Johannes Becker won a three-way blind flip to be named the €25k Part Deux High Roller Champ, and Mustapha Kanit leads the €50k final table as the partypoker MILLIONS rolls on.
When I saw the name “Becker” alongside “€25k Win” in my Google Alerts, I hoped partypoker were going to take care of the trophy given Boris’s habit of losing them.
But it wasn’t Boris.
It was Johannes.
Manila, Philippines, February 13, 2018 – The Asian Poker Tour (APT) and Resorts World Manila (RWM) have announced that next month’s popular APT Philippines Championships 2018 (March 21 – April 2) will have prize-pool guarantees on at least three events: the opening event will carry a ₱2 Million prize pool guarantee; the Main Event ₱8 Million and the MSW sponsored side event ₱500K.
Resorts World Manila Director of Gaming Operations Arturo Basa flanked by Jeff Mann CEO of APT and APT’s Executive Tournament Director Lloyd Fontillas.
The long term partnership between APT and RWM has continued to flourish bringing to the Philippines 20 very successful international poker events to date. This year, two scheduled events are set to take place at the popular venue – the upcoming APT Philippines Championships 2018 from March 21 to April 2, 2018 and later on in the year with APT Philippines 2018 to be held from September 11 to 20, 2018.
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Industry leader, Videoslots.com, rolls out Nolimit City content.
Videoslots.com, the online casino and digital pioneer announces their launch of Nolimit City games, following a signed multi-year agreement between both parties in March 2017.
Videoslots is renowned for hosting one of the largest casino games portfolios in the entire gaming industry, as well as taking a very fresh approach to how they work with casino providers. They are acclaimed for ensuring a smooth and fast delivery with every supplier integration.
Nolimit City thrives on successful partnerships and is on course to delivering more direct integrations thanks to an array of innovative games and a proprietary owned RGS platform. With seven state of the art games currently available to the market, Videoslots players will enjoy popular titles such as; WiXX, Oktoberfest, Creepy Carnival, and the Kitchen Drama series, and can now also look forward to the software provider’s roadmap of exciting titles, scheduled across 2018.
Rounding up the 28th season of the PokerStars Macau Poker Cup, the HK$80,000 High Roller tournament has found a winner.
Mikita “fish2013” Badziakouski took first place and stuffed just over $297,000 into his wallet. He also picked up a $30,000 Platinum Pass which gives him entry into next January’s PokerStars Players Championship.
Hailing from Belarus, the high-stakes player had already won over $6 million prior to taking a seat for the Macau Poker Cup. With the latest winnings, he has now earned over $6.6 million and is ranked 42nd on the Global Poker Index. He has cashed in live tournaments every year since 2010, with the exception of 2014. He collected the most money last year, winning just under $4.6 million in tournaments across the globe.
The final table of the tournament saw nine players from nine countries vying for the top prize. In the end, though Badziakouski eliminated Raul Gallego Martinez from Spain to take it down. Martinez, who has been playing professionally for several years, has had sporadic wins, but this was the largest to date. He took home $1.57 million as the second-place finisher.
Phil Hellmuth may be one of the winningest players ever to have played the game, but he went a different direction with his latest book, “#Positivity.”
The book was released on Amazon and provides motivational guidance to help readers lead a positive life. The hashtag “#POSITIVITY” has also become somewhat of a signature of the poker pro, who uses it in almost all of his posts on social media platforms. He may mean well by trying to be a motivational guide, but he recently failed in his actions when he stiffed an Uber driver out of a tip.
The driver took to social media to publicly admonish the 14-time WSOP winner, creating a little bit of a stir. After delivering Hellmuth to the airport, the driver jumped on social media to vent: “Bring this dude to airport – acts totally Privileged,” she posted. “ordered xl for just him – had heat blasting and interior light on hole [sic] time…not even 1$ tip like ok if I was a poker star I woulda tipped u!”
In a strange head-scratcher, though, the post was accompanied by a selfie, with the driver and Hellmuth both smiling for the camera. Several players decided to rebuke the driver, offering some tongue-in-cheek responses. Max Mitchell posted, “here’s a tip honey, dont [sic] call a raise with queen 10.” ITTW (InThruTheWindow) then added, “I can dodge tipping baby!”
LAS VEGAS (February 12, 2018) – The Gaming Standards Association (GSA) and Gaming Standards Association Europe (GSA Europe) have created a new Technical Committee dedicated to blockchain use. GSA made the announcement from its stand at ICE Totally Gaming, where the organization celebrated its 20th anniversary.
Blockchain technology is poised to revolutionize data sharing, security and has the ability to provide regulatory authorities with previously unobtainable levels of transparency. GSA’s new Blockchain Technical Committee will collaboratively address the technology and advise on possible areas where standards could be developed.
“GSA was created to help drive innovation in the gaming industry for the benefit of manufacturers, suppliers, operators and regulators,” said GSA President Peter DeRaedt. “By creating a new Blockchain Committee, we are once again proving how, by creating a standard way to use technology, GSA is achieving our mission.”
GSA Europe Managing Director Mark Pace said, “Many industries are evaluating how the blockchain technology can enhance data sharing security and increase operational transparency. GSA will launch this new committee and evaluate the creation of a gaming industry standard. This is very timely and may have significant impact on how companies can achieve GDPR and AML requirements.”
The National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball continue to press their demand for a 1% cut of legal sports betting handle, despite nearly every other stakeholder deriding the plan as unworkable.
Monday brought committee hearings into West Virginia legislators’ plans to be ready in case the US Supreme Court strikes down the federal sports betting prohibition. Legislators are considering a bill that would allow the state’s five casino operators to offer sports betting under the oversight of the West Virginia Lottery Commission.
The legislation could come up for a floor vote on Friday, but the NBA and MLB are doing their best to derail the vote, based on the leagues’ belief that they deserve a 1% cut of all wagers placed on their respective sports. This ‘integrity fee’ has been widely slammed as an overly generous slice of what is an extremely low-margin business.
Speaking at Monday’s hearing on behalf of both the NBA and MLB, attorney Scott Ward claimed the leagues would use their slice of betting handle to monitor for betting activity for suspicious patterns and to enforce bans on their players making wagers. The leagues also want to require betting operators to use league-provided data for live betting.
Online gambling company Mansion have extended their advertising within sport, increasing their presence within some of the most prestigious advertising platforms on the planet.
Rapidly strengthening their hold on the UK through signing this new boxing deal with Project11, Mansion build on their pre-existing partnership with AFC Bournemouth, along with past sponsorship of various Premier League teams.
The Mansion brand will feature in two major boxing events; sponsoring WBA super-middleweight world champion, George Groves, in his highly anticipated fight against Chris Eubank Jr. as well as Lee Selby, the IBF Featherweight Champion as he takes on an unbeaten Josh Warrington.
Mansion will use this exposure to promote their new sportsbook brand, MansionBet.
MACAU, China (February 13, 2018) – As we enter the new year, GLI Asia is celebrating ten years of service to the Macau gaming market and to the operators, regulators, and suppliers of the surrounding regions in Asia-Pacific. The expert testing and consulting staff has been honored to diligently serve clients in land-based gaming, online gaming, and lottery sectors with unsurpassed skill and commitment, and like the year of the dog teaches us, GLI’s customer-focused approach is centered on the qualities of honesty, loyalty, and responsibility.
GLI Asia officially opened for operation on 20 July 2007. Since that time, the lab has grown to more than 300 square meters (about 3,300 square feet) and is the most structured test lab in Asia.
“It has been an honor and a thrill to see our business grow with customer demand. It is especially humbling when our customers return to us again and again, asking us for additional service offerings, allowing us to grow along with them,” said Marina Wong, GLI Asia’s General Manager of Client Services.
Another exciting aspect of GLI Asia’s Macau presence is its positive impact on the local economy, with each of the lab’s employees being local Macau residents. In fact, four employees have been with the company nearly since the lab’s opening. Julian Lei and Nathan Chang have been with the lab since 2009, and Ben Leung has been with GLI Asia since 2010. Their long-term presence and insights are a boon to GLI’s clients and to the lab’s other employees.
(London) TGG Takara Gaming Group has successfully showcased the world 1st Chinese Shooting game “Fish Hunter” in a chance-based casino-graded gaming machine at ICE, the world largest Gaming Technology Expo last week in London, UK.
Fish Hunter is a real-time fish shooting simulation game with marvelous bonus features that has captured the video skill game market in China since it debut in 2009. TGG’s engineering team has once again distinguished the game engine flexibility by the successful conversion of this famous shooting game onto a casino gaming floor in partnership with a China based video game manufacturer. The innovative approach of the Chinese shooting game is now giving casino operators a whole new horizon of entertainment offering to their valuable Chinese VIP segment beyond the traditional Baccarat which has dominated the Macau market for over 5 decades.
TGG’s Co-founder & CEO Raymond Chan comments “With the world’s first Chinese shooting game now made possible for casino players via TGG open-source technology, I am excited to see the casino operators are now back in control to take the lead of the product offering to their very own valuable customer in the Asian VIP and mass market segment, which accounted for 95% of gaming revenue in Macau. This could be the biggest thing of gaming innovation since the invention of slot machine 100 years ago and we are proud to be part of the team with casino operators and game manufacturers making that happens together.”
The Fish hunter has made it’s duet at the ICE totally gaming show 2018 successfully and it is expected to attract major video and mobile game manufacturers to join the development and bring the gaming industry towards the next chapter in conveying the brand new dimension of electronic gaming for casino floor.
Malta, 13 February, 2018 – Win Systems, a leading technology suppliers for the gaming and entertainment industry, has seen a triumphant ICE Totally Gaming 2018 secure various new business opportunities.
An impressive number delegates visited the supplier’s stand across the three days, with feedback to its wide-ranging casino product range exceeding expectations and various business leads both developed and confirmed.
Stand S6-150 saw show debuts for Gold Club’s Chinese roulette and 6-position Ventura roulette, various new slot titles, an AWP specifically designed for the Spanish market, GameStarArcadia, and the latest complement to its WIGOS casino management system, the Winstats app.
Remarks on Win Systems’ expansive offering revolved around how the Gold Club roulette range and GameStar gaming machines can seamlessly fit into the requirements of any casino type and location. Visitors were also very interested in understanding the delivery of real-time data from the WIGOS casino management system to casino managers via the mobile Winstats tool.
Gambling.com Group Plc is proud to announce that the Group has been honored with the “Best Casino Website” award from iGaming Business (iGB) at the 2018 iGB Affiliate Awards in London on February 9th.
iGaming Business, the leading authority in affiliate marketing for the online gambling industry, honors the best affiliate marketing organizations once a year at their annual award ceremony in London. The 2018 edition was held at The Brewery on Chiswell Street in the City of London. The hot “Havana Nights” theme made for a memorable evening in cold February weather.
James Brotherton and Owen Watters from the commercial team attended the awards ceremony and collected the award on behalf of the Group.
“A fantastic event to end what was a great conference. We’re delighted to have won the award. The team always put in a lot of effort and it’s hugely appreciated when that’s recognised, particularly so when that recognition comes from those within the industry,” remarked Owen Watters, commercial account manager at Gambling.com Group Plc.
With the additions, Gambling.com Group Plc (“Gambling.com Group”) now has a total of three, independent, non-executive directors.
Susan Ball, FCA is an experienced senior executive and board member in the online gambling industry, having led the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of Unibet Group plc (Now Kindred Group plc) on Nasdaq OMX First North as Chief Financial Officer. Ball currently serves as a non-executive director of Kambi Group plc. Ball qualified as a chartered accountant with Ernst & Young.
Pär Sundberg co-founded OTW, Sweden’s leading provider of content marketing services. He served as Group President and CEO of OTW from inception in 1996 until 2009. Sundberg later served as President and CEO of Metronome Film & Television. Currently Sundberg is executive chairman of the Brand New Content group, and chairman of Näslund & Jonsson Import AB (Snö of Sweden). Previously Sundberg has served on the boards of AB Traction (2005-2014) and G5 Entertainment (2012-2017), both listed on Nasdaq OMX in Stockholm.
Ball will chair the audit committee and Sundberg the remuneration committee.
Swedish online gambling operator Mr Green doubled its earnings in 2017 following a year of acquisitions, new product rollouts and belt-tightening.
Late last week, Mr Green announced that its revenue rose more than one-quarter to SEK333m (US $41.3m) in the three months ending December 31, 2017, while earnings improved 52% to SEK48.4m. Active customer ranks shot up 25.6% to nearly 143k while customer deposits were up one-fifth to SEK983m, both all-time highs.
The picture was even brighter on the full year front, with revenue up nearly 29% to just under SEK1.2b, while earnings shot up 103% to SEK185.6m.
The company credited the revenue gains to a broader product offering – new sportsbook, addition of keno and bingo, enhanced live casino – while the profitability boost was attributed to tighter cost controls, improved marketing efficiency and personalized customer communication.
February 13, 2018, Malta – Fair Play Bets, operator of multiple reputable online casinos, has beefed-up its international casino brands VegasPlay.com and DiamondWorldCasino.com through an agreement with Bee-Fee. Fair Play Bets continues to expand their player offering through major strategic agreements with respected and reputable industry providers.
Fair Play Bets has a solid reputation for providing quality gaming in secure and customer-friendly environments. Licensed in the UK, Malta and Curacao, Fair Play Bets provides holistic customer support anchored to top-notch premium gaming and an extensive choice of exciting games from some of the world’s leading suppliers.
Bee-Fee is a modern slot game development studio and IT service provider for online casinos and sports betting, developing innovative platforms for online casinos fully integrated with all leading providers as well as an extensive slot games portfolio with industry leading products.
Claudia Melcaru, Bee-Fee’s Head of Business Development said, “Fair Play Bets has the kind of approach that matches well with our products and industry heritage. Their focus on quality and player protection appealed to our management team and we were particularly impressed by their pro-active stance on putting players first. We believe this partnership will be the first of many.”
Login Casino invites everyone to take part in the bitcoin-marathon – a series of thematic conferences, devoted to cryptocurrency. The marathon period is February-April 2018. Speakers of the conference are going to highlight the most relevant issues, connected with cryptoindustry.
Among the event presenters there will be Vladimyr Remi – one of the leading experts in the sphere of e-commerce, gambling, licensing and jurisprudence. He will speak at the online-conference, which will take place on February 27. Subject of his report: “Risk management in the cryptocurrency market”.
Vladimyr Remi has over ten years of experience in a large multinational corporation in the sphere of finance and security. Currently the expert is an independent consultant in the FinTech-industry. He cooperates with the major Baltic Legal Affairs Bureaus and English consulting companies. Vladimyr has a teaching experience at university.
“The most popular cryptocurrency in the world – bitcoin – started the year with a decline, rebounce and a new decline. This swing is likely to go on. That is why we came up with the idea of creating a platform to discuss further development of cryptoindustry in the world, called “Bitcoin Marathon. All the way from A to Z”, – says Daria Temnenko, Login Casino Brand Manager.
Match Indian Poker League founder, Raj Kundra, has filed a defamation case against the former Goa Kings franchise owner Sachiin Joshi, and details of a planned Season 2 begin to emerge.
With the Indian press more interested in Shilpa Shetty’s offbeat Saree look, you may have missed the news that her husband had filed a defamation lawsuit on Friday.
Before we all bathed in the happiness of the weekend, Raj Kundra, Chairman of Viaan Industries, and the founder of the Match Indian Poker League (IPL) ordered his legal team to start dismantling the image of Sachiin Joshi and Manoj Ansari (the CMO of Joshi’s business Viiking Ventures).
The spat between the pair goes back a few weeks now.
Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Switzerland to examine non-standard blockchain application
Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Switzerland to involve IBM and CERN representatives
Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Switzerland to discuss blockchain application in science
On February 21, Geneva will host Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Switzerland dedicated to cryptocurrencies and blockchain solutions. Participants will discuss relevant industry trends and challenges from the perspective of developers, entrepreneurs, and investors.
The B2B lottery betting provider has announced deals with Giant Gaming Group, Kootac and now Platin Gaming in less than a month.
It would seem there’s no stopping Lotto Warehouse lately. The fast-growing Lottery Betting provider has been extremely active, announcing deals with big players from the industry such as Kootac and Giant Gaming Group, before capping off a frenetic few weeks by unveiling that Platin Gaming have also signed on for their industry leading solution.
The Platin Gaming deal is another major coup for Lotto Warehouse, with CEO Thomas Biro hinting there will be further announcements in the near future.
Mr Biro said: “Platin Gaming are a long established global brand with an outstanding reputation as a first-class provider of turn-key solutions for the gaming industry.
The Macau Poker Cup 28 wrapped up over the weekend at the PokerStars Live Macau City of Dreams and awarded four more PokerStars Players NL Hold’em Championship (PSPC) Platinum Passes, […]
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