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


Sony and IGT Extending Partnership for Wheel of Fortune Slots

IGT, one of the leading slot machine producers in the world, has just signed a new contract with Sony Pictures Consumer Products, allowing IGT to continue to produce and maintain slot machines that are themed after the very popular "Wheel of Fortune" show Furthermore IGT announced that they will be creating a mobile version of the popular game as..
12 years ago

New Zealand Gambling for $2 Billion

It is well known that the people "down under" likes to gamble, however a new report from the Department of Internal Affairs in New Zealand shows that the amount being played for is increasing In total New Zealander's betted for $2 billion on the four main gambling forms in the 2012/13 financial year The overall amount is an increase of $7 million..
12 years ago

Donated 20 Million Dogecoin instead of 2 million, much wow such generous

Alex Green, founder of the Moolahio payments platform is a generous man, maybe a little too generous if you ask him today Green accepted to donate 2 million dogecoins towards the fundraiser of "Doge4Nascar", which aims to sponsor Josh Wise's Nascar and allow him to drive around with doge on his car Green was donating the dogecoins to the..
12 years ago

The Largest Casino Jackpot in the History of Netherlands has Been Won

Saturday night there might have lots of commotion in Holland Casino Enschede, which would be justified giving the fact that one lucky player managed to win the biggest casino jackpot ever in the Netherlands The player won a total of €2,960,22150 after taxes had been paid, by spending only €750 on the spin on the special jackpot slot..
12 years ago

888’s Shares Going up 6% After Increasing Dividends for Shareholders

The shares in 888 Holding's increased with more than six percent today, after 888 announced that they forecast the highest profits ever and at the same time increased the dividends payments for shareholders Besides poker, 888 offers casino, sports betting and bingo games and they are currently the only online gaming company in the USA that offers..
12 years ago

William Hill and Ladbrokes’ Stocks Falling After Terrible Weekend

The world situation right now, with a Chinese economy that has slowed down and the tensions in Ukraine, has taken a big hit on the stock prices of many online bookies including William Hill and Ladbrokes Last week the taxes on fixed odds betting were increased from 20% to 25%, which means lower profits for the bookies and thus lower stock prices..
12 years ago

Vircurex Freezing Accounts – Withdrawals not Available

It seems like the never-ending story of Bitcoin exchange sites that goes bankrupt after having been robbed out of their cryptocurrencies because of them not having sufficient protection Vircurex is a similar story, but still differentiates slightly as they have not filed for bankruptcy, but instead only temporarily frozen accounts to try and find..
12 years ago

Man Shot at the Lucky Club Casino in Las Vegas

There was a shooting last night in the Northern parts of Las Vegas, where a man was shot at the Lucky Club Casino and then hospitalized around 2 am It is not common for shootings to happen while guests are in a casino, due to the high level of surveillance, but despite that the police has yet to make any arrests The victim, a 34 year old male,..
12 years ago

Delaware and Nevada’s Interstate Liquidity Sharing Deal May be Ready for Summer

Nevada and Delaware are both struggling with poker revenues and liquidity within the poker sites that have obtained a license to operate A few weeks ago the two states made an agreement where they will be sharing their player pools with each other, in hopes of providing better games and thus increase the revenues and tax payments The deal also..
12 years ago

-E Bitcoin Exchange Allowing Visa and Mastercard Withdrawals

One of the world's leading Bitcoin exchange sites BTC-E has just announced that they will begin to process withdrawals of funds to both Visa and Mastercards It will be possible for anyone to have a withdrawal processed to their cards, no matter the country or the currency, however there will be a few exceptions to the rule where BTC-E will find a..
12 years ago

Atlantic City Renovating Older Casinos

Atlantic City has been a popular casino destinations for many years now, but with Las Vegas and Macau constantly renewing themselves, Atlantic City has fallen behind They are about to do something about it and they will begin renovating several of the older looking casinos, starting with the Tropicana Casino and Resort Tropicana will see a..
12 years ago

Pokerstars Micro Millions Main Event Tonight – $1 Million Guaranteed

Pokerstars popular tournament series Micro Millions is nearing its end and that is being celebrated with the main event tonight at 2030 CET The tournament guarantees a massive $1 million in prizes to the players participating, which will bring a first prize of around 100K-125K - A decent amount when considered that the buy-in is only $22 Last..
12 years ago

OpenBet and Mkodo Launching Mobile Application for Danske Spil

Danske Spil, the leading Danish betting site partially owned by the state, is about to launch a brand new HTML5 mobile application, allowing players to bet directly from their mobile device without using nem-id to log in The solution has been created by Mkodo who is a mobile gaming solutions provider and OpenBet which is a online gaming software..
12 years ago

Class Action Lawyer Finds Mt.Gox Bitcoin Findings Very Suspect

Yesterday iGamingorg reported a story about MtGox "finding" between 180,000-200,000 bitcoins on an old format wallet they believed to be empty The value of these coins are currently around $110-$120 million, which seems like a very big coincidence to fall over that kind of money one month after filing for bankruptcy We are not the only ones..
12 years ago

Full Tilt Poker’s “Team Pro” Finale This Sunday

Full Tilt Poker has been running a special "Team Pro" promotion for the past couple of months, where players had the chance to qualify to be among 16 players that gets to play a HU SNG training match against either Gus Hansen or Viktor "Isildur1" Blom To be eligible for qualification for this promotion, players had to fulfil a wide range of..
12 years ago

Belgium Gambling Commission Targeting Illegal Gamblers

Belgium are stepping up their game in order to try and get rid of illegal non regulated gambling within their borders Their latest step is to more than double the amount of inspectors, going from seven to 15 in the gambling commission The actions are primarily targeted against players playing on illegal slots in bars and other land based illegal..
12 years ago

Liv Boeree Featuring in New Global TV Series

Liv Boeree, British poker pro and sponsored Pokerstars player, is going to feature in a new program series that will be running globally on the Discovery channel The show will start off with 10 episodes of around 30 minutes in length and begin airing next month, according to Cardplayercom The show has been named "The Mind Control Freaks" and is..
12 years ago

Mt.Gox “Finding” 200,000 Bitcoins in “Forgotten” Wallet

MtGox continues to impress the Bitcoin world with their incompetence, as they announced Friday that they had found around 200,000 Bitcoins in an old format wallet which they first had forgotten about and then believed would be empty It can also be easy to forget that you have $120 million worth of cryptocurrencies lying around, why would any of..
12 years ago

Sportsbet Employees Switching to Beteasy – Legal Actions Taken

Online sportsbook Sportsbet has taken legal actions to try and stop their employees from quitting their current job and move over to Beteasy, a sportsbook founded by Sportsbet's former CEO Matthew Tripp Sportsbet has filed an injunction in the Victorian Supreme Court this Thursday, claiming that an employee named Kelli Carpanini started working..
12 years ago

Bwin Integrating Evolution Gaming’s Ruleta en Vivo

Bwin's spanish regulated site Bwines has recently integrated the live dealer casino games from Evolution Gaming as a part of their strategy to gain larger market shares in the gambling happy country More specifically they have just integrated Ruleta en Vivo, which is a live roulette game filmed in a studio in Casino Rincon de Pepe in..
12 years ago