Among the latest batch of New York million dollar lottery winners, one story stands out as an example of extreme and unlikely good fortune….that of Long Island landscaper Marvin Rosales-Martinez (27) as told to the New York Daily News this week. Whilst raking leaves on a property over a year ago, he noticed a slip …
The British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has been attacked by the Daily Mail newspaper – known for its anti-gambling views – for alleged hypocrisy in accepting substantial political donations from the successful online gambling group bet365 founder, Peter Coates. Miliband has recently been active in developing political capital from his vociferous opposition to Fixed …
The trial of three South Korean entertainment industry celebrities charged with illegal betting on sports events came to a conclusion Friday with Seoul Central District Court Judge Shin Myung-hee handing down suspended sentences to the trio. Comedian Lee Soo-geun, singer Tak Jae-hoon and Tony An, a former member of the popular 1990s boy band HOT, …
State lottery officials in Delaware say they’re making progress on expanding internet gaming options launched in October this year, the local radio station WDDE FM reports after interviewing lottery chief Vernon Kirk. Kirk revealed that in the first three months of legalisation 3,800 people registered accounts for the service, which can be accessed through the …
In-play betting has come in for a lot of stick lately from political pundits, anti-gambling bodies and others who believe that it presents an increased danger of corruption in sports, but the pastime has become too lucrative and too popular with punters to be banned, an expert said this week. Jack Anderson, a law professor …
Christmas Day motorists pulled over for speeding in the central Florida city of Melbourne were surprised when police officials let them off with a warning….and a lottery scratch-off card Wednesday! By early Wednesday afternoon, Melbourne police officers had handed out 30 lottery tickets along with warnings to drivers caught speeding or violating other traffic laws, …
Once again, an online gambling company has made a speculation-triggering announcement on an important change in its operating policies without taking the trouble to explain why. This time around it is Nordicbet, which has been sending out emails advising its players that as from January 2 2014 it will no longer be providing sport and …
US-based fantasy sports startup DraftKings has awarded Los Angeles resident James Tran the $1 Million grand prize in its Fantasy Football Millionaire final, the top prize in a $3.1M prize pool available to daily fantasy football contestants. Alan Zeidenfeld, also from Los Angeles, was the runner-up, winning $350,000. The win was determined by the NFL …
The Bulgarian State Commission on Gambling reported Monday that it has filed blocking and blacklisting orders on a total of 172 online gambling websites over the past six months. However, blacklisting may become unnecessary now that the government has made amendments to its rather severe taxation regime on internet gambling in an attempt to use …
Media on the island of Taiwan report that Taiwanese and Chinese enforcement officials working together in a rare collaborative effort busted a Taiwan-based online gambling ring Tuesday, breaking up an illegal enterprise that generated revenues as high as NT$100 million (US$3.334 million). A spokesman for Taiwan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) told reporters that the illegal …
NBC10 Philadelphia reports that a federal bankruptcy judge has approved the sale and shutdown of Atlantic City’s Atlantic Club Casino Hotel following an auction of the bankrupt company’s assets earlier this week . The casino, which opened 33 years ago as the Golden Nugget, will shut its doors January 13. Judge Gloria Burns approved a …
A Staten Island woman, outraged at her husband’s neglect in heeding her advice on his gambling, has illustrated once again that hell indeed hath no fury like a woman scorned! The man was part of a social but seriously real money pool betting ring operated from a Staten Island bar, and when his wife blew …
The publicity generated earlier this year by the reported friendship between the high-profile former US basketball star Dennis Rodman and North Korea’s dangerously unpredictable dictator Kim Jong-un worked well for the online and land gambling group Paddy Power when Rodman last visited the so-called Hermit Kingdom , but apparently not this time around. And it …
Online gambling software provider BetonSoft’s December 2013 new game releases include a slot dubbed Dollars Down Under which, as the branding suggests, is set in the Australian Outback and features a slew of exotic fauna that includes dingoes, koalas and kangaroos. BetonSoft spokesmen claim that the Pick on Reels feature in the new slot gives …
It’s more a useful guide over time to market growth and player interest than an indication of how many players are actually active in the recently opened New Jersey online gambling market, but the number of new accounts opened over the last four weeks has continued to grow steadily and is now approaching 110,000, according …
A 26-year-old Swedish man has won SEK 37.3 million (approx. Euro 4.1 million) on the lowest possible stake while playing Arabian Nights at Unibet’s online casino. The hit is Unibet Sweden’s second biggest prize and the third-largest in the history of Unibet worldwide. “I was so surprised, it’s hard to understand. You hear and read …
Former SBTech sports product manager Roee Weinberg has been appointed by EveryMatrix in the role of OddsMatrix Product Manager. Weinberg will oversee and support the entire OddsMatrix sportsbook by providing input on the creative direction, new features, enhancements and overall design of the product. He is further tasked in developing the sports book to deliver …
A host of new games have been launched this month with some of the more recent including “White Knight” from Inspired Gaming Group which although developed for the terrestrial sector, will be launched online and for mobile in the near future. The game is IGG’s latest freespins+ slot game centered around a sword-wielding heroic knight. …
With legal online gambling now a fact of life in New Jersey, the region – and neighbouring states – is being bombarded with a diversity of advertising and promotional activity, the publication NJ.com reports. Extensive use is being made of all media channels as the majors get into the swing of online gambling and offer …
In a 4-hour ceremony at the Madrid’s Teatro Real Sunday the 2013 edition of the giant annual Spanish lottery El Gordo dished out billions, much of it going to small towns hard-hit by the Great Recession. Lottery officials said that three out of every four Spaniards had bought tickets for El Gordo this year at …
December 22 is draw date for Spaniards who have bought tickets in the world’s biggest and oldest lottery, ‘El Gordo de Navidad ‘ – The Fat One – which annually generates prize pools currently approaching Euro 2.5 billion and has the capacity to create instant millionaires. Massively supported by millions of Europeans, El Gordo is …
Reports Friday that the online poker site SealsWithClubs.com had been hacked have been followed by the news that earlier this year a land casino experienced similar problems with 11 of its operations in Nevada, Colorado, Iowa and Missouri. Affinity Gaming officials revealed Friday that the hack took place between March 14 and October 16 this …
Notorious Atlantic City land casino sold on auction and will be shut down in January. The Atlantic Club land casino, notorious for using a time constraint to back out of an acquisition deal with Pokerstars and make off with that company’s advance monies will soon be no more. After four days of trying to offload …
New Jersey residents and visitors are about to get a good dose of Betfair razzmatazz this festive season as the online betting company backs up its online gambling television campaign with a spectacular animated light projection show on several buildings in Jersey City and Hoboken. Betfair, which is involved in the nascent New Jersey online …