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Bitcoin Records A New High, Despite Hard Fork On Its Way

  The Bitcoin prices briefly surpassed the $4800 mark for the first time yesterday, recording an all-time new high As per the Bitcoin Price Index (BPI) of CoinDesk, the prices went up as much as $4,80240 before falling to the previous record marks in the digital coin trading The recorded value is one of the major hits; Bitcoin has reached..
9 years ago

Nevada Casinos See A Decline In Revenue By 1.7%

Casinos in Nevada have reported a decline in the revenue figures by 17% as compared to its July 2016 stats The casinos have been experiencing a constant decline in table game revenues in Nevada, yet they managed to make $998m for July, which sits a little below the $1 billion mark Looking at the brighter picture, the figures suggest a rise in..
9 years ago

Poker Room In California Re-Opens After Two Weeks Of Shuttering Due To Insufficient Funds

The California casino that had to shut its door for about two weeks due to the state investigations into its finances reopened on Thursday The 500 Club Casino which is located just outside Fresno opened its card room doors on Thursday after remaining closed for about two weeks, due to the ongoing investigations The state alleged that the 12 table..
9 years ago

Kik launches Cryptocurrency Kin Sale, Expects To Raise $125 million

Kik Interactive has announced on Tuesday the launch of the sale of its own cryptocurrency in two weeks The sale of the cryptocurrency ‘Kin’ is expected to raise $125 million Kik Interactive is an Ontario, Canada based company, which is the creator of the global chat platform Kik The chat platform is valued at $1 billion Kik with..
9 years ago

Ladbrokes Coral Reports Profits Owing To Online Betting

Ladbrokes Coral Group, a British betting company, has announced on Thursday a 7 percent rise in its profits from the first half of its operation, due to high online trading The company reported operating profits for the six months till June 30 went up to $2051 million (1588 million pounds) The revenue grew by 1 percent reaching 119 billion..
9 years ago

J.C Enters the Final Table As Chip Leader, Phil Hellmuth Joins In With Third Highest Chips

The Bicycle Hotel & Casino is currently hosting World Poker Tour Legends of Poker $4,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event In all 763 players entered, the second largest turnout in the history of the tournament Only six players remain from the pool of players with the chance to win the title along with the $668,692 top prize JC Tran,..
9 years ago

Actor-Director Kevin Costner Shuts Down His South Dakota Casino

Actor and Director Kevin Costner owned casino, Midnight Star in Deadwood, South Dakota, has closed down completely after operating for 26 years According to the Rapid city journal, the casino that shut its door has left around 40 full and part-time employees of the casino unemployed Costner opened the casino in the year 1991, the very year he..
9 years ago

Writer and Poker Player, Rachel Kranz Passes Away At 62

A well-respected poker player from New York, Rachel Kranz, passed away unexpectedly on Monday Kranz was friendly and was a familiar face at both the East Coast and in Las Vegas during World Series of Poker She made many friends during her time on the circuit Many of her friends expressed their shock on the social media The poker is left in shock..
9 years ago

Icahn Enterprises L.P Sell Owned Las Vegas Casino Sells For $600 Million

Holding Company of Carl Icahn, Atlantic City Casino owner, announced on Tuesday that Icahn is reportedly selling his unfinished casino property ‘Fontainebleau’ Icahn Enterprises LP will sell the Las Vegas Strip property for $600 million, which the company acquired from bankruptcy for $148 million in 2010, to the investment groups The..
9 years ago

Father And Son Pleaded Guilty Of Running Illegal Sports Betting Ring

A father and son pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court on Tuesday for allegedly running an illegal sports betting ring out of the Lucky Lady Casino and card room on El Cajon Boulevard Sanders Segal, 66, accepted of managing Segal’s Lucky Lady Sports Book from 2013 to 2016, where he would direct his associates of placing illegal bets on..
9 years ago

Cryptocurrency Market Cap Sets All-Time High Reaching $161 billion

The trading platforms have posted the cryptocurrency market cap, which has passed for the first time $160 billion mark There are market activity and growth as revealed from the Coinmarketcap and Coin Dance data in the week ending August 26  August has been an extraordinary month for the cryptocurrency, growing to almost $162 billion,..
9 years ago

Luc Bellerive Becomes The 2017 Card Player Poker Tour World Cup Of Cards Main Event Winner

Luc Bellerive from Quebec won the 2017 Card Player Poker Tour World Cup of CardsCAD 1,650 no-limit hold’em main event with the guaranteed $400,000 win Bellerive won the title after defeating a pool of 191 entrants and earned the first place prize of CAD 98,000 (USD 78,361) at the Playground Poker Club near Montreal Bellerive made an entry..
9 years ago

SportPesa Expands Its UK Market Reach, Launches Casino Portal

SportPesa, an Africa based sports betting company, declared its plans to launch its first UK casino portal along with the fully updated version of its complete website The company’s new casino site will offer access to more than 200 games and promotional opportunities, with games lobby supported by Microgaming, which could be accessed from..
9 years ago

Man Killed In Attempted Robbery At the Hon-Dah Resort Casino

In a second such violent incident in about a month at the White Mountain Apache Tribe-owned resort and casino, a man was shot dead during a failed armoured car robbery attempt at the Hon-Dah Resort Casino and Conference Centre on Monday morning at 10 am According to the officials at the FBI’s Phoenix Office and Bureau of Indian Affairs, a..
9 years ago

Russia Bans Trading Of Cryptocurrencies For ‘Ordinary People’

Russia has all of a sudden announced its plans to ban sales on cryptocurrency The Russian deputy finance minister Alexey Moiseev said it's hard to argue that cryptocurrency is not a pyramid scheme According to Moiseev speaking in an interview to local television channel Rossiya 24, the government would allow having trade cryptocurrencies to those..
9 years ago

UK Gambling Commission Reveals Reports On Gambling Behaviour

UK Gambling Commission has revealed Gambling Behaviour in Great Britainsurvey, which the problem gambling is on the rise in the country and has increased by 02% The media went berserk, and different media houses reported figures without noting the actual data for the prevalence of problem gambling among the population of 54 million (UK citizens..
9 years ago

Massive Fire Destroys The Holland Casino In Groningen

  A massive fire engulfed and destroyed The Holland Casino in Groningen on Sunday The fire which was discovered at around 7:00 am got under control around 3:30 pm by the efforts of the firefighters No casualties were reported, but billions of euros worth property were damaged The firefighters responded to the automatic fire alarm at 7:02 am..
9 years ago

Luc Bellerive Enters The 2017 World Cup of Cards Card Player Poker Tour As A Chip Leader

Luc Bellerive as a chip leader with 1,698,000 has entered the final tables at the 2017 World Cup of Cards Card Player Poker Tour CAD 1,650 buy-in With a total 191- entrants, only eight players are remaining in the event with CAD 400,000 guaranteed no-limit hold’em It is currently undergoing at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal The..
9 years ago

Litecoin Records An All-Time High, Trading Over $60

Litecoin has hit the double jackpot with crossing two milestones at a time, passing $60 mark, at $64 and a $3 billion market cap for the first time The digital currency prices have surged in 24 hours, reaching a new all-time high, after a month of sideways trading As per the Coinmarketcap data, the figures on Sunday have been the best performance..
9 years ago

Sports-book Deny Mayweather A $400,000 Bet On Self In The McGregor Fight

Floyd Mayweather reportedly went to the M Resort in Las Vegas to attempt to place a bet of $400,000 on the fight ending in under 95 rounds The line for the bet was 2 to 1 and would have doubled his win Mayweather was however denied as the sports book was concerned about the legality of the bet, whether he could bet on himself on anything else..
9 years ago