Igor Kurganov defeated a total 86 entries to claim his win at the 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona €50,000 super high roller Igor earner with the win his tenth career live tournament title and €1,084,100 (USD 1,275,071) It was the fourth seven-figure tournament score of Kurganov’s career Kurganove expressed his happiness and..

Genting Hong Kong Ltd in collaboration with the Travellers International Hotel Group Inc will open a new Manila casino property in 2020 It will be the second joint venture in the city by Travellers and Genting after Resorts World Manila casino resort The two companies reported losses during their second quarter after the June 2 attack at the..

Bitcoin prices are back below the $4,000 mark After recording its peak high, the average prices across global exchanges started declining on August 22 The prices continued slipping down, after opening at $150 below for the day The currency trading at $3,894, its lower since August 15, when the price hit as low as $3,892 According to BTC VIX, he..

An Oklahoma City man robbed off a bank after gambling at a casino He was on his way to the second casino, where he was arrested by the FBI Frankie Paul Gabaldon, 28 was charged in Oklahoma City federal court last week in the bank robbery offence, and has “significant gambling problems” according to his girlfriend Gabaldon was..

 As per the reports, the Central Bank of the Philippines gave out two licenses to the two local Bitcoin exchanges The developments were reported on Sunday by the Daily newspaper, The Philippine Star, which also cited statements from The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas chief, Nestor Espenilla Jr The central bank gave out rules for domestic..

LeoVegas, the Nordic countries focused iGaming company has reported an astounding 60% increase year-on-year in its revenue for the second quarter of 2017 The company has reported an income of the three months of the second quarter ending up to June 30th of €497m, from the previous revenue of €31m as compared in the same period last..

Ben Rendall, the 26-year-old Kiwi poker player, won the Main Event of the NZ Poker Championship in Christchurch last night and took home a whopping $75,000 Rendall, a doctor from Palmerston North, defeated Kwang Son on 3rd position (winning $39,000) and Steve Ahn finished on second place soon after, winning a total $55,000, to claim the title..

Japan’s second public hearing took place in Osaka at the end of last week, under the government’s proposal to hold a series of discussion The talks are being carried out as to discuss, address the concerns of the public over the potential risks which could be the outcome of the growing casino industry in the country These series of..

Ladbrokes have signed a sponsorship deal with Leicester City FC, former Premier League champion  The deal will see Ladbrokes, UK and Ireland betting giant, become the official UK and Ireland betting partner for the football season of 2017/18 Under the deal, the branding of Ladbrokes will feature on the LED advertising boards and interview..

Players who were unable to retrieve their funds after the infamous Black Friday incident, it was announced in April that the former online poker members of Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet could file a claim to receive the funds owed to them The player could retrieve their funds after filing a claim via the Garden City Group, famous or working on..

The $3 billion daily fantasy sports industry is set to return after a year of exiting quietly, following the orders of Delaware Attorney General Matt Denn, as the daily fantasy sports violated the Delaware law that required the state to monitor all kinds of gambling Despite the retaliations, the operators had to exit their services from the..

Card Player Poker Tour after it last tour stop in July is all set to return to the Bicycle Hotel and Casino in October The series is slated between October 1-20, this year The series features over a dozen of events on the schedule The highlight of the series is the main event with $1,100 buy-in no-limit hold’em $400,000 The registration for..

Manila police arrested a Chinese man for kidnapping a Korean national, who was unable to pay his debt Gong Yu-Jia, the 28-year-old casino financier from Fujian, kidnapped the man for ten days and demanded P4 million from his family for his release The man also operates the gaming area of Pan Pacific Hotel in Ermita Apart from the abduction..

Ever since the digital currency records its all-time high, its value has been trading between $4,050 to $4,200 range The currency is averaged at $4,109 across the exchanges around the globe According to the data from CoinMarketCap, the newly formed Bitcoin cash shocked everyone with the value briefly touching $1,091, setting its own all-time..

In a recent post, Stacy Papadopoulos, AGA’s senior VP of industry laid emphasis once again on how inefficient PASPA is, and it is time for a change  In order to protect the integrity of sports, the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) was passed in 1992 PASPA to safeguard the integrity of sports, banned sports betting..

A man is charged with one count of illegal gambling business and one count of money laundering in Arkansas The man, Robert Enos Rogers, 72, has been operating sports betting business from his home since January 1, 2007 The business made around $2,000 a day and had five people involved in it by the February of this year The police seized around..

Australia has introduced a new bill that will regulate the cryptocurrency exchanges in the country The government has presented the draft law in a bid to strengthen the country’s Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act and to support the Australian Transactions and Reporting Analysis Centre (Austrac) The government also..

Susan Saint James is hosting the 11th Annual Susan Saint James Poker Tournament to benefit Special Olympics on Sunday, September’17 at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Ledyard The event will start at 1 pm and will come with a $100 entry fee which entitles players to $2,000n in playing chips and post-tournament reception It will also provide..

A 54-year-old woman in Arlington was robbed-off her winnings at gunpoint, while she was driving home from the Tulalip Resort Casino, Ohio, on early Friday The victim was returning home after winning $1,500 on Thursday night The woman was travelling towards the east on Highway 530 at around 3:30 am She noticed a dark-coloured sedan behind her that..

TopBetta has recently got an operational licence for its TopBetta Pty and the Global Tote subsidiaries in the US The Global tote is a channel based island of Alderney This license will allow the US licensed wagering operators to have access to global pools provided by the Global Tote Apart of this TopBetta is also awarded an Advance-Deposit..