Monthly Archives: March 2015

$50 Million Powerball Jackpot won in Harriman

Tennessee scored a double-whammy after Saturday night’s Powerball drawing, with one ticket sold in Harriman winning the jackpot of $50 million, and another ticket sold in Hohenwald winning the game’s second-highest prize of $2 million. No additional details are currently available, and no information about the winners is known until the prizes are claimed.

On Deck: The best rivalry in sports

You can give me the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics, or the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Redskins. All three are great, if not historical sports rivalries that have transcended time and history. That much I can’t argue. But no rivalry in sports can compete with the level of history and personal, social, and cultural animosity that exists between La Liga powerhouses FC Barcelona and Real Madrid.

You can try to argue against that but you’ll ultimately fail. Like it or not, Barcelona vs Madrid is more than just a game between two teams. It represents so much more than just 20 men passing the ball around a football field and two more manning the opposite goal posts. Football, or any other sport for that matter, may be a respite for a lot of people from their everyday lives. Two hours to forget about everything and focus entirely on what’s in front of them. But that doesn’t happen whenever Barcelona and Real Madrid plays. Quite the contrary, actually.

I’m not going to dive deep into the political tension between Barcelona and Madrid. That would be a different bag full of worms entirely. But I do know that there’s incredible political tension between the two cities, one representing Spanish nationalism (Madrid) while the other viewed as representing Catalan nationalism (Barcelona). Supporters of both sides view the others as rebels to the country’s cause,  with some even taking that ideology to extents that lead to inevitable hostility.

So you can imagine what it must feel like when these people flock either Camp Nou and the Bernabeu Stadium to root for the home squad and raise holy hell on the away side. The cheers and jeers aren’t fabricated, nor are they canned as some NBA teams are allegedly doing. What you hear during an El Clasico is as real as it is vile, born from a disdain of opposing beliefs and the feeling that the home squad they cheer for are the vanguards of their perceived superiority over the other.

Nicky Senyard on Opportunities of US Land-based Casinos on Social Gaming

Rebecca Liggero  talks to Nicky Senyard, CEO of Income Access. She talks about land-based casinos and how they are starting to use social gaming to move online into the U.S.

Real-money iGaming is a regulated in New Jersey, Nevada and Delaware and California and Pennsylvania are considering regulating online gaming.

Social gaming offers land-based casinos and iGaming operators an alternative to real-money iGaming that will also help them prepare for regulation at a state level.

“It’s very interesting for land-based casinos and they have a massive opportunity. They’re finding that they’re revenue with bricks and mortar properties are declining and they’re looking for opportunities to grow. Social provides that. Social provides engagement with their current customers when they’re offline and when they are not in property. It also provides a really good way to recruit new customers,” said Senyard. The thing in America at the moment it’s completely divergent. You’ve got New Jersey, you’ve got social, you’ve got fantasy, you’ve got horse-racing, and you’ve got land-based casino guys. So it’s not a one size fits all. so  think what i am trying to advocate for the guys who wanted to get in is that their social is the way to go.”

PokerStars Live in Saint Vincent; IPT Season 7 Details Announced, Winamax Withdraw From Italian Market

PokerStars has announced the opening date of its PokerStars LIVE branded card room in the Italian town of Saint Vincent; Luca Pagano announces details of the Italian Poker Tour Season 7, and Winamax withdraw from the Italian market.

Online poker’s move into the live environment continues with news that PokerStars will open their fourth live card room in the Italian town of Saint Vincent.

A new PokerStars LIVE branded card room will open in the Casino de la Vallee on April 24. A specially organized €100k Guaranteed Mini Italian Poker Tour (IPT) event will be the opener for that little beauty. PokerStars already has branded card rooms in London, Macau, Madrid and Manila.

‘The new PokerStars LIVE room in Saint Vincent aims to become a must-go place for Italy’s poker lover, and also represents the most visible sign of a significant partnership between PokerStars and the Casino de la Vallee.” Said Team PokerStars Pro, Luca Pagano, during a press release announcing details of the seventh season of the IPT.

Former Poker Chip Company Owner Guilty of Tax Evasion

John M. Kendall, the former CEO of poker chip company Chipco, could be spending time behind bars after being found guilty of tax evasion in the state of Maine.

John M. Kendall, the former president and owner of poker chip company Chipco, is in a spot of bother.

The 66-year old has been found guilty, by a jury, in the Pine Tree State, on three felony counts of theft by misapplication of withholding taxes, one felony charge of conspiracy to commit tax evasion, and five more misdemeanor charges related to less than legal methods of handling money that should’ve been handed to the tax man.

Kendall, of Yarmouth in Maine, was found guilty after a trial that lasted for six days. He could face a decade behind bars and be forced to repay the money that he stole from the state.

Heartland Poker Tour Ink Deal With DoubleDown Casino

Heartland Poker Tour has inked a deal with the social gaming operator DoubleDown Casino that will see the latter pushed through various promotional circles relating to the broadcast of the burgeoning poker tour.

Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) partners Bluff have announced that the American based live poker tour will be entering into a deal that will see the social gaming outfit DoubleDown Casino pushed and promoted through their televised show, commercials and social and digital marketing campaigns.

DoubleDown Casino is the social gaming darling of International Gaming Technology (IGT), and in January 2015, was one of the only sparkling gems to come out of a Q1 fiscal report that saw IGT’s revenue drop 17% to $451m.

The social gaming operator, who reaches 9 million eyeballs each month, earned the largest chunk of revenue from an interactive gaming division that saw its revenue increase 23% to $91.5m. $79.4m of that haul belonged to HPT’s new partners.

Dzmitry Urbanovich Wins the EPT Malta €25k High Roller

Dzmitry Urbanovich has defeated Connor Drinan, in heads-up action, to take the first prize of €572,300 in the European Poker Tour (EPT) Malta €25,000 buy-in High Roller event.

The European Poker Tour (EPT) Season 11 visit to Malta has kicked off in style.

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The €25,000 buy-in High Roller event attracted 88 entrants (68 unique, 20 rebuys), creating a €2,156,000 total prize pool, and the young Pole Dzmitry Urbanovich has taken the top prize of €572,300.

Buzz grows over new Nantucket housing project

After about three decades lying barren, 9.2 acres of land off Surfside Road will soon be the site of 40 new certified affordable houses. The first phase of the Sachem’s Path project, which includes the construction of 15 one-, two- and three-bedroom homes, is well underway, and lottery applications become available online today.