Doug Polk has little interest in playing poker these days and plans on competing only in the WSOP Main Event this summer. But he’s found a new hobby: Discussing mainstream news […]
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When Hronis Racing and John Sadler dive in for a claim, people notice, especially when the price is sizeable enough to create some buzz.
A little more than a month after her first graded victory in the Arlington Matron Stakes (G3) at Arlington International Racecourse, Princess La Quinta returns June 23 to vie for her third consecutive win in the $100,000 Chicago Handicap (G3).
Saeed Suhail’s Poet’s Word (IRE) downed hot favorite Cracksman (GB) to land the June 20 Prince Of Wales’s Stakes (G1) at Royal Ascot.
Order Of St George and Stradivarius headline a field of nine runners for the Gold Cup (G1), as Royal Ascot continues June 21.
BloodHorse announced June 20 that it has entered a content-sharing arrangement with Racing Post of the United Kingdom and ANZ Bloodstock News.
Canada has become the first G7 country – and only the second country on the planet – to legalize recreational marijuana use.
On Tuesday, Canada’s Senate gave Bill C-45 (guess C-420 was taken) its approval, leaving only the granting of Royal Assent before the right to blaze ‘em if you got ‘em becomes enshrined as the law of the land.
Canadians will still have to wait another 8-12 weeks before toking is officially legal, as the individual provincial governments need to ensure that their respective legal pot marketplaces are ready for prime time.
Canadians will soon be able to walk around with up to 30g of pot without fear of interference, although where they’ll be able to partake will be up to the individual provinces to decide. Edible marijuana products won’t get the official okay for another year.
Having been suitably freshened since his classic try, trainer Mark Casse and owner John Oxley fully expect to see the typical incarnation of Flameaway June 23, when he takes on 11 challengers in the $500,000 Ohio Derby (G3) at Thistledown.
The former Yavapai Downs horse track will reopen with a new name: Arizona Downs.
Michael Mizrachi became the first three-time champion in the $50,000 buy-in WSOP Poker Players Championship on Tuesday, an accomplishment three-time WPT winner Chino Rheem called “one of the most impressive things […]
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China has warned online sports lottery platforms to halt their sales or face the consequences.
On Monday, Chinese media outlet the Global Times reported that online sports lottery platforms were doing a brisk business following last week’s kickoff of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. There’s just one problem: Beijing officially ordered the ‘temporary’ suspension of online lottery sales over three years ago.
On Wednesday, the Global Times published a follow-up indicating that these same online platforms — including an offshoot of internet giant Tencent — were now “phasing out” their football lotteries following a public warning from China’s official lottery administration center that these platforms were playing with fire.
Beijing never formally authorized online lottery sales, but did allow two operators – 500.com and Shanghai Media Group – to participate in an online sales pilot program. Numerous other online platforms also engaged in unauthorized lottery sales but evidence of widespread corruption at provincial lottery administration centers led the government to call time on all online sales in March 2015.
Saeed Suhail’s Poet’s Word (IRE) downed hot favorite Cracksman (GB) to land the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes (G1) at Royal Ascot June 20.
The Netherlands’ long-dormant plans to liberalize its online gambling market have sparked back to life.
On Tuesday, the Netherlands’ Minister for Legal Protection Sander Dekker wrote a letter (viewable here, in Dutch) to the legislature’s Lower House, explaining the steps the Ministry was taking to ensure that future Dutch-licensed online gambling operators offer sufficient consumer protection measures.
The lower house approved the country’s Remote Gaming Bill nearly two years ago, but the bill has been languishing in the Senate ever since. Hopes are high that, with Dekker offering the new coalition government’s official thumbs-up, Dutch senators will pull their thumbs out and, in Dekker’s words, “vigorously” resume the legislative process.
Dekker’s letter also addressed the bill’s requirement for online licensees to establish a physical presence in the Netherlands. To ensure compliance with European Union rules on the free movement of goods and services, Dekker said only online licensees without a presence in the EU or European Economic Area must ensure “a secondary establishment” in the Netherlands.
The House Judiciary Committee briefly planned to hold a hearing on the future of sports betting in the United States next Tuesday, before quickly rescheduling the event hours later. According […]
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Settlements have resolved three legal actions against the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association.
Two stories from the World Poker Tour as Adam Pliska and the crew partner with the real money gambling app b spot and Quentin Jones wins the WPTDeepStacks Main Event in Tampa.
I’ve won money through last-minute goals in football, long-range putts in golf, and even beating my mate Skit in the father’s 100m dash during my son’s sports day, but I have never felt the hairs stand on end the way they do when I have a flutter on the gee-gees.
Horse racing.
The Sport of Kings.
Daily fantasy sports operator DraftKings has identified European technology provider Kambi as the supplier of its new single-game sports betting product.
Three weeks ago, DraftKings announced a sports betting partnership with Atlantic City’s Resorts Casino Hotel, which followed last month’s US Supreme Court ruling striking down the federal betting ban. But neither party offered any insight into where DraftKings would be getting its new sports betting technology.
On Wednesday, Kambi Group Plc announced that it had entered into a “sportsbook agreement” to “provide technology and services” to DraftKings. While the partnership will start in New Jersey, the “multi-year” deal allows for the possibility of an expanded partnership “when commercially agreeable regulatory frameworks are implemented” in other US states.
Kambi believes the DraftKings partnership could be lucrative in the long run, but the impact on its 2018 revenue will be “difficult to predict” due to the notoriously glacial pace of US regulatory change.
The National Thoroughbred Welfare Organization (NTWO) announced a partnership with Delta Downs Racetrack and Evangeline Downs, which have each agreed to provide financial assistance and support to horse-rehoming efforts in the state of Louisiana.
Popular social casino game is about to get even more thrilling with real-time worldwide tournaments
Las Vegas, Nevada – June 20, 2018 – Playtrex, a leading developer of the next generation of social casino games, celebrated the upcoming launch of in-app tournaments for its hit game, Wild Poker – Floyd Mayweather’s Texas Hold’em, by co-hosting a real-world poker party in Las Vegas with Hero Digital Entertainment and Floyd Mayweather himself. Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play, the new version of Wild Poker will feature an action-packed Tournament mode in which players can inhabit their favorite animal persona and challenge other poker players from throughout the world in real-time, synchronous tournaments. To be among the first to join the tournaments, players can pre-register at http://www.playtrex.com/#contact.
In typically lavish Floyd Mayweather fashion, the Las Vegas celebration not only featured high-stakes poker action, but also plenty of beautiful models, luxurious accommodations, and unshackled revelry. A highlight reel of the event can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9NcpIZzszI.
Wild Poker has come to symbolize the next generation of social casino games with its unique blend of strategy, adventure and traditional Texas Hold’em poker. The game adds a new level of strategy and decision-making to traditional poker by allowing players to deploy power-ups based on their animal characters’ innate abilities, such as the shark’s sharp sense of smell to detect the weakest hand at the table, or the giraffe’s elongated neck to peer over another player’s shoulder and peek at their cards.
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