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Alex Weldon

Managing Editor

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Expertise

Casino Math, Poker, Prediction Markets, Legislation

Articles Written

1950

Years in the Industry

Favourite Casino Game

Cascading Slots

Favourite Movie

Strange Days

Focus Regions

USA

From

Dartmouth, NS

Languages

English

Education

BSc — Astrophysics

Favourite Motto

No one is good at anything without being bad at it first.

Alex Weldon has been providing a numbers-oriented view of the online poker and casino industries for over a decade.

Alex Weldon is a former game designer and semiprofessional poker player with a background in math and science, who has brought that unique perspective to the world of gambling journalism. For over a decade, he has provided business intelligence, legislative analysis, and product breakdowns for a number of gambling news brands over the years, most recently here at Gaming America.

Expertise

As Managing Editor of Gaming America, Alex brings a skillset unlike any other in the gambling industry. He studied physics in university, but subsequently moved into graphic design, journalism, and desktop publishing because his true passion lay in making the world of numbers approachable for a wider audience.

Alex also has a lifelong love of games of all sorts. That has taken many forms over the years, including the commercial development of both digital and physical games, and a semiprofessional poker career.

As a gambling journalist, Alex has written in a variety of styles and for a range of audiences, from product reviews for casual casino players to business intelligence for online poker industry executives.

At Gaming America, Alex believes in simultaneously situating American gaming companies within the global industry context and in focusing on products and trends that are uniquely American, like the rise of prediction markets and the evolution of sweepstakes casinos.