ICE will host the largest delegation of senior gaming officials from Macau and the People’s Republic of China. The 20 strong, government funded delegation, led by Jay Chun, Chairman of Paradise Entertainment, LT Game and the Asian trade body, MGEMA, will be at ICE to explore advances in AI and VR and how they impact gaming. The Macau/PRC delegation will comprise senior representatives of eight commercial gaming organisations as well as print and broadcast media.

John Sullivan, who is helping to co-ordinate the visit to London, said: “This represents the largest government funded delegation from Macau to attend ICE.  It reflects the importance of ICE and the high regard with which the exhibition is viewed.  The delegation has a busy itinerary and is very keen to engage with manufacturers active in the development of the newest gaming technologies in particular AI and VR.”

ICE exhibitors and attendees wanting to meet with the delegation should email: [email protected]

Media Enquiries:

ICE will host the largest delegation of senior gaming officials from Macau and the People’s Republic of China. The 20 strong, government funded delegation, led by Jay Chun, Chairman of Paradise Entertainment, LT Game and the Asian trade body, MGEMA, will be at ICE to explore advances in AI and VR and how they impact gaming. The Macau/PRC delegation will comprise senior representatives of eight commercial gaming organisations as well as print and broadcast media.

John Sullivan, who is helping to co-ordinate the visit to London, said: “This represents the largest government funded delegation from Macau to attend ICE.  It reflects the importance of ICE and the high regard with which the exhibition is viewed.  The delegation has a busy itinerary and is very keen to engage with manufacturers active in the development of the newest gaming technologies in particular AI and VR.”

ICE exhibitors and attendees wanting to meet with the delegation should email: [email protected]

Media Enquiries:

PokerStars’ exclusive progressive mega jackpot makes first millionaire in just three minutes

ONCHAN, Isle of Man – February 2017 – A university student from Uruguay has turned just $1.00 into $1,517,303.08 on Millionaires Island to become the first ever jackpot winner on the million dollar progressive slot, which is exclusive to PokerStars Casino, an Amaya Inc. (NASDAQ: AYA; TSX: AYA) brand.

The Uruguayan player, whose screenname is “LuisCancelaU”, had been playing this popular slot game for three minutes, spinning just 17 times, before four Millionaires Island symbols appeared on the reels, and he needed just one more to hit the jackpot.

“It won’t appear, these things don’t happen,” the 26-year-old, who preferred not to be personally identified, told PokerStars. Then the fifth symbol appeared and the jackpot feature went off to celebrate his incredible life-changing winning moment.

Specialist virtual games provider Kiron Interactive has become the first provider of virtuals to introduce winter sports to their portfolio with the launch of two new titles – Hockey Shots and Speed Skating.

Hockey Shots uses high-quality graphics and sounds to immerse players into a sudden death ice hockey shootout.

Games every few minutes, with multi-concurrent events of six games scheduled into each time slot, means ice hockey lovers will never have to wait too long to play.

Meanwhile Speed Skating, which offers a realistic 3D representation of the sport, appeals to players who love the excitement of the Winter Olympics, as well as those who enjoy other racing titles.

Specialist virtual games provider Kiron Interactive has become the first provider of virtuals to introduce winter sports to their portfolio with the launch of two new titles – Hockey Shots and Speed Skating.

Hockey Shots uses high-quality graphics and sounds to immerse players into a sudden death ice hockey shootout.

Games every few minutes, with multi-concurrent events of six games scheduled into each time slot, means ice hockey lovers will never have to wait too long to play.

Meanwhile Speed Skating, which offers a realistic 3D representation of the sport, appeals to players who love the excitement of the Winter Olympics, as well as those who enjoy other racing titles.

Specialist virtual games provider Kiron Interactive has become the first provider of virtuals to introduce winter sports to their portfolio with the launch of two new titles – Hockey Shots and Speed Skating.

Hockey Shots uses high-quality graphics and sounds to immerse players into a sudden death ice hockey shootout.

Games every few minutes, with multi-concurrent events of six games scheduled into each time slot, means ice hockey lovers will never have to wait too long to play.

Meanwhile Speed Skating, which offers a realistic 3D representation of the sport, appeals to players who love the excitement of the Winter Olympics, as well as those who enjoy other racing titles.

Specialist virtual games provider Kiron Interactive has become the first provider of virtuals to introduce winter sports to their portfolio with the launch of two new titles – Hockey Shots and Speed Skating.

Hockey Shots uses high-quality graphics and sounds to immerse players into a sudden death ice hockey shootout.

Games every few minutes, with multi-concurrent events of six games scheduled into each time slot, means ice hockey lovers will never have to wait too long to play.

Meanwhile Speed Skating, which offers a realistic 3D representation of the sport, appeals to players who love the excitement of the Winter Olympics, as well as those who enjoy other racing titles.

FIFA has concluded an agreement with Sportradar Integrity Services that will provide world football’s governing body with a full suite of monitoring, education and intelligence services to further strengthen the integrity of football around the globe.

Under the terms of the new agreement, Sportradar, the global leader in match manipulation detection and prevention, will use its award-winning Fraud Detection System to identify and analyse any suspicious betting behaviour or patterns across a number of international and domestic competitions around the world.

FIFA will work closely with the six continental confederations (CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, CAF, UEFA, the AFC and the OFC) that comprise FIFA’s member associations to ensure that any findings are provided to the appropriate organisations, and to support any relevant follow-up action or disciplinary proceedings. The monitoring activities will cover various FIFA tournaments, including the FIFA World Cup™ and its qualifiers, the FIFA Confederations Cup, the Olympic Football Tournaments and all of its youth competitions, as well as a wide range of national leagues and all confederation-run competitions.

In addition to monitoring and detection services, FIFA will be able to call on Sportradar’s in-house intelligence and investigation experts.

FIFA has concluded an agreement with Sportradar Integrity Services that will provide world football’s governing body with a full suite of monitoring, education and intelligence services to further strengthen the integrity of football around the globe.

Under the terms of the new agreement, Sportradar, the global leader in match manipulation detection and prevention, will use its award-winning Fraud Detection System to identify and analyse any suspicious betting behaviour or patterns across a number of international and domestic competitions around the world.

FIFA will work closely with the six continental confederations (CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, CAF, UEFA, the AFC and the OFC) that comprise FIFA’s member associations to ensure that any findings are provided to the appropriate organisations, and to support any relevant follow-up action or disciplinary proceedings. The monitoring activities will cover various FIFA tournaments, including the FIFA World Cup™ and its qualifiers, the FIFA Confederations Cup, the Olympic Football Tournaments and all of its youth competitions, as well as a wide range of national leagues and all confederation-run competitions.

In addition to monitoring and detection services, FIFA will be able to call on Sportradar’s in-house intelligence and investigation experts.

PINS loyalty program has joined one of the world’s fastest growing billion dollar fantasy sports industry to enhance the PINS members online gaming experience. Now many sports fans who are among PINS loyalty program members have opportunity to play fantasy football and collect PINS in CHAMPICK platform. PINS is the first loyalty program to join fantasy sports industry.

PINS CEO Gabi Kool: “PINS has already an outstanding record in innovation and gamification. Co-operation with Champick has enabled us to get to another level in rewarding for loyalty by giving the virtual currency PINS for successful game that can be exchanged for products and services in real world on pinsforme.com platform.”

Champick CEO Ēriks Nelsons: “Our fantasy product stand for innovation and we believe that fantasy product is perfect fit for coalition and frequent flyer loyalty programs, where they can engage and monetise users base by offering fantasy sports to their members.“

To celebrate the launch of the collaboration, PINS and Champick has launched a campaign that ends on 5 th February. The winner of the challenge will get 40 000 PINS. PINS member has to create a fantasy team from real football players all around the world, enter PINS challenge and battle among other players, get the fantasy points score based on the built team players real time performance during football matches.

eTopaz, the exclusive sportsbook of the monopoly state lottery of Azerbaijan, Azerinteltek‘s Topaz brand, has announced that it will power its future growth with SBTech’s award-winning fully managed platform to benefit from SBTech’ssportsbook experience in a deal with of one of the industry’s leading providers of iGaming platform and sports betting solutions and services.

EL member Azerinteltek offers sports betting both online and through a network of over 500 retail locations under the brand Topaz. eTopaz is the sole exclusive online licensed dealer of Azelinteltek, serving tens of thousands of users within Azerbaijan.  Following the launch of the SBTech platform, its customers will now be able to enjoy a wide range of cutting-edge sports betting features, including a customisable, fully responsive front end, partial cash out and ‘bank my stake’ options, automatic enhanced combo bets, best-in-class live betting and a fully comprehensive offering of live streaming.

Supported by the Chameleon360 iGaming platform, eTopaz will take advantage of a full suite of player management services, including configurable bonusing, payment processing, CRM, internal marketing operations and advanced reporting. In addition, the company will benefit from unrivalled big data analytics, allowing ever-increasing levels of personalisation, engagement and bet suggestions.

SBTech was awarded the contract via a competitive tender, having demonstrated its compliance with all regulatory requirements. This is the second time in recent months that the company has succeeded in partnering with a major lottery operator, following its deal with Sazka, the dominant lottery player in the Czech Republic, which also holds equity in OPAP, the Greek state lottery, as well as Casinos Austria and various other operators.