UNLV’s International Gaming Institute (IGI) has announced the formation of an inaugural Executive Director’s Advisory Board, a strategic initiative designed to further its mission to provide world-class research, education, and innovation to the global gaming and gambling industry.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)’s International Gaming Institute (IGI) has officially unveiled its first-ever Executive Directors’ Advisory Board which will provide strategic counsel for IGI, foster connections and contribute insights and resources.

What happens in Vegas will be staying more with the IRS from now on. That’s because of an obscure provision to reduce the tax deduction for gambling losses, which Congress recently approved in President Donald Trump’s top priority second-term legislative package. The provision is projected to raise $1 billion for the government over the next decade.

UNLV’s Cannabis Policy Institute (CPI) and International Gaming Institute (IGI) will host the latest installment of CPI’s Cannabis Speakers Series with a panel discussion titled “Cannabis & Gaming,” set for 1:30 p.m. PST on Monday (May 19) in the William S. Boyd School of Law’s moot courtroom and online.  

The Doctor will bluff you now. Dr. Brett Abarbanel from UNLV’s International Gaming Institute joins the MaxBet Podcast with dinner party facts, bold suggestions for the casino industry, and a peek at the research projects that actually get people talking. We cover the science behind dice design, how research in the gaming industry gets funded, and the success of UNLV’s student internship program connecting future talent with casino operators. She also shares how she won the biggest hand of her life with a bluff and walked away with a husband. Sparkly shoes included.

Dabbling in cryptocurrency and gambling as a teen, Ed Craven, 29, has become the world’s second-youngest self-made billionaire with US$2.8 billion in net worth by co-founding Stake, the biggest online crypto casino globally.

During Tuesday’s “Seeking Understanding,” a webinar that addressed central issues of problem gambling, Dr. Brett Abarbanel made an interesting comparison to an ecological condition.

One Tuesday morning in late February, a fan in New York who logged into FanDuel’s online sportsbook would’ve found 33 men’s college basketball games listed to bet on and zero women’s games. That fan could place an online wager on some midmajor men’s contests, such as Western Illinois vs. Lindenwood, Troy vs. Texas State and Bowling Green vs. Eastern Michigan. However, no odds were listed for women’s games involving power conference programs like Arizona vs. Texas Tech or Iowa State vs. UCF.