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36 Coins x3000: a 36-cell Hold the Jackpot with a 3,000x Grand

Wazdan closes its Cointober run with 36 Coins x3000, built around its Hold the Jackpot bonus: 36 positions, and filling all of them pays the 3,000x Grand Jackpot. The round starts with three respins that reset with every new symbol, with Mini, Minor and Major jackpots along the way. Sticky to Infinity carries Cluster Collector and Mystery symbols from the base game into the bonus, and Cash Infinity symbols hold values of up to 10x until the final reveal.

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Canada: a First Nation launches its own prediction-markets rules

The Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick, a community of under 3,000 people with its own independent gambling regulator, has set up a framework to license prediction markets. It is the first such regime from an indigenous jurisdiction in Canada, and follows similar moves elsewhere, including Gibraltar.

Source: SBC News

UK study: most illegal-site users still bet with licensed operators

The UK Gambling Commission tracked real payments through open banking and found that 91% of people who repeatedly paid unlicensed sites also kept gambling with licensed ones — their licensed spending barely changed. Problem-gambling scores were far higher among users of illegal sites. The regulator reads it as illegal play being added on top, not replacing the licensed market.

Source: CasinoBeats