A Native American tribe has appealed to South Dakota gambling regulators to forget its plan to remove a requirement that certain electronic wagering businesses use a bank located in South Dakota.

The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe is up in arms over a proposed gambling rule change in South Dakota as it believes that it will help Bettor Racing Inc. owner J. Randy Gallo evade paying about $5 million owed to the tribe, according to the Associated Press.

In a letter to Gov. Dennis Daugaard last month, Tribe President Anthony Reider claimed that the rule change favors Bettor Racing. Reider explained that the proposed new rule will aid Bettor Racing in blocking the enforcement of what he described as a “hard fought” court judgment.

He feared that the tribe will be chasing after Bettor Racing “forever” if the state changes the rule and allowed to bounce from bank to bank. Reider claimed that Bettor Racing already took out its assets from South Dakota and that the company sources its money in North Dakota and Florida.

HongKong-listed casino operator Landing International Development Ltd is wooing Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to allow the construction of another multi-billion dollar Leisure and Theme Park Integrated Resort in Manila.

Landing announced that the firm’s senior management met with Duterte and his cabinet team at Malacanang Palace in Manila on Monday to present the company’s proposal to build an international branded theme park integrated resort.

This was not the first time that Landing bosses and Duterte met to discuss the company’s desire to invest in the Southeast Asian island nation.

Dr. Yang Zhihui, Chairman and Executive Director of Landing, claimed that Duterte has expressed his keen interest in their proposed three-phase, integrated resort project.

This is a guest contribution by Rasmus Sojmark, founder & CEO of SBC Global. If you would like to submit a contribution please contact Bill Beatty for submission details. Thank you.

The international gaming industry has seen sports betting become a phenomenon over the last two decades, and its rapid rise is something we are no strangers to at SBC Global. We have witnessed the vertical continue to grow out of betting shops and expand with the internet onto desktop, before blowing up on smartphones in the early 2010s and going from strength to strength ever since.

The influence of smartphones on this growth certainly bears more than a passing mention. Around 2006 was when mobile became the hottest word on everyone’s lips in the sports betting industry, but it was not until later that it began to truly take hold in the minds of players, operators and suppliers alike, with responsive web design and remarkable innovations such as in-play betting, and later cash out features, transforming the relationship between player and bookmaker.

Putting an increasingly active sports betting experience in the palm of people’s hands, with thousands of worldwide markets available with the swipe of a finger has seen sports betting rise to become the dynamic and colossal industry that it is today. There are a number of factors at play that the industry must be prepared to tackle, however, if it is to continue with this positive upward momentum and grow at the same rate it has done in recent times.

Two epsorts partnerships to catch up on including the king of the razor, Gillette, sponsoring a League of Legends side, and Counter-Strike” Global Offensive platform PvPRO partnering with one of the world’s leading sports data analysts.

There was a time when comparing esports with traditional sports was like comparing checkers with chess.

No more.

In recent weeks, I have written about mainstream esports sponsorship deals with car giants Audi, Mercedes Benz, and BMW, and this week, another giant in the world of big brands splurged some cash in the world of esports.

After the Winning Poker Network suffered a weekend of Distributed Denial of Service attacks, CEO Philip Nagy, begins to believe the attacks may be personal.

Can you imagine listening to Sympathy for the Devil without Marianne Faithfull, Anita Pallenberg and the rest of the gang refusing the sing the woo woos?

I imagine that’s how the Winning Poker Network (WPN) feels after one of their biggest weekends of the year came crashing down due to a series of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

It’s not the first time that the WPN has been carpet bombed with DDoS attacks, and it won’t be the last, but WPN CEO Phil Nagy believes he may be on to something.

A young German poker player has won the inaugural PokerStars Sunday Million Live, and the British have started well at the 2017 World Championship of Online Poker with two wins, and a second in the first four events.

There was a time when a Sunday sucked balls.

An afternoon down the pub with your mates, watching the footy, couldn’t make up for the dreary Sunday night TV, and inevitable insomnia, knowing you had to wake the next morning and clock on for a job you hated.

And then, on March 6, 2006, PokerStars changed everything when they created a $215 buy-in event that afforded an escape from Songs of Praise, the Antiques Roadshow, and Swiss Rolls, with a $1m guaranteed prize pool.

The owner of the Golden Nugget Casino chain has reportedly bought the NBA’s Houston Rockets for a record $2.2 billion, according to sources from ESPN.

The Houston Rockets has a new owner, but die-hard fans don’t have to worry, they won’t see their side running out to the sounds of Crazy in Love. 

When Leslie Alexander announced plans to sell his beloved Rockets, back in July, Houston native Beyonce was one of the first people to express an interest.

And Beyonce wasn’t alone with a variety of former NBA stars, celebrities and entrepreneurs keen on taking over the reins of the two time NBA Champions.

A Chinese software seller has become the first individual convicted under China’s new crackdown on the use of virtual private networks (VPN).

On Monday, the South China Morning Post reported that Deng Jiewei, a 26-year-old resident of Guangdong province, had been sentenced to nine months in prison for selling VPN software via a pair of websites he operated with his partner.

Deng’s websites had offered two different VPN software products since October 2015, and the authorities reportedly arrested him in August 2016. While the information was only made public this weekend, Deng was apparently convicted in March of “providing software and tools for invading and illegally controlling the computer information system.”

Many Chinese citizens utilize VPN technology to get around the country’s ‘great firewall’ that blocks citizens’ access to sites frowned upon by the government. The technology is the main conduit through which Chinese gamblers visit internationally licensed online gambling sites offering sports betting and other gaming products that aren’t permitted on the Chinese mainland.