46 PUBLIC GAMING INTERNATIONAL • NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2024 PULSE The New York Lottery continues to be North America's largest and most profitable Lottery, contributing $3.8 billion in Lottery Aid to Education for Fiscal Year 2023-2024 to more than 700 school districts across the state. New York “Small Risk & Big Gamble” campaign wins NASPL Responsible Gaming awards Lotería Electrónica renews Scientific Games Puerto Rico contract Scientific Games Announces Matt Lynch as New President of Digital, Steve Beason Named Chief Innovation Officer Patrick Homm to Lead Scientific Games International Lottery Systems Technology Scientific Games Continues Primary Scratch Card Partnership with La Franҫaise des Jeux Kentucky Lottery Fuels 10 More Years of Education Funding with Scientific Games Enhanced Partnership IGT PlayDigital Launches Global Sensation Mystery of the Lamp Game in US Online Gaming Markets IGT Delivers Upgraded Lottery Solutions to North Carolina Education Lottery with 10-Year Contract Extension IGT PlayDigital Engagement Platform Wins "Digital Product of the Year" at the 2024 Global Gaming Awards Americas GLI CCO Ian Hughes Named a Winner in the Las Vegas Top Tech Awards 2024 Gaming Laboratories International (GLI®) Senior Manager of Engineering Paul Parry Named to ELG 40 Under 40 Class of 2025 Atlas Experiences Announces Exclusive Partnership with SeaDream Yacht Club for Luxury Private Charters for Global Lottery Companies Scientific Games Announces Matt Lynch as New President of Digital, Steve Beason Named Chief Innovation Officer Aristocrat Interactive iLottery Strengthens North American Presence with Key New Hires Stephanie DuVal joins the team as Director of Customer Marketing, North America. In this role, she will lead our business-to-consumer (B2C) digital marketing strategies for the North American lottery market, focusing on customer acquisition, affiliate marketing, retention marketing, loyalty programs, and customer relationship management (CRM). Shane Taylor joins the team as Account Director for the New Hampshire Lottery Commission (NHLC). He will manage and strengthen Aristocrat Interactive’s relationship with NHLC, focusing on customer success, competitive market strategies, and contract management. Jessie Teague joins us as iLottery Marketing Director, where she will be responsible for driving the growth of the NHLC iLottery program, achieving KPIs, and implementing digital marketing strategies. Loto-Québec to be the first customer in Canada to offer Inspired Entertainment’s Hybrid Dealer Roulette game in the fourth quarter of 2024 Inspired Entertainment Partners with FanDuel to Launch a Suite of Hybrid Dealer Games and Bespoke Sports-Themed Wheel Game OLG to host NASPL conference NASPL in 2025 The 2025 NASPL Annual Conference and Trade Show will run from September 9-12, 2025. New Mexico Lottery Announces Zozobra 2025 Scratcher Art Competition Kentucky Lawsuit Seeks Triple the Losses of All Gray Machine Gamblers The lawsuit, filed in the Franklin Circuit Court last week by charity nonprofit Empathy in Action, cites the state’s 226-year-old Loss Recovery Act (LRA), which was designed to protect the families of destitute gamblers. Under that law, a gambler has six months to sue to recover funds lost from illegal wagering. If the gambler doesn’t do so after six months, any other Kentuckian can file a claim to recover up to three times the funds the gambler lost, going back five years. It’s not as crazy a gambit as it sounds. Just ask PokerStars. In 2011, the State of Kentucky sued the online poker giant, which had previously offered unlicensed online poker in the US because no such licensing was available. The state sought $870 million under the LRA, triple the $290 million it claimed Kentuckians lost at the site. This was controversial because Kentuckians hadn’t lost this figure to PokerStars, but to other players, with the online poker site taking a small rake. Nevertheless, in September 2021, PokerStars’ new owner, Flutter Entertainment, settled with Kentucky for $300 million. Massachusetts gaming regulators are moving forward with a long-stalled data collection project dealing with problem gambling Nearly 2,000 people chose all zeroes as their lottery numbers. Now, they share a $7.8 million jackpot Sometimes an individual may come up with an idea that is seemingly unique, only to find out that several others have a similar thought process. This happened to 2000 people in North Carolina, who decided to pick all zeroes in the Carolina Pick 4 lottery back in 2019, but were shocked when their supposedly odd choice turned out to be the winning number, 0-0-0-0. This meant that
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