Jesse Sylvia, perhaps best known for finishing second in the 2012 WSOP Main Event, won the WPT Borgata Open Main Event on Friday night. The US pro beat fellow American […]
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An unidentified Macau casino has been victimized by a con job involving the fraudulent winning of some HKD 24.4m (US $3.1m).
On Monday, Macau Judiciary Police announced that they had arrested one casino pit manager and three VIP gaming collaborators, aka junket associates, after receiving a report on Friday from an unspecified casino regarding a VIP gaming room fraud.
Police said the pit manager had stolen a deck of playing cards from the VIP room at which he worked. These cards were then apparently marked in a way that allowed the three other conspirators to identify the card values before they were turned face up. Police said they were still investigating the manner in which the cards were marked.
PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam told GGRAsia that the scammers wagered a minimum of HKD 1m per hand, winning HKD 24.4m within about half an hour’s time. All the wagering was done with a single shoe of cards.
An online casino affiliate has been accused of hacking numerous higher education websites to boost its Google search results.
Last week, web marketing agency eTraffic published a report indicating that an unidentified online casino affiliate site’s surge to the top of Google’s search engine rankings appeared to have been the result of some seriously ‘black hat’ optimization techniques.
Between January and September 2016, the affiliate site in question had gone from Google keyword rankings in the 40s and 50s to top-10, including number one rankings for traditionally pricey keywords/phrases like ‘real money slots,’ ‘online slots real money,’ ‘real slots,’ ‘real online slots’ and ‘play real money slots online.’
eTraffic notes that one of the key factors Google employs when ranking search results is the number of backlinks from top level domains like .gov and .edu. The affiliate had 76 such backlinks from major educational sites in the US and other countries, including New York University, Dartmouth College, Duke University and Stanford University.
In her first foray into Thoroughbred ownership, Samantha Menker paid $2,700 for a Gemologist colt at this year’s Keeneland January mixed sale and sold him in September for $125,000.
In her first foray into Thoroughbred ownership, Samantha Menker paid $2,700 for a Gemologist colt at this year’s Keeneland January mixed sale and sold him in September for $125,000.
In her first foray into Thoroughbred ownership, Samantha Menker paid $2,700 for a Gemologist colt at this year’s Keeneland January mixed sale and sold him in September for $125,000.
The NBC Sports Group will provide 90 minutes of live coverage Jan. 28 from Gulfstream Park that will be available on TVs, desktop computers, and mobile devices.
Phil Hellmuth is more than just one of the highest-profile poker players in the world. He’s a coach, philanthropist, Golden State Warriors fan, brand ambassador, and now, he has a […]
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Philippines-based casino operator Bloomberry Resorts has publicly refuted a junket operator’s claim that it had been given more time to close the purchase of Bloomberry’s South Korean casino business.
On June 23, Bloomberry announced that it had reached a deal to sell its Jeju Sun Hotel & Casino to Macau junket investor Iao Kun Group Holding Company (IKGH). The deal was expected to close within 45 days of the announcement.
Last week, during an analyst call to discuss IKGH’s grim Q2 results, IKGH director Jim Preissler claimed his company was having trouble arranging financing for the $102.6m deal, but reassured investors that Bloomberry had agreed to extend the 45-day deadline to allow IKGH more time to raise the readies.
On Monday, Bloomberry filed a terse notice with the Philippine Stock Exchange, titled ‘Clarification of News Reports.’ The notice referenced Preissler’s comments, then stated unequivocally that Bloomberry “has not agreed to the extension of the closing date for the said transaction with Iao Kun.”
Six-year-old stakes winner will be the first son of Too Much Bling to enter stud.
Manchester-based bookmaker Betfred is set to acquire the 360 betting shops that are being sold off in the UK as a result of the £2.3 billion (US$2.9 billion) Ladbrokes-Coral merger.
The Irish Independent reported over the weekend that Betfred is likely to be announced as the winning bidder for hundreds of betting outlets that Ladbrokes-Coral offloaded.
The report didn’t indicate how much Betfred offered for the 360 betting shops of Ladbrokes-Coral but it mentioned that the British bookmaker’s closest bidding rival, Irish betting chain Boylesports was unsuccessful with its bid despite dangling a €118 million (US$132.61 million) offer for the shops.
At present, Betfred currently holds a retail portfolio of 1370 betting shops. Boylesports, on the other hand, has over 200 shops in the Republic and Northern Ireland.
Manchester-based bookmaker Betfred is set to acquire the 360 betting shops that are being sold off in the UK as a result of the £2.3 billion (US$2.9 billion) Ladbrokes-Coral merger.
The Irish Independent reported over the weekend that Betfred is likely to be announced as the winning bidder for hundreds of betting outlets that Ladbrokes-Coral offloaded.
The report didn’t indicate how much Betfred offered for the 360 betting shops of Ladbrokes-Coral but it mentioned that the British bookmaker’s closest bidding rival, Irish betting chain Boylesports was unsuccessful with its bid despite dangling a €118 million (US$132.61 million) offer for the shops.
At present, Betfred currently holds a retail portfolio of 1370 betting shops. Boylesports, on the other hand, has over 200 shops in the Republic and Northern Ireland.
Dublin, Ireland – September 26th 2016 – KamaGames®, a global developer and publisher of social games for mobile platforms, today announced its continued commitment to use the leading games and experience creation platform, Unity.
KamaGames Studios®, part of the KamaGames group, have recently completed the conversion of the last of its titles from iOS and Android native apps to Unity 5 delivering on their commitment to provide players with the most realistic social casino experience possible.
Updating all of their portfolio of products with the Unity 5 game engine gives KamaGames the opportunity to not only improve on game play but to also make such graphical advancements as adding stunning 3D motion captured graphics to Blackjack and enhancing graphical quality across the Pokerist Texas Poker and Roulettist titles too.
Each of KamaGames’ titles have seen a number of new and improved features being added. In addition to the constant improvements to speed and stablity, a brand new set of achievements and store items have been added to all 3 games along with a fully updated and more detailed profile section giving players more details about their progression in game. Finally, KamaGames has introduced global weekly player tournaments to bring the KamaGames community even closer, starting with Pokerist in the next few weeks.
Dublin, Ireland – September 26th 2016 – KamaGames®, a global developer and publisher of social games for mobile platforms, today announced its continued commitment to use the leading games and experience creation platform, Unity.
KamaGames Studios®, part of the KamaGames group, have recently completed the conversion of the last of its titles from iOS and Android native apps to Unity 5 delivering on their commitment to provide players with the most realistic social casino experience possible.
Updating all of their portfolio of products with the Unity 5 game engine gives KamaGames the opportunity to not only improve on game play but to also make such graphical advancements as adding stunning 3D motion captured graphics to Blackjack and enhancing graphical quality across the Pokerist Texas Poker and Roulettist titles too.
Each of KamaGames’ titles have seen a number of new and improved features being added. In addition to the constant improvements to speed and stablity, a brand new set of achievements and store items have been added to all 3 games along with a fully updated and more detailed profile section giving players more details about their progression in game. Finally, KamaGames has introduced global weekly player tournaments to bring the KamaGames community even closer, starting with Pokerist in the next few weeks.
Blockchain is popularly known as the technology underpinning bitcoin, but more and more institutions are looking at the technology for other uses.
Last week, reports surfaced that several big banks including Citigroup, Credit Suisse Group AG and HSBC Holdings PLC have started testing the blockchain technology to share trade reference data “more accurately and efficiently.”
In Japan, the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) recently partnered with tech giant IBM to examine the design, management and execution of contracts using blockchain technologies. The first pilot projects will automate business transactions between the two companies.
The project is built on the Hyperledger Project fabric, which is an open-source blockchain platform that can be used for real-life contract management on the IBM Cloud.
Sports betting operator CrownBet is unveiling a new advertising campaign on Australian television—one that doesn’t mention actual betting.
The ad campaign will launch during Monday night’s telecast of the Australian Football League’s Brownlow Medal on Seven West Media, the Australian Financial Review reported.
In the TV ad, former Australian cricket captain Rickey Ponting driving a Ferrari along the glittering shoreline of Monaco, then watching the Formula One grand prix as well as indulging other experiences that “money can’t buy,” which was the theme that CrownBet was going for.
CrownBet chief executive Matthew Tripp said the advertisement is for the CrownBet Rewards loyalty program, hence the absence of betting component.
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WhatsApp has over 1 billion users. It is nowhere near as popular as Facebook Messenger in North America, but across Europe, it is easily the number one messaging platform with massive reach across the UK.
Most men are in numerous groups on WhatsApp, but all typical have three core groups they use on a daily basis;
1. General mates group
Will Japanese gaming mogul Kazuo Okada’s multi-billion dollar integrated resort complex in Manila’s Entertainment City be enough to launch a thousand cruise ships?
Tiger Resort, Leisure and Entertainment Inc. is mulling on building an exclusive port along the coast of its integrated resort complex Okada Manila in order to accommodate visiting luxury cruise liners in the future, according to the Manila Times.
The report quoted Lorenz Manalang, executive director for public relations of Tiger Resorts, who said that the casino operator are now in talks with cruise liners to consider Manila as one of their destinations.
He pointed out that a port in Entertainment City could bolster the luxury tourism of the Philippines. For now, Manalang said they got positive feedback from luxury cruise ship operators.
It’s a close presidential race, as the latest polling numbers show nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump running neck and neck just before the first presidential debate.
For punters, however, there’s a more important question that needs to be answered: What color will Trump’s tie be?
Clinton still a favorite
First, which party will win in the November presidential election? At Bodog, the Democrats’ frontrunner remains to be a favorite at -220 (5/11), while the Republican Party is at +175 (7/4).
Amid the fanfare that is the upcoming U.S. presidential elections, one senator has sneakily made a move to ban online gambling again in the country.
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., quietly filed a new bill, S.3376, on the Senate agenda last September 21. The bill was read twice before it was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, which means that is eligible for debate as well as voting for its passage.
According to the Congress website, S.3376 seeks “to ensure the integrity of laws enacted to prevent the use of financial instruments for funding or operating online casinos are not undermined by legal opinions not carrying the force of law issued by the federal government lawyers.”
The Poker Players Alliance, which first broke the news, added new information about S.3376, which includes a description that the bill is a “reaffirmation of prohibition on funding of unlawful internet gambling.”