Zachary Smiley is an anomaly. Not many poker players bring home a six-figure score for their very first tournament takedown. Smiley is the winner of the WPT Maryland Live! tournament […]
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Dionne Benson, executive director of the Racing Medication & Testing Consortium, submitted this letter to BloodHorse on the 2015 methocarbamol positive in Kentucky of trainer Graham Motion which was upheld Oct. 11 by the KHRC.
Gaming technology provider Scientific Games has acquired the interactive game portfolio of Canadian developer Karma Gaming.
On Wednesday, Sci-Games announced that it had acquired Karma Gaming’s game library in a deal that was concluded in June, although word has only just now emerged. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Sci-Games’ CEO of lottery operations Jim Kennedy said the deal would allow his company’s B2B clients to offer “unique solutions to lottery players that help them to move seamlessly between the retail and mobile/online lottery entertainment experience.”
Sci-Games and the Halifax-based Karma Gaming share several mutual lottery clients, including the Atlantic Lottery Corp (ALC) in Canada’s Maritime provinces. Last year, the ALC inked a deal that will see it deploy Sci-Games’ SciPlay iLottery gaming system starting in mid-2017.
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Hurricane Matthew, the Cat 4 or 5 storm barreling towards the eastern seaboard of Florida and South Carolina today, is a sobering reminder that Mother Nature may be the greatest […]
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A court has ordered Italy’s National Lottery operator to reimburse a scratch card player who failed to win a prize in a year’s worth of play.
On Monday, Italian media outlet Il Messaggero reported that a local court in Vallo della Lucania, a small town in the province of Salerno, had ordered National Lottery operator Lottomatica to pay approximately €3k to a 29-year-old man who claims to have spent that sum buying 255 scratch and win cards over the past year without winning anything.
The judge who heard the man’s tale of woe declared that the scratch tickets displayed no information regarding the probability of winning a prize nor any warning about the potentially addictive properties of lottery tickets.
Italian court rulings have established that lottery scratchcards must include such warning messages, or, if the card is too small to adequately display these messages, it must direct players to a website containing the full message.
Until Japan’s legislators finally get around to legalizing casino gambling, you can expect a lot more stories like this one.
On Wednesday, Kanagawa Prefectural Police announced that they’d busted an illegal baccarat casino in the Kohoku Ward of Japan’s second largest city Yokohama. The casino, known as Tiger, reportedly earned revenue of ¥1b (US $9.6m) in the 10 months that it had been operational.
TV Asahi quoted police saying they’d detained four suspects, including Kiyoharu Kishi, Tiger’s 51-year-old manager. Kishi and two of his fellow detainees have already admitted their guilt while the fourth suspect is reportedly employing the Shaggy-inspired ‘wasn’t me’ defense.
Acting on an anonymous tip, police placed Tiger under surveillance for five days before launching their raid on the venue, which was based in a commercial building in a business district. The venue was equipped with a video camera to monitor the entrance, which apparently proved insufficient in giving Tiger’s operators enough time to dispose of incriminating evidence.
After a narrow victory in the Secretariat Stakes (gr. IT), Beach Patrol will try for a second straight graded stakes win against other 3-year-olds on the turf Oct. 8 in the Hill Prince Stakes (gr. IIIT) at Belmont Park.
After a narrow victory in the Secretariat Stakes (gr. IT), Beach Patrol will try for a second straight graded stakes win against other 3-year-olds on the turf Oct. 8 in the Hill Prince Stakes (gr. IIIT) at Belmont Park.
A group of Florida breeders has asked a circuit court judge to compel the FTBOA to include a slate of proposed changes in the agenda for an annual membership meeting Oct. 20.
A group of Florida breeders has asked a circuit court judge to compel the FTBOA to include a slate of proposed changes in the agenda for an annual membership meeting Oct. 20.
Despite reservations expressed by owner J. Paul Reddam after what he called “the worst performance of (Nyquist’s) life” in the Pennsylvania Derby (gr. II), the Uncle Mo colt will target the Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I).
Churchill Downs’ September meet posted strong handle growth this year, with all-sources and average daily wagering up 13.9% during the 11-day stand that concluded Oct. 2.
Mongolian Saturday, a surprise winner of last year’s Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (gr. IT) at Keeneland, makes his first start of the year in the U.S. in the Oct. 8 Woodford Stakes (gr. IIIT) in Lexington.
The hum of nearby Interstate 210 was all that was audible from the Santa Anita Park grandstand before trainer Jerry Hollendorfer broke the silence with the sharp “beep” of his stopwatch as Songbird began her workout from the half-mile pole Oct. 6.
The son-in-law of the late Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos is taking over the beleaguered gaming technology provider PhilWeb Corp. like a knight in shining armor.
Gregorio Araneta has agreed to acquire resigned PhilWeb chairman Roberto Ongpin’s 53.76 percent stake comprising of 771,651,896 shares in PhilWeb, according to a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange. The acquisition of the entire shares of Ongpin has a tag price of PHP2.01 billion (US$41.56 million) or PHP2.60 (US$0.0539) per share and will be done in two tranches.
Pursuant to the sale and purchase agreement, Ongpin w ill first complete the disposal of 653,151,896 shares in favor of Gregorio Araneta through a special block sale pending approval by the bourse.
Ongpin will transfer the remaining 118,500,000 shares upon their registration with the PSE. This tranche comprises partially paid shares, which have been fully settled but remained unregistered with the bourse.
The Gibraltar Betting and Gaming Association (GBGA) is restarting its bid to overturn UK’s point-of-consumption tax (POCT) at the European Union’s top court.
UK implemented its 15 percent POCT in December 2014, shortly after GBGA launched a preemptive legal battle. The association believes the POCT discriminates against Gibraltar-licensed UK-facing operators and was primarily intended not to protect UK punters from alleged harm, but to boost the UK government’s coffers.
The UK High Court, which sided with the GBGA, sent the case to the Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU) in Luxembourg since the case raised a number of issues related to the European Union law. In particular, CJEU is being asked to clarify Gibraltar’s status within the UK, such as if Gibraltar and the UK should be treated as a single member state when applying EU law.
THE GBGA believes that the 15 percent levy is “an unlawful restriction on the supply of services to the UK,” because it is forbidden under Article 56 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. However, Article 56 is applicable only to individual member states, which prompted the UK government to question whether Gibraltar status as a British-owned territory means that it doesn’t meet the requirements of the law.
Yoshitaka “Nobita” Naito (110) may have claimed the ONE Strawweight World Championship in his successful promotional debut just four and a half months ago, but a champion’s work is never done. In fact, his road to defending the gold and establishing a legacy is just about to begin.
The undefeated Japanese champion will make his first title defense on Friday Night, 7 October, when he faces Joshua Pacio in the global main event at ONE: STATE OF WARRIORS, live from the Thuwunna Indoor Stadium in Yangon, Myanmar.
Not only is this a title bout, but it’s also a suspenseful battle featuring a pair of athletes who have never tasted defeat.
“It’s a fight against two undefeated fighters and, for the first time, one of us will lose, so that is an exciting part of this match,” Naito says. “It will be a good matchup. There will be a lot of action and one of us will win.”