August 2016, Budapest – The organizers are proud to announce the newest confirmed speaker, Vahe Baloulian, who will be among the keynote speakers of the “Hot Topics of the Online Gambling Industry in Europe” panel at the Central and Eastern European Gaming Conference(CEEGC 2016) which will take place in Budapest on the 20th of September 2016.

Vahe Baloulian is CEO of BetConstruct(Lanyards sponsor of the conference) and an award-winning industry veteran, named in 2016 as one of the Gaming Intelligence’s ‘Hot 50’ most innovative and inspiring people in online gaming.

During his long career in the gaming industry, Vahe has served as Director of Gaming at 888, COO of LVFH and CEO of Red Planet Gaming. He is a frequent guest speaker and judge at leading industry events.

In a recent interview in the EEGReport Magazine, which you can read in full here, Mr. Baloulian  has answered to some burning questions that were raised by our audience in regards to the most important Eastern European Gaming markets.

Casino operator Wynn Macau Ltd. is moving around some of its tables in Macau to make for the dismal number of gaming tables allocated to its soon-to-open Wynn Palace resort in Cotai.

Last week, the $4 billion integrated resort received word that it has been authorized to run 100 new-to-market gaming tables for its opening on August 22, while the other 50 gaming tables will be added in the following two years. The new casino resort has also been allowed to operate 1,145 slot machines.

This number, however, is just slightly over one-third of the 400 new gaming tables that Wynn Macau had applied for. And so to make up for it, the casino operator is relocating some of the tables from its other Macau property.

Hong Kong Stock Exchange-listed Wynn Macau announced in a filing on Monday that it will transfer “approximately 250 tables from Wynn Macau to Wynn Palace, bringing [the] total table games at Wynn Palace to approximately 350 and total table games at Wynn Macau to approximately 270.”

Turkish-facing online gambling operator, Tempobet, have agreed to partner with Man City in their Asian-facing business, and Virgin Media takes care of away fans as part of their shirt agreement with Southampton.

What do Burton Albion, Real Madrid and Barcelona have in common?

They have recently entered into sponsorship agreements with the Turkish-facing online betting operator Tempobet, and Manchester City has also joined the bandwagon.

Tempobet has become City’s regional betting partner for the Asia-Pacific region in a multi-year agreement. The team’s new crest will appear on the Tempobet website, and a selection of City’s top-tier players will be used in photo shoots for the online gambling company, and appear in a new TV commercial.

A round-up of live tournament news including Said El-Yousfi winning the World Series of Poker Circuit Global Casino Championships, Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott honoured with the £1m Devilfish Cup, and America’s Poker Tour readies for their pilot.

Said El-Yousfi has won the WSOP Circuit Global Casino Championship at Harrah’s Cherokee.

Formerly, the WSOPC National Championships, the tournament organisers expanded by taking the circuit global in a bid to fly the WSOP flag to the low-mid stakes players from all around the world.

It’s a unique event; the last gold bracelet before the WSOP Main Event Final Table, and arguably one of the easiest routes to a bracelet in the WSOP calendar. To qualify for the event, you had to have won a 2015/16 WSOPC Main Event, ended as a WSOPC Casino Champion, or finished in the Top 52 point earners in the WSOPC Leaderboard.

The Premier League is back, and Hull City pull off the unlikeliest of wins over the weekend, both Manchester clubs start out with a win, and Arsenal suffers an opening day defeat for the second successive season.

Leicester City is the first reigning Premier League champions to start the defence of their title with a loss after a humbling at the hands of Hull. The Tigers began the game without a permanent manager, and a squad of 13 players, and yet they were able to upset the upset kings thanks to goals from Adama Diomande and Robert Snodgrass in a 2-1 win.

Claudio Ranieri went for pace with Ahmed Musa starting ahead of Shinji Okazaki, and a place in the starting eleven for Demarai Gray, but they didn’t use it. Instead, Leicester laboured in possession, and Hull punished them in first half injury time when Curtis Davies flicked on a near post header and an acrobatic finish by Diomande at the far post sent the Tigers purring into the Hull changing room at half time.

Hull couldn’t have started the second half any worse if they tried. A minute into the restart and Tom Huddlestone brought down Gray in the box and last season’s Player of the Year, Riyad Mahrez, put the ball home from the spot.

The Premier League is back, and Hull City pull off the unlikeliest of wins over the weekend, both Manchester clubs start out with a win, and Arsenal suffers an opening day defeat for the second successive season.

Leicester City is the first reigning Premier League champions to start the defence of their title with a loss after a humbling at the hands of Hull. The Tigers began the game without a permanent manager, and a squad of 13 players, and yet they were able to upset the upset kings thanks to goals from Adama Diomande and Robert Snodgrass in a 2-1 win.

Claudio Ranieri went for pace with Ahmed Musa starting ahead of Shinji Okazaki, and a place in the starting eleven for Demarai Gray, but they didn’t use it. Instead, Leicester laboured in possession, and Hull punished them in first half injury time when Curtis Davies flicked on a near post header and an acrobatic finish by Diomande at the far post sent the Tigers purring into the Hull changing room at half time.

Hull couldn’t have started the second half any worse if they tried. A minute into the restart and Tom Huddlestone brought down Gray in the box and last season’s Player of the Year, Riyad Mahrez, put the ball home from the spot.