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Alex Weldon

Alex Weldon

Alex Weldon is an online gambling industry analyst with nearly ten years of experience. He currently serves as Casino News Managing Editor for Bonus.com, part of the Catena Media Network. Other gambling news sites he has contributed to include PlayUSA and Online Poker Report, and his writing has been cited in The Atlantic.

Who is Alex Weldon?

Alex Weldon is an expert on regulated US online gambling who serves as the Casino News Managing Editor for Bonus.com. He began writing about the online gambling industry professionally in 2014. Prior to that, he was a semi-professional poker player, board game designer and video game writer.

Working for Catena Media, he has also served as Managing Editor at Online Poker Report and contributed to PlayUSA, Michigan Sharp and NJGamblingSites.

Before joining Catena, he wrote for Part Time Poker and managed the GameIntel Poker Update, a subscription newsletter for industry executives, tracking and explaining changes in poker site traffic. A degree in astrophysics from Queen’s University has provided him with a solid mathematical foundation for analyzing gambling trends in a quantitative way.

Alex provides insightful content on the regulated online casino and poker industries, with an emphasis on legislation, regulation, responsible gambling and business strategy. His writing about poker has been cited by The Atlantic and has earned him multiple nominations for the American Poker Awards over the years.

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    FanDuel Adds Hybrid Dealer Games, Latest Online Casino to Embrace Prerecorded Table Games

    October 18, 2024 | By: Alex Weldon

    FanDuel announced a casino content partnership with Inspired Entertainment this week, becoming the latest US online casino operator to embrace the developer’s unique “hybrid dealer” concept. These games resemble popular live dealer online casino products but use prerecorded footage of real human dealers rather than a real-time stream from a studio. The deal with Inspired also includes the development […]

    DraftKings Electric Poker Launches in Pennsylvania, Second State for the Fast-Paced Multiplayer Experiment

    October 16, 2024 | By: Alex Weldon

    DraftKings Electric Poker is available to players in Pennsylvania following an apparently successful first run in Michigan. The fast-paced, three-player tournament format is DraftKings’ first foray into online poker, perhaps rekindling players’ curiosity about whether DraftKings ever plans to launch a full-scale poker room. Electric Poker is DraftKings take on what’s known in the industry […]

    Kick Streamer Amouranth Joins Sweeps Casino PlayFame as Ambassador

    October 10, 2024 | By: Alex Weldon

    Video game streamer Amouranth is now a social casino ambassador with PlayFame, a sweeps-based operator that launched this summer. Like other sweepstakes casinos, PlayFame uses a dual-currency system allowing players to play for fun with Gold Coins or try to win cash prizes with Sweeps. Amouranth’s page on the site currently features a short blurb reading: Hey, […]

    Trump, Harris in Dead Heat as Kalshi’s Election Betting Market Opens

    October 4, 2024 | By: Alex Weldon

    Political prediction exchange Kalshi reopened its 2024 general election markets this morning following a favorable court decision. Those markets now include contracts on the outcome of the Presidential race, and speculators appear to see it as a coin flip between former President Donald Trump and current Vice President Kamala Harris. The market opened at 8:15 a.m. ET on Oct. […]

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