Monthly Archives: September 2015

Entrepreneur Heads to Shark Tank to Pitch for Company Founded with Florida Lottery Winnings

Not many moments can top winning thousands of dollars in the Florida Lottery, but FLORIDA LOTTOA winner Chris Gilpin, 34, of DeBary, has parlayed his winnings into another tremendous opportunity. Gilpin will appear on the season premier of the ABC television show “Shark Tank” this Friday, September 25, to pitch his company, in hopes that one of the ‘sharks’ will agree to become a partner/investor.

RGT commissions research to mitigate gambling-related harm

The gambling industry is funding an 18-month research project to provide online operators with a practice guide mitigating gambling-related harm.

The industry-funded Responsible Gaming Trust (RGT) has commissioned data experts at PwC to complete the task after a “rigorous and competitive selection process.”

PwC will conduct a two-phase program of research will be carried out by PwC after it won a tender process which began in March this year.

RGT has invited proposals from organizations with relevant expertise and experience. PwC was commissioned to complete the research after a rigorous and competitive selection process and is expected to take eighteen months to complete.

Coingaming.io reaches milestone integration of premium games content for bitcoin players

Coingaming.io, the leading software provider for white-label Bitcoin casino and sportsbook solutions, today announced that it reached the landmark milestone of twenty-seven premium games content integrations for bitcoin gaming players.

The business is leading the way in bitcoin enablement of leading games content providers and studios such as Microgaming Quickfire, Betsoft, Ezugi, GameART, and NetEnt. High-end slots gaming studio Booming Games has now become the twenty-seventh gaming integration for bitcoin gaming players.

Mark McGuinness, Communications Director of Coingaming.io, said: “Bitcoin is the payment choice for the Connected Generation, of digital natives seeking digitally connected gaming entertainment, especially withdrawals. For these gaming customers, everything is and needs to be on-demand, with value and services that make lives simpler.Need a cab, use Uber, send an instant message open Telegram. Bitcoin provides that adjunct for on-demand gaming experience and gratification.  Instant transfers, discreet methods and borderless fulfilment, Bitcoin allows a payment from anyone, anywherewithin the online gaming ecosystem. Coingaming’s strategy is to ensure gaming content providers don’t miss out on having their games enabled for bitcoin to reach the most connected generation in human existence especially in underbanked societies around the world. ”

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Bloomberry eyes next overseas venture in Argentina

Enrique Razon’s Bloomberry Resorts has jumped all the way to Argentina for his second overseas casino venture.

In a Tuesday filing to the Philippine Stock Exchange, Solaire’s listed parent Bloomberry said that the company has established another subsidiary, Solaire de Argentina SA, and appointed the head of the country’s hotel association, Oscar Alberto Ghezzi of the Federacion Empresaria Hotelera Gastronomica de la Republica Argentina, as president of the venture.

Solaire de Argentina has built a website, www.solairedeargentina.com, even though the company has yet to secure the regulatory approvals for a hotel-casino site in an undisclosed area in the capital Buenos Aires.

Bloomberry Resorts “has a proposal to establish an integrated resort in Argentina, but it is still pending evaluation and action of government agencies and regulators in Argentina,” said the company.

Macau gaming regulator to revise junket regulation

Macau gaming regulator said that it would revise junket regulation, implementing tighter rules on accounting and auditing.

Macau’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) said Monday that the revision on the Administrative Regulation No. 6/2002, which regulates the conditions and procedures for issuing a license to junket operators, will focus on introducing new requirements regarding the capital and shareholding structure of junket operators.

DICJ also considers having the staff in charge of junket’s financial operations to go through suitability check and making information about the gaming promoters available to public such as name of the administration, shareholders, key employees and collaborators, to guarantee the junket’s suitability, leading to more transparency in the sector.

The gaming regulator said on Monday that it would also analyze the city’s gaming regulation in detail, “aiming to improve it and support the sustainable development of the gaming sector”.