Martijn Ardon has become the first PokerStars Supernova Elite player of 2015, and he did it in record-breaking time. Ardon, a 24-year-old Dutchman whose screenname is “Quadchrazs” on the site, took just 52 days to earn the required one million VPPs (VIP Player Points), averaging a staggering 1,000 €100 ($106) SnGs per day, mostly six-max […]
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In the year’s first edition of the Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2015, recent Santa Anita Handicap (gr. I) winner Shared Belief has landed in the top spot.
Shadwell Stable’s Mamdooha will return from a year-long layoff and attempt to extend her win streak to five straight races when she starts in the Correction Stakes at six furlongs March 14 at Aqueduct.
China’s online lottery clampdown will result in a healthier industry, according to financial services firm North Square Blue Oak (NSBO).
In January, Beijing ordered provincial lottery administration centers to suspend online lottery sales as of March 1. NSBO, which specializes in China’s public policy moves, said the clampdown was prompted in part by the fact that some online operators were “not registering all of their sales.”
In some cases where the odds of a bettor’s wager made a win unlikely, NSBO said some online operators were not registering the sales with lottery centers, allowing the operator to pocket the profits. NSBO believes the current investigations by provincial centers will weed out unscrupulous agents. NSBO also suggested Beijing could boost operators’ minimum capital requirements to eliminate smaller, less committed operators.
Provincial administrators have also been complaining to Beijing about “lost revenue from the growth in online sales.” The current system grants commissions to the province where the operator is licensed, rather than the location of the punter. NSBO suggests Beijing may rejig its revenue distribution scheme to allow a point-of-sale commission.
Scioto Downs Racino is opening a $5.9 million microbrewery and restaurant in an effort to draw a wider swath of patrons, including those who may not be interested in gambling. The 12,750-square-foot Brew Brothers restaurant is set to open by year’s end on the northwest corner of the harness-racing and video-slots facility, across from the Grove Buffet.
While it’s difficult to determine if their efforts are making much of a dent in illegal bookmaking in the U.S., federal law enforcement officials have been busy the past few years prosecuting these sports wagering operations.
An incentive program to attract out-of-state horses to race in California that has had success over the past four seasons at Del Mar will expand to the entire Southern California racing circuit April 2.
A new license plate option for Kentucky drivers, featuring a photo of the legendary Seattle Slew, has been unveiled by the Kentucky Equine Education Project Foundation.
Irish betting operator Paddy Power has tapped London-based mad men Beattie McGuinness Bungay (BMB) to handle its creative account.
Paddy announced late last year that it was looking to shake up its creative advertising after three years with Crispin Porter & Bogusky, who elected not to push for a renewal. The list of potential replacements was eventually narrowed down to four with final pitches made this week in London.
The £20m account will see BMB handle television and radio spots, while Paddy’s in-house team will continue to handle much of its outdoor and print campaigns. London-based agency Lucky Generals will also continue to work with Paddy on its notorious promotional stunts.
BMB co-founder Trevor Beattie said his firm was chuffed to be working with the Irish pranksters, calling the deal “a marriage made in mischief.” Paddy’s head of brand Paul Sweeney said the company couldn’t wait to see “how much trouble we can get into with our new friends at BMB.”
Alex’s Pal, a 16-year-old son of Valid Expectations, was euthanized March 11 due to colic.
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association announced March 12 that Steve Koch has been named executive director of the NTRA Safety and Integrity Alliance.
California online poker has plenty of supporters, but getting them all behind a single, unified bill has proven to be a challenging prospect. That political reality has come to light again this week, as a group of six tribes in the state have signed on to a letter in opposition to AB 167, a bill […]
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Surveillance image of the winner of a September 2014 Powerball drawing. The man has until 5 p.m. Thursday to claim a $1 million prize.
A customer at a grocery store in Palmyra is $2 million richer thanks to a winning lottery ticket. Wednesday, the Virginia Lottery awarded a check to David Vaughan of Fork Union at the store where the ticket was sold.
Pinnacle Entertainment, which owns Belterra Park in Ohio and more than 10 other casinos in the United States, has confirmed it has received a proposal from Gaming and Leisure Properties to acquire its real estate assets.
Lexington’s Keeneland racetrack will get a tax break from the state for hosting the Breeders’ Cup this fall after the state Senate gave final approval to the bill March 11.
Total handle for the recently concluded 32-day Thoroughbred meet at Sam Houston Race Park increased more than 15% to $51,258,598 in 2015 compared with the 2014 meet, as average daily handle improved a fourth straight year.
The New Mexico Senate voted, 35-7, to approve a proposal that would create a new gambling compact that would replace the one that’s set to expire at the end of June 2015, allowing Native American tribes in the state to continue with their gambling operations.
If a new compact won’t put in place at that time, casinos belonging to the Navajo Nation, the Corilla and Mescal Apache tribes and Coma Pueblo would be forced to close down.
Now that the proposed compact is moving at a steady pace, it at least validates the time spent by the office of Gov. Susana Martinez to get an agreement in order that would appease the state and the tribes involved. The most important thing, according to supporters of the new compact, was to have an agreement in place that would bring some semblance of stability to the state’s gambling industry in order to increase state revenue and protect the employment of residents working in these casinos.
Despite getting approval in the senate, some legislators continued to express their concerns about possible legal liabilities in the new compact while others kept their opinions that gambling in the state should’t be allowed to begin with.
A lottery ticket sold in Langley almost a year ago has finally turned up , and been given to the B.C. Lottery Corporation. It is worth $50 million.
The owner of western Maryland’s only casino is reporting its annual earnings and discussing its disputed plan to merge with another casino operator. Lakes Entertainment Inc., based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, is releasing financial data Thursday.