Sebastian Sorensson, a semi-professional poker player from Sweden, has won the 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona €5,300 buy-in Main Event earning €987,043 (USD 1,176,901) The 27-year-old participated in €7 million guaranteed no-limit hold’em main event to compete with 1,682 other entrants Sorensson who is a warehouse..

The first legal casino in Australia, Wrest Point Hotel Casino in Tasmania has been granted the permanent heritage protection by the state government  Sir Roy Grounds designed the Wrest Point Hotel Casino, and it was completed in the year 1973, to become the first casino to be granted a license, making it the first legal casino At the time..

North Korea is a lot in the news recently, and all for not so good reasons The reports of the country performing cyber-attacks against South Korean Bitcoin exchanges are coming in The Cyber Warfare Research Centre reportedly stated that at least one of the country’s Bitcoin exchange became the target of a hacking attempt, which likely..

The Bovada brand name which left all the business except poker offering is making a comeback under its old name, in the poker market just after a year of being acquired by the Ignition casino The company will be providing its services to most of the US market along with the eight other countries, including Mexico and the seven South American..

New Jersey has become the 16th state to legalise paid entry fantasy sports after Governor Chris Christie signed the Fantasy Sports Bill this week The Senate approved S-1982/A-3532 legalisation; it was only on Thursday the law was signed formally The law will however not change the existing DFS scene in the state The operators like DraftKings and..

Bitcoin prices went down 2% today, on Saturday, after falling below $4,300 The prices went down after slightly touching its all-time high The price of Ethereum was stable trading at about $335, while Bitcoin cash went down by 3% to $626 The slide would have resulted in minor market changes, indicating a fall, but the digital currencies like..

Kansas Crossing casino in Pittsburgh, southeast Kansas is cutting down on staff and shortening its table games operation time after it is failing to generate the expected revenue The Pittsburgh casino was expected to earn $3 million a month, as per the reports However, in its four months of operations, the casino could manage to rake in between..

Burger King has joined the rat race to launch its own digital currency in Russia, where cryptocurrency game is still on According to the local reports, the Russian subdivision of Burger Kind has launched its own cryptocurrency called “Whoppercoin” The digital currency is rolled out with a new loyalty program A customer would receive..

Mybet Group, Sports betting Operator from Europe, is planning to expand its B2B services through a new partner The deal comes in a bid to open its partner’s first branch of betting shops in the Austrian market The deal was signed after the completion of the technical ramp-up phase Under the partnership, there are first seven sports betting..

A casino reportedly removed a patron from its property after he allegedly soiled his pants on Wednesday morning The poker player, however, dismissed the claims and said the casino removed him on false claims The man identified as Tyler, in his 20’s is not revealing his last name due to embarrassment, claims he won $2,000 in a special poker..

The World Poker Tour Legends of Poker, 2017, with its $4,000 no-limit hold’em main event starts Friday, August 25 at the Bicycle Hotel and Casino The first three starting flights at noon, the WPT tournament, the 16th annual running will be televised The event is set to run from August 25-31 Players eliminated during either of the Day 1A,..

The power and internet blackouts due to the typhoon Hato hitting the gambling hub of Asia have resulted in lowered casino stocks trading in Macau The Union Gaming analyst Grant Govertsen thinks the typhoon is likely going to affect the casino revenues negatively, even though some of the casinos are using backup generators It may change the scene..

The cryptocurrency market cap has set a new record, as the combined trading value has surpassed $150 billion The combined value of Ether, Bitcoin and other blockchain based assets reached an all time high of around $154 billion As per the figures, the market continues to grow at a steady pace The market reached the current value after climbing up..

Poker Players have some action coming their way The World Series of Poker Circuit stop is now undergoing at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut The series has many large and exciting events still left on the schedule The $3,250 no-limit high roller, starts on Sunday, August 27 at 5 pm features to allow re-entry with 30,000 in starting chips..

As an effort to expand its market to Latin America and Africa, BtoBet has signed a deal to provides its innovations to BetGamestv BtoBet, Malta-based gaming and sportsbetting platform provider under the agreement would offer streamed games and lottery, for players living in the region of Africa and Latin America According to BtoBet, the deal..

According to the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA), it received as many as 50 Bitcoin exchanges applications as of August 2017 Currently, the applications are being reviewed for compliance As per the reports of local newspaper Sankei Shimbun the agency is reviewing the exchanges dealing with digital currencies if they have implemented..

FSB technology has signed a deal with Irish entrepreneur, Sean Quinn to provide a new sports betting platform for Quinn’s latest business venture QuinnBet QuinnBetcom will function as the adopted internet and mobile services for QuinnBet The company plans to put the use of the platform with the aim to expand its reach all across Ireland and..

Governor Cuomo has repeated his threat on Tuesday to the Native American Tribe- the Seneca Nation of issuing a non-Native American a right to own casino in Niagara Falls According to the state, the Senecas have defaulted in their quarterly payments of gaming revenue The Finance director has reported of not receiving any payment since January,..

888poker launched a new poker game, Flopomania, on Sunday The game comes out officially three weeks after 888poker accidentally activated Flopomania tables early Players have been eager to try the game out, though it’s officially out now Flopomania game is played just like a regular poker game mostly, but with no pre-flop betting The game..

iSport Genius, a sports data provider, has signed a deal with Sportsbet, an Australian online sportsbetting market leader Under the deal, Sportsbet will install a program that informs and educates customers of their choice of bets iSport Genius’s interactive platform uses trillions of pieces of data and through an intuitively designed..