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The Australian Easter yearling sale’s new location at Riverside Stables near Melbourne started on a strong note April 9, with seven individual lots selling for seven figures at the auction conducted by Inglis Bloodstock.
The partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Grand Final in Barcelona is off to a great start with 88-entrants ensuring the €2m GTD €25,000 runs swimmingly, and Andreas Eiler takes home the €700,000 first prize.
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Yes, the beating heart of the live tournament consists of the teeming schools of fish, but it’s those that compete in the high stakes echelons that act as the sparkling lure in these things.
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A Swiss legislator claims he was offered a seat on a casino’s board of directors in what he viewed as a bid to sway his vote on the country’s online gambling legislation.
On Friday, Swiss media outlet Tages Anzeiger reported that parliamentarian Marcel Dobler had received an offer of a seat on the board of directors of one of the country’s land-based casinos. Dobler declined to specify the casino’s identity, but claimed the offer was intended “to prevent me from engaging in the law.”
A few weeks before the offer was made, Dobler, who represents the Free Democratic Party (FDP) in the National Council, had voted against the country’s controversial new online gambling law. The law will restrict online gambling to the country’s casino operators and state lotteries, while requiring local internet service providers to block the domains of internationally licensed gambling sites.
However, the FDP’s youth league succeeded in garnering a sufficient number of petition signatures to require a referendum on the online gambling law. The referendum will be held on June 10 and both sides of the argument are lobbying hard to see their side prevail.
Contracts, transactions, and the records of them are among the defining structures in our economic, legal, and political systems. They protect assets and set organizational boundaries. And yet these critical tools and the bureaucracies formed to manage them have not kept up with the economy’s digital transformation. Blockchain promises to solve this problem. With Blockchain, we can imagine a world in which contracts are embedded in digital code and stored in transparent, shared databases, where they are protected from deletion, tampering, and revision. This BlockJakarta conference will explore the opportunities and challenges in blockchain& also project Indonesia as ASEAN biggest blockchain market.
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Search engine optimisation expert Bastian Grimm is the latest name to join the list of high profile speakers at AffiliateCon Sofia.
Bastian will deliver an exclusive speech on SEO at one of affiliate huddles, taking place throughout the two day event.
As the Director of Organic Search at Peak Ace, Bastian is renowned throughout the affiliate industry as one of the leading lights in large scale international SEO.
A respected speaker in SEO with a background in software development, he has over 15 years experience in online marketing.
New affiliate programme for UK-basediGaming innovatoris powered by Income Access platform
Montreal, QC. 9th April 2018 – Lindar Media, the UK-based operator of white label online bingo and casino brands, has launched an affiliate programme with Income Access, Paysafe’s marketing technology and services provider. Through the Income Access affiliate software, affiliates will be able to promote each of the Lindar’s managed brands, specialising in the bingo and casino verticals.
Founded in 2014 and licenced by the UK Gambling Commission, Lindar Media operates multiple brands, including the recently-renovated Circus Bingo as well as Oink Bingo, Wild Spins and Pixie Bingo, all of which are powered by the 888 platform. The company also operates the Nektan-powered Rich Ride online casino.
To celebratethe Circus Bingo relaunch, players who deposit £10 will receive£100 worth of bingo tickets and 10 free spins.Additional promotions can be found on the respective brand websites.
Nepalese taxmen have raided Tiger Palace Casino Resort in Bhairahawa over the weekend following reports that the integrated resort is illegally selling alcoholic beverage to its clientele.
The Kathmandu Post reported that Tiger Palace, operated by Australia-listed casino operator Silver Heritage Group, had repeatedly dismissed warnings of Nepal’s Inland Revenue Office (IRO) to obtain a license before selling alcoholic beverages in the casino area of the five-star gambling facility.
Nepalese officials claimed that Tiger Palace is only permitted to sell such beverages in the resort and not within the casino premises. Joint elements of IRO and local police seized 121 bottles of liquors worth Rs300, 000 ($2,000).
If found guilty of violating the law, IRO said legal action would be taken against casino operators.
Despite seeing a decline in the number of first-time depositors, white label gaming software and services provider Nektan Plc. posted a 44.8 percent revenue growth in the third quarter of FY 2017-2018.
In a regulatory filing, the Gibraltar-based company reported that its revenue during the January-March 2018 period grew to £5.1 million ($7.2million) from a restated amount of £3.5million ($4.94 million) in the corresponding period last year.
Meanwhile, cash wagering was up 43.8 percent to £142.4 million ($200.78 million) from £99 million ($139.59 million) in the period.
Nektan Interim Chief Executive Gary Shaw said the company’s success in the third quarter of the fiscal year lies on its growing commercial and operational strength throughout international markets.
Monday April 9th, 2018 – Patagonia Entertainment has launched in the Colombian iGaming market thanks to a partnership deal with Wplay.co.
This latest deal will see Patagonia Entertainment integrate its entire catalogue of video bingo content onto the operator’s Colombian-facing platform.
The international gaming-testing laboratory, BMM Testlabs, is at the final stages of certifying Patagonia Entertainment’s entire games library, which now features over 13 titles.
Last summer Wplay.co were the first operator to secure an online gaming licence for Colombia under new national regulatory laws. One key requirement to operate in the market is adhering to the 15% tax rate on gross gaming revenue.
Portrait-first gameplay designed to appeal to mobile bettors
Monday 9th April – Mobile games developer OneTouch has added Sic Bo to its portfolio of titles – featuring a unique portrait-first mobile gameplay for a premium on-the-go betting experience.
Sic Bo, which is designed to appeal to players across a wide range of markets, features cutting-edge graphics and sounds, while still retaining its authentic features, including the gold dome and dice roll feature.
Built in consultation with Asia-based game and design experts, Sic Bo benefits from a provably fair RNG, which provides verified fairness and transparency to the new-age mobile casino game player.
21/3/2018 – Valletta, Malta – Under a new agreement, Betsoft Gaming will provide its complete collection of popular slot games to long-running gaming brand Pinnacle.
The partnership covers the entire Betsoft portfolio – including the sought-after Slots3 series – and will cement both companies’ positions as the player’s preferred choice in the markets where Pinnacle offers iGaming experiences.
Founded in 1998, Pinnacle is currently celebrating 20 years in business – all informed by a set of consistent principles. With commitments to offering the best odds, and to placing no artificial limits on winning players, the company has become a well-loved brand in more than 200 countries. As well as traditional sports betting, Pinnacle is recognised as a leader in eSports; it embraced the emerging market early, taking its first eSports bet in 2010, and was this year recognised by Gaming Intelligence as ‘eSports Operator of the Year’, with more than eight million eSports bets placed to date.
Pinnacle also offers slots, live casino, and table games in several key European markets. Developments in this area were the catalysts behind the company’s decision to work with Betsoft. Caroline Danielsson, Account Manager at Betsoft explained:
In this interview with CalvinAyre.com’s Becky Liggero, Andre Nazemi of AhaPartner shares the challenges that affiliates face at the moment.
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Week 33 of the English Premier League sees Man City blow a two-goal lead against rivals Man Utd, postponing the title race for at least another week, and it’s as it was in the fight for relegation.
Raheem Sterling has had the season of his life, but he will look back on this game – the tie that could have given City the title – and wonder if someone from United’s backroom had sneaked into the City changing room and stole his shooting boots.
City was imperious in the first half against their neighbours. To say they bossed the action is the understatement of the season. The boys in blue handcuffed those in red, and in particular, a lanky looking man in midfield who had decided to dye his hair blue on this day of all days.
By the time the action entered the 25th minute the United defence was ready to puke. Dizzy. Disorientated. Dumbfounded. The ball came in from a corner, and Vincent Kompany lost Chris Smalling to thunder a bullet header past David De Gea.
Friendly bets usually result in someone losing, perhaps, a six-pack of beer or a hundred dollars. Sometimes, the loser ends up washing the winner’s car or mowing his grass. A recent wager between two friends in Tanzania over the Manchester derby Saturday night took things in a completely different direction, with the loser giving up his wife to the winner, according to a Nairobi News report.
The two individuals, Amani Stanley and Tony Shilla, actually went so far as to concrete the wager on a handwritten and signed piece of paper. The agreement has rapidly gained interest on social media, and reads (translated), “I hereby promise to give away my wife for an entire week to my brother Tony Shilla if Manchester City doesn’t win the league title against Manchester United. I’m of sound mind and Ive [sic] not been coerced into this agreement.”
Shilla wrote his version on the same piece of paper, with both signing at the bottom. In the end, Man U took the victory, 3-2, and a defeated Stanley, for reasons unknown, was all too willing to live up to the agreement. There was no word on what his wife thought of the wager.
The Manchester derby is an annual soccer ritual that dates back to 1881. The contest pits Manchester United against Manchester City to see which is the better team. The record is fairly close, with Man U taking 73 victories to Man City’s 53, with 52 drawn matches.
Dublin, Ireland – April 9th 2018 – KamaGames, the largest European mobile social poker operator, today confirmed that its global player base now exceeds 100 million players making Pokerist one of the most popular social games in the world.
Having started the year with 95 million players, KamaGames has managed to successfully grow their audience by a staggering 5 million in one quarter. This massive success was attributed to continued product innovation, the targeting of a wider, more casual audience with the launch of the Pokerist Party mode features and the new slots games.
Another key area of focus was player retention and engagement, where players enjoyed a host of new daily content, game modes, themed events and tournaments, features and in some cases, completely new games.
Finally, KamaGames has embarked on a string of successful collaborations in 2017 with companies such as Facebook, Yoozoo and Poker Night in America which all continue to attract new players every day to their portfolio of social casino titles.
Isle of Man high-end slots specialist Booming Games certified its games in compliance with Italian technical requirements and is set to go live with 20 of its best titles.
Among the games ready to launch for operators in Italy include firm favourites such as Booming Seven Deluxe, Booming Bananas, the popular Neon series and Wild Jester. Booming Games will also make available to Italian operators its free bonus spins functionality to help them promote the games.
Booming Games will go live with leading Italian operators starting in Q2 2018 and besides the initial 20 games, will be certifying every single game they release going forward to be compliant with the Italian regulator which will bring up the total games available for the Italian market to 40 by the end of 2018. These games include the highly anticipated title Golden Royals which was showcased at ICE.
‘’Italy is one of the fastest growing markets and we believe that entering this market was our next step after completing certification for Isle of Man and after taking into consideration feedback received by our customers. We are not going to stop here as we are going soon to announce a new market entry in the next weeks. It is our aim to offer our games in as many regulated markets as possible’’ said Frederik Niehusen, Chief Commercial Officer at Booming Games.
“Hey, brother, can you spare a dollar?” It sounds like something out of an old Bing Crosby song, adjusted for inflation, of course. However, an on-again/off-again poker pro has been using that line to supposedly scam people out of their money across several different venues.
Michael Borovetz, who has won almost $600,000 in live action and has a WSOPC gold ring to his credit, was recently arrested at Newark Airport after he defrauded an unwitting traveler out of $200. The con artist reportedly approached the 55-year-old New Jersey man with a sad tune of financial hardship, and was given $200. Borovetz had claimed that his flight was canceled and he needed a place to stay for the night.
The victim and the fraudster parted ways, but the traveler started having second thoughts shortly after the scam occurred. He contacted the New Jersey Port Authority and they confirmed that it wasn’t the first time that the 43-year-old poker player had swindled someone out of money. In June 2017, Borovetz ran the same line against a man from San Jose, who fell for his tall tale and gave him some cash.
Fortunately, airports have cameras. Additionally, hotels at airports typically have cameras. Borovetz was tracked to the Newark Airport Marriott, where he was promptly arrested.
Fire & Ice, the iGaming industry’s original annual party thanks all its sponsors and guests for an epic night at the Troxy theatre on February 7th. The official video playlist is now live at: https://goo.gl/gBYJmh
Fire & Ice ‘Zhora’ was a future fiction depicting the world circa 2050, as imagined from the 1980s. The theme, atmosphere and characters were derived from Taffey’s bar in the original Blade Runner film. We want to thank all humans and replicants for attending.
The event and Show team of 100 people took over the Troxy in a truly spectacular and legendary spirit making the event one of the most impressive of its kind held at the historic Troxy theatre.
“We would especially like to thank all our friends that attend Fire & Ice every year. Now approaching our 18th we are always impressed that hundreds of guests haven’t missed a single year. Thanks Friends and Sponsors. We hope everyone had the time of their life!” – Jodie Thind & Michael Caselli.
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