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Lawmaker Marc Levine wants to prohibit DFS betting in California

Supporters of Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) target California lawmaker Marc Levine, who was the only one that voted “No” on a proposed bill, allowing the continuation of daily fantasy sports betting in California Levine's intention is to let voters decide on banning websites such as DraftKings and FanDuel     Supporters made..
10 years ago

Bitcoin Isn’t Dead, Yet

Milo Yiannopoulos, the 32-year old British entrepeneur who grew up in Greece, first believed the recent declaration of Bitoin's ex-developer Mike Hearn that Bitcoin is dead But Yiannopoulos, who is the technology editor for Breitbartcom, a conservative news and opinion website, realized the key benefits of Bitcoin are still there; the unique..
10 years ago

Betting suspended at Australian Open after suspicious match

Sports gambling company Pinnacle Sports suspended all bets on a mixed doubles match at the Australian Open It concerned a match between Andrea Hlavackova/Lukasz Kubot and Lara Arruabarrena/David Marrero Unusually large amounts of money were placed on the match which led to the decision of Pinnacle Sports   Half a day before the match was..
10 years ago

Texas Attorney General: Daily Fantasy Sports betting is prohibited

According to Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, DFS betting contravenes with Texas' laws concerning gambling Texas' law characterizes gambling as a game with 'partial chance' which is a stricter interpretation than how other states handle gambling   Paxton stated it is “beyond reasonable dispute that daily fantasy leagues involve..
10 years ago

10 Dutch men were arrested, accused of laundering $22 million by using Bitcoin

Ten men suspected of laundering approximately $22 million of ill-gotten money were arrested all throughout the Netherlands The men allegedly laundered €15-20 million using the crypto-currency Bitcoin It concerns money for drug dealers who sell their stash via illegal online marketplaces, which are only visible in combination with special..
10 years ago

2015 Horror year for Macau’s casinos

Figures of the earnings of casinos in Macau affirm that 2015 was a bad year for the gambling-industry Revenue from the VIP market dropped a mind blowing 399 percent compared to 2014 Where the VIP market collected around MOP21254 billion in 2014 (roughly $264 billion), 2015 was only good for MOP12782 billion ($159 billion)   The leading..
10 years ago

$5.7 Million worth of Bit- and Litecoins stolen from banker Cryptsy

After last week's news about Mike Hearn selling all his bitcoins and stating the currency had failed, Bitcoin is yet again put in a bad light Cryptsy, a website used for trading crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin and Litecoin, publicly announced it had been robbed of 13000 bitcoins and 300000 litecoins, accumulating a total loss of roughly $57..
10 years ago

4th edition of Pokerstars’ TCOOP kicks off Friday, Jan 22th

Great news for the fast paced tournament grinders on PokerStars; next Thursday is the start of the fourth edition of the ‘Turbo Championship Of Online Poker’, better known as the TCOOP A list of 50 different events with a total combined guaranteed pricepool of $15 million   Over the past week players could daily try to qualify..
10 years ago

Former officers of the Houston Police Department arraigned for running a criminal gambling website

Brian Jordan and Steve Glezman served the HPD for over 20 years, but were put non-active in May for further investigation considering their criminal activities The two are under federal investigation, being accused of running an illegal sports betting website for the last five years   According to a third party, Timothy Large, who has been..
10 years ago

Possible new casino in Maine causes fuss

A group of people, associated with Las Vegas developer Shawn Scott, is rapidly obtaining signatures needed for a petition to build a third casino in the American state of Maine The only two casino’s in Maine are the Oxford Casino and the Hollywood Casino, of which the latter was built by Scott before selling it   Scott was sued by..
10 years ago

$600.000 found in safety deposit box at The Star casino in Sydney; Singapore national sentenced to at least 9 months in prison

Police collected a little over $600000 from a saftey deposit box in The Star casino in Sydney The casino staff contacted the police because of the big gambling and significant cash withdrawals of Singaporean San Wei Koh Suspicion was aroused when Koh told the story to the police   A week after arriving in Australia, Koh stored the bigger..
10 years ago

Betting-related corruption: Tennis under fire by claims of match-fixing, even at 3 Wimbledon matches

Secret files came up suggesting that three matches at Wimbledon were fixed in recent years Anti-corruption investigators such as the TIU (Tennis Integrity Unit) stated that leaked documents alleged that the sport's authorities allowed some of the main suspects to keep playing These files were given to Buzzfeed News and the BBC; the players names..
10 years ago

Poker player Aaron ‘aejones’ Jones wins $5 Million and is crowned as world champion in DraftKings Fantasy Football

On Sundaynight, January 17th, 10 players battled it out in Los Angeles in the $15 Million Fantasy Football World Championship contest Each contestant was guaranteed $100000, but this pales in comparison to the $5 Million first price At the start of the final round, Aaron Jones was in 5th place, but due to nice scores from Larry Fitzgerald..
10 years ago

Alvan Zheng winner of biggest event in historical Macau event

The 2016 Macau Millions main event goes into the Macau record books for largest field with an astonishing 2343 entries, pulverizing their previous record of 1804 entrants set in 2014 After three days of playing poker, with day 1 being divided into 1a, 1b and 1c, it was Chinese Alvan Zheng who came out the strongest With the win, he turned HK$3000..
10 years ago

Bitcoin’s lead developer throws in the towel

A disappointed Mike Hearn, one of five senior developers of cryptocurrency Bitcoin, revealed in a post on Medium that ‘I will no longer be taking part in Bitcoin development and have sold all my coins’ This article led to an immediate drop of 10% of the Bitcoin worth   After spending more than 5 years as a Bitcoin developer,..
10 years ago

Black Friday Will See 150 Bitcoin Retailers Joining In

Black Friday is coming up this Friday and it is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, shopping day of the year Huge savings draws tons of people to shop online and in stores around the world Black Friday can be a crazy day for brick and mortar retailers, but for online stores it is simply one of the best days of the year Bitcoin retailers..
10 years ago

Betway Named New International Sponsor of Davis Cup and Fed Cup Until 2018

The ITF announced earlier this week that Betway has become the new international sponsor of the Davis and Fed cup by BNP Paribas until 2018 The official announcement came at the final of BNP Paribas in Prague and will be displayed already this weekend Betway will receive courtside branding at all the Davis and Fed Cup World Group ties, where they..
10 years ago

Netent Wins “Game of the Year” With Spinata Grande

Netent, one of the leading casino game providers in the iGaming industry, won the prestigious award of “Game of the Year” at the eGaming Review Operators Awards show held in The Artillery Garden in London, England, Monday The game who won the title was Netent’s new addition this year, Spinata Grande, which was voted to the top..
10 years ago

Pokerstars Wins Award For “Poker Operator of the Year”

Pokerstars, the world’s biggest poker site owned by Amaya Gaming, was named “poker operator of the year” this Monday at the eGaming Review Awards This is the second consecutive year that Pokerstars won the award, showing their market domination in most areas The awards show was held in the Honourable Artillery Company gardens in..
10 years ago

FSB Technology and BeanBagSports Signs Long-Term Agreement

The UK-based sports betting platform provider FSB Technology, announced today that they have signed a deal to supply BeanBagSports with a fully-optimised sports betting service The agreement between the two will see FSB trade different sports for the operator while BeanBagSports will provide an innovative platform “We’re delighted to..
10 years ago