Monthly Archives: August 2015

GA Wow Houses: 'Million-Dollar View,' 'Gated and Gorgeous,' 'Escape the World'

Here’s some of the openings within 15 miles of town, posted in the past week on our jobs board; search for more, and post your own listing! The retired officer, who now lives in Rockmart, is now over $100,000 richer thanks to the Georgia Lottery and Lady Luck. The man behind the project says the crosswalks will be painted in time for the Atlanta Pride Parade in October.

Sheldon Adelson’s anti-online gambling hypocrisy exposed in hilarious new video

The rank hypocrisy of Sheldon Adelson’s war against online gambling has been further exposed in a hilarious new video.

The video, a teaser for the new TheTimJamesShow.com (episode 1 of which will debut on August 15), takes aim at the demonstrably false claims made by the Las Vegas Sands chairman and his Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling (CSIG) regarding online gambling’s alleged inability to prevent access by underage gamblers.

Adelson’s hypocrisy on this issue was already well established given the number of times his brick-and-mortar casino properties have been fined for allowing underage patrons access to gambling and alcohol.

But James’ video offers further proof by using hidden camera footage of not one but two underage associates gaining access to Sands’ Las Vegas properties the Venetian and Palazzo, where they buy chips, gamble, cash out their winnings and enjoy a cocktail or twelve.

Gaming Industry News Weekly Recap – Stories You Might Have Missed

THE AMERICAS

Amaya Gaming acquired daily fantasy sports operator Victiv; Brazil’s president vetoed her country’s sports betting plans; the FBI launched a new Internet Sports Books Initiative; the Augur project previewed its forthcoming blockchain-based prediction market while California sweepstakes cafés began using proprietary ‘alt’ currency; New Jersey’s online poker market continued to shrink; Intertain’s Q2 losses spiked almost as much as its revenue; GameAccount Network inked an online free-play casino deal with California’s San Manuel Band; Antigua and the US made progress on resolving their WTO dispute; IGT enjoyed double-digit revenue growth in Q2; Major League Baseball set a new record as all 15 home teams won on a single day; PokerStars Team Pro wrapped up its California tour; Rafi Farber put Yahoo’s new daily fantasy sports site under the microscope and Tatjana Pasalic checked out the DraftKings Lounge with Jonathan Aguiar.

EUROPE

Ladbrokes H1 profit slumped on new taxes and poor sporting results; Sportech confirmed receiving a takeover bid from Contagious Gaming; Playtech scrapped its two-tiered poker network experiment while Full Tilt’s tweaks produced a minor blip in cash game traffic; Betsafe’s ‘no bullshit betting’ campaign raised eyebrows; Spain’s online gambling market shrunk despite its slots launch; Mr Green’s Q2 outperformed the European market; Bet-at-home’s H1 earnings jumped 81%; NYX Gaming Group acquired eGaming Consulting; Germany’s taxman gave fair warning to Malta-licensed online gambling operators; Coral added its second English Premier League betting partnership, Betfair inked its fifth EPL deal and Smarkets inked its very first; Stephanie Racquel explained all you need to know about mobile advertising and Akiva Ben-Ezra explained why iGaming affiliates need to embrace their inner Spielberg.

Eva Green livens up Mr Green, Mybet quarterly earnings reports

Look, we’re as sick of these tedious quarterly results articles as you are, so let’s polish these turds, shall we?

And who better to accompany a Q2 report from Nordic online gaming operator Mr Green than Ms. Green, aka actress Eva Green of Casino Royale, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For and 300: Rise of an Empire fame? Her last name is Green and she’s extremely easy on the eyes, so keep her in your peripheral vision as you read the following…

In the three months ending June 30, Mr Green’s revenue rose 20.7% to SEK 194.8m (US $22.9m) while earnings were up 10.5% to SEK 42.5m. Mobile betting accounted for just under SEK 62m of revenue, and mobile’s share of overall revenue rose to 32% from 24% in the same period last year.

Active customer ranks rose 16% to over 73k while customer deposits were up 35%. But these gains didn’t come cheap, as cost of sales rose 45% to SEK 40.7m, marketing was up 13% to SEK 67.2m and other expenses increased 28% to SEK 44.4m.