The Norwegian Poker Championships, after years in the wilderness, will make a return to home soil at last. Draconian gambling laws that have in recent years exiled the championships to far flung cities in the UK, Ireland, Latvia and Sweden have finally thawed, and the Norwegian poker diaspora is at an end. But while Norway […]
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Casino revenue for Atlantic City’s surviving casinos fell 5 percent in August compared to the same period last year.
The city’s eight casinos reported a total gaming win of $258.6 million for the month of August, which is a decrease from last year’s $272.3 million, according to New Jersey’s Division of Gaming Enforcement.
But if the discontinued operators are included, Atlantic City’s total gaming revenue of $258.6 million is 15.2 percent lower than the $305 million reported last year.
DGE, however, attributed the drop to a quirk in the calendar, noting that Friday through Sunday of the Labor Day weekend last year fell in August, while this year’s holiday weekend came in September.
The Chinese government is beefing up its crackdown against illegal Internet activities. This time, the country is tapping its neighbors in Southeast Asia for help in what it called “fight against cross-border cybercrime.”
Chinese media Xinhua quoted Zhong Zhong, deputy chief of the Ministry of Public Security’s Internet Security Bureau, who said recent trends in cybercrime now include “terrorist cells using the Internet to spread extremism, recruit members, plot attacks and conduct money laundering.”
According to the ministry official, more than 90 percent of online fraud and gambling sites that target Chinese residents use overseas servers and virtual private networks (VPN).
Last month, Chinese police brought the axe down on a cross-border online gambling network that involves a Philippine-based site. A total of 125 people were arrested in the Heilongjiang province, and the main suspect in the case—Bo Wang—was deported from Manila after spending six months in immigration detention.
For the first time at G2E, Scientific Games will exhibit its Bally , Barcrest, Shuffle Master, Williams, and WMS branded products in the same booth. The 26,000-square-foot multi-level exhibit will feature products from the Company’s gaming, lottery, and interactive divisions, and highlight the end-to-end solutions for gaming and lottery customers around the world.
Jeremy Corbyn’s appointment as the new Labour Leader has hit the UK bookmakers for six, with numerous outfits admitting that a ton of bets were made when Corbyn was a 200/1 to 100/1 underdog.
When it comes to left-wingers the name Ryan Giggs is permanently tattooed into my lips; that’s changing. Today there is a new name from the left wing that has made quite an impression in the last couple of weeks.
Left-winger Jeremy Corbyn is the new Labour Leader after his landslide victory in the recent leadership elections. The man who once stood on the fringes of Labour politics, now owns the crown, after securing almost 60% of the votes in the first round of voting in the 2015 Leadership campaign (251,000 of the 422,000 casted votes).
His incredible victory is set to hit the UK bookmakers for six. As short as three months ago you could have picked up odds of 200/1 for Corbyn becoming the new Labour Leader, and numerous bookmakers have admitted that a series of punters will cash in on those odds: spokespersons from Betfair, Ladbrokes, William Hill and Paddy Power have all advised that bets in the 200/1 to 100/1 mark were made on Corbyn.
Premier League legend Alan Shearer has joined Coral as their first football ambassador in a season long deal.
Alan Shearer is the latest high profile former sports star to join UK bookie Coral in an ambassadorial role. The former England, Southampton, Blackburn and Newcastle forward joins as their first football ambassador. He has signed a season long deal.
Coral have picked up a gem. Shearer has been the lead pundit at Match of the Day since 2006, and is not afraid to speak his mind. He will write a weekly blog for Coral called ‘Shearer Says…’ and in his first blog post, written yesterday, he has already singled out Louis van Gaal and Brendan Rodgers as two men who need to produce results in 2015/16 or suffer the consequences.
Coral PR Director Simon Clare called Shearer, ‘One of the finest footballers of his generation’ and promised that his blog would be a, ‘Not-to-be-missed read.’
James Chen has won the Macau Poker Cup 23 High Roller; Tom Alner and Scott Davies also make the final table.
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James Chen has won the Macau Poker Cup 23 HK$ 80,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE) event. The player, hailing from Taiwan, defeated Japanese player Makoto Yoshimichi in a whirlwind heads-up match to take the first prize of $219,850.
Chen defeated a field of 75 entrants, over the space of two days. The 75-minute final table was a whizz-bang affair. The PokerStars blog stated that Chen ‘dominated’ the event. He started as the final table chip leader, and never let go of the baton.
Joe Morris, who was general manager at Golden Gate Fields for The Stronach Group from 2011-13, is returning to the company as senior vice president of West Coast operations.
The connections of I’m a Chatterbox are hoping for a change of luck in the $1 million Cotillion Stakes (gr. I) Sept. 19 after tough beats in her previous two starts.
Keeneland’s 12-day September yearling sale, which runs from Sept. 14-26 (with a dark day Sept. 17), features a number of horses with noteworthy pedigrees or intriguing backgrounds.
Skychai Racing’s Da Big Hoss, claimed for $50,000 in June, made big on that investment with an off-the-pace victory in the $600,000 Kentucky Turf Cup Stakes (gr. IIIT) for 3-year-olds and up Sept. 14 at Kentucky Downs.
Mandy Pope switches roles from buyer to seller of million-dollar sales, selling a War Front–Betterbetterbetter filly for $1.45 million on opening day of the Keeneland September yearling sale.
Fantasy sports sites DraftKings and FanDuel are about to face their first major legal hurdle.
New Jersey Sen. Frank Pallone, a ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, called for the panel to investigate the link between fantasy sports and gambling following the increased promotion and coverage of DFS products throughout national TV broadcast networks.
On Monday, Pallone sent a letter to committee Chair Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade Subcommittee Chair Michael C. Burgess (R-Texas).
“I am writing to request that the Energy and Commerce Committee hold a hearing examining the relationship between professional sports and fantasy sports to review the legal status of fantasy sports and sports betting,” the senator wrote.
Dane Pia Jeppesen has won the Genting Poker Series leg in Stoke after overpowering a final table that included the likes of Simon Deadman and Leo McClean.
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Pia Jeppesen is the latest winner of a Genting Poker Series (GPS) Main Event. The Dane earned victory at Genting Club Stoke. She was the only non-English player to cash.
Jeppesen defeated a field of 284 entrants, capturing a £30,660 first prize, joining the likes of Ludovic Geilich (Newcastle) and Yucel Eminoglu (Luton) in the 2015 GPS winners’ roll call.
Republican presidential candidate, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, talks with customers during a campaign stop at the Farm & Flower Market. Monday, Sept.
The colt is out of graded stakes winner Afleeting Lady, a half sister to classic winner Shackleford and grade I winner Lady Joanne.
Jockey Victor Espinoza and partner Karina Smirnoff will see how long they last in a televised dancing competition that begins the evening of Sept. 14 on ABC.
In a span of just eight hours on the day after Labor Day, more than a half million dollars in prize winning tickets were presented for claim at CT Lottery headquarters in Rocky Hill, including two $255,555 top prizes for the lottery’s ” 5 Card Cash ” draw game, according to the state lottery website. Jean Viera of Milford claimed the $255,555 top prize winning 5 Card Cash ticket for August 30 that contained the winning card symbols 4S – 5S – 9S – 2H – 8H.
The winning Washington County ticket was sold at GetGo on Washington Road in Canonsburg, according to Pennsylvania Lottery officials.
Our 2015 iHeartRadio Music Festival is almost here! Music history will once again be made on September 18th and 19th at the MGM Grand, as our star-studded lineup takes the stage for what is sure to be an incredible weekend full of music. You DO NOT want to miss it! And even if you can’t be in Vegas to see the festival at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, you can still be a part of it.