Las Vegas is pulling out all the stops for America's 250th anniversary this summer.
Eight consecutive Saturday nights of fireworks shows are planned across the Strip and downtown, running from June 6 through July 25.
For today's horse racing tips, our analyst James Boyle looks at the flat racing at York, with three selections now online.
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Gambling.com has expanded its growing portfolio of free-to-play games with the addition of Stable Stars, a brand-new horse racing competition built for fans who fancy their judgement.
Been reading through the panel tips for Thursday at Punchestown (linked here for anyone who wants them) and honestly my main takeaway is that when everyone on the panel lands on the same horse, that's usually the moment I start looking elsewhere. Consensus tips at a festival like Punchestown just mean the market has already eaten up whatever value was there by the time you're reading it Thursday morning.
I get that the big names at a festival carry genuine form and it makes sense to follow them, but there's something frustrating about tip columns that basically just reflect the morning-line favourites back at you dressed up as insight. Day 3 at Punchestown historically throws up at least one or two results that make the pundits look very silly, and I'd rather be on the right side of that chaos than smugly backed into a 6/4 shot with half the country.
For what it's worth I'll be looking at the races where the panel is split or vague - that's usually where there's still something to find. Probably end up wrong, but at least it'll be my own mistake.
Anyone else find festival tip columns more useful as a contra-indicator than an actual guide, or am I just being cynical about it?
The Texas Legislature will next meet in January 2027, setting the stage for another expected battle to legalize commercial casinos and sport betting.
Every year Cheltenham gets all the hype, all the column inches, all the Twitter meltdowns -and then Punchestown rolls around and quietly delivers some of the best racing of the entire season. I've been saying this for years and I'll die on this hill. Just been reading some of the panel tips over on gambling.com and honestly it's got me buzzing for the week ahead in a way I haven't felt since the Gold Cup.
The thing that gets me is the horses that come back and prove a point after Cheltenham. Half the field are running with a chip on their shoulder and you can feel it. That competitive edge makes for unreal racing and I genuinely think the quality on show over the week rivals anything we see at the Festival proper. People just don't talk about it enough because it doesn't have the same mythology built up around it.
Anyway I'm already deep in form study mode and getting dangerously close to having opinions on every race, which is never great for the bank balance. Punchestown faithful - what's your most anticipated race of the festival this year, and is there a horse you think is going to massively redeem themselves after a flat Cheltenham?
A New York City slots-only casino is set to begin offering Las Vegas-style live table games on Tuesday, April 28. This makes Resorts World New York the first full-fledged casino in the nation’s most-populated city.
I've been following the Ryder Cup price trajectory for a while now and the numbers are genuinely depressing. We're talking about an event that used to be accessible to passionate fans who actually understand and care about the golf, and it's quietly been transformed into a luxury hospitality package disguised as a sporting event. [This piece](https://www.gambling.com/news/ryder-cup-ticket-price-hike-the-cost-between-2010-2027) lays out the cost increases pretty starkly if you want the specifics.
The thing that bothers me most isn't even the price itself - it's what the crowd becomes when tickets hit those levels. You end up with thousands of people who are there because their company bought a table, not because they stayed up until 2am watching Sergio and Monty in 2006 and got completely hooked. The atmosphere shifts. The knowledge in the stands shifts. And frankly the noise shifts too, because people who paid that much tend to treat it more like a dinner party than a partisan sporting event.
I get that the Ryder Cup is a once-every-two-years spectacle and pricing reflects demand, but at some point you have to ask whether the soul of the event is worth protecting. Real fans are getting squeezed out for premium hospitality packages and it's going to show eventually.
So genuinely curious - have any of you actually attended a recent Ryder Cup, and did the crowd feel like real golf fans to you, or has it already tipped into corporate event territory?