What’s happening in casinos, poker and gambling right now. Breaking stories, the big casino and industry moves, tournament coverage, and what it all means for players, from the card rooms to the casino floor. ☘️
The questions visitors ask most often.
Casino and gambling news from around the world: casino openings and closings, the law as it changes, industry deals, poker tournaments and results, community stories, and scandal coverage when it matters. We cover gambling as a community and a culture, not just the numbers.
Several stories a week, every week. Big breaking news (a law changing, a major scandal, a casino or card room closing) gets covered the same day.
We don’t take advertising money from casinos, poker sites or sportsbooks for editorial coverage. When we cover a partner, we disclose. When we have an opinion, we say so as an opinion, not as fact. We're a small operation with no editorial firewall, but we have an editorial conscience.
Yes — tips through our Contact page get read by a real human. Anonymous tips welcome. We can't promise to cover everything, but we read everything and follow up on what we can.
Everywhere people play. Lifes a Gambol is a worldwide community, so the news room follows the story wherever it happens: Las Vegas, Macau, Europe and online, the casinos and card rooms, and the law as it changes from one country or state to the next.
Yes, particularly regulated online casinos and online poker (PokerStars, WSOP.com, BetMGM and the like) and the big industry news around them (mergers, new markets, law changes). We cover offshore operators only when they’re the story, and we don’t promote them.
