Channel
@thegamblest
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Cite this entry
283subscribers
+12 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1002191275103 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @thegamblest |
| Created | Between 1 June 2024 and 30 September 2024 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 7 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 6 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 7 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/thegamblest |
Gambling & betting — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 23 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 51% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Oct 2026, 14:19 | 283 | +4 |
| 26 Sept 2026, 04:17 | 279 | +4 |
| 6 Sept 2026, 03:00 | 275 | +3 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 22:05 | 272 | +1 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 08:48 | 271 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 23:52 | 271 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 29 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 4 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
6 reactions across 6 posts, in 4 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 50.0% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 3 | 50.0% | |
| 👀 | 1 | 16.7% | |
| 👌 | 1 | 16.7% | |
| 👍 | 1 | 16.7% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 6 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 6 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 29 July 2026 to 4 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
🧑⚖️UK Treasury Rejects Betfred's Tax Claims The UK Treasury has disputed Betfred's claim that higher gambling taxes are responsible for its planned closure of 132 betting shops and the potential loss of 600+ jobs. While Betfred points to tax increases and rising operating costs, the Treasury says gambling duty rates for retail betting shops have not changed, rejecting responsibility for the closures. @thegamblest
📉 Sportradar lowers 2026 Forecast Sportradar posted 19% Q2 revenue growth, reaching €378M, with adjusted EBITDA also up 19% to €76M. Despite the strong performance, the company cut its 2026 outlook, pointing to slower U.S. market growth, delayed prediction market revenue, FX headwinds, and rising sports rights costs.
✅Scientific Games CEO Pat McHugh to Retire Scientific Games has announced that CEO Pat McHugh will retire on September 8, ending a 20+ year career with the company. Kevin Schneider has been named Interim CEO while the Board searches for a permanent successor. McHugh will remain with Scientific Games as Vice Chair in an advisory role to support the transition. @thegamblest
🤝Betsson Completes €64.5M Rhino Acquisition Betsson has finalized its €64.5M acquisition of Rhino Entertainment's Canadian B2C business and selected B2B technology assets. 💰 The company paid €51.25M at closing, with the remaining €13.25M due in six months, funded entirely from existing cash resources. 📊 Rhino's acquired operations generated an estimated €13.7M in pro forma EBITDA during 2025, valuing the business …
🚨 Betfred to Close 132 UK Betting Shops Betfred has announced the closure of 132 betting shops across the UK, with around 600 jobs at risk. The operator cites rising gambling taxes, increased employer costs, wage inflation, and challenging market conditions as the key reasons behind the decision. @thegamblest
📉 PAGCOR revenue falls up to 26.6% in H1 2026. Total revenue dropped to PHP43.32 billion (~$705.7 million) from PHP59.05 billion a year earlier, with net profit down 85.3% to PHP1.58 billion (~$25.7 million). CEO Alejandro Tengco cited Middle East geopolitical tensions as a key factor, as S&P Global forecasts the Philippine gaming sector's GGR to decline 7% in 2026 amid stricter online gaming regulations. @thegambl…
🤝 Stakelogic partners with Bingoal for a full slots and live casino rollout. The direct integration brings Stakelogic's complete portfolio, including slots and live dealer titles like blackjack, roulette, and the Super Wheel game show, to Bingoal's MGA-licensed platform. Bypassing an aggregator gives both companies closer coordination on new releases and promotional planning, adding to Stakelogic's growing roster of…
📈 MGM reports record Q2 2026 revenue. Revenue reached $4.5 billion, up 1%, with net income jumping to $292 million from $49 million, though adjusted EBITDA fell 6% to $610 million. Las Vegas grew 3% on strong luxury demand, while Macau EBITDA dropped 15% amid lower World Cup-period VIP profits. The board continues reviewing Barry Diller's $18 billion buyout offer. @thegamblest
🇪🇹 Ethiopia reaffirms its betting ban amid warnings over illegal operators. The Ethiopian Lottery Service confirmed no operator currently holds a valid licence, warning citizens against depositing money through unlicensed betting sites. The move follows a late 2025 crackdown, when authorities arrested 24 people tied to betting companies and subsequently withdrew all betting licences by December. @thegamblest
📈 Rush Street Interactive raises its 2026 outlook with record Q2 results. Revenue reached $393.8 million, up 46% year-on-year, with adjusted EBITDA up 61% to a record $64.6 million. Total MAUs grew 58% to around 949,000, with online casino now representing 72% of revenue. RSI raised its FY2026 guidance to $1.56-1.60 billion in revenue and $245-265 million in adjusted EBITDA, factoring in Colombia's temporary 16% eme…
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📈 Caesars reports higher Q2 revenue as regional casinos offset Las Vegas weakness. Revenue rose 3% to $2.99 billion, with net losses narrowing to $62 million from $82 million a year earlier. Regional casinos led the gains, up 9.4% to $1.57 billion, returning to profitability with a $23 million profit compared to an $11 million loss last year. Las Vegas remained the weak spot, with revenue down 3.5% to $1.02 billion …
⚖️ Federal judge blocks Minnesota's ban on prediction markets. Judge Katherine Menendez granted a preliminary injunction requested by the CFTC, ruling that event contracts likely qualify as swaps under federal jurisdiction rather than state gambling law. The decision allows Kalshi and Polymarket to keep operating in Minnesota for now, where Kalshi alone reported over 90,000 users by the end of May. Minnesota's law, …
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @thegamblest. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 7 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“TheGamblest News” (@thegamblest), 283 subscribers as measured 7 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/thegamblest.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.