There are just 3 days left until the 4th edition of the Prague Gaming Summit will open its doors and the organizer would like to point out that you lookout for a very informative Fireside Chat in the program.
As you may know, compared to other traditional presentation formats, a fireside chat is an informal, yet structured dialogue between a speaker and a moderator, who focuses on adding a casual tone to the conversation while providing massive value to the audience. And European Gaming Media and Events organized conferences have the best of them.
On April 29, Athens will host the first Greece Gambling Conference dedicated to the specific nature of the Greek gambling market, gaming regulations and industry development. The event is organized by Smile-Expo.
The conference will be useful to representatives of online and land-based casinos, betting providers, gambling platform founders, gaming software developers, SEO specialists and everyone engaged in gambling.
Relevancy of Greece Gambling Conference
Greece is a promising country for gambling business growth. The industry has been extensively transforming for the past 20 years. A package of reforms ‘Investments in Greece’ became effective in autumn 2019. Therefore, the authorities have reviewed the existing rules of gambling business operations in order to combat market monopolization.
4 March 2020, South Africa – Digitain, undoubtedly one of the leading sports betting and casino platform providers engages with Vegas Kings, the exclusive iGaming design and development agency, to redesign their corporate website and assist the brand in communicating a more direct lead / conversion orientated site whilst making it more effective and easier for the user to get in touch and make meetings for conferences and new business alike.
A fully bespoke responsive website design was delivered and launched in record time just before ICE London 2020.
Vegas Kings was commissioned to conceptualize the new look / feel and art direction to carry the brand’s new 2020 vision.
Redesigning the entire website for desktop and mobile responsive formats, Vegas Kings managed to communicate the companies state of the art technology, trading tools and ground-breaking strategies.
Armed with defending champion Gift Box and longshot Combatant, trainer John Sadler bids for an unprecedented three-peat in the 83rd running of the $600,000 Santa Anita Handicap (G1) March 7.
A youthful sports bettor who won fame last year for winning over a million dollars has been charged with threatening violence against professional and college athletes as well as their families.
On Wednesday, the US Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida charged Benjamin Tucker Patz aka Parlay Patz with transmitting threats in interstate or foreign commerce. If convicted, Patz could spend up to five years in federal prison.
The 23-year-old Patz received media coverage late last year after he won over $1.1m in less than two months on parlay wagers with New Jersey sportsbooks operated by William Hill. But the complaint filed Wednesday suggests that Patz was anything but a winner outside the sportsbook.
The complaint features testimony from an FBI agent who detailed numerous incidents in which Patz sent messages to athletes via his Instagram account. Some of these messages referenced unsuccessful bets that Patz had placed on these athletes’ teams and expressed his view that the athletes had cost him money.
Sports betting data provider Sportradar has filed a formal complaint against rival Betgenius for bogarting UK football data, while a new Russian bookmaker appears to be piggybacking on Sportradar’s brand.
On Wednesday, Sportradar announced that it had “served legal proceedings” against Betgenius and Football DataCo (FDC) “in relation to the current structure for the licensing and distribution of live data from FDC football leagues for betting purposes.”
Sportradar said it had embarked upon this legal action “with reluctance” and only after finding it impossible to find “a fair solution that enables it to build its own database and to compete effectively” in the markets in which FDC is the big data daddy.
Last May, Betgenius inked a multi-year deal with FDC, which holds the rights to data from the English Premier League, English Football League and Scottish Professional Football League. The deal provided exclusive access to what Genius Sports Group CEO Mark Locke called “some of the most valuable sports betting content in the world.”
Shooting Star Thoroughbreds’ Chance It will attempt to catapult onto the Triple Crown trail by way of the March 7 $400,000 Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby (G2) at Tampa Bay Downs.
For the second Thursday in a row the NBA schedule is just four games and the nightcap of the TNT doubleheader features the horrible Golden State Warriors at home in what looks like a huge mismatch.
Odds courtesy of OddsShark.com
Last week, the Dubs were drubbed 116-86 in that slot by the Los Angeles Lakers even though LeBron James sat out for Los Angeles. This Thursday at 10:30pm ET the Warriors host the Toronto Raptors in an NBA Finals rematch. The last time the Dinos visited Golden State was Game 6 of the 2019 Finals, but at Oracle Arena in Oakland – the Warriors now play at the Chase Center in San Francisco.
Toronto won that game 114-110 to clinch its first-ever NBA title. It would be the last game that Kawhi Leonard would play for the Raptors as he left in free agency. Warriors All-Star guard Klay Thompson tore his ACL in it, which will sideline him all this season. The Raptors probably will miss Oracle as they were 4-0 there last season including the playoffs. Toronto is -10.5 this time and 6-1 ATS in its past seven games against Western Conference opponents.
SBG Sports Software is excited to announce the opening of its new North American operation based out of Chicago, IL. headed up by recently appointed VP of Sales and Business Development, Joe Schrimpl.
SBG Sports Software Incorporated will strengthen SBG’s growth in Major League Soccer and US motorsports series whilst offering enhanced local support for existing customers. This investment comes as a direct result of increasing demand for SBG’s next generation sports analytics applications RaceWatch, MatchTracker and Focus.
The appointment of Joe Schrimpl represents a strategic move to expand the SBG product suite to support additional elite sports across North America. Schrimpl is joining with over 20 years of award-winning success in sales and operations throughout the sports technology space. Schrimpl served in various capacities for over 7 years at XOS Digital Inc, serving as Account Manager to numerous professional and collegiate football, basketball and hockey teams for video and data analysis and instant replay. Schrimpl was also a part of National Championship Football staffs, directing the Video and Operations Department at the University of Southern California for nearly 7 years. Schrimpl began his career in sports technology assisting Football, Basketball and Soccer staffs at the University of Miami, Fl and Drake University respectively.
SBG’s global leadership position in professional sports is reflected by customers in 40 countries across 4 continents, with local partners in Spain, Germany, Japan and Australia. A new base in Chicago gives SBG access to elite sports throughout the US and Canada, perfectly located to further enable customer support and new market development across 3 time zones.
Gareth Griffith, CEO of SBG Sports Software comments on the expansion into the US: “Over the last few years we have been applying SBG technology with great success in elite level sports including Formula 1, Premier League football and Six Nations rugby. It has been a long-held ambition to expand into North American sports, which I have personally followed enthusiastically for many years. We are delighted that Joe Schrimpl is joining us to lead our US organisation. His appointment reflects our continued commitment to industry expertise, and we look forward to making significant impact in the US market.”
Joe Schrimpl: “I’ve been in the sports technology industry for many years and SBG’s reputation and position within the market is second to none. Coaching and analysis staff are in constant pursuit of that competitive edge and they deserve a technology partner that is equally competitive, dependable and innovative. SBG brings a unique and unparalleled approach to elite sports data and visualization applications to the US sports industry. I’m thrilled to be joining the SBG Team.”
Over the last fortnight, we’ve brought you a series of self-help guides to improving your life at the poker tables and away from it. We’ve helped you organise how to restructure your diet, revolutionised your sleep patterns, assisted you in keeping on top of your mental health and even given you some tips for travelling.
We now come to a vital and often overlooked aspect of poker, namely what to wear when you’re at the table. On the face of it, you might think, it sounds easy. You get up in the morning, you take a shower and throw on some clothes. Right? Wrong.
Here are five ways you improve your ability to wear clothes and have a positive effect on your poker game.
After the distribution of recent California Horse Racing Board regulations was met with frustration by some California trainers, representatives from the CHRB and state horsemen groups held a teleconference March 3 to clarify rules and procedures.
In shock news, Europe’s largest poker room, King’s Casino in Rozvadov, has declared that all Italian players will not be welcomed at its casino due to the possibility of transmitting the COVID-19 – or Coronavirus – infection.
While just under 100,000 cases have been reported worldwide, with an estimated death rate of 3.4% being declared by the World Health Organisation (WHO), King’s Casino regularly organizes events for players who travel from a specific country – such as Italy – to play in Rozvadov. Barely anyone lives in Rozvadov to play poker, with the King’s resort almost exclusively welcoming travelling players, so the exclusion point may be a valid one, but Italian only?
The King’s Casino statement in full is unequivocal in its specificity of the request:
“King’s Resort communicates with regret to its customers that, given the evolution of the epidemic phenomenon coronavirus that for a few hours has been interested in the Czech Republic (with two [cases] contracted in Prague after visiting Italy), in order to safeguard the health of our international guests and prevent the spread of the Covid-19, we have chosen to completely limit access in all areas of the casino, not even accepting hotel reservations, to all residents and coming from Italy indefinitely, canceling from now all the events of March and April 2020 that target mainly target the audience mentioned above.
In a sport where development on the Triple Crown trail is usually judged one race at a time, owner Chuck Zacney prefers to take it one furlong at a time with Mischevious Alex.
Chares remained undefeated and earned 20 points on the European Road to the Kentucky Derby March 4 at Kempton, leading the way to a 1 1/4-length score in the Road to the Kentucky Derby Conditions Stakes.
Godolphin’s graded stakes winner Lake Avenue returns from a brief freshening against seven others in the $250,000 Busher Invitational for sophomore fillies March 7 at Aqueduct Racetrack.
Casino operator Hard Rock International (HRI) has finally received some good news regarding its long-delayed Spanish integrated resort project.
On Wednesday, Spanish media reported that the government in Spain’s Catalan region had brokered a €120m deal to acquire the land near the coastal city of Tarragona on which HRI hopes to build its €2b Hard Rock Entertainment World resort.
The deal will see a government-owned company known as Incasòl pay €120m for the property currently owned by Mediterranea Beach & Golf Community, which is itself owned by Criteria Caixa, a development arm of La Caixa bank. Incasòl will then sell the property to HRI for the same price, which hopefully will allow the long-stalled project to finally go forward.
HRI originally partnered with Melco International Development to bid on a Catalan casino license but Melco bowed out in favor of pursuing a separate project in Cyprus. HRI pushed on alone and was ultimately awarded the license in May 2018 but its problems were only just beginning.
Joe Crowley—the father of six daughters, including Pat Smullen’s wife, Frances, and Annemarie O’Brien—will forever be remembered as a brilliant horseman and remarkable individual, according to the nine-time champion jockey.
In 1993, Kiaran McLaughlin left a job as a jockey agent for Chris Antley to become a trainer. Now he will return to those roots, taking over April 1 as the agent for Luis Saez, regular rider for $20 million Saudi Cup winner Maximum Security.
