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Break into iGaming
The industry’s language, end to end — how the money moves, who regulates it, and how the pieces (licensing, KYC, payments, affiliates) fit together.
By the end of this track
You can hold your own in an iGaming interview: explain GGR vs NGR, what a licence buys, how KYC/AML works in practice, and how operators actually make money.
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- What Is iGaming?iGaming is the umbrella term for gambling that happens over the internet, from online slots to live sports betting. This lesson defines the sector, maps its main product categories, and gives you an honest sense of how large it has become, with sources and the caveats that matter. It is written for an adult (18+) audience and does not promote gambling or suggest it is a way to make money.Pick up here →
- How the iGaming Industry WorksBehind a single spin or bet sits a supply chain of specialised companies, none of which does everything alone. This lesson follows a game from the studio that built it to the screen a player sees, and follows the money back the other way — so you can read the industry as a value chain of distinct roles rather than one faceless "casino."
- A Short History of iGamingIn roughly three decades, iGaming went from a single Caribbean law to a global industry spanning online casinos, poker, sports betting, and prediction markets. This lesson walks the timeline—the contested first casinos, the 2003 poker boom, the US crackdown and its 2018 reversal—so you can see how law and technology, not luck, shaped what exists today.
- Sports Betting Fundamentals: Odds, Markets & the OverroundEvery price a sportsbook posts is a probability estimate wearing a costume — and a small, deliberate margin is stitched into the lining. This lesson shows you how to read the three main odds formats, back out the probability each one implies, measure the book's built-in edge, and understand how a trading desk sets and moves lines. It is a math-first tour of the mechanics, not a strategy for winning; betting is entertainment with a negative expected return by design.
- Licensing & Jurisdictions: UKGC, MGA, Curaçao & the US ModelA gambling licence is not a trophy; it is a contract of continuing obligations, and the regulator that issues it shapes almost everything about how an operator must behave. This lesson maps the major regimes — from the demanding UK Gambling Commission to Malta, the reformed Curaçao, and the fragmented, state-by-state United States — and explains the crucial line between regulated and grey markets.
- KYC & AML in Practice: Verifying and Monitoring PlayersEvery regulated operator sits on top of an invisible machine that checks who you are, whether you are old enough, and whether your money is clean, and then keeps watching quietly after you have signed up. This lesson opens that machine: what onboarding actually verifies, when checks escalate, how monitoring turns into a report to law enforcement, and why the whole apparatus exists in the first place. Understanding it explains most of the friction players feel, and why it is deliberate.
- The Payments Stack: Deposits, Withdrawals & Why It's HardEvery deposit a player makes travels through a chain of intermediaries most players never see, and every withdrawal runs a gauntlet of checks that can feel arbitrary. This lesson opens the box: who moves the money, why cards treat gambling as dangerous cargo, and why getting paid out is deliberately slower than paying in. Understanding the plumbing explains a lot of behaviour that otherwise looks like an operator being difficult.
- The Affiliate & Marketing Model: CPA, Revshare & HybridOperators rarely find their own players. A sprawling network of affiliates, tracking systems, and CRM teams does the acquiring and keeping, paid through a handful of commission structures with very different incentives. This lesson unpacks how that value chain works—and the compliance lines that fence it in.