Casino News Today in Germany

This lottery player hit the jackpot — without ever finding out. When the ticket was redeemed, he fell victim to a scam.

In Heilbronn, police have broken up a suspected illegal poker game in a restaurant. Several suspects were arrested. What investigators discovered there.

This lottery player hit the jackpot - without ever finding out. When the ticket was redeemed, he fell victim to fraud.

Late on Saturday evening, there was an attempted robbery in a casino in Freital. The reaction of an employee put the perpetrator to flight. The police are now searching for the man and are asking the public for assistance.

A Google employee is said to have won around 1.2 million dollars on the betting platform "Polymarket" using inside information. He placed remarkably precise bets on predictions about Google's ranking with high odds. He has been charged and placed on…

There are indications of prohibited sports betting in the football Kreisliga A in the Olpe district.

Police and customs have uncovered illegal gambling in two former Bielefeld pubs after extensive investigations.

While more and more countries worldwide are treating prediction markets as gambling, the Trump administration is turning its regulator into an advocate for the industry. In the US, crypto and prediction markets are supposed to be able to grow as…

A Google employee is said to have misused his employer's insider information to place bets on the Polymarket platform. He is said to have made a profit of 1.2 million US dollars from this. He now faces a prison sentence of several years.

Spain is the first country in the European Union to take action against so-called prediction markets. The government in Madrid has provisionally ordered the platforms Polymarket and Kalshi to be blocked.

Players write to their online casino and ask for information about which data has been stored about them. The casino does not respond — or responds incompletely. What used to be a marginal phenomenon has become routine in Germany in 2026. More and…

The list of allegations against businessman Menzel from Görlitz is long: illegal gambling, forgery of documents and tax evasion in many cases. But the trial against him is not starting. The man is absent.

Valve is seeking the dismissal of the loot box lawsuit in New York and explains in a 42-page document why this is by no means gambling.

Mainz. There will initially be no dual leadership at Lotto Rheinland-Pfalz. The state government made up of the CDU and SPD has decided not to appoint a second managing director. According to information from the German Press Agency, the supervisory…

Chico from Dortmund won almost 10 million euros in the lottery. But now he has apparently been robbed - the theft has hit him especially hard on a personal level.

On 12 May 2026, on the proposal of the Senator for the Interior and Sport, Iris Spranger, the Berlin Senate adopted an amendment to the current State Treaty on Gambling. The draft law for the ratification of the Second State Treaty amending the 2021…

Following reports of insider trading, regulators are investigating bets on government decisions and military deployments. The platforms are cooperating with the justice system.

Berlin - The German government's commissioner for drugs and addiction, Hendrik Streeck (CDU), is calling for tougher action by the federal government and the states against illegal gambling. "We are dealing with a highly g..."

Sports betting branches and gaming arcades were in the sights of a group of offenders last year, who went on a plundering spree there with considerable brutality, even temporarily taking a young employee hostage to extort money. On Tuesday, the…

This lottery player hit the jackpot – without ever finding out. When cashing in the ticket, he fell victim to fraud.

Rumors of manipulation on "Deutschland sucht den Superstar": head judge Dieter Bohlen provides spicy details about bets, criticism and fakes.

A sports betting provider wants to broadcast the football World Cup live – but only for active betting customers. Jörg Frederik Ferreau believes such an offer could constitute broadcasting requiring authorization and impermissible advertising for…