After Ben Lamb and Jack Sinclair fell on Day 8 of the 2017 World Series of Poker Main Event, the remaining seven players from a 7,221-player field returned to play […]
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All Arrogate has to do is show up and be Arrogate, and the TVG San Diego Handicap (G2) is a foregone conclusion, which is exactly why his connections will have their minds stressed until they see the expected ending.
Trainer David Van Winkle recorded the 1,000th victory of his career when Darcy Peterson’s Charlie Again and jockey Hugo Sanchez won the fifth race July 20 at Canterbury Park.
Opening day at Saratoga Race Course saw all-sources handle of $20,332,051, a 14.47% increase over last year’s opening day total.
For the second time in 2017, the California Horse Racing Board’s Race Dates Committee bandied about the idea of restricting the amount of racing dates in the state, and again roundly faced opposition by industry stakeholders in attendance.
The ability Dream It Is showed on the all-weather track at Woodbine translated even better in her first try on dirt, as she chased a wicked pace then threw down the hammer in the form of a nine-length win in the $150,000 Schuylerville Stakes (G3)
After earning a pair of graded stakes placings earlier this season, Proctor’s Ledge didn’t let another opportunity pass her by July 21 at Saratoga Race Course.
A California man is suing the state lottery for refusing to pay his $5m jackpot because his 16-year-old son bought the ticket.
This week, Long Beach resident Ward Thomas sued the California State Lottery Commission for denying him a $5m jackpot he won from a $20 Scratchers ticket last year. Thomas is also suing the owners of the gas station where the winning ticket was purchased.
According to the lawsuit, Thomas went to the Los Altos Mobil station last October with his 16-year-old son Benjamin. Thomas asked his son to go inside and redeem a dozen winning scratch tickets worth a total of $330. Thomas also asked his son to pick up some more Scratchers with the winnings.
Benjamin did as he was told, buying five new Scratchers and taking the balance of the original winnings in cash, while his father waited outside. When Thomas and his son got home, they scratched the tickets and discovered one was a $5m winner.
US poker pro Walter Fisher made headlines recently after winning a $1 million bet that had nothing to do with poker and everything to do with his weight. Weight loss […]
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Online gambling operator Marathon has launched its Russian-licensed sports betting site but potential customers must be willing to travel in order to register.
This week brought the official launch of Marathonbet.ru, bringing the number of government-approved online sports betting sites to 12. The Marathon brand is well known in Russia and the company has had a local license for some time but is only now getting its online feet officially wet.
As recently as last August, Marathon was expressing reservations about launching a locally licensed online site, in part due to the government’s frenetic approach to gambling regulation, in particular issues dealing with taxation and required payments to sports federations.
All Russian-licensed online bookmakers must process customer payments through centralized hubs known as TSUPIS. Marathon is a member of the Bookmakers Self-Regulatory Organization (SRO), which has a deal with JSC KIWI Bank, a subsidiary of the QIWI Group, to run its TSUPIS.
It’s opening weekend at Del Mar and Saratoga Race Course, which is sort of like midsummer Christmas for anyone who follows Thoroughbred racing.
Queen’s Plate Stakes runner-up Tiz a Slam and multiple graded stakes placed State of Honor are set to face off again in the $500,000 Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie July 25
John Oxley’s reigning juvenile male champion Classic Empire is scheduled to resume galloping the morning of July 22 following an easy week at Saratoga Race Course, said Norman Casse, assistant trainer to his father Mark.
If everything goes right for Joe Turner’s Sircat Sally, the California-bred filly will face increasingly tougher challenges as the year progresses.
It’s a fitting spot on the racing calendar since the promise of freshman runners earning their oats at the Spa captures the fancy of breeders, owners, trainers, and of course, racing fans.
Swedish online gambling operator Mr Green saw its earnings quadruple in the second quarter of 2017 thanks to new products and a tighter grip on expenses.
In an interim report released on Friday, the Stockholm-based Mr Green reported revenue rising 36.3% year-on-year to SEK 287.8m (US $34.9m) in the three months ending June 30. Earnings jumped 337% to SEK 52.4m as margins improved 12.5 points to 18.2%.
Mr Green continues to lessen its reliance on Nordic markets, which accounted for 33% of the Q2 revenue pie. While Nordic revenue was up 10.3% year-on-year thanks to its Danish market launch and good growth in Sweden and Finland, Western European markets shot up 80.5%, boosting the region’s share of overall revenue to 41%. Central, Eastern and Southern European market revenue was up 30.2%.
For the first half of 2017, overall revenue rose 31.2% to SEK 564m while earnings more than doubled to SEK 86.6m.
In front of a worldwide ESPN audience, two players saw their dream of winning poker’s most prestigious title come to an end on Thursday night, as the final nine players of […]
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The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) announced that its new app, NYRA XP, will for the first time be available to fans at Saratoga Race Course during the 2017 summer meet.
It’s a fitting spot on the racing calendar since the promise of freshman runners earning their oats at the Spa captures the fancy of breeders, owners, trainers, and of course, racing fans.
Madrid’s regional government has reportedly rejected Cordish Gaming’s second application to build a €3b integrated resort, casting further doubt on whether the project will go forward.
On Friday, El Confidencial reported that the Community of Madrid had rejected the revised proposal Cordish had submitted for its sprawling Live Resorts Madrid, which was to occupy 92 hectares of land near the city’s international airport. The regional government’s main objections reportedly stem from a lingering concern that the project would rely too heavily on gaming.
Cordish’s original proposal last December envisioned a €2.2 complex with a casino, 4k hotel rooms and the usual assortment of convention, retail and dining amenities. This was rejected by local officials as insufficiently diverse to meet the requirements of an Integrated Development Center (CID), a designation that can only be awarded once per decade due to its significant tax and land use advantages.
Undaunted, Cordish submitted a revised proposal in May that added a six-hectare lagoon and artificial beach to satisfy the CID’s requirements for sports and cultural facilities. But Madrid missed its deadline for responding to the bid, claiming that it needed more info from Cordish before making its decision.