Emile Avanessian, Author at Bonus.com

About the Author

Emile Avanessian

Emile is a one-time banker turned freelance writer. He previously worked in equity research and as a member of the Financial Sponsors Group with Goldman Sachs, where he worked on numerous casino- and gaming-related projects. His written work has focused largely on sports (NBA basketball and European soccer) and sports betting. Emile currently also writes for Squawka and Urban Pitch. His work has also been published in The Los Angeles Times, The Blizzard, Yahoo Sports, SI.com, and ESPN.

Latest articles

Casino Games With a Cute Underwater Theme

February 2, 2023 | By: Emile Avanessian

As a crab with a Jamaican accent once informed us, there is a vibrant, shockingly adorable community “under the sea.” It’s no surprise, then, that games with a cute underwater theme have their own corner of the online slot machine ecosystem. Today, we’re diving into that world, to hang out with mermaids, dolphins, and all […]

Jay-Z and Floyd Mayweather Jr. are among the celebrities backing a proposed casino in Times Square

Jay Z, Floyd Mayweather Jr. Among Celebrities to Back NYC Caesars Palace Bid

December 8, 2022 | By: Emile Avanessian

It appears that “Brooklyn’s Finest“ has designs for the heart of Times Square. Manhattan-based mega-developer SL Green announced to investors on Monday it and Caesars Entertainment have a new partner for the joint bid for a New York City casino. The new partner is billionaire businessman Shawn Carter, better known as rap icon Jay-Z. The […]

A recent polls shows that Americans favor sports betting, but not the way it's marketed.

Harris Poll Shows American Public Favors Betting, Not Ads

December 6, 2022 | By: Emile Avanessian

Ads are repetitive, and so is history. In 2015, sports betting wasn’t yet legal in the US. The federal government, sports league commissioners, and other power brokers had worked together to keep it that way. Even so, Americans found themselves inundated with ads for the companies that would come to dominate that space five years […]

Deposit limits act like a faucet to restrict the flow of money out of your bank account.

UK Financial Institution Lloyds Bank Experiments With New Gambling Controls

December 5, 2022 | By: Emile Avanessian

In late November, the UK financial institution Lloyds Bank announced the trial of a new budgeting tool for gamblers. It will allow customers with debit cards to set personalized limits on their monthly gambling expenditures. This isn’t the first attempt by Lloyds to try to encourage safer gambling. In early 2020, it struck a partnership […]

Different social media platforms have adopted varying approaches to online gambling ads

The Complicated World of Social Media Gambling Policies

December 5, 2022 | By: Emile Avanessian

Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) recently updated pages regarding its policies for the marketing of iGaming products. While the policies themselves aren’t new, the company apparently felt the need to emphasize them in light of the ever-growing popularity of online gambling – both regulated and not. Facebook requires such companies to obtain its written permission before […]

HookMotion is working on leveraging computer vision technology to collect detailed data on table game play in retail casinos.

How HookMotion Uses Computer Vision to Offer Digital Advantages to Physical Casinos

December 1, 2022 | By: Emile Avanessian

Human error being what it is, retail casinos are always at risk of leaving money on the table, literally and figuratively. According to some estimates, preventable losses for the industry could be as high as $12 billion annually. Table games are particularly problematic due to the need for human dealers and pit bosses. Casino workers […]