{"id":2,"name":"Philip Conneller","url":"","description":"Philip Conneller is a gambling-industry journalist with two decades covering poker, the casino business and gaming technology \u2014 from blockchain to VR. He joins BTC Casino News as Senior Reporter, reporting on the crypto-gambling world and the legal, economic and technological forces reshaping it.\n\nHis career in gaming media began in 2004, when he helped launch BLUFF \u2014 the first lifestyle-focused poker magazine \u2014 as deputy editor and its sole in-house writer. BLUFF's blend of news, culture, interviews and strategy became a template for the titles that followed, and at the peak of the poker boom its US print circulation passed 250,000. In 2006 he took the editor's chair at BLUFF Europe while keeping an editorial role on the US edition.\n\nPhilip has also written about poker for Time Out and the Daily Star, and contributed to leading B2B trade titles including iGaming Business and eGaming Review. Over his career he has interviewed major names across sport and popular culture.","link":"https:\/\/btccasinonews.com\/de\/author\/philip-conneller\/","slug":"philip-conneller","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/btccasinonews.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/philip-conneller-150x150.png","48":"https:\/\/btccasinonews.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/philip-conneller-150x150.png","96":"https:\/\/btccasinonews.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/philip-conneller-150x150.png"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btccasinonews.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btccasinonews.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}