In this interview with CalvinAyre.com’s Becky Liggero, John Wright of Stats Drone explains why compliance is a shared responsibility between affiliates and operators.
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In another instalment of Gambling Marketing Musings, Lee Davy takes a look at the partnership between 888Poker, the World Poker Tour and Aspers and how the three connect through brand story.
If you’re European, it’s 10% likely that you were conceived in an IKEA bed. I’m not sure of the odds you own one of the triangularly shaped bins in your bathroom, but I bet you do.
If you’re from Sweden, you know that Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA in 1943, smack bang in the middle of Hitler’s little party. Kamprad’s entrepreneurial skills began aged five when he sold matches to friends.
Suffering from dyslexia, Kamprad’s father rewarded him financially for doing well at school, and he used the money to start a small mail-order business called IKEA (an acronym of his name, and the farm and town where he grew up Ingvar Kamprad Elmataryd Agunnaryd).
The 2017/18 Premier League season has equalled the record for the number of managers sacked in a season as Alan Pardew becomes the tenth manager to lose his job after West Brom fired him this week.
Those who know more than me believe Alan Pardew will never again manage a top-flight club after somebody woke up the West Brom board and told them they were bottom of the league with six matches left.
Taxi!
Oh no, the team stole it.
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Kenya’s leading sports betting operator SportPesa appears to be rethinking its decision to rescind local sports sponsorships to protest the government’s gambling tax hikes.
SportPesa scrapped all its sponsorships of Kenyan sporting bodies and teams in January, making good on its threat to respond to the government hiking gambling revenue taxes from 7.5% to 35%. SportPesa had sponsored the Kenyan Premier League (KPL), as well as KPL teams Gor Mahia FC and AFC Leopards, among numerous other pacts.
But local media quoted sources saying SportPesa has offered to renew its KPL sponsorship before the end of the current season, which got under way in February. However, SportPesa is reportedly offering to pay Sh80m (US$792k) per season, down from the Sh93m per season the company had paid under the original deal.
SportPesa is reportedly also interested in renewing its individual team deals with Gor Mahia and Leopards. The two clubs had earned a combined Sh100m annually from their SportPesa deals, but it remains to be seen what new offers may be forthcoming.
If one were to tell any golfer in North America, or the world for that matter, that they could have a choice of playing one golf course in the United States, it’s a lock the vast majority of them would chose Augusta National. It’s on the Mount Rushmore of USA sports locations alongside places like Lambeau Field, Fenway Park and Wrigley Field.
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Augusta is also just about the most exclusive club there is, so most mere mortals won’t ever get to play the course. However, one week a year any fan can go visit and that’s for the Masters, the most prestigious golf tournament in the world.
This year is the 82nd version of the first major championship of the season, also a sign that spring has arrived in the USA. The Masters is also the only one of the four majors played at the same course every year. Augusta National is a par-72 measuring 7,435 yards. A total of 87 players are set to tee it up starting Thursday, the tournament’s smallest field this century. The Masters always has the smallest field of the majors.
Operator launches month-long campaign with trip to Las Vegas up for grabs
3rd April, 2018 – Leading online casino operator Videoslots.com has launched a campaign, to run until 29th April, in partnership with the acclaimed DJ Hardwell and slots developer StakeLogic, a subsidiary of Greentube.
The competition will see these players compete against one another in the new game, Hardwell, which Videoslots will have initial exclusive access to.
The Dutch-born DJ Hardwell, twice voted the world’s number one DJ, has put his branding and original music to the exciting slot which was showcased for the first time at ICE 2018 with a personal appearance from the talented disc jockey and record label owner.
It’s a wrap for the World Series of Poker Circuit in Planet Hollywood. Benjamin Zamani won the Main Event, and Joseph Cheong won the High Roller.
Someone took my spot this morning.
I couldn’t believe it.
The place opens at 7.30am. I am usually waiting outside like a lager lout at 11:59 am as Sunday morning is about to spill its guts into Sunday afternoon. Only this morning, I forgot to put the bins out. Ten-minutes it took, but that’s all she needed. And the look she gave me.
The month of April promises to be action-packed for the company. BetConstruct will be attending FADJA expo in Bogota, Colombia, and later on hosting yet another Innovation Workshop dedicated to its proven solutions and innovative products.
On April 5 – 6 at the annual FADJA exhibition BetConstruct team will present its whole product line-up at Stand 54 with a special focus on the LatAm market. This year we will show the enhanced versions of our gaming and betting software including Sportsbook, Fantasy Sports, updates for RNG & Live Casinos and interesting improvements for Retail and Data Feed solutions.
The second Innovations Workshop of BetConstruct will take place on April 21 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. BetConstruct Taller de Innovaciones
Our team will demonstrate the significant developments for the gaming and betting industries. SpringBME, BookieApp and FeedConstruct are planned to be in the limelight of the evening. During the workshop we will create a SpringBME account and demonstrate how the platform works. To show the features of BookieApp, a platform where users can become bookies, we will create a real-time bet-on game.
Asian nations are ramping up their crackdowns of illegal gambling activity ahead of this summer’s FIFA World Cup betting bonanza.
This week, authorities in Vietnam’s Vinh Phuc province announced the filing of charges against 22 individuals for their association with a betting ring that processed wagers online via the password-protected betting site 3in1bet.com. Six individuals were taken into custody, including the alleged ringleader, Luu Van Nam.
Police said their investigation concluded that the ring had handled wagers worth VND200b (US$8.7m) in the last half of 2017 alone. During their raids, police seized 21 mobile phones, three computers and around VND400m in cash.
The bust follows the much larger bust of a major online gambling operation with ties to the nation’s former top cybercrime cop and a pair of highly successful technology businessmen.
Lottery betting operator Annexio has appointed Michael Hazel as a non-executive Board member.
With 25 years’ experience in the technology and online industries, Michael has worked with some of the biggest names in the business at a global level and brings valuable international perspective and operational insight to the Annexio Board.
A qualified Chartered Accountant, Michael began his career with Deloitte in Dublin, Ireland, before moving to Melbourne in Australia to work for Motorola and BHP. He was then recruited by software giant Microsoft, undertaking a number of international assignments prior to moving to Microsoft’s international headquarters in London where he was appointed Finance Director of its online business MSN. Responsible for the region covering China, India, South Africa, Latin America and Canada, he set up new market strategies and managed a number of joint ventures in these countries.
In early 2006 Michael joined PokerStars, part of the Rational Group, as Director of Financial Planning and Analysis. He spent 10 years there during the company’s expansion into many new markets across Europe, Latin America and Asia, seeing its global market share increase from 16% to over 70%. Appointed Chief Financial Officer in 2012 he was the project lead for the sale of the company in August 2014 to AMAYA for $4.9 billion. He was then promoted to Chief Executive Officer of Rational Group and assisted in the transition to the new ownership.
A tightly-grouped foursome headed by Ruis Racing’s San Felipe (G2) winner Bolt d’Oro (#2, 5-1) sits atop the morning-line odds for the 24 wagering interests set for this weekend’s fourth pool of Churchill Downs’ Kentucky Derby Future Wager.
Starting April 7, horseplayers cashing a winning ticket through a self-service terminal will be prompted with a pop-up interface developed by AmTote International, allowing them to make a donation to the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance.
Good Magic heads into the $1 million Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (G2) with 2-1 morning-line favoritism and more on the line than just needing to add to his 34 qualifying points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby.
According to “Black Widow Poker” author “Sia Layta,” this is a man’s world. At least, when it comes to poker, anyway. The #MeToo movement may purport to have fueled some […]
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Wolken took over the catering business from his father in 1965.
Brazil’s pesky Winfil casino may have been shut down for good following its latest attempt to offer real-money slots play in defiance of local laws.
On March 29, authorities in the city of Porto Alegre in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul ordered the closure of Winfil, a nightspot operated by Catalan-based gaming operator Grupo Pefaco. Once again, the venue was accused of offering real-money slots play over the strident objections of local authorities.
Winfil launched last October, offering hundreds of slot machines configured to operate in free-play ‘demonstration’ mode only. Before the month was through, police raided the property after getting word that Winfil’s slots were now allowing real-money play. Several hundred of the offending machines were duly confiscated, along with the cash they contained.
Winfil’s attorneys claimed to have received authorization from a local court to make the switch to real-money play, but even the judge who handled the case rejected Winfil’s interpretation of her ruling, saying she’d only suggested that the cops had no authority to confiscate the free-play machines.
An Academy Award-nominated actress, poker shows hostess, and accomplished player who also did OK on reality TV highlight the talented list of candidates for 2018 induction into the Women in […]
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Monomoy Girl stands as the 4-5 morning-line choice in the field of seven entered for the 1 1/16-miles Central Bank Ashland Stakes (G1) at Keeneland April 7.
Casino operator Melco International Development Ltd has showered over $5m in new shares on chairman/CEO Lawrence Ho for helping to steer the company to a record performance in 2017.
The Hong Kong-listed Melco turned in its 2017 financial report card last week, reporting revenue up 70% year-on-year to HK$41.2b (US$5.25b), while adjusted earnings shot up 80% to HK$9.8b. However, profits tumbled from HK$10.4b in 2016 to just HK$474m last year.
The profit tumble can be explained by the HK$10.4b one-off gain Melco enjoyed in 2016 via the dissolution of Melco Crown Entertainment, its former joint venture with Australian casino operator Crown Resorts. With Crown’s shares having been purchased and cancelled, Melco is now majority owner of that venture’s successor, Melco Resorts and Entertainment (MRE), which operates casinos in Macau and Manila.
MRE provides the overwhelming majority of Melco’s revenue, and a detailed breakdown of its 2017 performance was released earlier this year. But Melco boss Ho nonetheless expressed relief that MRE’s operations in Macau had overcome “several years of … headwinds,” leaving Melco “a stronger, more focused and better positioned company.”