DraftKings and FanDuel, the two largest daily fantasy sports operators, have agreed to merge, the companies announced Friday.

A woman whose slot machine said she won nearly $43 million in August was told that she would not receive her winnings because the machine malfunctioned. Katrina Bookman took a celebratory selfie in front of the screen displaying a win of $42,949,672, and was subsequently escorted from the floor and told to return to New York City’s Resorts World Casino the next day for a decision. When she came back, she was told the machine had a glitch and she hadn’t won anything.

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These days it seems like there’s a casino everywhere you go, doesn’t it? Casinos and gaming halls are an increasingly popular sight all over the world, and they aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. But have you ever wondered just how popular they are, or where they all come from? We’ve put together a little information …

“The temptations that will beset you will be very great...." The evil he warned of wasn’t treason or desertion or theft. It was cards. “Of all the evil practices that abound in Camp, gambling is the most pernicious and fraught with the most direful consequences.”

In this day and age when everything seems to be going wrong people turn to movies, books and even comic books to take them to an alternate universe where everything is fine or at least there's the possibility for everything to be fine again.

The implosion of the daily fantasy industry is a bro-classic tale of hubris, recklessness, political naïveté and a kill-or-be-killed culture.

Early one Saturday morning in Las Vegas, I sat down at a Texas Hold ‘em poker table with seven or eight other men, all middle-aged. Being 30 at the time, I was the youngest player by about a decade. A couple of them were wearing Hawaiian shirts. It was too early for drinking, but one or two guys puffed on cigarettes as the cards were dealt. The buy-in was $75, far more than I’d ever paid for a poker game. I played in a regular poker game in New York City, and I was feeling good about my abilities. I decided to use a conservative strategy to extend my time on the table...

In what could prove a world first, an Australian politician is seeking to have games such as the hugely popular Counter-Strike series defined in law as gambling. Nick Xenophon, the independent senator for South Australia, on Sunday announced a bid to have multiplayer first-person shooter games defined as gambling in an update to the current Interactive Gambling Act of 2001. “This is the Wild West of online gambling that is actually targeting kids,” Xenophon told Fairfax Media.

The French philosopher outsmarts the lottery. By Roger Pearson.

CSGO has reached peak shadiness with ProSyndicate and TmarTn.

On Flamingo Road in Las Vegas, James Grosjean sat at a steel table outside a Starbucks. In the near distance stood a sign for a local casino, the Palms, where he has been shown the door more than once. Being run out of casinos is an occupational hazard for Grosjean, a professional gambler who majored in applied math at Harvard and briefly considered careers on Wall Street and in academia.

In his new book, The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling, Adam Kucharski details how trying to understand dice games led one mathematician to develop probability theory, how one of the first wearable computers was designed to covertly predict the fall of a roulette ball, and how poker-playing bots are advancing more quickly than we think. As he shows, science, mathematics, and gambling have long been intertwined, and thanks to advances in big data and machine learning...

Is buying a lottery ticket irrational? Is any gambling rational? What makes one bet fair while another is a sucker's bet?

The primary pleasure in “Making Monte Carlo” comes from watching the various eccentrics, lowlifes, high-rollers, and famous artists -- Edvard Munch, Karl Marx, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Coco Chanel -- stroll in to take a seat at the table. By Matt Seidel.

I was that girl in the back of an art gallery, surrounded by white walls, bright lights, and expensive things on a boring Monday. I worked there alone, with no boss and no coworkers. Peter was from out of town, and wandered into the gallery, as most people do, to kill time before his next appointment. He was in his early-thirties but looked younger, and he wore an untucked polo shirt with khaki shorts and flip-flops. His hair was dark and freshly cut, but still messy.

Firing up specific brain cells—linked to gambling in people—turns rats cautious. By Beth Mole.

This floored me: Americans in the 43 states where lotteries are legal spent $70 billion on lotto games in 2014. Seventy billion? I thought. No, that’s impossible. That’s more than $230 for every man, woman, and child in those states—or $300 for each adult. But it’s true: According to the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries, lotteries took in $70.1 billion in sales in the 2014 fiscal year. That’s more than Americans...

Many card games are notoriously difficult to master. But imagine a whole new suit was thrown into the mix...