On June 21, Switzerland will host Zurich iGaming Affiliate Conference where gambling market representatives will be able not only to learn more about the key aspects of business operations, but also meet potential partners and investors.
As part of the event, leading experts of the gambling industry are going to tell about the market needs, legal issues of business and the efficient ways to promote gambling venues. Conference participants will include representatives of top companies, such as Casino Neuchâtel, Grand Casino Baden, Barrière, Buffalo Partners, Gamban, PartnerMatrix, Endorphina, Red Tiger.
The official part of the event will end with an interesting afterparty in the Talks&Drinks format. Here online and land based casino representatives, webmasters, affiliates, arbitrage specialists, lawyers and government officials will be able to talk in the informal setting and discuss further cooperation.
Enjoy a cozy atmosphere, good drinks, tasty coffee and fun communication – a perfect setting for networking where the attendees could present a brand, make deals, find investors and first of all, meet new people and get lots of positive emotions.
The trade war between the US and China lingers and currently appears to be in somewhat of a stalemate without much movement in either direction. However, the lull isn’t preventing the war from hurting economies around the world and the same goes for the gaming industry. Particularly in Macau, gaming investments are taking a serious beating.
Macau is the richest gambling center in the world. The trade war is impacting the local economy and three US-based casino operators with operations in the city – Wynn Resorts, MGM Resorts and Las Vegas Sands – are earning their battle scars. Joining them is Hong Kong-based Melco Resorts, which is traded publicly on the NASDAQ exchange.
The gaming industry, as a whole, is now underperforming in comparison to the Standard & Poors (S&P) 500. That index tacks 500 large companies that are traded on NASDAQ, the NYSE or the CBOE BZX Exchange, and both MGM And Wynn are included in the index. According to analysts with Zacks, “The trade war between Beijing and Washington continues to hurt gambling stocks. Moreover, the flagging China property price has adversely impacted the high-end VIP segment. Consequently, the industry underperformed the S&P 500 for the second straight week. The industry has declined 1.9 percent compared with the S&P 500’s 0.5 percent decrease.”
Sands is found in a different trading instrument, the Vectors Gaming ETF (exchange-traded fund). This ETF follows 43 stocks in the gaming industry and has dropped from $39.96 to $35 in less than a week. That’s a decrease of 12.4% and Sands comprises almost 16% of the fund.
BetConstruct is taking its full portfolio to the biggest event within CIS, Russian Gaming Week.
Russian Gaming Week attracts manufacturers, distributors, and operators engaged in the gambling business to come and discuss global trends as well as Russian gaming relias.
BetConstruct will welcome all visitors at Stand B7 displaying its wide variety of offerings. Among them will be its award-winning Sportsbook with over 45,000 live matches monthly and Live Casino which is transmitted in six languages, including Russian. BetConstruct will also showcase its new custom-made gaming solutions called Keno, Farkle (also known as Zonk) and BetFights. While the first two are widely-played skill games, BetFights is a fresh original concept of BetConstruct. The game revolves around football related questionnaire where players come in a head-to-head challenge with their match forecasts. However, unlike Sportsbook, BetFights focuses less on betting excluding odds and statistical data and more on players’ intuition and predictions which in a scoop give an engaging alternative to sports betting.
Bringing innovation, BetConstruct will also showcase its fully decentralized all-in-one betting and wagering solution Fasttoken. By applying blockchain solutions in gambling, we build the casino of the future with 100% transparency, security and fairness for all involved parties – players, game providers, operators and affiliates.
As one of the exciting, emerging products of the gambling world, esports has been observed with some skepticism. While some view it as a potential new source of revenue from younger, millennial punters, others are worried that without the infrastructure of other major sports, it’s prone to corruption like cheating and match fixing.
The Esports Observer recently spoke with several experts about how these fears and being dealt with by the growing industry. This investigation was spurred on by news of cheating in League of Legends competitive play, resulting in bans being handed out for a Chinese team.
Cheating being the main reason for the discussion, it attracted a lot of discussion. Marcel Menge, Senior Vice President of Play & Platforms at the ESL, said that diligence and expertise are the deciding factors in catching cheating. He explained:
“Having multiple spectators backstage as well, plus having the POV streams online for each player position, there are enough eyes on all situations to make sure that if something is fishy, it can be instantly reviewed and checked.”
The football world in Spain is dealing with quite a mess. Several players and club executives have been arrested for allegedly participating in match-fixing, reports the BBC.
All involved appear to have been in La Liga, and the arrested suspects include current and former players from the country’s top two divisions. “The police action follows complaints about possible match-fixing in a May 2018 match from La Liga to the Spanish authorities,” said a spokesperson from La Liga.
There are no details yet as to who was arrested, but considering the alleged corruption happened in the league’s top two divisions, there’s bound to be some well-known names in there.
La Liga also reported eight cases of possible match fixing to the police, all in the lower divisions. That possibly means many more arrestsd are on the way. The spokesperson added:
The Premier League is once again 20-teams strong after Aston Villa beat Derby County in the most expensive sporting event in the world: the Championship Play-Off Final.
Cardiff City, Fulham and Huddersfield fell through the trap door, crushing larynx’s, and soiling shorts. Norwich City, Sheffield United and Aston Villa replace them, full of hope that they will not be one hit wonders.
If any club has the foundations to be a more long term fixture in the English Premier League (EPL), it’s Villa. Until their relegation in 2016, the boys in claret and blue had played in every single EPL season since its inception in 1992-93, and now they’re back, after three seasons in the wilderness.
Villa’s accomplishment is nothing short of remarkable after Dean Smith and John Terry conjured up a 10-game winning streak in that laboratory of theirs to secure a berth in the most expensive game in world sport.
A total of 12 active NHL teams have never won the Stanley Cup. One of those 12 is the St. Louis Blues, who are in the Stanley Cup Final for the fourth time in franchise history. Amazingly, they are still winless in the Final following a 4-2 loss at the Boston Bruins in Game 1 on Monday night. Game 2 is also in Boston on Wednesday, and the Bruins are -170 favorites with a total of 5.5 goals.
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Boston could be excused for coming out rusty on Monday as it finished off the Eastern Conference Final sweep over the Carolina Hurricanes way back on May 16. Rusty the Bruins were, too, as they fell behind the Blues 2-0 on goals by Brayden Schenn at 7:23 of the first and Vladimir Tarasenko early in the second period. However, that’s all Tuukka Rask would allow.
Connor Clifton got Boston on the board at 2:16 of the third, Charlie McAvoy tied it with a power-play goal at 12:41 of the second, and Sean Kuraly had the winner at 5:21 of the third. Brad Marchand added an empty-net goal.
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The fledgling Pennsylvania sports betting market is about to change forever with the launch of online sports betting, which will inject millions into the state’s sportsbooks. The race to be the first online sportsbook to launch in the Keystone State ended Tuesday with SugarHouse Casino’s entry into the market, the first of what will likely be several Pennsylvania sports betting apps and sites to go live soon, according to analysts from PlayPennsylvania.com.
“There is no question that the growth of the Pennsylvania sports betting market has been slowed by the delayed launch of online apps,” said Jessica Welman, sports betting analyst for PlayPennsylvania.com. “The launch of sports betting apps will give us our first true look at Pennsylvania’s potential as a market, which we believe should rival New Jersey and eventually Nevada as the nation’s largest market.”
Pennsylvania has so far generated $125.6 million in sports bets since legalization in November, but the importance of online betting to Pennsylvania sports betting revenue would likely mirror other legal jurisdictions in the United States. In New Jersey, the market that most resembles Pennsylvania, online sports betting accounts for 80 percent of the state’s entire handle.
In Nevada, approximately 65 percent of all sports bets are made online, according to analysts from PlayUSA.com, an affiliate site to PlayPennsylvania.com. The growing popularity of sports betting apps has also helped Nevada, which set a single-month record in March with a handle of $582.3 million, thrive even with increased competition from other legal jurisdictions.
“There is no reason to believe that Pennsylvania sports bettors would be any different in their preference for online sports betting than those in New Jersey and Nevada,” said Dustin Gouker, lead analyst for PlayPennsylvania.com. “Bettors are attracted to the convenience and ease-of-use of sports betting apps, and online sportsbooks that excel in both categories tend to rise to the top. The more innovative a product, the better it tends to do.”
Pennsylvania sports-betting market leader Rivers Casino — which like SugarHouse is powered by sports betting services company Kambi — is expected to join SugarHouse online sportsbooks in days. SugarHouse is already operating a sports betting app and site in New Jersey.
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Parx Casino and Valley Forge Casino Resort, which has partnered with New Jersey market leader FanDuel Sportsbook for its online product, are also expected to be among the Pennsylvania pioneers.
PlayPennsylvania.com expects 4 to 6 online sportsbooks will launch before the NFL season begins.
“Pennsylvania’s online sports betting market will expand quickly,” Welman said. “Casinos such as SugarHouse and Valley Forge-FanDuel will have an early advantage because of their experience in other states, but the competition will be fierce. And that will be a win for the state’s sports bettors.”
For more information on Pennsylvania sports betting, visit www.playpennsylvania.com.
Preakness Stakes (G1) winner War of Will took over Maximum Security’s claim on first in this week’s National Thoroughbred Racing Association Top 3-Year-Old Poll.
Paul Volponi of BloodHorse and Jon White of XBTV earned top honors in the New York Racing Association’s (NYRA) 10th annual Joe Hirsch Memorial Writing Contest, recognizing the best in media coverage of the 2018 Belmont Stakes (G1), won by Justify.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) renewed her call for a moratorium on horse racing at Santa Anita Park following the death of a 26th horse since Dec. 26.
As Frank Stronach stood on the grass course May 18 at Pimlico Race Course while horses were being saddled for the Preakness Stakes (G1), there was a considerably different feeling for him than in past years.
Ocala Breeders’ Sales announced the addition of 45 juveniles to its June Sale of 2-Year-Olds and Horses of Racing Age in a supplemental catalog that is now available on the company’s website at obssales.com.
A round-up of the action from partypoker’s MILLIONS North America event with Francois Billard winning the Main Event, and Andrew Pantling and Brian Yoon winning High Roller titles.
The second of six partypoker MILLIONS events is as dead as a spine riddled with bullets, and Francois Billard is the latest homo sapien to have his name engraved into the brand spanking new monolithic looking trophy.
The partypoker LIVE CA$10,300 MILLIONS North America Main Event enticed 521-entrants into the Playground Poker Room in Quebec, Canada, and after the hounds were done chasing down all the foxes, it was one of their own that remained in a seat.
Revolutionising the online gaming industry, FashionTV Gaming Group brings together the virtual world of online gaming with the high fashion and glamorous real world of FashionTV with an evening of opulence on the 30th May.
Malta: 24 May 2019 – Known for always doing things differently, FashionTV Gaming Group will be hosting its first Miss FashionTV Gaming World awards on the 30th May in Malta at the iconic Fort St Elmo in Valletta.
Miss FashionTV Gaming World 2019 is being held in collaboration with Malta Fashion Week and will culminate the week-long fabulous programme of events with a one-of-a-kind FashionTV glam party.
The event will include a cocktail reception followed by the Miss FashionTV Gaming World contest, with models competing from all over the world.
The number of double Spring Championship of Online Poker winners reaches 13 after successes from Kahle Burns, Michael Gathy and Matheus Zilberknop, Takanza goes deep in defence of his Main Event title, and XL Inferno ends.
Apart from the lucky buggers, today will feel as empty as a man standing at the prison gates waiting for them to open, when all he wanted was to stay inside with his mates, for life.
The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is nearly over. It’s been a Beethoven busting, Ganymede giant, Playboy porn star of a poker series, and only a few lucky blighters have some play left in them as the Main Events draw to a close.
A recently married man wins the Unibet Open London Main Event, the clichéd German wins the Winamax SISMIX Main Event, and the Lex Veldhuis live experience is set to return.
There are fewer moments of majesty and misery than tying the knot. The love of the day smashing into the cold, harsh reality of the pressures of providing for someone other than yourself.
How can I afford the physio for the pulled hamstring?
How can I afford those minimalist painting classes?
