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.  

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  • Poker
  • iGaming
  • Affiliates
  • Casino

Daniel's latest articles


Caesars Interactive Acquiring Pacific Interactive

Caesars Entertainment Corporation's subsidiary Caesar's Interactive, has bought another social gaming company This time it is Israel-based Pacific Interactive that they have snatched up, who created and owns the popular online slot "House of Fun", which is a completely free to play game Pacific Interactive is far from the first company that..
12 years ago

Pokerstars World Record Tournament Attempt

Pokerstars, the world's leading online poker site, tried to set yet another world record yesterday as the site wanted to break their own record and have more than 225,001 players participating in their $300,000 guaranteed tournament with a $1 buy-in Despite Pokerstars efforts and a decently sized overlay, they were not close to making a new..
12 years ago

BTC China Lowering Trading Fees for Users

BTC China, one of the biggest Bitcoin exchange platforms in the world, announced on Saturday that they will be reducing the trading fee's on their platform The change will go from 03% of the total trading amount all the way down to 01%, effective from February 24th at noon local time BTC China furthermore announced that the traders that places..
12 years ago

Bwin.Party Launching Sportsbetting Application on Facebook

BwinParty, one of the biggest igaming companies in the world, have made an agreement with Top Eleven Football Manager developer company Nordeus to provide a free to play sportsbetting application The game will be known as "Sportster - Bet and Win" and is currently in its beta testing phase on Facebook The application will not be for real money,..
12 years ago

Foxwoods Casino Launching Online Playmoney Site

Foxwoods Casino has entered a partnership with GameAccount network, where the two will offer online gambling through their website FoxPlay Players will not be able to play for real money on the site, but will instead be able to win discounts at different areas of the physical casino by playing It is possible however to purchase virtual credits..
12 years ago

Borgata Tournament Players Suing over Counterfeit Chips

4,000 poker players who entered in the first event at the Borgata Winter Poker Open have decided to file a class-action lawsuit against Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa The lawsuit is due to the players feeling it is unfair that the tournament got cancelled, travelled long distances and because of promises of winning a share of the $2 million..
12 years ago

Winklevoss Twins Launcing “Winkdex” For Bitcoins

The Winklevoss twins also known as Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss has just released their take on a Bitcoin price tracker, which they have name Winkdex It shows the price of the Bitcoin from the three biggest exchanges in the world and tracks the price movement over a long period of time The twins have released Winkdex prior to opening their..
12 years ago

Bonnier Gaming to Distribute Metric Gaming’s SuperLive

Bonnier Gaming has entered a Letter of Intent to distribute Metric Gaming's SuperLive livebetting product, where users have the possibility to bet on virtually everything that can happen in a match as it is being played Betsson has just entered a partnership with Metric Gaming and it seems like their product will be widely used in the industry..
12 years ago

Mr Green Casino With Increased Profits in 2013

Mr Green, one of the leading online casino sites for Scandinavians, has just announced the company's results for the year of 2013 Overall Mr Green is very satisfied as they experienced almost a doubling in the profits compared to 2012 Mr Green showed profits amounting to SEK1022 million, which is equal to around €114 million at today's..
12 years ago

Bitcoin Plunges to $91.5 on MtGox After Negative Announcement

MtGox, formerly the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange site, has seen yet another plunge to the value of Bitcoins in their site, after they released a statement on Thursday where they still didn't provide any sort of positive news around the withdrawal issue on their exchange Today (Friday) the price for a Bitcoin with MtGox has hit a new low,..
12 years ago

First Bitcoin ATM installed in Boston, USA

Despite us writing about Robocoin would be the first company to install Bitcoin ATM's in the US, it seems that Lamassu has beaten them in the race Yesterday it was announced that Lamassu had installed the first Bitcoin ATM in Boston at a rail hub, making it possible for travellers to not only learn more about the cryptocurrency, but also to..
12 years ago

New York Set to Regulate Bitcoins

New York is set to become the first state in the US to regulate the popular cryptocurrency Bitcoin and says that they see a lot of promise in the Bitcoin as a whole "I do think it holds a lot of promise (if money laundering can be adequately addressed), both on its own and in terms of causing existing payments system technologies to up their..
12 years ago

Online Gambling Revenue Increasing in Denmark

Until 1st of January 2012, Denmark didn't have any real laws on the area of online gaming, making it difficult for the players of the small country to figure out where they were allowed to play online Most players used the safe choice and went with "Danske Spil", partially owned by the state, to avoid getting back taxes or any other..
12 years ago

JackpotParty Stopping Operations – Players Moved to SlotsMagic

JackpotPartycom has been one of the leading UK casino sites for the past four years, but it seems now that the era is over Williams Interactive who runs JackpotParty has decided to migrate the players from Jackpotparty to SlotsMagic after ceasing operations of JackpotParty “After four years operating the award-winning JackpotPartycom online..
12 years ago

Norwegian Olympic Contestant Playing Poker from Sochi

All athletes have different ways of relaxing and getting the right mindset before a major competition For Norwegian Skier Petter Northug that way is by playing online poker, to be exact Pot Limit Omaha, on the world's biggest poker site Pokerstars  Unfortunately it may have influenced his sports, as he has had a disastrous Winter..
12 years ago

Blockchain CEO donating 14.5 Bitcoins to Puget University

Bitcoins are a very popular coin to use for donations and other good causes and more and more charities all over the world have started to accept donations in the virtual cryptocurrency However when Blockchain CEO Nicolas Cary donated 145 Bitcoins ($10,000) to his old University, Puget Sound, they were not ready to accept the donation from the..
12 years ago

Jail Officer Pleads Guilty in Illegal Sportsbetting Ring

Albany County Jail Officer Timothy Robillard has pleaded guilty for his role in a large illegal online sportsbetting ring, where he took bets from the inmates and placed them Robillard admitted to having promoted gambling before the state supreme court justice Joseph Teresi in Albany Robillard will receive his sentence the 15th of April, but has..
12 years ago

No Online Gambling in State of Louisiana

Bobby Jindal, Governor for Louisiana has written an article for the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report where he expresses his disregards towards online gambling and ensures that he will do what he can to stop it from spreading throughout the state Jindal explained in the article that he sees online gambling hurting the most vulnerable in the..
12 years ago

MPN Starting Live Tournament Series in May

MPN, one of the leading poker networks in the world, have just announced that they will start hosting live tournament series across Europe from May this year The series will be called MPNPT and has three stops already announced, London, Malta and Tallin, which are classic stops for the smaller poker tournament series that travels Europe The..
12 years ago

Robocoin Installing First Bitcoin ATM in US Next Month

The US based Robocoin company have announced that they will install the first Bitcoin ATM machine in the US next month, making it possible for regular people to get access to Bitcoins In a report done by Reuters, Robocoin plans to install Bitcoin ATM's in Seattle and Austin as the first cities and they will be very similar to regular kiosks,..
12 years ago