888Poker will host the fifth iteration of their Super XL Series in May. The event will consist of 40 tournaments, $3m in guaranteed prize money, and a $1m guaranteed Main Event.

Online poker players had better start saving up the pennies, stocking their bedrooms with food and water, and writing an exhaustive list of ready made excuses for not spending time with their loved ones.

888Poker has become the third online poker network to host an elite online poker series in the month of May. The 888Poker Super XL Series will take place May 14-22, will consist of 40 events, and offer $3m in guaranteed prizes.40

The format of the festival will see Mini and Main themed events for the low and high rollers, and a Turbo theme for those that like to get in and out with as little fuss as possible.

888Poker will host the fifth iteration of their Super XL Series in May. The event will consist of 40 tournaments, $3m in guaranteed prize money, and a $1m guaranteed Main Event.

Online poker players had better start saving up the pennies, stocking their bedrooms with food and water, and writing an exhaustive list of ready made excuses for not spending time with their loved ones.

888Poker has become the third online poker network to host an elite online poker series in the month of May. The 888Poker Super XL Series will take place May 14-22, will consist of 40 events, and offer $3m in guaranteed prizes.40

The format of the festival will see Mini and Main themed events for the low and high rollers, and a Turbo theme for those that like to get in and out with as little fuss as possible.

Portugal’s online gamblers will have to remain patient after a meeting between the gambling regulator Serviço de Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos do Turismo de Portugal (SRIJ), and the pro-online gaming faction Associação Nacional de Apostadores Online (ANAon) reveal the first licenses will be delayed until June.

And the date keeps getting knocked back.

It must suck balls to be an online gambler living in Portugal right now. Things were bumping along rather swimmingly until the Serviço de Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos do Turismo de Portugal (SRIJ) decided the whole system needed a shake up back in the early months of 2015.

The dam broke, murky grey waters rushed into the online gambling market, and rather than drown in the confusion of it all, most of the operators deflated their rubber dinghy and took it elsewhere.

Portugal’s online gamblers will have to remain patient after a meeting between the gambling regulator Serviço de Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos do Turismo de Portugal (SRIJ), and the pro-online gaming faction Associação Nacional de Apostadores Online (ANAon) reveal the first licenses will be delayed until June.

And the date keeps getting knocked back.

It must suck balls to be an online gambler living in Portugal right now. Things were bumping along rather swimmingly until the Serviço de Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos do Turismo de Portugal (SRIJ) decided the whole system needed a shake up back in the early months of 2015.

The dam broke, murky grey waters rushed into the online gambling market, and rather than drown in the confusion of it all, most of the operators deflated their rubber dinghy and took it elsewhere.

Online gamblers in Delaware have been busy as the combined online gambling revenue from the state’s three racinos reached a record-breaking $260,539 mostly due to high video lottery numbers.

Supporters of the online gambling industry in Delaware are breaking out the party poppers as the state broke all previous records for combined monthly revenue in March.

Punters at Delaware Park, Dover Downs, and Harrington Raceway helped produce $260,539 in revenue, beating the previous best of $240,762 set in April 2014 by $19,777.

While the amount still represents a few winning hands of poker for the likes of Daniel ‘Jungleman’ Cates and co., it still represents an upward trend, one that has been following the same trajectory since the turn of the year.

Online gamblers in Delaware have been busy as the combined online gambling revenue from the state’s three racinos reached a record-breaking $260,539 mostly due to high video lottery numbers.

Supporters of the online gambling industry in Delaware are breaking out the party poppers as the state broke all previous records for combined monthly revenue in March.

Punters at Delaware Park, Dover Downs, and Harrington Raceway helped produce $260,539 in revenue, beating the previous best of $240,762 set in April 2014 by $19,777.

While the amount still represents a few winning hands of poker for the likes of Daniel ‘Jungleman’ Cates and co., it still represents an upward trend, one that has been following the same trajectory since the turn of the year.

Pennsylvania’s casinos set a new table game revenue record in March, led by Las Vegas Sands’ Sands Bethlehem.

According to figures released Monday by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, the state’s dozen casinos reported total table game revenue of $77.9m in March. The figure is up 11.7% from the same month last year, and eclipsed the previous monthly table record (set this past December) by $5.7m.

Sands Bethlehem, the traditional top table earner, led the March table madness with nearly $19.7m, 14.8% better than it reported in March 2015. Runner-up Parx Casino was well back with just under $15.4m.

Combined with the state’s previously released slots figures for March, the total gaming haul for the month was $289.2m, up 4.2% year-on-year.

Pennsylvania’s casinos set a new table game revenue record in March, led by Las Vegas Sands’ Sands Bethlehem.

According to figures released Monday by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, the state’s dozen casinos reported total table game revenue of $77.9m in March. The figure is up 11.7% from the same month last year, and eclipsed the previous monthly table record (set this past December) by $5.7m.

Sands Bethlehem, the traditional top table earner, led the March table madness with nearly $19.7m, 14.8% better than it reported in March 2015. Runner-up Parx Casino was well back with just under $15.4m.

Combined with the state’s previously released slots figures for March, the total gaming haul for the month was $289.2m, up 4.2% year-on-year.

Canada’s push for single-game sports betting took a hit on Tuesday after the ruling Liberal party announced it would oppose the measure.

On Tuesday, Canada’s House of Commons held the second (of three) readings of Bill C-221, aka the Safe and Regulated Sports Betting Act, which would amend a single section of Canada’s criminal code to allow provinces and territories to decide whether to permit single-game sports wagers within their borders.

C-221 received a passionate introduction by its sponsor, New Democratic Party MP Brian Masse (pictured), whose voice was a little hoarse – which, in typical Canadian fashion, he blamed on having spent the previous day yelling at the youth hockey team he coaches – but whose oratory made sure his fellow MPs understood the opportunity at hand.

Masse repeated many of his earlier arguments in support of his private member’s bill, in particular the fact that single-game wagering is already taking place. Masse’s own research found that a Google search of ‘Canadian sports betting sites’ turns up around 530k hits.

New Jersey’s gambling regulator has clarified its position on just how dirty its licensed online gambling operators are allowed to get via their dealings in legally ‘grey’ markets.

On Monday, David Rebuck, director of the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE), published an advisory bulletin on the “impact of operations in grey markets on suitability re licensure,” in which the DGE attempts to clarify what level of grey market operations it will tolerate among its online gambling licensees.

Rebuck says the DGE defines ‘grey’ markets as “jurisdictions where the legality of internet gaming operations is an open question,” while ‘black’ markets are those where governments have “taken affirmative, concrete actions to actively enforce laws that prohibit online gaming, or have issued unequivocal official pronouncements that online gaming is not legal.”

The DGE maintains that operators who do business in black markets “will not be able to establish the ‘good character, honesty and integrity’ required for licensure in New Jersey.”

New Jersey’s gambling regulator has clarified its position on just how dirty its licensed online gambling operators are allowed to get via their dealings in legally ‘grey’ markets.

On Monday, David Rebuck, director of the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE), published an advisory bulletin on the “impact of operations in grey markets on suitability re licensure,” in which the DGE attempts to clarify what level of grey market operations it will tolerate among its online gambling licensees.

Rebuck says the DGE defines ‘grey’ markets as “jurisdictions where the legality of internet gaming operations is an open question,” while ‘black’ markets are those where governments have “taken affirmative, concrete actions to actively enforce laws that prohibit online gaming, or have issued unequivocal official pronouncements that online gaming is not legal.”

The DGE maintains that operators who do business in black markets “will not be able to establish the ‘good character, honesty and integrity’ required for licensure in New Jersey.”

UK-listed online gambling operator GVC Holdings is facing a potential class action lawsuit in Canada stemming from the collapse of an alleged joint venture involving its Sportingbet brand.

Ontario-based law firm Findlay McCarthy PC recently launched a website seeking submissions from Canadian sports bettors who registered with Sportingbet between 2005 and 2015.

The firm says it is considering a class action “seeking reimbursement on behalf of betters [sic] of all bets placed by Canadian residents” with Sportingbet during the period in question. The law firm said it also intends to seek “substantial punitive damages” against GVC should the allegations against the company prove correct.

The action is related to a suit filed last August by Doug Honeger, a Montreal-based sports and entertainment consultant, who claims his 37 Entertainment Inc (37E) entered into a joint venture with GVC to launch two Sportingbet-branded websites serving Canadian sports bettors.

UK-listed online gambling operator GVC Holdings is facing a potential class action lawsuit in Canada stemming from the collapse of an alleged joint venture involving its Sportingbet brand.

Ontario-based law firm Findlay McCarthy PC recently launched a website seeking submissions from Canadian sports bettors who registered with Sportingbet between 2005 and 2015.

The firm says it is considering a class action “seeking reimbursement on behalf of betters [sic] of all bets placed by Canadian residents” with Sportingbet during the period in question. The law firm said it also intends to seek “substantial punitive damages” against GVC should the allegations against the company prove correct.

The action is related to a suit filed last August by Doug Honeger, a Montreal-based sports and entertainment consultant, who claims his 37 Entertainment Inc (37E) entered into a joint venture with GVC to launch two Sportingbet-branded websites serving Canadian sports bettors.