A former British army officer who went on to become a director of a financial services company in civilian life has told the BBC how he blew GBP 750,000 on unidentified online casino websites. Justyn Larcombe, from Tunbridge Wells, said he sold the equity on his home, spent his wife’s life savings and used his …
This week Massachusetts state Treasurer Steven Grossman posted the Massachusetts Lottery’s second-highest profit level for the last fiscal year, hauling in $952 million on record sales of $4.8 billion. At the same time he discussed the possible addition of online games, and reassured retail ticket sellers that this would not be done at the expense …
A New Jersey politician and former Atlantic City mayor, Senator James Whelan, introduced an amending bill this week seeking to fine-tune the state’s already approved online gambling legalisation law by the addition of a provision allowing the wider dispersion of online server equipment. The NorthJersey.com blog reports that Sen. Whelan justified his amendment by explaining: …
Pokerstars parent, The Rational Group, appears to have put the abortive attempt to acquire the Atlantic Club land casino in New Jersey behind it, advising the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement this month that it is no longer pursuing the acquisition. The company ran out of time in acquiring the necessary licensing, and Atlantic …
Online gambling operator Betway has signed a sponsorship deal with endurance sports company Total Warrior ahead of the mud runner event taking place this weekend in Cumbria, England. The challenging event will see 5,000 competitors tackle the Total Warrior course over the weekend. The Total Warrior Mud Run will form an integral part of Betway’s …
International Game Technology announced the appointment of two new directors to its board Friday, naming Eric Brown and Tracey Weber. Brown is COO, CFO and executive vice president of Polycom Inc., and has held the position since 2012. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Electronics for Imaging and chairs its Audit Committee. …
The city of Gilroy in California is the site of the latest battlefield between enforcement authorities and internet cafe operators offering their clients online gambling facilities. In a late night stealth operation Thursday, about 40 officers from several local law enforcement agencies shut down an illegal gambling venue masquerading as an Internet cafe on First …
On Friday British land and online gambling giant William Hill plc announced its interim results for the 26 weeks ended 2 July 2013 (H1 2013), comparing them with the first 26 weeks in H1 2012. CEO Ralph Topping was able to boast significant strategic progress and continued momentum, with online and mobile operations delivering double-digit …
The Casual Connect social gaming conference in San Francisco this week continued to deliver online gambling newsbytes as the convergence of real-money gambling and social networking was discussed by delegates. GeekWire reports that Charles Harper, IGT DoubleDown Casino’s director of business development, said that he thinks real-money gambling authorised and regulated at the federal level …
On Thursday the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes in Oklahoma called on the Obama Administration to allow them to form a ground-breaking pact with the state of Oklahoma permitting tribes to operate online gaming sites from their native lands. The plan would generate millions for smaller tribes and for the state government, reports the publication Indian …
Online gambling games developer BetSoft Gaming has released the first title in its ambitious new Slots3 Interactive series of socially oriented 3D video slots. The new game WhoSpunIt? is a five reel, thirty line game drawing from the latest social gaming technologies to create an entirely new breed of entertainment, its developers claim. “With the …
Police and other state agencies in Ohio targeted internet cafes in seven state counties Thursday, equipped with search warrants in a renewed drive against illegal internet café gambling. The Associated Press news agency reports that a state task force has been investigating allegations of Ohio gambling law violations and accusations of illegal bingo and money …
GeoComply, which supplies the geo-location technology so important in state-by-state online gambling legalisation initiatives, has applied for licensing as an Internet Ancillary Services provider to the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement. CEO Anna Sainsbury says: “New Jersey is an important market for us and our customers and the fact that GeoComply was the first …
The Olympic Entertainment Group announced Thursday that it has unified its online gambling services under the new Olybet brand, and has launched a sports betting service, along with a network of sports bars in Estonia and Latvia. Online poker, casino and sportsbetting interests will all come under the Olybet umbrella brand. Changes include the replacement …
The ring fenced French online gambling market, continually hampered by high taxation and limited player liquidity had a better – but still losing – 2012, according to figures officially released this week by regulator ARJEL. Losses to operators were over 50 percent lower at Euro 85 million than they were in 2011 (Euro 183 million …
The Reuters news agency reports that July 2013 gambling revenues in Macau have apparently been unaffected by the slowdown in the Chinese economy, delivering the third highest monthly revenue numbers so far this year at 29.5 billion patacas ($3.7 billion). The 20 percent rise in revenue over the month was broadly in line with analyst’s …
Online sportsbetting cases in Connecticut and Lousiana were finalised this week with two defendants sentenced. In Connecticut, U.S. District Judge, Vanessa Bryant, sentenced Domenico Manchisi (65) to six months behind bars for his role in operating an illegal sports gambling business through Costa Rica website 44wager.com. Federal prosecutors said Manchisi’s role involved picking up cash …
Featurespace, a British technology firm spun off from a University of Cambridge engineering department project, says that behavioural analytics allied to machine learning can help identify early stage problem gamblers and arrest the compulsive gambling process. The company says that online gambling sites routinely collect data on the betting patterns of their punters, including details …
Wednesday’s shock announcement that the Greek Independent Administrative Authority’s Hellenic Gaming Commission has issued an online gambling blacklist of 401 internet gambling firms has been followed by an official communication from the Greek regulator, headed “List of sites providing gaming and betting services without authorisation in Greece”. The statement acknowledges that the Hellenic Gaming Commission …
The ambitions of the new Gaming Realms company announced earlier this year have advanced with shareholder approval and an expected listing on London’s AIM market today. The brainchild of Foxy Bingo founders Simon Collins and Patrick Southon, along with former Cashcade entrepreneurs Michael Buckley and Noel Rowse, Gaming Realms starts off on the right foot …
Hard pressed to compete with Greece’s newly proposed 402 strong illegal online gambling blacklist, the Bulgarian Gambling Authority has added another ten to its own. Latest inclusions comprise wagerweb.ag, a clutch of Betsson websites: tobet.com, casinoeuro.com, nordicbet.com, triobet.com and starcasino.it; maxino.com (Nordic Gaming), sportsinteraction.com (S.I.A. Limited), vernons.com (Sportech) and betvictor.com (Victor Chandler International).
Ladbrokes’ latest TV ad is making punters an offer they can’t refuse in its latest “The Godfather” inspired campaign. The marketing initiative directed by creative agency SapientNitro features Italian football pundit Tiziano Crudeli and Chris Kamara who starred in Ladbrokes’ “Game On!” campaign. The first of five ads breaks today showing Crudeli sitting in an …
Seattle-based RealNetworks has backed up its GameHouse Plus real-money social gaming launch earlier this week with the acquisition of popular social casino games developer Slingo Inc. for a $15.6 million consideration. Slingo is a unique combination of bingo and slots boasting a following of 4.5 million Facebook players per month along with mobile and terrestrial …
Russian authorities have clamped down on an illegal online gambling operation that is estimated to have brought in 50 million rubles ($1.5 million) per day, the Russian Ministry of the Interior said Wednesday. The illegal operation was allegedly carried out in Russia and abroad under the guise of bookmaking by an un-named operator who holds …