New Jersey’s appeal to the US Supreme Court for the right to decide on its own sports betting laws rather than be bound by the federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (see previous reports) has received support from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Pacific Legal Foundation, Cato Institute, and the Wisconsin Institute for Law …
Breaking away from the football club sponsorship trend this week, Asian-facing sports betting operator 12BET announced a sponsorship agreement with Table Tennis England and the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) for exposure during the ITTF Team World Cup 2018. 12BET has been named official betting and gaming partner for the big event, which takes place …
Online gambling operator 888 Holdings plc issued a stock exchange statement Thursday advising that the UK Gambling Commission’s licence review commenced mid-May this year has been concluded with a “voluntary regulatory settlement” with the Commission and an expression of regret by 888 for the “historic failings highlighted by the review.” A statement from the UK …
Online and land gambling group Ladbrokes Coral has posted its H1-2017 results, showcasing good growth in the online division, where digital revenues rose 17 percent year-on-year to GBP 374.5 million. The company reported an overall rise in H1 operating profit of 7 percent to GBP 158.8 million, thanks largely to a strong online performance as …
Alternative betting exchange provider SpiffX has continued its penetration of the African sports betting market following a content supply agreement with Intelligent Gaming of South Africa, which owns the successful pan-African Supabets chain. SpiffX CEO Lennart Gillberg said in a statement announcing the agreement that the Supabet deal represented a step forward for his company …
Juan Hidalgo, the head of the Colombia gambling regulator Coljuegos, is focused on excluding unlicensed operators from the country’s recently legalised, regulated and licensed online gambling industry, and in a Finance Ministry briefing this week outlined the measures that are being deployed. The regulator has already implemented a blacklist and has started trying to set …
The Nevada Gaming Control Board issued its July 2017 numbers Wednesday, reporting that casino revenues rose 1.7 percent year-on-year to $998 million despite a weaker performance on the Las Vegas Strip, where revenues dipped almost 8 percent to $565.6 million. Fortunately the other Nevada gambling assets performed well in a traditionally rather quiet month. Overall, …
The Casumo online casino reports that it has just awarded a GBP 2.7 million progressive jackpot to a sixty-year-old UK player identified only as Susan. Normally a bingo player, retiree Susan switched to NetEnt’s Mega Fortune Dreams slot for a change… and changed her life with the big win. When she played the progressive slot, …
After several months of social media tease campaigning the experienced Australian team behind Primedice has launched Stake.com, a new Bitcoin denominated online casino with an adventure-based theme that has apparently been in development for the past two years. Stake.com’s games have all been designed and developed in-house, according to Primedice. The software has not been …
Online and land gambling group Ladbrokes Coral has announced that from 2018 the group will pay a voluntary levy to greyhound racing based on relevant offshore turnover. The levy will go to the industry through the British Greyhound Racing Fund or via the appropriate funding body as advised by Lord Lipsey’s review into the sport, …
The Mansion online and land gambling group has become the first shirt sleeve sponsor for football club Bournemouth; the agreement includes both Mansion and group brand Casino.com on the EPL team’s home and away shirts respectively. Bournemouth and Mansion have enjoyed a good relationship in a main sponsor relationship for the past two years in …
The French fantasy sports company Mon Petit Gazon (MPG) has confirmed that it has signed a partnership deal with the French Ligue 1 football league which enables football fans to use MPG online facilities to compete against others in constructing fantasy teams this season. Prizes in the form of tickets to Ligue matches, footballs and …
Online gambling games developer and Novomatic subsidiary Greentube is putting the finishing touches to its next online slot release, a Greek mythology themed game titled Apollo God of the Sun which is due for general release on September 18. The game has two-reel sets with 25 pay-lines on the regular reel and 75 on the …
Big Time Gaming has announced the addition to its Megaways portfolio of a new online slot with 16,000 ways-to-win, titled White Rabbit. The theme is based on the Alice in Wonderland story written by Lewis Carrol and popular down the decades, and is replete with a cast of familiar characters across the reels. The multi-featured …
Ainsworth Game Technology Limited’s full year results to end June 2017 were released this week, showing a 32 percent year-on-year drop in profits which Management blamed on a weak first half performance, but noted that recovery was experienced in the second half. Profit after tax for the full year was A$37.9 million, a decline from …
Massachusetts lawmakers have for years been dithering and debating over the legalisation of online lottery and gambling activity, frustrating repeated attempts to get legalisation through the Legislature, and the news that neighbouring New Hampshire may be starting moves in this direction should be a wake-up call for Massachusetts politicians. This is the warning that lottery …
The Japanese government has confirmed that it is considering anti-problem gambling measures that include the limitation of online betting on horse, powerboat, bicycle and motorcycle racing and the reduction in ATMs at such event venues. A reduction of pachinko jackpots is also being examined. A 2014 study by the Ministry of Health reported that problem …
The vast Turner Media group in the USA (it includes US sports channels NBA TV, Turner Sports and Nascar TV, along with the CNN, TNT and TCM networks) is targeting the younger demographic in the millennial age group with plans for a new sports digital streaming service that has yet to be detailed, but will …
The UK problem gambling charity Gamble Aware has published the results of a study which it says may assist online gambling operators in identifying and better protecting ‘at risk’ players. PwC carried out the study, which included access to data from 10,000 online player accounts with the cooperation of major online gambling firms. The study …
Online sports betting and casno group MyBet Holdings continued to battle in H1-2017, but received a welcome boost in the form of a Euro 11.8 million German High Court award from its long-running litigation against Westdeutsche Lotterie, which was successfully concluded in May this year. That enabled the operator to offset weak betting results and …
Atlantic City online casino Golden Nugget reports that last week an unidentified online player hit a progressive jackpot of $271,268.06 – the largest win at a New Jersey online casino yet. The punter was playing the NetEnt slot Divine Fortune when the jackpot hit to award the second major six-figure jackpot this year. Regrettably the …
Italian football club FC Internazionale (Nerazzurri) has reached an agreement with online sports betting operator Bwin, signing a partnership deal until 2020. The company will now become the club’s first ever Official Betting Partner and Top Partner. The agreement between FC Internazionale and Bwin is one of primary importance and is highly innovative. The betting …
The days of generating a million dollars in revenue a week in the Australian lottery market may be over for Gibraltar-based Lottoland following the news this week that Aussie gambling giants Crown Resorts and CrownBet are planning to challenge the interloper with the imminent launch of their own online lottery enterprise. The Australian Financial Review …
Without explaining why, the Malta-based CasinoFloor online and mobile casino, founded in 2009, has advised players that it is to cease operations on September 30 this year. With immediate effect the casino has halted new player registrations, and existing players are locked out of their accounts. The company’s communication advises players to contact the casino’s …