Some top ‘good news’ posts at Georgia Patch sites, including a 90th anniversary for area Goodwill programs. Plus, how to share on Patch! Photo: Georgia Lottery winner Mark Slaker, right, is pictured with his wife, Denise, their two daughters and Georgia Lottery spokesman John Crow.
ESPN has uncovered evidence that indicates Pete Rose bet on baseball games when he was still a player, which could derail Rose’s faint hopes of getting his name in Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame.
On Monday, ESPN’s Outside The Lines reported obtaining a notebook belonging to Michael Bertolini, a convicted fraudster who handled Rose’s wagering with mob-linked bookies. The notebook, which was seized during a 1989 raid by US federal authorities and has been under court-ordered seal ever since, indicates that Rose placed wagers on baseball games in 1986, his final year as a player.
Rose was hit with a lifetime ban from baseball in 1989 after his betting activity was revealed but has been waging a campaign for reinstatement ever since. Rose, who amassed 4,256 hits during his lengthy playing career, would be a shoe-in for the Hall of Fame were it not for the suspension.
In 2004, after years of denials, Rose admitted to betting on baseball but has long maintained that he only bet on baseball while serving as the Cincinnati Reds’ manager. Bertolini’s notebook indicates that Rose bet on multiple games per day for days at a stretch in 1986, including wagers on Reds games, but there’s no evidence that Rose ever bet on the Reds to lose.
MGM Resorts International honors the memory of Kirk Kerkorian, the company’s founder, who passed away last evening. On June 6, he had turned 98. Mr. Kerkorian was a quiet but powerful force behind the transformation of the Las Vegas Strip into one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations, through the development of the International, MGM and MGM Grand.
Bwin.party has sold the World Poker Tour to Hong Kong-listed Ourgame International Holdings Ltd for $35 million in cash. Ourgame, which specializes in multi-platform card-based social gaming primarily for the Chinese market, said that the acquisition was a first step towards building a global social gaming brand. Rumors of the sale of the tournament series […]
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The Downs at Albuquerque recorded increases in handle and purses during its Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse spring meet at the New Mexico track, which ended June 18.
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center is helping families who lost young babies heal. The CRMC’s Women and Children’s Services puts on a ‘Butterfly Release’ at Paul Smith’s Children’s Village at Botanic Gardens.
Bryon Micon, the poker player and former chairman of Bitcoin online poker site Seals with Clubs, is expected to return to the US this week to face a charge of operating an unlicensed interactive gaming system. Micon will have celebrity criminal defense attorney David Chesnoff as his legal counsel. Last week a judge recalled the […]
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US restaurant and entertainment chain Latitude 360 has acquired daily fantasy sports (DFS) operator Major League Fantasy (MLF) in order to create the first live in-venue ‘fantasy sports books.’
Latitude 360 currently operates three properties in Florida, Indiana and Pennsylvania, with a new property under construction in Albany, New York and further expansion plans in Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis and New York City. Lattitude 360’s properties already include “HD Sports Theaters” which feature sportsbook-style video arrays displaying a variety of live sports events.
Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Latitude 360 CEO Brent Brown promised that the new ‘360 Fantasy LIVE’ offering would be ready for this fall’s kickoff of the new NFL season. The plan is to add iPads to the sports theaters to enable DFS wagering, with new game modes, daily featured prize contests and “interactive tools not found on any of the current fantasy sites or apps.”
MLF CEO Jesse Merl said he couldn’t imagine “a better way to grow our audience than to make it accessible” to Latitude 360’s patrons. Merl said Latitude 360’s venues would ensure that “our competitors will be fighting for second place in the live real-money fantasy vertical we are creating.”
Max Pescatori is more proof that this year at the World Series of Poker, the pros mostly rule. Moreover, Pescatori has joined the rarefied ranks of players winning more than one bracelet in a given series, a feat that really establishes a superior level of expertise. Yesterday, we noted that the World Series of Poker […]
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The British Horseracing Authority will create a Horseracing Bettors Forum designed to give those who wager on racing a chance to offer “constructive suggestions” on how the industry can develop and implement changes.
Ohio Lottery officials are considering new options to pay some winners because retailers now have less cash on hand to give out to those holding winning tickets.Financials, Ohio, Retailer, Money
A Staten Island plumber who won a $136 million Powerball jackpot is being sued by Kieran Del Pasqua, who says he was sent flying when Perosi opened the door of his Ford F150 in a bike lane in Park Slope, Brooklyn.Powerball, Legal, Winner Stories, New York, Multi-State Game, Lawsuit
Gibraltar, 22 June 2015 – Lost World Games will bring its first three disruptive casino game titles to iGaming via Odobo.
Lost World Games is a young and spirited development studio created by passionate advocates of innovation within the iGaming sector. The team consists of technology and console fans working within the casino industry with the desire to reinvent iGaming content. Their vision is to take original maths models and fuse them with modern, configurable slot games, diverse features and bold graphics to kick-start a new breed of casino games.
The team’s passion feeds into the game themes it develops. These include an appreciation of eastern cultures, anime, console and PC games, blockbuster movies, comics, sci-fi, board games and dark or cheeky humour.
The team is currently focused on delivering a trio of initial releases. Each game has been carefully planned to offer a diverse, exciting and complete storyline. The first is the inaugural game in the new King of Kaiju series, King of Kaiju: Rampage Riches which will be a period-exclusive for Gala Coral. Players will control some fantastically re-imagined monsters as they run wild in the some of the world’s most famous cities. The second game is a modern visualisation of the classic novella, the “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”. The third game is a light-hearted affair based on tongue-in-cheek British pub humour jovially entitled, Beer Goggles.
Rain poured over most of the country but Lady Luck smiled on the Waipa as the district’s latest millionaire claimed their first division Lotto prize. Champagne could be on the drinks menu after a customer of the Te Awamutu Paper Plus store walked away from the weekend Lotto draw $1 million dollars richer.
Longtime readers may find this puzzling. Through the years, I’ve written twice about how I was going to put this particular chore behind me.
Chinese authorities had arrested 14 South Koreans on Wednesday for allegedly trying to lure Chinese citizens into foreigner-only casinos in Korea.
The Koreans arrested were employees from travel agencies and two of South Korea’s largest casino operators— Paradise Co. and Grand Korea Leisure Co.
A source at the South Korean Embassy in Beijing told Yonhap News that the charges include violations of foreign currency laws and attracting Chinese citizens to casinos.
In February, China’s Ministry of Public Security Deputy Director Hua Jingfeng announced that authorities would pursue and prosecute operators from other countries who had “set up offices in China to attract and drum up interest from Chinese citizens to go abroad and gamble.
Boylesports confirmed that it will proceed with its more than €25m takeover bid for Ladbrokes Irish business, despite losing a legal challenge to get information about Lads’ operation.
Spokesman from Boylesports told the Sunday Independent that the terms of the bid are still confidential but the Irish newspaper reported that Boylesports would be willing to make more than €25m investment to Ladbrokes Irish business.
“Obviously, we’re disappointed with the court judgment. But we remain committed to making a bid for Ladbrokes and to welcoming the Ladbrokes shops into Ireland’s fastest growing and most exciting bookmaking chain,” Boylesports founder and chief executive, John Boyle, said.
In April, Ladbrokes sought court protection to allow it restructure its business and enable it trade out of financial difficulties.
A single ticket sold in Plantation, Fla. , matched the winning numbers from Saturday’s Powerball drawing for an $80 million jackpot.
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Thailand polls released over the week showed that people disapprove legalizing casinos.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha told the media to ask how people think about legalizing gambling and enabling the government to collect a tax on casinos.
The Bangkok University poll conducted from June 17-18 shows that out of 1,093 people aged 18 and over throughout the country, 58.5% said that they did not agree with the idea while 35.1 approved and 6.4% had no comment.
Suan Dusit Poll during June 16-20 said that 45.1% of 1,363 respondents said they were against the proposal while 38.6% are supportive of legalizing casino, saying that it can generate funds for projects and would create jobs.