Online cash payments provider, Ukash has become Cheltenham Racecourse’s latest sponsor of the new GBP 20 000 Listed Ukash Mares Bumper that concludes the racecard of the second day of The Open, a major highlight of the British Racing Calendar. Ukash will be supporting horseracing for the first time with the objective of reaching new, …
FremantleMedia UK and Syco Entertainment have extended their partnership with Mecca for the promotional and product rights of The X Factor brand through 2014 and into 2015. In its capacity as official gaming partner to the hit UK show, Mecca has enjoyed exclusivity of the X Factor Bingo game for the past three years. This …
Social developer Bonza Gaming has launched Bonza Casino on Facebook featuring Roulette, Blackjack and Texas Hold’em. The real-money Facebook application additionally offers content from Net Entertainment, its exclusive software supplier, which include slot games such as Starburst, Gonzo’s Quest and others which are already accessible through Bonza’s Slots app which was launched in February. Bonza …
Newly-launched Liberian gambling operator, Blooming Games-Liberia Ltd. will offer internet and retail betting in partnership with Betting Promotion and UltraPlay Ltd. A company statement said it will provide casino, number and sports betting games through UltraPlay’s All-in-One package and will expand the offering to include local league games on its betting fixture “as soon as …
Amaya Gaming Group has entered into a multi-game distribution deal with Leander Games that will see its Casino Gaming System operators gain access to gaming content, both proprietary and third-party, on Leander’s LeGa platform. “We are very pleased to have signed the first part of a strategic relationship with Leander Games. Alongside our existing game …
The Cambodian police reported over the weekend that a police operation mounted Friday night has broken up an online sports betting ring in the capital Phnom Penh. 25 individuals, including both Chinese and Cambodian nationalities, were arrested and computer equipment was seized in the operation, police spokesmen told the Phnom Penh Post. Major General Y …
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is to set up a special unit to tackle illegal betting and match-fixing in a bid to make sure it does not become an issue in future Games, the Reuters news agency reported over the weekend. Following a meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland which included delegates from the international football regulator …
Hard on the heels of reports that the U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Vincent Frazer has given the green light to Internet gaming operations in the state comes the news that local senators plan to make changes to the law in order to facilitate compacts with other US states that have legalised online gambling and …
Malaysian police in the Sarawak province have arrested 15 people and seized 67 computers and documentary evidence in a raid on a suspected online gambling venue in Permyjaya near the small city of Miri. The Borneo Post newspaper reports that those arrested in the late night raid included both employees and punters, aged between 28 …
The well-respected online casino operator 32Red.com is likely to achieve substantial benefits from its new tie-up with major British television network I.T.V. The operator will run a new online gambling site themed on the hit show “I’m a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here”, according to reports over the weekend in the …
Online gambling vendor list approvals published by the New Jersey on line gambling regulator: Pursuant to section N.J.S.A. 5:12-92a(3) of the New Jersey Casino Control Act, Ancillary Casino Service Industry Enterprise’s (“CSIE”) are those enterprises that provide goods or services ancillary to gaming activity. The following companies have filed completed applications to provide ancillary services …
MGM Resorts International chairman and CEO Jim Murren had some interesting comments on social and internet gambling during his media conference on the release of his company’s Q3-2013 results this week. Murren said that on the social gaming scene MGM had a partnership with former Wynn Resorts executive Andrew Pascal, for whom he had a …
The Dutch Kansspelautoriteit (Gaming Authority) has announced that it is to tighten surveillance on the former state land casino monopoly trading under the Holland Casino brand. The Holland Casino group was placed into receivership with Euro 60 million of debts by its bankers recently, and according to Dutch media reports there are fears that the …
Greek police investigations into a drug-running operation involving Greeks, Albanians and Russians have thrown up allegations that the state gambling monopoly OPAP was used as a vehicle to launder the ill-gotten gains, a growing number of Greek newspapers reported Saturday. Part of the police enquiry appears to have been focused on what the arrested drug …
Reports in the New Jersey media indicate that the New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association is not accepting defeat on the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding a lower court finding that New Jersey may not introduce sports betting. New Jersey lawmakers approved legislation permitting intrastate sports betting two years ago but implementation is …
Another of the Connecticut online sports betting bust defendants has been sentenced following a guilty plea earlier this year. Joseph Borea (56) was handed a 33 month prison sentence Friday for his role in illegal online gambling businesses that prosecutors said were controlled by a New York organised crime group. Borea was arrested as part …
The quest for single bet sports wagering, on the agenda since its introduction by Canadian MP Joe Comartin back in 2011 continues, with the measure still alive when parliament returned to work on October 16 after the summer recess. Our readers will recall that bill C-290 is designed to bring Canadian betting laws into the …
The Swedish gaming firm Yggdrasil Gaming is betting that its new progressive lottery venture, Lotto7, will pack the punters in when it launches in December this year. Preparations for the launch are almost complete for the new product, which features a pooled progressive jackpot starting at Euro 2.5 million and draws seven days a week, …
The Dutch online gambling games developer Sheriff Gaming continues to deny any wrongdoing in its latest statement on the suspension of its licence by the Alderney Gaming Control Commission and says it is “working hard” to get the suspension lifted…yet it remains remarkably silent on the reasons for the still enforced suspension despite its vehement …
Michele Lasso-Barraza, a thirty-year-old employee of the shutdown online sports betting group Legends, has pleaded guilty in a New York federal court to laundering $8 million accrued by the company in illegal online betting. Originally from Panama, Florida resident Lasso-Barraza entered her plea through a video feed and will be sentenced on February 28 next …
Australia’s traditional bookmaking giants Tabcorp and Tatts are under increasing pressure from online and mobile companies like William Hill and recently acquired Tom Waterhouse, Paddy Power’s Sportsbet and Centrebet and Betfair as punters turn increasingly toward digital channels to bet on sports events, reports The Age newspaper. In a long article prompted by next week’s …
Gambling revenue in the Chinese gambling island of Macau surged 31.7 percent to a record high in October year-on-year, after a week-long national holiday brought in hordes of keen mainland punters over Golden Week. Island casinos delivered revenues totalling 36.48 billion patacas ($4.6 billion) in October 2013 – the highest monthly figure on record, according …
Nevada land casinos won $958.8 million from gamblers in September 2013, representing a 7.4 percent increase over the same month last year due largely to big betting on baccarat and luck that favoured the house, the Nevada Gaming Control Board revealed Thursday. It was the second-highest monthly total for the calendar year behind February, said …
Bet4Balls.com, a new social enterprise designed to raise money for prostate cancer charities, has launched in collaboration with seven top UK online bookmakers including Betfred, William Hill and Betfair. The owners claim that Bet4Balls.com is the UK’s first online betting website offering punters the opportunity to combine betting on sports with donating to charity. The …