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Why Should You Start Making Gambling Journals?

If you are the type of person who likes to keep a journal, then I’ve got great news for you. You might want to start keeping one that is about your gambling habits. If this sounds like something you would do or have done in the past, it can be very helpful to document all of your bets and winnings so that they don’t slip away from your memory. It also gives you a chance to reflect on what went right and wrong with certain bets, which will help guide future decisions when placing wagers.
A gambling journal is an excellent way for anyone who gambles regularly (casinos, poker tournaments) to keep track of their wins and losses as well as any other relevant information such as how much money was wagered in each case, the date, and any notable occurrences that went along with it. It can be very interesting in the months or years to come when you go back over this journal and see just how your gambling habits have changed since then. You might also pick up some betting techniques or strategies that you had been unaware of before. A gambling journal also prevents you from obsessing over any losses that you suffered in a casino.
Since a casino awards both winners and losers, it can be all too easy to focus on the negative whenever one is feeling down about losing money. This is something that has been observed by casino management who often encourage their customers to gamble responsibly with casino cash bonuses to help casino-goers keep playing without going overboard.
What Are The Benefits Of A Gambling Journal?
Keeping a casino journal can be helpful for other reasons as well, including but not limited to the following:
– Helps you track casino cash bonuses that are offered by online casinos that you might want to take advantage of in the future, and gives you a competitive edge when playing casino games for free or with casino cash bonuses.
– Keep track of your favorite and trusted online casinos list. A casino rating list is an excellent way to keep track of casino cash bonuses and casino’s overall quality based on your own preference.
– Helps you remember the unique things about each casino, such as which dealer is friendly, whether there is any customer service available, and if not, whether casino cash bonuses are still offered.
– Allows casino management to track customer behavior and casino trends in order to improve their casino’s overall quality.
– Can be used to track tax deductions that might help lower your taxes owed at the end of the year.
– You can document casino wins and losses in a casino, which will help you keep track of your budget. This might be particularly helpful if you need to know the amount that you won or lost over several casino visits (including casino cash bonuses.)
– Gives casino players a chance to reflect upon their casino behavior and how they can improve in future casino visits.
– Keeps casino players motivated to keep going to casinos, both online casinos, and land casinos.
If you find the casino journal idea interesting, you might want to consider creating one as soon as possible.
How To Create A Gambling Journal?
If you’re not sure where to start, I suggest that you get a basic notebook or journal of your choice. You can also use your computer to create one in an Excel spreadsheet if this is what you’d prefer or maybe some note-taking apps that you can download and store in your phone. That way, it might be easier for keeping track of any casino winnings and losses, especially when using casino cash bonuses. You can also use spreadsheet programs to document various casino cash bonuses that you’ve won, along with how much money was wagered in each case.
Once you have the means available to create a gambling journal, all you really need are your own personal notes on how often you visit casinos or play at online poker sites and any casino cash bonuses that you’ve won. For those who prefer to use a computer, I suggest using a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel when documenting wins and losses, especially if they were accompanied by casino cash bonuses.
While making a gambling journal might seem like an arduous task, it only takes about 5 minutes to create one, so it’s well worth the effort.
You might want to start making a journal even before you visit your first casino or play online poker since it can be difficult to keep track of wins and losses when starting out at casinos for the first time.
Why Should People Follow This Advice? What Are The Benefits Of Following It?
The benefit of making a gambling journal is endless, but most importantly it helps you keep track of any casino cash bonuses that you might have enjoyed in your past and future casino visits. It also prevents you from obsessing over previous losses or wins in a casino so that when you visit again you can enjoy yourself without worrying too much about how much money you have won or lost at the time.
A gambling journal is an excellent way to keep track of your gambling journey so that you can see just how much you have improved over time.
The longer you play, the more experience you will gain. The more experience you have, the better decisions you will be able to make concerning bets and wagers. The better your decisions, the more money you will be able to win.
Thus we see that a gambling journal not only helps players to keep track of any casino cash bonuses that they might have won or lost in their past and future casino visits but also helps them improve as gamblers over time so that they can see just how much their skills have improved.
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BetBlocker and Responsible Online Gaming Association Partner to Deliver Free Blocking Software for the United States

US charity BetBlocker and the Responsible Online Gaming Association (ROGA), an independent association representing 90% of the legal U.S. sports betting industry, are today announcing a partnership to ensure that any American can access free, anonymous to use blocking software.
BetBlocker provides free, anonymous to use, blocking software allowing users to manage their access to online gambling services. The charity has supported over a 150k active users 2025, including over 10k US users.
Duncan Garvie, Founder of BetBlocker, offered this comment on the partnership:
“The single most effective way for BetBlocker to reach the audience that stand to benefit from our tool is via partnerships with the industry. ROGA represents a coordinated by the U.S. industry to improve responsible gaming standards throughout the sector. Having their backing for the BetBlocker project is a significant step forward for our organisation and will ensure that people who want support to structure where and when they can play online will be able to do so anonymously and for free.”
ROGA was established to raise the standard for responsible online gaming through collaboration, innovation, and a commitment to evidence-based practices,” said Dr. Jennifer Shatley, Executive Director of ROGA. “Making resources like BetBlocker more visible and accessible is one way we put that mission into action. We’re equipping individuals with practical tools that support their decisions and well-being.”
BetBlocker’s app is available on Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, Linux and Fire OS and can be set-up in under two minutes. The service is committed to reducing barriers to access to blocking software to improve engagement with this effective gaming management tool. ROGA’s commitment to viewing players as individuals and customizing support to their needs’ aligns perfectly with the soon to be launched Scheduling feature that BetBlocker will provide, supporting players to create profiles to ensures their block is on when they need it.
This collaboration represents a conscious commitment by both organizations to ensure that players who need support to manage their engagement with online gaming are supported with a diverse spectrum of available support options that can be tailored to the person’s individual needs.
About the Responsible Online Gaming Association
Launched in March 2024, the Responsible Online Gaming Association (ROGA) is comprised of eight of the nation’s largest online gaming operators, committed to promoting evidence-based best practices for responsible gaming. More information about ROGA is available here.
About BetBlocker
BetBlocker, a charity registered in Delaware. It is a not-for-profit that provides the only free (to everyone) gambling blocking software and multi-site and multi-jurisdiction responsible gaming mechanisms for consumers. At no cost, the game-changing software empowers users to play responsibly, allowing them to take steps to manage their access to gaming across all devices and platforms. BetBlocker is available all over the world and captures both regulated and unregulated gaming sites and apps.
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ZBD and TapNation forge new status quo in rewarded gaming

ZBD, the payments innovator powering real-money rewards for games, has introduced embedded in-game rewards, an evolution in how mobile games use real-money rewards to engage players, alongside launch partners including TapNation and Fumb Games.
Embedded rewards are a new approach to rewards in the mobile gaming industry, taking lessons learned from the rise of rewarded play apps to give any game the ability to incentivize users to play more, for longer and more profitably. Players can now earn real-money rewards inside the game, not a separate app, resulting in triple-digit retention boosts.
This solves an issue inherent in rewards apps which, while undeniably effective, limit the scale at which games can benefit from rewards by only applying rewards systems to users sent to a game from a specific app. Additionally, this system mostly performs well for IAP-monetized games due to the high cost of rewarded users, which are difficult to absorb for ad-monetized titles.
ZBD’s solution changes that. Already successfully integrated into titles such as Idle Bank, an idle tycoon hit by TapNation with more than 12M downloads, it embeds rewards directly into the gameplay experience. Powered by a lightweight SDK, the ZBD model drives improved retention and monetization for titles that monetize with ads as well as IAPs.
Philippe Lenormand, Head of Web3 at TapNation said:
“ZBD is taking a bold approach to boosting game monetization while keeping players happy, which comes at a good time for the industry. Embedded rewards have the potential to transform performance for games, especially those that partly rely on ad monetization.”
Beyond TapNation, the new SDK is already live in 20+ games from 7 other partners, including Fumb Games, PlayEmber and Hazmob. This includes a mix of older games, like Merge Monsters from Fumb Games, which saw a +181% increase in D7 retention after years of little activity, as well as new titles geared towards rewards, like Crypto Idle Tycoon by Ruleks Games, which saw its D30 retention climb by +355% and ad revenue per user by +124%.
Ben Cousens, Chief Strategy Officer at ZBD said:
“Rewards are proven beyond doubt to improve the value exchange between games and gamers, leading to powerful upticks in engagement, retention and monetization. With embedded rewards, we’re unlocking that potential beyond the constraints of rewarded UA channels. We’re using real-money payments to make a game more worth playing. And removing all the complexity that usually comes with payments to create a solution tailor-made for mobile game studios.”
Rewards powered by ZBD are always real money, not just in-game points. To facilitate this kind of money movement for amounts as small as a cent, ZBD uses the Bitcoin Lightning Network. But developers can choose whatever icon and currency name they want to show for the rewards, the Lightning Network is just the underlying payments layer that enables the transactions in real-time all over the world. ZBD has long offered a powerful payments API for studios to craft bespoke reward systems with custom logic, interfaces, and UX flows. The SDK builds on that foundation, transforming what was once an extensive technical integration into a ready-to-deploy layer that gets games live with rewards in less than a week.
Last month, ZBD announced its payments technology had been approved by Apple to enable native Bitcoin microtransactions in the mobile game SaruTobi, making it the first iOS game to integrate in-app purchases using Bitcoin. Now, embedded rewards are making it easy for any game to send microtransactions to players and gain massive performance boosts.
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SOFTSWISS Releases 19-in-1 Market Overview: iGaming in Latin America

SOFTSWISS, a global tech provider of iGaming software solutions, has unveiled its latest report on Latin America’s iGaming landscape, providing a comprehensive, data-rich guide for operators navigating one of the industry’s fastest-evolving regions.
After becoming the first certified iGaming software provider in Brazil and obtaining further approval in Peru, SOFTSWISS has deepened its regional expertise to help operators, regulators, and stakeholders better understand and operate within the dynamic LatAm iGaming market.
As the iGaming sector turns its eyes toward emerging markets, Latin America stands out as both a challenge and an opportunity. The newly released Latin America’s iGaming Market Overview from SOFTSWISS offers a detailed, country-by-country analysis of the region’s regulatory frameworks, market potential, and player behaviour.
The report serves as a starting point for understanding gambling regulation across Latin America. It helps analysts, governmental institutions, and operators solve the problem of scattered and unclear information about the market peculiarities of the region’s countries, equipping stakeholders with the knowledge to build strategies grounded in local realities.
What’s Inside the Report?
The iGaming in Latin America Market Overview examines 19 jurisdictions and outlines their licensing conditions, taxation models, local ownership requirements, and digital infrastructure, which collectively shape the operating landscape. The 2025 edition offers:
- Detailed regulatory snapshots for land-based and online gambling in LatAm countries
- In-depth assessments of mobile penetration, payment infrastructure, and demographic trends
- Analysis of traditional betting culture and its impact on online product strategies
- Insights into upcoming reforms and their competitive implications
Many local experts note that the Latin American market is highly fragmented, with each country presenting its own unique regulatory landscape for iGaming. From Costa Rica’s legal grey zones to Paraguay’s border casinos and Brazil’s regulatory leap with Law No. 14.790, the report underscores how nuanced and fragmented the market remains. Understanding distinct frameworks is critical for any operator looking to succeed in the region, whose potential is really powerful when approached strategically.
Magnho José, President of Instituto Jogo Legal (IJL), comments: “Costa Rica’s open licensing model has positioned the country as a global hub for online gambling, serving operators from both Latin and North America. Meanwhile, border zones like Ciudad del Este in Paraguay host some of the region’s most established land-based casinos. Latin America’s market isn’t just growing, it’s geographically layered and commercially diverse.”
The SOFTSWISS overview gives operators a clear, data-informed view of where the region stands today – and where it is headed next.
Dario Leiman, Head of Business Development in Latin America at SOFTSWISS, shares his excitement: “With Brazil’s full-scale iGaming regulation now in place, SOFTSWISS is fully ready to operate in the market. In parallel, we’ve been evaluating opportunities in other Latin American countries. This report is more than a regional snapshot – it’s a practical tool for any operator looking to eliminate the guesswork from market entry and make informed decisions.”
The Latin America report is part of a broader effort by SOFTSWISS to deliver strategic, market-specific intelligence for iGaming professionals. Earlier this year, the company released the iGaming in South Africa 2025 report – an in-depth analysis of one of Africa’s most promising regulated markets.
About SOFTSWISS
SOFTSWISS is an international technology company with over 15 years of experience developing innovative solutions for the iGaming industry. SOFTSWISS holds a number of gaming licences and provides comprehensive software for managing iGaming projects. The company’s product portfolio includes the Online Casino Platform, the Game Aggregator with over 35,000 casino games, the Affilka Affiliate Platform, the Sportsbook Software and the Jackpot Aggregator. In 2013, SOFTSWISS revolutionised the industry by introducing the world’s first Bitcoin-optimised online casino solution. The expert team counts over 2,000 employees.
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