Someone is $20.2 million richer than they were yesterday after a Big Wednesday first division win last night -- but they might not even know it yet.

A Lotto player won more than $20 million in cash and prizes in last night's Big Wednesday draw.

A Lotto player has won more than $20 million in cash and prizes in tonight's Big Wednesday draw.

MGM Resorts has scouted the world's biggest fish market as a potential site for the casino resort it wants to build in Japan.

The Auckland Council was an early supporter of Te Ururoa Flavell's Gambling Harm Reduction Bill and it saw the legislation as a toolkit.

Analysts appear to be satisfied with SkyCity Entertainment Group's performance, despite a drop in annual profit.

Winning the jackpot may not solve all your problems. Here are four instances where big feuds have occurred because of big wins.

SkyCity Entertainment Group profits have taken a big dive, its normalised net profit for the June 30 2014 year down 8.1 per cent to $123.1 million.

Significant news will emerge from SkyCity when its annual result is revealed this morning - what will it reveal about the $402m convention centre?

Lotto players from Wellington and Bay of Plenty each took out a $1.5 million share of Lotto First Division in last night's draw.

The pachinko industry in Japan wants casinos, driven by attendance that has sunk more than 60 per cent since the mid-90s and an uncertain legal status.

A blackjack epiphany cured my anti-gambling crusade, writes Matt Heath.

Suspense during yesterday morning's Fifa World Cup match between Brazil and Chile proved too much for a Kiwi punter who bet $2000 in extra time on the losing side.

Almost half the adult population buys a ticket once a month - but what game gives you the best chance of winning?

When Luis Suarez scored the second goal for Uruguay to win 2-1 over England at the Fifa World Cup yesterday, the biggest sigh of relief may have come from a New Zealand punter.

One lucky punter went home $11,000 richer by betting big on the right scoreline of the opening game of the Fifa World Cup.

An office worker who stole $1.1 million from a Canterbury family firm to fund a spiralling gambling addiction has lost an appeal against her jail sentence.

Choose your own numbers or leave it to the machine? With a cool $25 million up for grabs this weekend Lotto players can be forgiven for pausing over each step.

The TAB is offering its own free kick for next month's soccer World Cup - and the winner will net $5 million.

A new commission structure for pubs with pokie machines is being condemned by anti-gambling lobbyists as "a giant leap backwards".

A New Zealander has reportedly been arrested in Thailand after police raided an illegal gambling den in the seedy tourist hotspot Pattaya.

The Problem Gambling Foundation will take the Ministry of Health to court to try to overturn a decision.

Little is known about high-roller Zhao Li, except that he is - or was - fabulously rich. So rich a Melbourne casino lent him $14m for a one-day gambling spree.

Maori and Pacific problem gambling services have won more money out of a tender which stopped all funding for the country's biggest provider, the Problem Gambling Foundation.

An Auckland man who says he won $125 on card tables at SkyCity is now before the courts accused of cheating.

Pacific broadcaster Fa'amatuainu Tino Pereira was the sole non-bureaucrat on a panel that evaluated bids in a controversial tender that axed most of the Problem Gambling Foundation's funding.

There is "no substance" to Labour MP Shane Jones' claims that Countdown squeezed thousands of dollars out of Lotto, the organisation's chief Wayne Pickup said last night.

Gamblers mistakenly believe they can always beat the odds in a game of chance because they have developed a different pattern of brain activity to non-gamblers.