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


Global Poker Index Closing Deals With Casino Barcelona and Aviation Club

Global Poker Index, also known in poker circles as GPI, is the go to place to find online rankings of live tournament poker players They have listed the top 300 live tournament players in the world in their GPI 300, which Phil Hellmuth recently found unfair due to the high buy-in tournaments that they include in the list Now GPI has made..
12 years ago

Bitcurex Temporarily Shutting Down Site Due to Hacker Attacks

Bitcurex, the leading Bitcoin exchange site in Poland, has temporarily shut down their Bitcoin exchange site due to hacking attacks that targeted user wallets and attempted to steal Bitcoins Bitcurex told Coindeskcom that they made the decision to close down the platform temporarily, until their IT team could get the attacks under..
12 years ago

Intralot Launching Mobile Sports Betting in Italy

Intralot, a lottery and gaming provider, has just announced that they will be expanding their portfolio on the Italian market by providing a mobile sports betting product called SportsMobile SportsMobile is developed in HTML5 and will offer all the latest features in mobile betting, including live betting and pre-match betting George Zenzefilis,..
12 years ago

Foxwoods Casino Increasing Slots Revenue

Foxwoods Resort Casino has just released their February numbers and revealed a small increase in revenues compared to the same month in 2013 Overall the revenues went up 22% to $393 million in 2014, compared to $385 million in 2013 Overall numbers were also up for Foxwoods as the numbers for February 2014 was $4793 million against $4627 million in..
12 years ago

Party Poker NJ Hosting New Jersey Championship of Online Poker

Party Poker is one of the leading poker providers in New Jersey and now they are aiming to distance themselves from their competitors through the New Jersey Championship of Online Poker The online tournaments will be held parallel with the WPT World Championship live poker tournament in Borgata casino and will feature 15 tournaments with a..
12 years ago

Xapo Raising $20 Million for the Most Secure Bitcoin Storage System

Xapo, a California based Bitcoin security company, has been out raising money towards creating the most secure Bitcoin storage system in the world The fundraising was led by Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group and Ribbit Capital and with the help of those three it was made possible to get the first $20 million Xapo was founded by Wences..
12 years ago

The Legend of Tomas Brolin Lives

One of the best football players in the world in the mid 90's Tomas Brolin was seen playing Unibet Open in Copenhagen yesterday While most players at the tournament had no clue about which kind of legend he actually is, Unibet asked Remko Rinkema to do a portrait about Sweden's most popular football player in the 90's Brolin was part of the..
12 years ago

iTechnoGaming and Vivo Gaming in new Partnership

iTechnoGaming, all around iGaming solution provider, has partnered up with Vivo Gaming in order to be able to offer their live dealer games to their customers iTechnoGaming already have a massive portfolio of different games to offer to potential clients, but were missing a good live dealer casino, which is where Vivo Gaming came into the..
12 years ago

Massachusetts to Regulate Online Gambling Soon

Massachusetts may just become one of the next states to integrate online poker and other forms of online gambling in the US, after the Massachusetts Gaming Commission has expressed urgency towards licensing and regulating the online market “The time to introduce online gambling is now, it’s upon us We can’t wait any longer, even..
12 years ago

Overstock Having Sales for $20-$30K a Day Through Bitcoins

Overstock was one of the first high profile companies in the world to embrace Bitcoins and integrate it as a payment method for their online shop It seems like that was a good idea, as they have since the launch on January 9th sold for well over $1,000,000 worth of goods with Bitcoin as payment The partnership with Coinbase has helped Overstock to..
12 years ago

Nicklas Bendtner in Trouble Again

Nicklas Bendtner, Danish international and Arsenal striker, has been well known for not being the most reliable football player in history and now he is in trouble again for doing outbursts outside of the football pitch While his team were in Munich to try and qualify for the next round of the Champions League, Bendtner was in Copenhagen getting..
12 years ago

Videoslots.com in Partnership with Yggdrasil

Videoslotscom and online casino game supplier Yggdrasil has entered a strategic partnership, where Yggdrasil will provide around 25 casino and lottery games to the Malta based Videoslots Among these games the players will find Jokerizer and Winterberries, which are the most popular casino games that Yggdrasil provides Furthermore Yggdrasil will..
12 years ago

California to Legalize Online Poker?

Things are moving fast in the US at the moment and more and more states are looking into changing the rules of online gambling and especially online poker California is one of the states that are now introducing bills to try and legalize poker, which in such case would be controlled by the state Earlier this year it was believed that online poker..
12 years ago

Pokerstars WCOOP Challenge Series Guaranteeing $9 Million

Pokerstars has just revealed the schedule for their second WCOOP Challenge Series, which will begin the 28th of March and end the 30th of March The series is a spin-off of the original WCOOP  Series and will guarantee a total $9 million in prizes in nine tournament over three days The first WCOOP Challenge Series was held in December and had..
12 years ago

New York Planning to have Regulated Bitcoin Exchanges

New York's financial regulators has asked companies to send their proposals for setting up regulated exchanges for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dogecoin The reason for doing so is, according to the State Department of Financial Services, to protect consumers better and to avoid money laundering It is probably no coincidence that..
12 years ago

Paddy Power Forced to Pull Pistorius Betting Campaign

After a massive amount of complaints about Paddy Power's Oscar Pistorius campaign, where bettors could bet on the outcome of his pending trial for killing his girlfriend, UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has forced the betting giant to remove the campaign Paddy Power ran a campaign where they showed the Oscar statue with the text "It's..
12 years ago

Fire in Casino in Sydney

A fire has broken out in a new casino construction in Sydney's Barangaroo, evacuating several hundred workers of the casino and from other nearby buildings Right now the biggest concern is no longer about the safety of the people at the place of the fire, but instead on the massive crane that is right next to the casino "Our big concern is the..
12 years ago

Big Fish Gaming Company Accepting Bitcoin Payments

More than 105 million players visits Big Fish Gaming's app store annually, making them a major player in the online gaming world They have now partnered up with Coinbase in order to provide their customers with the possibility to pay with Bitcoins Big Fish is well known for having created games such as Big Fish Casino and Room of Memory and is..
12 years ago

William Hill Launches Android App

William Hill, one of the leading European bookmakers, has just released an Android app for their customers to use, after seeing the success that the iPhone app has had The app will provide customers with access to all the different betting markets, live streaming and in-play radio, so the experience is as close as being on the website as..
12 years ago

Finnish Casino Player Won €3.3 Million Jackpot

One lucky Finnish casino player won a life changing jackpot while he was playing in Casumo Casino yesterday The 50 year old Finnish player was listening to Dire Straits in his headphones while playing "Arabian Nights", which is a jackpot game offered by Netent After a few spins only, the lucky player hit the jackpot and saw a massive €33..
12 years ago