Gambling

A new podcast from GBH News finds that it's a story of scratch-off tickets, vaudeville and more.

Same-game parlays are growing in popularity among casual sports bettors. The payouts are bigger, but odds are longer, so sports books are happy to take the bet.

84% of adults spend money on alcohol, tobacco, drugs or gambling, according to a new Bankrate study.

Forty percent of Americans now say they bet on sports.

Americans are betting on who they think will win the election, but just how much stock should we put in predictions markets?

These robots are basically unbeatable, and they suck the fun — and the money — out of playing, says Kit Chellel of Bloomberg.

The illegal game has similarities with a state lottery. For many Black residents of Detroit, it represented an opportunity.

China wants to transform Macao, known as the "Las Vegas of the East," into a real Vegas that relies more on entertainment and tourism, and less on gambling for its revenues. 

We learned this week that Dave & Buster's will let its customers use its app to compete against each other.

Sports betting has had a surge of popularity in the U.S., even as star athletes have been implicated in gambling scandals.