Former CardsChat blogger Jeff Gross has signed on as an ambassador for PokerStars. The poker player announced the signing on Twitter with excitement. “Honored to be part of the team! […]
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Online sports betting operator Sportingbet is in hot water in Uruguay after a politician objected to the team’s logo appearing on the jersey of a local football institution.
Uruguay keeps a pretty tight lid on its gambling market, with local punters’ legal options limited to a state-run lottery, pari-mutuel race betting and some brick-and-mortar casinos. Sports betting is frowned upon, and online sports betting is downright scowled at in this small nation of only around 3.5m people.
The combination of a small market and a hostile reception hasn’t stopped any number of internationally licensed online gambling sites from serving Uruguyan punters, or even from inking sponsorship opportunities with local sports teams.
Case in point, GVC Holdings’ Sportingbet brand, whose logo appeared on the shirt fronts of Uruguayan football mainstays Club Nacional de Football during a recent Copa Libertadores match against Brazilian side Botafogo.
Connect, winner of the Cigar Mile Handicap (G1) last fall, has been retired because of a soft tissue injury and will enter stud at Lane’s End Farm for 2018, it was announced July 11.
Trainer Steve Asmussen and owner Mike Langford are waiting for their 3-year-old colt Untrapped to come up with a signature victory. The $500,000 Indiana Derby (G2) July 15 would be an excellent time.
Season XVI of the World Poker Tour will see a European Main Event return to television. From January 5-15, Germany’s Spielbank Casino will play host to the WPT European Championship, […]
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Frostmourne will stretch out to 1 1/8 miles for the first time when he again faces other 3-year-olds on the turf in the $200,000 Kent Stakes (G3T) July 15 at Delaware Park.
Jeff True, a 30-year horse racing industry veteran, has been named president and general manager of All American Ruidoso Downs Racing.
Google’s Android app store is finally relaxing its longstanding ban on gambling and betting apps, according to reports on a UK tech site.
Google’s Android operating system is by far the planet’s dominant mobile platform, but unlike rival Apple’s iOS, the Google Play marketplace had until now wanted nothing to do with real-money gambling, leaving Android users with no option but to download apps direct from gambling sites, which limited the apps’ potential exposure to new customers, as well as developers’ ability to push updates.
On Tuesday, UK-based digital agency Degree53 – whose clients include Betfred, 888 Holdings and OddsChecker – reported that Google had been emailing gambling operators to alert them that they needed to prepare for an imminent seismic shift in Google Play’s gambling policy.
According to Degree53’s Andrew Daniels, Google is informing gaming firms that “beginning of August 2017, Google will accept applications for the distribution of gambling apps within the Play store in the United Kingdom, France and the Republic of Ireland. At a later date, this policy change may be expanded to new regions and countries.“
It’s official: the WSOP 2017 Main Event has 7,221 entries, the third-largest field in tournament history. Only 2006 and 2010 topped this year’s player participation. The champion will receive $8.15 […]
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Spendthrift Farm’s multiple grade 1 winner Lord Nelson is making progress in his ongoing battle with laminitis in both front feet, which caused the son of Pulpit to miss the 2017 breeding season.
Japan’s struggling pachinko industry is reeling from fresh rumors that players’ current maximum allowable winnings will be cut in half.
Shares in Japan’s pachinko operators took a tumble this week after local media reported that the government planned to impose further reductions in player payouts. A report in the Japan Times suggested the National Police Agency (NPA) plans to cap the maximum pachinko profit for an average four-hour playing span from the current ¥100k (US $877) to below ¥50k.
The NPA is reportedly preparing to issue a draft of new regulations for entertainment businesses that will be subject to public comment prior to being formalized. The draft proposes lowering the number of pachinko balls that can be won over a four-hour span by about one-third, while the maximum number of balls generated by a jackpot would be reduced from 2,400 to 1,500.
The NPA also wants pachinko parlor managers to train employees on how to recognize signs of problem gambling behavior and how to talk to customers regarding activity that appears to be problematic.
Taiwanese customs officers have seized nearly $400k in cash from two gamblers on their way back from Macau casinos with someone else’s alleged winnings.
Last Saturday, authorities at Taiwan’s Taoyuan International Airport detained two Taiwanese nationals – identified only by their surnames Chiang and Chen – who arrived on a flight from Macau. The twenty-something men were questioned after customs officials found $200k in undeclared cash in each man’s suitcase.
According to the Taipei Times, Chiang and Chen claimed they’d been approached in Macau by another Taiwanese man who claimed to have won big at the casino gaming tables. The man asked Chiang and Chen if they’d help him transport some of his windfall back to Taiwan, because, you know, there’s only so much room in a suitcase and too much cash means you might have to leave some old sweat socks or dirty underwear behind, so really, why wouldn’t you ask two total strangers to help carry all that pretty green?
Anyway, despite police questioning, Chiang and Chen declined to identify their overly trusting compatriot, nor were the pair willing to reveal what compensation (if any) they were to have received for doing this favor for their unidentified buddy. Police responded by launching an investigation into the source of the cash, which they suspect may be linked to a money-laundering scheme.
On July 4 when Santa Anita Park’s spring-summer meet came to an end, the jockey standings showed a tie at the top between Flavien Prat and 19-year-old Evin Roman, which produced a storyline last mentioned nearly 70 years ago.
Shadai Stallion Station’s Deep Impact lived up to his name July 10-11 as the leading Japanese sire produced the top-priced individuals at the Japan Racing Horse Association selected foal and yearling sale.
The government of Telangana has come up with a new ordinance against online gambling, even though the state’s High Court is still deliberating its previous gaming decree.
Over the weekend, the Telangana Cabinet issued the fresh decree amending the Telangana State Gaming (Amendment) Ordinance, 2017, which was issued several weeks ago, GLaws.In reported.
The Telangana State Gaming (Amendment) Ordinance, 2017 added new definition of “cyber space” in the gaming legislation, making betting and gambling through the internet illegal, which means that playing online matka, sports betting, poker and rummy in the state will now incur criminal penalties.
The new ordinance added the words “online gaming with stakes” to the definition of gaming as well as the general description of the term “gaming,” which now states “that any act of risking money or otherwise on the result of an unknown event including on a game of skill falls within the definition of betting and wagering,” according to the report.
The government of Telangana has come up with a new ordinance against online gambling, even though the state’s High Court is still deliberating its previous gaming decree.
Over the weekend, the Telangana Cabinet issued the fresh decree amending the Telangana State Gaming (Amendment) Ordinance, 2017, which was issued several weeks ago, GLaws.In reported.
The Telangana State Gaming (Amendment) Ordinance, 2017 added new definition of “cyber space” in the gaming legislation, making betting and gambling through the internet illegal, which means that playing online matka, sports betting, poker and rummy in the state will now incur criminal penalties.
The new ordinance added the words “online gaming with stakes” to the definition of gaming as well as the general description of the term “gaming,” which now states “that any act of risking money or otherwise on the result of an unknown event including on a game of skill falls within the definition of betting and wagering,” according to the report.
The rise of Chinese mobile payments is one of the topics that will be discussed at the Payment Solutions Summit, which is part of the four-day iGaming Super Show 2017.
Recent market data showed that China’s mobile payments sector is now worth $5.5 trillion—more than 50 times bigger than that of the United States—as more and more retailers start using online payments at their physical stores, according to Financial Times. For instance, Starbucks began accepting WeChat Pay at its China stores early this year.
And, as we all know, mobile payments is one of the hottest topics in the online gambling industry.
On Thursday, Chelsea Securities Vice President Fred Lum and Le Prevost Consultancy CEO Robin Le Prevost will hold a panel session focusing on China and its mobile payments providers, including WeChat Pay, AliPay and China UnionPay.
Porridge-eating golden girl given HTML5 upgrade plus integrated innovative Achievements Engine
Stockholm, July 11th 2017 – Swedish slots specialist Quickspin, a Playtech Group company, has re-launched its blockbuster title Goldilocks and the Wild Bears with improved graphics and its innovative Achievements Engine.
First released in 2014, the troublesome golden girl is back and naughtier than ever before thanks to improved HTML5 technology that provides a more immersive user experience and the ability to play in portrait mode for the first time.
The revamped slot also features Quickspin’s innovative Achievements Engine, designed to offer players a more entertaining and rewarding experience.
HELSINKI, 11th July 2017 – Finnplay, the Finnish-based open gaming platform provider, today announced that it is to provide its licensed platform for the Swedish publicly listed AhaWorld AB’s casino brands ahaCasino.com and MoboCasino.com.
The deal will see AhaWorld launch under Finnplay’s platform which is licensed under the Malta Gaming Authority (MGA), providing access to a wide array of tier 1 games content, and access to future regulated markets such as the United Kingdom, where Finnplay also holds a platform license.
Martin Prantner, chief executive officer of The Finnplay Group, said: “The AhaWorld AB business is a progressive company, which operates several successful consumer facing casino and bingo gaming brands. Our team is delighted to provision our licensed technology platform, which provides casino games (4000+) from the major gaming studios as well as numerous global and localized 40+ payment integrations for their B2C brands ahaCasino.com and MoboCasino.com.”
Krister Bergström, CEO ahaWorld (publ), commented:” We are happy to agree our partnership with Finnplay finally. During the 20+ years in the gaming business, I have followed the progress of Finnplay and Martin’s work with the company closely. From my experiences previously working with both Boss Media and NYX, I know a lot about gaming platforms and back office solutions. We are therefore happy to be able to establish our future casino business in one of the most innovative platforms in the market right now.”
There may be more millennials walking in the face of the Earth at present but only a few of them are playing lottery.
This is the stark reality that technology start-up AutoLotto has to face as only one-third of people aged 20 to 35 bought lottery ticket last year. While lotteries racked up $80 billion in sales last, the numbers are declining.
CNBC reported that AutoLotto is attempting to lure millennials in playing lottery through their app which allows users to buy tickets from their smartphone. The app, according to the report, also lets users scan a paper ticket purchased in-store to track it, and get notifications if they win.
So far, the effort of AutoLotto has reaped the company positive results. It said that 57 percent of their user base are now millennials.