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


The History of the Online Casino Industry and its Progress

Online casinos are relatively new overall as an industry, but has actually been going on for 20 years now, dating all the way back to 1994 when most people weren't even aware of the internet's existence The first casino games that were put online were extremely simple and didn't have the regulation levels that we have today In the 20 years the..
12 years ago

iPad App Now Available for Unibet Poker in a Handful of European Countries

Unibet Poker has been doing quite well after deciding to leave the Microgaming Poker Network and fly solo They are currently listed as number 17 in traffic on Pokerscout and it seems that the traffic just continues to grow on a weekly basis Part of their success comes from their innovative poker platform and rewards system, which attracts the..
12 years ago

Owner of Vietnamese Football Club Claims his Players Fixed a Match

Once again the Asian football community has been hit by another match fixing scandal, after the owner of the Vietnamese football club Vissai Ninh Binh has admitted to the police that his players conspired to fix the result of a match they were playing, as they had betted against themselves at a local bookmaker The game was a Asian Football..
12 years ago

Walmart Discontinuing Gift Cards Agreement with Gyft

Online and mobile gift card provider Gyft, has just informed their customers via email that they will no longer be able to sell Walmart gift cards through their company Gyft is most well known in cryptocurrency circuits for accepting Bitcoin payments for their gift cards and when they integrated Walmart last month, many were quite pleased about..
12 years ago

Casino Player From High Noon Casino Wins $420,000 on Freespins

It's every casino players dream to win a lot of money while playing online casino games and for some it does come true, as a player from High Noon Casino found out the other day The player known as "Mr S" did a $350 deposit and started playing different casino games conservatively, as he wanted to play for a longer period of time After some days..
12 years ago

Unibet Invites Unibet Open Participants to Online Reunion Tour

Unibet is becoming an increasingly popular poker site to play on, with its recreational player friendly software and its new approach towards rewards Now there is yet another reason why players are playing there, as they have just announced that they will begin to do Unibet Open Reunion Tours What this means is that Unibet will be hosting a..
12 years ago

Playtech Releases Multi-Channel Solution to Revolutionize the Betting Shop Industry

Playtech is one of the world's leading igaming companies, who offers everything from poker, casino, bingo to sports betting to their customers Now they have released a new product, which they claim will revolutionize the betting shop industry, called Multi-Channel Solution The multi-channel solution is already implemented and live through all..
12 years ago

New Bitcoin ATM in Sydney Australia Installed

A Bitcoin ATM has been installed in Sydney Australia, more exactly in Westfield The ATM has been placed there to allow shoppers to buy Bitcoins with cash as well as withdraw from their online wallet to cash, should they want to do so The ATM has been installed by Australian Bitcoin ATM's (ABA), who calls themselves a "team of experienced..
12 years ago

Danish “Spillemyndigheden” Blocks Access to Five Casino Sites

The Danish gambling authority, also known as "Spillemyndigheden", just announced that they will be monitoring the online gambling market in order to try and locate gambling sites offering games to Danes without having a Danish license In Denmark it is not illegal to play on sites without a Danish license, however it is taxable, but it is illegal..
12 years ago

Pokerstars Hosting “Carnival of Tournaments” to Celebrate Tournament Number 900 Million

Pokerstars, the world's biggest poker site, announced this Friday that they will be hosting a "Carnival of Tournaments", which is being hosted in order to celebrate that they have hosted 900 million tournaments overall in the site The Carnival of Tournaments will run for almost two weeks - 14-27th of April - and has more than $2 million in boosted..
12 years ago

Investment Group Wants to Buy MtGox for 1 Bitcoin

A small group of investors are looking into buying the remains of the former exchange giant MtGox The price Well, let's just say that it is not in MtGox's favour The group has offered to purchase the site for 1 Bitcoin, equalling at around $400 in today's market The reason for the low price offered by the group is due to an "information vacuum"..
12 years ago

GVC With Boosted Results in Q1 due to Purchase of Sportingbet’s non-Australian Market

GVC Holdings has seen the first results after they purchased the non-Australian customers from Sportingbet last year, with a year-on-year revenue increase in the first quarter of 2014 The proforma revenues were boosted with a massive 69% to €1806 million in Q1 2014 compared to €1071 million in Q1 of 2013 The good revenue results for Q1..
12 years ago

Fone Casino Launches Full Web Casino

As the name may suggest, Fone Casino was until recently a mobile phone/device casino only, where players could find more than 135 different games from casino provider BetOnSoft This has changed now however, as Fone Casino decided to launch an online version of their popular casino site, to reach broader markets as well as provide a new experience..
12 years ago

Everest Poker Pulling Out of the Russian Market

Russian poker players are going to find it harder and harder to find a bigger site to play poker on, as yet another site has chosen to withdraw from the Russian market This time it is Everest Poker, part of the Betclic-Everest Group, who told to Pokerfusecom that they are withdrawing from the Russian market, but didn't specify any reason for doing..
12 years ago

Idle Games Updating Social Poker Application

Social Gaming is a concept that is becoming increasingly popular in the iGaming industry, however in poker it has seen a small decline overall due to increased competition Now one of the biggest players on the market, Idle Games, have decided to give their social poker application a major overhaul and provide a brand new and thrilling experience..
12 years ago

Betfair Launching Italian Faced Betting Exchange

Betfair, the world's leading betting exchange site, have just launched the very first online betting exchange in Italy, providing betting customers of the betting happy country to exchange bets with each other at a low commission rate The new exchange will be ring-fenced for Italians only accordingly with the rules in Italy and they will be paying..
12 years ago

eGifter in Partnership with GoCoin – Will be Accepting Litecoin and Dogecoin

The US based online gift card shop eGifter has signed a partnership agreement with GoCoin, who will provide eGifter with a brand new payments platform which can accept Litecoin and Dogecoin eGifter already accepts Bitcoins and have seen the revenues that doing so could bring, which is why they also wanted to integrate a few more..
12 years ago

Microgaming to Create Games of Thrones Online Slots

Microgaming, one of the world's leading and most innovative online casino game providers, have just signed a contract with HBO licensing, being granted a license to create online slots themed upon the popular TV show "Game of Thrones" The timeline for the release of the games are somewhere in the end of 2014, so fans of the show will not have to..
12 years ago

Australian Bookie Betstar sold for $20-$25 million to Ladbrokes

Australian bookmaker Betstar has been purchased by betting giant Ladbrokes, as an attempt from Ladbrokes to gain bigger market shares in the lucrative Australian betting market which they entered in August of 2013 The deal is said to be worth around AUD$ 20-25 million for the Alan Eskander and his father Michael Eskander, who owns respectively 75%..
12 years ago

Governor of Bank of Japan Says Bitcoin is not a Currency

The Governor of Bank of Japan, Haruhiko Kuroda, has recently expressed his doubts about the Bitcoin as a currency now as well as in the future His opinions are based on several different things with the Bitcoin, but there's no doubt that the MtGox scandal in Japan hasn't helped his point of view of the cryptocurrency “Without safety or..
12 years ago