GamblingData’s latest quarterly In-Play Tracker (IPT) survey sees Ladbrokes in the lead in football action, but Bet365 the total events leader across 19 sports The second quarterly report for 2012 found that within the 10-minute betting windows of the 14-day survey, it was Ladbrokes that lead the way with 310 football matches captured, just ahead …
GVC Holdings plc’s Maltese subsidiary, GVC Corporation Limited has entered into an agreement with an independent third party company, GVC New Limited to sell the failed Betaland sports book venture for a nominal sum. The buyer is, according to the GVC Holdings statement, “….not owned by GVC, nor any of its officers, shareholders or directors, …
Economically beleaguered racetracks in several US states have introduced an innovative way to generate wagering action, and a significant number of punters are going for it, reports the Journal Star newspaper. Dubbed ‘historical’ or ‘instant’ horseracing, the concept is to offer punters wagers on randomly selected televised races from the past, along with sufficiently edited …
Goonga cards used by illegal mobile bettors on Indian cricket are leaving the cops clueless, according to a piece in the Bangalore Mirror on Monday. In cricket-mad India the bookies and bettors are resorting to more sophisticated methods to work around bans on betting, the newspaper reports, noting that the latest is Goonga cards – …
Michigan’s Attorney General, Bill Schuette, has signed cease and desist orders on three Internet cafes in state capital Lansing which investigators have found to be providing internet gambling thinly disguised as sweepstakes. The Times Herald quotes Schuette, who said Monday that his staff has warned internet cafe operators they risk legal action unless they stop …
Asia-focused bookmaker Mansion 88 (M88) and CTXM have extended their games supply agreement to include CTXM’s Mini Games portfolio in addition to its existing RNG Casino offering. Functioning as side-games, CTXM’s mini games will support a cross-platform retention strategy by exposing Mansion88’s poker, live casino or sportsbook players to alternative game play. “Mini Games play …
The period leading up to the Easter holidays has seen a slew of new game releases from various operators and development studios. The licencing agreement signed last year between 888 Holdings PLC and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution has come to fruition with the launch of a new branded game titled “The Clash of the Titans”. …
The High Court in Australia’s recent decision that Racing NSW could claim fees from online bookmakers like Betfair and Sportsbet is creating ripples in other sports that attract the punters, claims a report in the Sun Herald newspaper. Quick to see commercial advantage in applying the ruling to their own sports, the Australian Football League …
Brigid Callahan Harrison, is professor of political science and law at Montclair State University, came out in support of online gambling provided via Atlantic City land casinos in an op ed piece over the weekend in North Jersey.com. Commenting on the passage of Sen Ray Lesniak and Sen. Jim Whelan’s latest legalisation bill through the …
Among the many lottery stories littering America’s Mega Million media madness last week was the tale of a Flint, Michigan man who won himself $4,428,422 by mistake in the state lottery. Digital Spy reports that the anonymous man decided to purchase a Cash for Life lottery ticket after mistakenly putting a $20 bill into the …
International Game Technology has wasted little time putting its Double Down Interactive acquisition to work, last week launching its version of the popular American Idol social gaming slot, within Double Down’s casino on Facebook, which ranks in the top 25 by drawing 5.4 million gamers a month. The company has disclosed that the American Idol …
Bigpoint, a worldwide provider of online games with more than 261 million registered users, and Mazooma, a popular Canadian internet payment processor signed an agreement this week that will enable Bigpoint’s players in the United States to use Mazooma’s instant online bank transfer service to purchase virtual credits. The partnership could pave the way for …
Online gambling has been bundled together with perceived harmful or socially unacceptable activities associated with adult sites, weapons and tobacco; it appears from the list of excluded businesses acceptable to the new UK Google Affiliate Network, which launched this week. The ambivalent approach of Google on this topic is confusing – in late 2008 the …
The furore over the failure of Worldspreads continued to build Saturday with a report in the UK newspaper The Telegraph detailing questionable conduct by the company’s directors. “Directors at collapsed spread-betting group WorldSpreads misled clients into placing bets on the company’s fortunes in order to inflate its share price, it has been claimed,” the newspaper …
With interest in the spread betting genre high in the wake of the recent failure of Worldspreads, the mainstream media have picked up on a second company in trouble, reporting that Marketspreads has been ordered to cease trading by the Irish Central Bank due to concern for clients’ accounts. The Bank said in a statement …
Wth news of the Malaysian football online gambling busts spreading across global mainstream media, further details of the police action have surfaced. It appears that the police tip-off was originally that the raided premises were involved in drug activity, but that the police nevertheless scored a major anti-crime victory due to the diverse criminal activity, …
GBI Racing, a joint venture launched in March 2010 by At The Races and Racing UK, has clinched agreements with Danish and Canadian companies that will enable it to extend its services to those countries. State gambling monopoly Danske Spil will partner with GBI in its Danish initiative, enabling the monopoly to broaden its offering …
The Canadian province of Manitoba is to benefit from the internet gambling experience of British Columbia following a joint announcement that the two provincial lotteries are to collaborate on the introduction of online gambling facilities for Manitoba residents. Quebec and British Columbia have well-established online gambling operations regulated by the provincial lotteries, whilst Ontario is …
In one of the biggest busts yet seen in anti-online gambling initiatives in Malaysia, police report that a football betting ring exploiting top British matches has been broken up with the arrest Thursday of 137 people, mostly originating from China and Taiwan. Police spokesman Abdul Rashid Abdul Wahab revealed that only five of those arrested …
EUCasino.dk clearly means to cut itself a substantial chunk of the Danish internet gambling market following the news that it has made a multi-media marketing investment of Euro 500,000 in the Nordic market. The company’s marketing campaign over the next three months will include print and television ads, backed by an intensive radio initiative, a …
Following an effective message board campaign which generated wide player interest Net Entertainment has released its latest slot Demolition Squad. The new game is a 5 reel, 4 row, 40 bet line action-packed video slot with a theme that portrays a demolition crew’s hard day at work using cartoon-style graphics with non-stop animations. Demolition Squad …
The latest New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement gambling stats released Wednesday reveal that Atlantic City’s 11 land casinos saw gross operating profits decline by 7.4 percent in 2011, to just under $495 million. The numbers show a marked decline from the 2010 figure of $534.6 million, with Associated Press noting that Atlantic City recently …
The provision of online gambling in Malaysia continued to prove a hazardous business this week with the arrest of 29 people – 22 of them punters – in police raids on seven premises. Ninety-six personal computer sets worth around RM250,000 were seized during the closely coordinated evening raids, which were carried out as part of …
The latest development in the 4-year-long Kentucky domain seizure issue has triggered a reaction from online gambling activist association the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (IMEGA), which has submitted a Motion of Appeal against Judge Thomas Wingate’s March 8 domain seizure order. Judge Wingate, who propelled the issue into the international media with his …