Wakayama Governor Yoshinobu Nisaka speaks at a prefecture tourism event in 2019. Nisaka is urging prefecture lawmakers to quickly approve of the region’s plans to host an integrated resort casino. (Image: Inside Asian Gaming)

A typical courtroom in Singapore. One like this is where a Malaysian man learned his fate this week after robbing a pawnshop for gambling money. (Image: Singapore Judiciary Court)

Philippine banknotes, pictured. FATF said that the country’s efforts to follow dirty money trails was improving, but not enough to lose its gray-list status. (Image: The Business Times)

Caesars CEO Tom Reeg in a 2021 CNBC interview. He bought 10,000 shares of the company’s stock. (Image: CNBC)

An estate once rumored to be home to an underground casino run by associates of Al Capone looks out over the Intracoastal Waterway. The Florida mansion comes with an asking price of $13.9 million. (Image: Sotheby’s International Realty)

IAC Chairman Barry Diller at the Wall Street Journal Digital Conference in 2017. His options bet on Activision is being investigated by federal regulators. (Image: Reuters)

Paddy Power has been forced to tone down its provocative ads, such as the one above during the 2016 US presidential election, in the face of impending gambling reforms in the UK. (Image: Paddy Power)