Monthly Archives: September 2015

Maria Ho to Host Poker Central Twitch Series

Poker Central, a 24-hour all-poker television network planned for launch later this year, is one of the most exciting developments in the poker world this year, and the explosion of poker streams on Twitch has been just as influential in the industry. Perhaps, then, it shouldn’t surprise us that those two media outlets are going […]

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Amaya’s PokerStars Acquisition Under Scrutiny from DGE

PokerStars’ delayed entrance into the New Jersey market is merely a matter of due diligence, David Rebuck, director of the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, said this week. In an interview with the Global Gaming Business podcast Rebuck explained that the $4.9 billion purchase of PokerStars and Full Tilt by Amaya was under particular […]

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Betting limit increase by former B.C. Lottery CEO prompted policy changes

Michael Graydon of Paragon Gaming is pictured on the site where the company plans to build an urban resort featuring a casino next to B.C. Place in Vancouver. Michael Graydon of Paragon Gaming is pictured on the site where the company plans to build an urban resort featuring a casino next to B.C. Place in Vancouver.

Two $2 Million Powerball Tickets Bought in Virginia

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Wynn Interactive withdraws NJ online license application

Steve Wynn, center, poses for a picture with his wife, Andrea Hissom, left, and a supporter at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, on Friday, Oct. 18, 2013. Wynn was at the university for a ceremony marking the naming of the Stephen A. Wynn Institute for Vision Research, which has received a $25 million donation from the chairman of Wynn Resorts Ltd. In the decades since he left the Jersey shore for the more prosperous sands of Las Vegas, the casino mogul has repeatedly considered a return to Atlantic City, only to decide against it.

IGT Launches New, Integrated Website

The site provides customers, investors, and the industry with a single source of information about IGT’s leading end-to-end gaming solutions across all channels and regulated segments. “As we progress in our integration efforts, ensuring our stakeholders can connect seamlessly with our organization is a top priority,” said , IGT’s Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Public Affairs.

IG posts increase in quarterly revenue, says full-year results are hard to predict

Trading firm IG Group posted an increase in revenue in the first three months of the year, although it warned market volatility had made it harder to predict an outcome for the full year. In the quarter to the end of August, revenue rose 24% year-on-year to A 106m, driven higher by growth in all regions, although an increase in numbers in Europe was partially offset by a decline in average revenue per user.

Is bridge a sport or a game?

The UK high court will have to decide whether a card game bridge is a sport and should receive legal benefits.

The English Bridge Union (EBU), which has 55,000 members, argues that Sport England, the state body that allocates funding to non-professional sports associations, has a narrow definition of sport when it rejected an application in 2014 to recognize bridge as one.

Sport England said that to qualify as a sport under its rules, it says, an activity must have some kind of physical element.

“When ruling on what constituted a sport in the 2011 Charities Act, parliament specifically included ‘mind sports’, stating that sport comprised ‘activities which promote health involving physical or mental skill or exertion,’” said EBU spokesman. Adding “bridge required undoubted levels of mental skill” and had “known health benefits.”