FanDuel is not letting archrival DraftKings get the biggest piece of fantasy eSports pie. On Thursday, the daily fantasy sports site announced it has bought AlphaDraft, marking its entry into the fantasy eSports market.

The deal came a day after DraftKings, FanDuel’s biggest rival, announced that it will start offering fantasy eSports in its betting lineup.

“With over 200 million people globally watching eSports, AlphaDraft gives those fans a way to engage with this burgeoning entertainment product that creates an enormous opportunity for us,” FanDuel CEO and co-founder Nigel Eccles said in a statement.

Terms of the acquisition deal between the two companies were not disclosed, but Eccles called the merger between FanDuel and AlphaDraft a “win-win” situation for both companies. FanDuel, like DraftKings, is very much focused on professional sports, while AlphaDraft was targeted solely on professional video gaming.

Microgaming Poker Network Poker Tour Announce Vienna as 2016 Tour Opener as they attempt to continue to improve their product going into their third season.

All recreational poker players dream of playing in European Poker Tour (EPT), World Poker Tour (WPT) and World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Events.

I know I do.

But, until you are (a) good enough, (b) lucky enough, or (c) wait for your rich parents to die – then you should think of setting your sights a little lower.

Wynn Interactive has withdrawn their interest in obtaining an online gambling license, in the state of New Jersey; a move that has been approved by the Division of Gaming Enforcement.

Steve Wynn will not be pestering the life out of people in the back of New Jersey taxi cabs, after Wynn Interactive, a subsidiary of Wynn Resorts, withdrew their application for an online gambling license in the state.

In a way it’s a news story about nothing. Wynn hasn’t owned Atlantic City brick and mortar since the launch of Tetris. In 1980, Wynn built The Golden Nugget – on the grave of The Strand Motel – and turned it into the most profitable casino on the boardwalk. He later sold it to Bally’s in 1987 for $440m. It would eventually find the name Atlantic Club Casino and was shut down in January of last year.

Without a land-based casino in Atlantic City, Wynn had no choice but to find a suitable tag team partner. That turned out to be Caesars Entertainment Corporation, but then the honeymoon turned sour before anyone had even gotten to first base.

Thanks to its explosive success, the online gambling industry is now ripe for extortion and distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks.

Last April, UK-listed Betfair fell victim to a DDOS attack that took down its betting exchange and fixed-odds sportsbook. Malta-licensed Betat Casino also reported a DDOS attack from assailants who asked for 10 Bitcoin, or about $2,200, in order to stop the harassment.

New Jersey sites were also not immune to DDOS attacks. Last July, four of the state’s licensed online gambling operators experienced an initial wave of data flooding their sites for half an hour. According to the Division of Gaming Enforcement, the hacker warned of more sustained and powerful attacks unless the sites pay an unspecified amount of Bitcoin currency.

DDOS can be harmful for online gambling sites, where 60 percent of the transactions are carried out in real time. IT security specialist Gold Security said an hour of unmitigated DDOS means $40,000 lost for a business.

Lee Davy provides you with his usual weekly poker news round up including all the highlights from the World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP), a wonderful Big Brother performance by Vanessa Rousso, and much more.

The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is the dog’s bollocks. 70-events, $45m in prize money, and at the time of writing only 13 of those events remain before we start counting down to next year’s extravaganza.

It is the most prestigious, illustrious and exciting online poker festival in the history of the game. It’s an opportunity for poker’s atheists and agnostics to get shit done without a poker God in sight. It’s an opportunity to create a legacy, and that target has been peppered this week.

PokerStars revved the engine of this one by organizing the highest buy-in event in the history of online poker. It was $51,000. How long before we are staring at a million bucks per head?

Vanessa Rousso bubbles Big Brother 17 as Steve Moses opts to take Liz Nolan into the heads-up phase before going on to win the contest and capturing the $500,000 first prize.

Was this the biggest bubble of Vanessa Rousso’s life?

Former Team PokerStars Pro, and all round poker superstar, decided to sacrifice a significant amount of poker time to spend 98 days as part of the Big Brother Season 17 extravaganza on CBS.

Will it all be worth it?

Universal Entertainment boss Kazuo Okada is putting an additional $700m investment to its $2 billion Philippine venture, the Manila Bay Resorts.

According to Universal’s subsidiary Tiger Resort Leisure and Entertainment’s updated project implementation plan, Manila Bay Resorts will add 97,000 square meters (sq.m.), including two hotel towers with a sky bridge. There will also be 15,000 sq.m. additional guest rooms and 30,000 sq.m. for additional parking space to accommodate 1,000 more cars.

Tiger Resorts’ adjustments improvement of both structural and architectural designs of the project as well as enhanced water and electrical system.

“The improvements were made to ensure a world-class property that will make Filipinos proud. Tiger Resort is committed to deliver the biggest integrated resort and casino property in the country that aims to attract locals and foreigners alike,” the company said.

Connecticut asked a federal court to dismiss MGM Resorts’ lawsuit to block  the state’s two tribal casino.

Assistant Attorney General Robert Deichert filed a motion asking U.S. District Judge Alvin Thompson to dismiss MGM Resorts International’s lawsuit filed in August, arguing that MGM has no legal standing to sue, offering a dry legal argument about timing, as well as a juicier suggestion the company fabricated an interest in building its own casino in Connecticut.

According to the motion, MGM’s Massachusetts casino license restricts the company to build other gambling developments within 50 miles, with an exclusion zone that covers north-central Connecticut such as Hartford, Tolland and Windham counties, large portions of Litchfield, New Haven and Middlesex counties and much of New London County.

The state also said that the law passed earlier this year, which MGM argued to have the Mashantucket Pequots and Mohegan, gave the tribes no legal right to develop anything. The legislature actually rejected a request by the tribes, which are trying to maintain market share for their casinos in eastern Connecticut, for authorization for a casino in the I-91 corridor north of Hartford to compete with Springfield.