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Mr.Green & Bally Technologies create partnership

Players of MrGreen Online Casino will experience a variety of new slot games as leader in video machines and slots, Bally Technologies, will team up with Mr Green This negotiation marks the first time Bally games are available to online players, and MrGreen looks to offer Bally the chance to expand the games on tablets and other mobile..
13 years ago

Jerry Buss’ passing leaves empty seat at the WSOP

The passing of longtime owner of the LA Lakers, Dr Jerry Buss, not only left an emptiness at the basketball association, but he also left an empty seat at the poker table in the WSOP Dr Buss, who was very well known for playing in numerous poker tournaments in Las Vegas, ended up in second place in the World Poker Tour Free Roll Invitational back..
13 years ago

Codere hopeless and in debt

Codere, Spain's gambling giant, is finding it hard to pay its multi-million debt A decade ago, when Spain experienced an economic growth, Codere did what other high Spanish corporates did, accumulate debt and expand to Latin AmericaHowever, Codere SA is now in an unfortunate position and rushes into restructuring itself as regulation problems in..
13 years ago

PA leads the way in casino planning

Since the opening of its first casino in 2006, nowadays the state of Pennsylvania is considered to be a national example when it comes to casino administration and planning According to the State of the States (a yearly report by the American Gaming Association), Pennsylvania is the second-highest-grossing casino state, only a few points behind..
13 years ago

PIV Network is €200,000 short

Several complaints have reached the Two Plus Two forum from players who hope to recover their money owned by the PokerInVenice (PIV) Network The players posts and replies suggests that the network owes them more than €200,000 but the network stated they are unable to pay the debt Last month, PIV network communicated its players that the funds..
13 years ago

Tennis player penalized for betting

For violating the International Tennis Federation rules, Dutch tennis player Yannick Ebbinghaus, has been penalized with $10,000 and a 6-month ban from playing tennis According to the International Tennis Federation, the player accepted the 67 violations he has been accused of between May 2012 and February 2013 The ITF proposed that three months..
13 years ago

Access to IGT’s game library customises gambling experience

Immediate access to IGT's UK AVP game library and it's improved analytical reports, will benefit Grosvenor Casinos in London, Coventry and Reading The application can create informed real-time decisions regarding which IGT game to redistribute on each terminalHead of electronic gaming at Grosvenor Casinos, Simon Beacham, stated that they are..
13 years ago

Competition over sport betting intensifies

The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, focused in assigning the legal position of sports betting in the US The act, also known as "Bradley Act", forbided sports betting nationwide, for the exception of a few statesBack in 1993, the state of New Jersey failed back taking advantage of the opportunity to create an exclusion for..
13 years ago

Senator Reid hopeless of new federal gambling bill

Harry Reid, Senator of Nevada, fears that the new federal gambling bill proposed by Republican Peter King, is menacing to online poker and that the latest efforts in legalizing the activity might take a step back The bill suggests to legalize online gambling in the United States but not for sports bettingIt was announced in an interview that Reid..
13 years ago

Japan gets ready to gamble

Japanese might soon have casinos to play at as a group of lawmakers will submit a bill to the parliament later this year to legalize casinos in that country If the bill is approved, Macau's global gaming title will be challenged The negotiation for opening casinos in Japan have been on the table for years as "Japan may be the only developed..
13 years ago

Too many winners drop profits at Ladbrokes

After a poor first-quarter execution in horse racing and online gaming, Ladbrokes, Britain's second largest bookmaker, announced its annual operating profits are expected to drop The reason for this, is that Ladbrokes has experienced an unusual increase in winners at the beginning of the year, forcing Ladbrokes to explain its shareholder why this..
13 years ago

Poker thriller Runner, Runner will star Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake

On the first peek of poker thriller 'Runner, Runner', Justin Timberlake plays a bright Princeton student who is drawn into a rotten world of online gambling when he is cheated out of his money by one of these gambling sites As things turn around, he ends up being the right-hand man to its corrupt boss (Ben Affleck) and finds himself involved in..
13 years ago

Australian business man loses case against Crown

Harry Kakavas, an australian businessman sued Melbourne's Crown Casino for supposedly taking advantage of his gambling addiction problem Kakavas losing records shows he lost A$20 ($17m;£13m) between June 2005 and August 2006 He claims the casino attracted him with incentives, even with the use of the casino's private jet to encourage him to..
13 years ago

NFL shows more interest in London than in Vegas

Comissioner Roger Goodell announced that the NFL will play two or even three regular-season games this year in London where sports betting is allowed However, the league expressed that they have no interest in playing not even an exhibition match in Las Vegas where sports gambling is also permitted One might now wonder, why the contradictionBrian..
13 years ago

Online poker bill reaches Congress

Peter King, Republican Congressman for New York, came up with several federal arrangements in order to place online gambling in a better position than where it actually standsBack in 2011, the federal government took strong action against online poker but that same year the DOJ announced a policy suggesting that online gambling is permitted as..
13 years ago

U.S. casinos ban Google Glasses

The computarized eyewear device able to shoot pictures, film videos and browse the internet, Google Glasses, is being forbiden in various casinos in the US as regulators consider that the gadget can be used for cheatingAtlantic City's 12 casinos received a direct order from The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement to ban the device in their..
13 years ago

Head of illicit online gambling pleads guilty

Pleading guilty in court yesterday might mean a period of twenty years in jail for member of the Gambino organized crime family and head of illegal sports betting operationsDean DePreta, who was arrested June 1, pleaded guilty before US District Judge Vanessa L Bryant in Connecticut, accepting he violated the federal Racketeer Influenced and..
13 years ago

TV poker shows might be back

As some states and federal legislators work in legalizing the poker game online, some networks believe that this approval will result the return of TV poker shows the way it was ten years agoAccording to vice president original programming and production for Walt Disney's ESPN, Jamie Horowitz, online poker will trigger new people in joining the..
13 years ago

CEO Dick Flink resigns Holland Casino

CEO of Holland Casino, Dick Flink, has resigned from his position after a six year restructuring programme to revitalise the casino concept In his current financial results, Flink recommended that a more agressive action is needed to restore the casino's figures and that his profile doesn't fit that need, leading to the resignation of the ..
13 years ago

Sports betting dominates Spanish market

Responsible for almost half of the gross revenues for Q1 in 2013, Sports betting is still king of the hill in the regulated Spanish online gambling industry These figures were released by the national gaming regulator body, the Direccion General de Ordenacion del Juego (DGOJ) The gross revenues for the before-mentioned period amount to €608..
13 years ago