Daniel Allermand

Daniel Allermand

iGaming.org Reporter
Daniel Allermand is a freelance writer, with more than 14 years of experience in the industry as an operator, affiliate and poker player. Daniel has decided it was time to try and bring more coverage about the industry to the general public by writing articles about everything from poker to casino.  

EXPERTISE

  • Poker
  • iGaming
  • Affiliates
  • Casino

Daniel's latest articles


Coinmap.org Now Listing More Than 4,100 Bitcoin Accepting Merchants

If you are unfamiliar with the concept of Coinmaporg, we can tell you that it is an interactive map of the world, where Bitcoin and Litecoin merchants can go in and enter their company details and get listed as a company who accepts the popular cryptocurrencies It is also possible for others to add businesses they know accept cryptocurrencies,..
12 years ago

Crown Australia Ready With a $2 Billion Bid on Las Vegas Complex

The Australian Crown Resort Ltd is looking to expand their business and is said to have prepared a $2 billion bid for a casino complex in Las Vegas According to reports, Crown is interested in acquiring The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, which is a hotel and casino that has been in operation for three years The Cosmopolitan is owned by Deutsche Bank..
12 years ago

Borgata and Party Poker Dominating the Online Market in New Jersey

The online gambling market in New Jersey has been off to a decent start, with good amount of revenues both in poker and casino games The revenues continues to rise month by month and the state leader in revenue is Borgata and Party Poker, who has a massive 37% of the total market of the state “Borgata has been New Jersey’s land-based..
12 years ago

Fire in Power Station in Gibraltar Puts Betting Giants on Their Knees

Gibraltar is not the most well known place in the world for most people, but the British overseas territories located at the tip of Spain, facing Morocco, is actually one of the places with most gambling companies in the world Among those companies are Ladbrokes, William Hill and 888 and they were all put offline for several hours yesterday, after..
12 years ago

CoSign Coin Launching Secure Bitcoin Escrow Service

CoSign Coin just announced that they will be launching a brand new service soon, which is a secure bitcoin escrow service The company uses multi-signature wallets and transactions to ensure that the transactions are as safe as possible and hopes to see some support from the cryptocurrency community The secure Bitcoin escrow service can help..
12 years ago

Blue Gem Gaming Closed Down by the Dutch Authorities After Investigation

Blue Gem Gaming was a company which was created in the aftermath of the Sheriff Gaming scandal, where the owners were arrested and prosecuted with charges of money laundering, dealing drugs and operating illegal online gambling sites The company claimed to be un-affiliated with Sheriff Gaming and said that they were the "development team" from the..
12 years ago

Victoria Coren Mitchell Winner of EPT San Remo Main Event

The famous British television presenter, journalist and Team Pokerstars Pro Victoria Coren Mitchell won the EPT San Remo main event last night, beating 556 players and winning €476,100 as well as a watch worth around €6,000 But Mitchell also wrote history with the win, as she became the first person to win the EPT two times Victoria..
12 years ago

Delaware Poker Revenues Up 12.3% in March

Delaware has recently released the revenue numbers for March and these numbers shows that the market is increasing its revenues, both in poker and casino Overall the poker revenues went up with 123% in March, reaching revenue numbers of $84,391 compared to February's number of $73,971 Delaware Park is the biggest player in the online market in..
12 years ago

Former Ladbrokes Employee Avoids Prison After Stealing

There will always be crooked people in a work place, no matter which industry you have a look at Because of that it is not something out of the ordinary that a former Ladbrokes employee stole £1,000 from the betting shop in Hall of Place, Spalding How things went after he got caught however, is a bit out of the ordinary The former employee..
12 years ago

Nic Cary and Blockchain.info Takes Over Bitcoin.com Domain

Blockchaininfo, started by Nic Cary in 2011,  has taken over the Bitcoincom domain in a deal that provides them with the domain for the next five years While most details are not published, it is clear that with Blockchain's good reputation and their solid ideas, it can only help the domain to become even better Blockchaininfo provides not..
12 years ago

Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission Rejects $164 Million Proposal

The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission decided to reject a $164 million proposal to build Cedar Rapids casino, worried that a new casino would hurt the existing business in the area Cedar Rapids had proposed to build the casino in order to give an economic boost to the area, which was hit by a flood in 2008 The boost would include millions in tax..
12 years ago

Signing Memorandum of Understanding With SportAccord

SportsRadar, one of the world's leading providers of sports results to bookmakers, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Olympic and non-Olympic International Sports Federation Union, SportAccord The deal has been signed in order to try and cooperate to educate approaches towards the sports betting..
12 years ago

First Mainland China Bitcoin ATM Installed in Shanghai

It's not easy to buy and sell Bitcoins in China, as the central bank has declared that the Bitcoin is not a real currency and thus cannot be handled by banks Since then the Bitcoin exchanges in the country have tried different solutions to be able to keep their business going and now we see the first Bitcoin ATM installed in mainland China The..
12 years ago

Jaguar F-Type Up for Grabs in Ladbrokes Casino

A month's time ago Ladbrokes began rolling out their new casino games offerings from leading provider Playtech, in a larger agreement with them  which also included transferring their poker offerings to the major platform Now they have started to do some heavy promoting towards their customers and potential customers, showing that they mean..
12 years ago

The Sun Might Release Own Betting Brand

The UK newspaper The Sun has applied for a series of variation of "Sun Bets" trademarks, as well as a catch line that says "back yourself" While the Sun has yet to go public with their plans of a betting brand, many agree that it is almost certain that they are looking to create their own bookie, as they already have an extensive collection of..
12 years ago

Vera&John Suspending Bitcoin Payment Option Due to Regulatory Issues

In January the Scandinavian faced online casino site Vera&John released a press release, where the claimed to be the first licensed online casino to accept Bitcoins as a deposit method They were the first LGA licensed online casino yes, but not the first licensed online casino as there were several other online casinos licensed other places..
12 years ago

Netent Now Fully Integrated in Sky Betting and Games

Netent, the world's most popular casino game provider, continues to grow massively and spread throughout the biggest brands in the iGaming industry, as Sky Betting and Games has now integrated their portfolio of games into their Skyvegascom website This is great news for Netent, who is now getting a foothold in the UK, being integrated with all..
12 years ago

Pokerstars Releases Biggest Ever SCOOP Schedule – $40 Million Guaranteed in Tournaments

Pokerstars continues to show that they are the number one poker site in the world, both for cash game but also for tournaments with the release of the schedule of their next SCOOP Championship The schedule has 45 events, spread out over 135 tournaments at all levels of buy-in and guarantees a massive $40 million overall The Spring Championship..
12 years ago

Terry Rogers Bookie in Dublin Robbed With a Machete

It's a dangerous job working in a betting shop these days it seems, as yet another robbery with weapons has been reported in the UK, this time in Dublin Ireland A unidentified man entered the Terry Rogers betting shop in Old Cabra Road in Northside Dublin around 430 PM yesterday, where he threatened the staff with a machete The whole incident..
12 years ago

eGifter Adds 47 New Brands to its Offerings

Online gift company eGifter has confirmed that they have added more than 45 new brands to their online store Not only will this provide a much larger variety for their customers, but it will also be the biggest online platform to purchase gifts using Bitcoins with, increasing the competition in the market After eGifter started to work together..
12 years ago