by Carsten Koerl to supply sports data and streaming to the betting industry.
Paddy Power re-registers as a public company and lists on the Irish and London stock exchanges.
Nomura sells on to the two private-equity firms after an earlier attempt to float the company on the stock market falls through.
£825m
Later demerged as Echo Entertainment Group in 2011.
Anders Ström launches Unibet in London as a telephone, then online, sportsbook.
A leveraged buyout after Brent Walker collapses under £1.3bn of debt following a Serious Fraud Office investigation.
£700m
Victoria's state-run tote wagering business floats as Tabcorp Holdings.
Denise Coates and family launch bet365 in Stoke-on-Trent. It stays privately held for the entire rest of this story.
Grand Metropolitan sells the business on to leisure group Brent Walker.
Combined with Grand Met's own Mecca Bookmakers to form the UK's second-largest betting-shop group.
£330m
Stewart Kenny, David Power, and John Corcoran merge their combined 40 betting shops in Dublin to compete with expanding British bookmaker chains.
After founder William Hill's death, the business is sold to Sears Holdings.
Bill Lindwall and Rolf Lundström found what becomes Betsson AB as a Swedish slot-machine business.
Founded in Australia; grows into the world's largest maker of slot machines.
William Hill opens a credit-based postal and telephone betting business in London, at a time when betting shops are still illegal in Britain.