Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson says the GBI’s Commercial Gambling Unit, along with the Walker County Sheriff’s Office, and in cooperation with the Georgia Lottery Corporation executed five search warrants in the Walker County area today for violations of Georgia’s commercial gambling laws. More than 30 agents, investigators and deputy sheriffs executed the search warrants at the same time.
Tattersalls three-day July sale saw a strong international buying bench that helped drive increases in gross, average, median, and a very healthy clearance rate when trading ended July 10 in Newmarket.
The most anticipated fight for the second half of 2015 is a clash between Miguel Cotto and Saul Alvarez, which is slated to happen most likely on either November 7th or the 21st. It would be another chapter in the heated rivalry between Mexico and Puerto Rico.
In support of providing funding for the rehabilitation, retraining and/or retirement of Thoroughbred horses that have raced in California, CARMA will be hosting its charity fundraiser “Cards 4 CARMA” July 18.
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley announced his plans for the upcoming Special Session Friday in which he said he was putting several things on the table for legislators to consider including business taxes, tobacco and soft drink taxes, and elimination of the FICA deduction. Gaming and lottery discussion is off the table, Bentley stated.
Gulfstream Park announced July 10 it will raise purses an average of 10 percent, beginning with the next condition book on Thursday, July 23.
Fasig-Tipton kept true to its tradition of showcasing the first yearlings by some of the nation’s eagerly awaited young stallions at its July sale at Newtown Paddocks in Lexington.
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UK bookmaker Coral is the subject of a new BBC documentary series set to air later this month.
Plans for the show – dubbed Britain at the Bookies – were first announced last August. The series, set to debut on BBC One on Monday, July 20 at 9pm, focuses on the daily trials and tribulations faced by staff of a Coral shop in Huddersfield in West Yorkshire.
The shop is managed by longtime Coral veteran Tony Kendall (pictured), who relies on the help of daughter Siobhan to keep the joint humming. The junior Kendall is reportedly far less keen than her dear old dad about pursuing a life in the retail betting business, citing the perils of being in the presence of punters as they learn their bet is a loser. “I’ve had grown men swing at me over the counter, I’ve had people threaten to stab me and it doesn’t really make me want to go work up there.”
Recent statistics issued by the UK Gambling Commission suggest Siobhan’s concerns are well founded. Police were called out to UK betting shops 9,803 times last year, 1,600 more times than the year before.
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The award honoring the racing industry’s best simulcast production will be presented at the 23rd annual International Simulcast Conference held this year in Clearwater Beach, Fla. The deadline for all entries is Aug. 17.
Lottery operators are hoping the promise of larger jackpots will offset the fact that they’re making those jackpots much harder to win.
Last month, UK lottery operator Camelot announced it was adding 10 more balls to the National Lottery’s existing 49 balls. In doing so, it has raised the odds of winning the jackpot from 14m-to-1 to 45m-to-1. (The odds of being struck by lightning in the UK are a mere 3m-to-1.) The changes will take effect in October.
Camelot boss Andy Duncan claims the intent was to “keep the game fresh” but critics claim it’s a shameless ploy to get players to buy more tickets to boost their odds of winning. To smooth players’ ruffled feathers, Duncan says Camelot has added two new £1m raffles per week while players who match just two numbers will now win a lucky dip ticket for a future draw.
Similar changes are afoot for America’s multistate Powerball lottery. At present, players select five numbers from 59 numbered white balls while the sixth ball – the titular Powerball – is drawn from a set of 35 red balls. Come Oct. 4, 10 balls will be added to the 59 while the number of red balls will fall to 26.
The Main Event of the World Series of Poker starts out with three distinct flights, but on Friday, that will all change. The remaining players will be combined into one field for Day 3, as the competitors still in the game begin the slow march into the money and down to the final table. Jackson […]
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According to the N.C. Lottery, Mary Shoffner won a $100,000 top prize in the Mega Bucks game. She bought the ticket at John’s Food Express on North Church Street.
A judge has sentenced a Wyoming State Penitentiary inmate to serve 35 years in prison for trying to hire a hit man to kill his own mother and stepfather so he could collect life insurance money and inherit their house. U.S. District Judge Nancy Freudenthal of Cheyenne on Thursday sentenced 23-year-old Andrew Silicani on four counts of using the mail in his unsuccessful attempt to commission the murders.
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PokerStars has announced that it will ban skier_5 and other third-party assistance software during gameplay.
PokerStars Poker Room Manager Steve Day posted a message on Two Plus Two saying that skier_5—software that efficiently delivers relevant play recommendation charts for HUSNG—can no longer be used while the PokerStars client is open. The new policy is effective immediately.
Day also added that PokerStars is headed firmly toward further restrictions on third-party software within the next year or two.
“After thorough consideration of the input here and a lengthy internal discussion, we’ve decided to move forward in principle with the changes proposed in the OP. We still have some decisions to make regarding final wording and also to make sure we are comfortable with our detection and enforcement capability,” said Day. “In the meantime we will be in touch with some software developers regarding their existing applications to clarify which features might violate the upcoming rules so that they will have time to make the appropriate changes.”
Online gambling technology provider NetEnt is celebrating following a “very eventful” second quarter.
The Stockholm-listed operator reported revenue up 32.3% to SEK 271.2m (US $32.1m), operating profit up 63.3% to SEK 92.7m ($11m) and profit after tax up 64.9% to SEK 86.5m ($10.2m) in the three months ending June 30. For the first half of 2015, revenue is up 34.6%, operating profit gained 61.7% and profit after tax rose 63%.
The second quarter saw NetEnt ink nine new licensing agreements while launching services with eight new customers, the latter group including Bwin.party, PokerStars, Gamesys and Danske Spil. NetEnt inked its first two deals in New Jersey’s regulated online gambling market, was awarded operating licenses in Spain and launched its first retail games deal with UK operator William Hill.
NetEnt CEO Per Eriksson noted that Q2’s operating margin had risen 6.5 points year-on-year to 34.2%, an improvement he attributed to “growing revenues and economies of scale, offsetting continuing investments in new staff, product development and new markets.”