Digital Sports Tech, which develops and supplies business-to-business sports betting software such as proposition betting, announced Monday that it has signed its third Australian client in TopSport. Previous Australian signings have been Ladbrokes and MadBookie. TopSport will be launching Digital Sport Tech’s ‘Player Props’ product, where customers can customise and create their own prop bets …
Virtual games specialist Kiron Interactive has agreed a deal with Isle of Man-based Link2Win, to integrate the Supervivo product into its Betman Online Remote Gaming System. Supervivo is a patented product which offers a draw mechanism that gives players the opportunity to win large fixed or progressive jackpots alongside their regular bets. As a betting …
Responsible Wagering Australia, a newly formed trade body supported by Bet365, Betfair, CrownBet, Sportsbet and Unibet (see previous report) has announced that it is to support government moves to ban inducement advertising, e.g. the offering of bonuses and free games to attract and persuade punters to sign up. Stephen Conroy, a controversial former Australian federal …
Most online punters would regard a single six-figure jackpot win as a once-in-a-lifetime stroke of good fortune, but a Swedish player has achieved three such hits in the space of a week. The anonymous online punter, who lives in Stockholm, has enjoyed an extraordinary run of good fortune on the slots at the Codeta online …
Tiger Gaming has joined the growing number of online poker operators in offering Bad Beat Tables, initially with a jackpot of $100,000. That jackpot will grow with every real-money hand on specified Bad Beat tables clearly marked in the site lobby. Players qualify for the jackpot by having a hand of four of a kind …
Our readers will no doubt recall the furore back in 2012 over the use of edge-sorting tactics by poker pro Phil Ivey and his talented and observant companion Cheng Yun Lin in two seven-figure Baccarat wins at land casinos in London (Crockfords) and Atlantic City (Borgata). The former refused to pay out after discovering the disadvantage …
A Republican state representative in South Carolina, Bill Chumley, has proposed a bill that would require sellers of computers to install digital blocking capabilities in the machines, ostensibly and arbitrarily to prevent access to vice and pornography websites. The bill has wide-ranging and loosely defined implications, embracing not just direct vice and porn sites, but …
UK newspapers continued to chew on the GBP 2.5 million pay-out by Camelot on a fraudulent “damaged” national lottery ticket several years ago (see previous reports), suggesting Monday that the reason that the police had released the claimant last year without prosecuting him was that the ticket in question had disappeared whilst in Camelot’s possession. …
Billions of Euros will soon be offered to lottery players in Spain’s El Gordo (The Fat One) lottery held every year during the festive season, and arrangements are well in hand for the three-hour televised entertainment spectacle which accompanies the December 22 draw. Whole communities have in the past benefitted from El Gordo after purchasing …
Online gambling software and games developer BetSoft has announced that its games have gone live in the Italian market through the major operator Microgame S.p.A. Under the terms of the licence agreement, BetSoft will deliver its range of 3D Cinematic Casino content, including SugarPop!, Alkemor’s Tower and Boomanji, to Microgame’s long list of gaming sites. …
Tabcorp’s proposed acquisition of Tatts in Australia, already under threat from a competing offer from the Pacific Consortium (see previous reports) may be further complicated by British bookmakers William Hill and Ladbrokes-Coral, who are believed to be potential new bidders for the wagering side of Tatts business, according to reports Monday in The Australian newspaper. …
Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte arrived back home from a foreign mission Saturday and immediately entered the Immigration corruption scandal by ordering the seizure of all online gambling tycoon Jack Lam’s Philippines assets, accusing him of not paying the correct taxes, and directing the immediate dismissal of two senior Immigration officials. Although a statement from the …
Perhaps stung by criticism of its new tax proposals during its recent consultative meetings with the few operators it has left (see previous reports) the Antigua and Barbuda regulator has hastened to reassure licensees that no new tax regime or licensing fees will be imposed without full consultation. The Financial Services Regulatory Commission (FSRC) said …
A 47-year-old female online punter in the UK is enjoying an early Christmas after hitting a $4.3 million jackpot on a stake of just GBP 1.50 at 888 online casino playing the Millionaire Genie slot. The player, who has elected to remain anonymous, is a regular visitor to the online casino, a statement from 888 …
The UK media has been quick to uncover the sort of detail not made public by Camelot, the police and the UK Gambling Commission regarding this week’s GBP 3 million fine imposed on the lottery operator (see previous report). By Friday evening newspaper reports appeared claiming that: * The allegedly fraudulent claimant of the GBP …
Online casino group Mr Green has announced the appointment of Stefan Gustafsson as CEO of its Stockholm-based technical division, Mr Green & Co Technology AB, replacing former chief Niclas Enhörning, who vacates the post after two years in the hot seat in order to start his own business. Gustafsson has an impressive IT c.v. that …
Friday evening local time saw new drama in the Philippines online gambling corruption scandal (see previous reports) as the two Bureau of Immigration assistant directors at the centre of the storm advised local media that they had written to the national president tendering their resignations “to spare President Rodrigo Duterte from concerns brought about by …
Despite strong rumours and speculation, a federal ban on internet gambling via a resurrection of the Wire Act did not emerge in the lame duck session of the 114th US Congress, which ended this week. Despite bills in the Senate (Sen. Tom Cotton’s SB 3326) and the House (Rep. Mike Fitzgerald’s HB 6453) fears that …
In the wake of the announcement by the Gambling Commission that it has slapped a GBP 3 million fine on National Lottery operator Camelot in respect of inefficient processes in paying out a fraudulent ticket seven years ago, the UK media have been trying to get to grips with the detail behind the rather bland …
Camelot, the operator of the UK National Lottery is in hot water again, this time being fined GBP 3 million by the UK Gambling Commission regarding allegations of a fraudulent prize claim back in 2009. In an announcement Friday the Commission revealed that Camelot had breached its operating licence, flagging three key problems with its …
Online and land gambling content provider Takara Gaming Group has announced a deal with the Serbian-based operator Balkan Bet. Under the agreement, TGG will further aggregate its land-based and internet gaming products together with a variety of games, supplying a package to Balkan Bet, a major bookmaker with more than 115 betting shops throughout Serbia …
The New York Attorney General’s office has announced the indictment in a Brooklyn court of 13 individuals aged between 46 and 76 on charges related to the operation of an illegal and allegedly Mafia-associated online sports betting enterprise through 4Spades.org, a website hosted in Costa Rica. The office revealed that the indictment follows an extensive …
According to the latest BDO Fraudtrack fraud analysis report, 12.5 percent of UK fraud cases over GBP 50,000 in value are associated with gambling in general. Researchers report that an analysis of the latest figures available for the year 2015 show that reported frauds at GBP 1.5 billion were 110 percent higher in value terms …
The occasionally holier-than-thou perception of Australian gambling group Tabcorp took a knock Friday when the company was found guilty on three charges of illegally luring punters to open new accounts by offering inducements. The case, heard in a Sydney court, dates back to August 2015, when the company published a promo in a local newspaper …