Bodog brand US-facing franchise holder Bovada extended its self-imposed restrictions on players from New York, Maryland and Utah this week, adding Washington state to the list of states from which it will not accept internet betting action. As before, in an email to players Bovada blames “continuing difficulties finding and maintaining acceptable payment options” for …
Having already outlawed any possibility of legalised online gambling in his home state of Utah , state governor Gary Herbert extended his opposition this week by writing to Congressional leaders, urging them to halt federal initiatives aimed at legalising the pastime. In a letter addressed to Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and …
North Dakota Representative Jim Kasper had his chance to crow in the state legislature this week as lawmakers discussed online lottery legalisation possibilities in the wake of the Department of Justice policy change on the definition of internet gambling in the Wire Act. Back in 2005, Kasper’s attempt to introduce an internet gambling bill was …
More detail is now available on the February revenue results from the Italian market. Concerns over recent declines in the Italian market were to some extent assuaged with the release of the latest performance stats by regulator AAMS, showing that the online gambling market overall showed a 21 percent improvement in February. The improvement is …
A trading update delivered by Media Corporation Plc (Media Corp) for the period ending March 31, 2012 revealed a mixed bundle of feedback that included a delay in its Hippodrome joint venture, two potential acquisitions and the sale of two of its underperforming publishing assets. The company’s joint venture with London-based Hippodrome Casino , for …
British BarclayCard using punters will get less for their money as the company imposes new fees on gambling transactions reports ThisIsMoney.co.uk. Currently, bets placed and lottery tickets purchased utilising BarclayCard are treated as straight forward purchases and attract no charges, however, in a move that is sure to irk gambling customers, the company will for …
French operator Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU) has reappointed Philippe Germond to continue in the position of chief executive officer for an additional term of four years. The decision on re-electing Germond was made at PMU’s General Assembly where he received backing from the French horse racing authority France Galop and the Société d’Encouragement a l’Elevage …
Indian authorities are looking to increase their compliment of cyber security experts in a bid to crack down on illegal online gambling in the country as bookmakers increasingly move on to virtual channels to evade detection. An unnamed “highly placed source in the Police Department” revealed to the Indian Express publication that its Cyber Crime …
Internet gambling software developer and turnkey provider Microgaming has released its April tranche of four new Flash technology-based games, Karate Pig, Arctic Fortune, Mystique Grove and Tiger vs. Bear Siberian Standoff. A Karate-kicking pig is the star of the 5 reel, 40 pay-line Karate Pig, and proves to be a talented martial arts and culinary …
Online gambling group Unibet plc has bought Nordic Betting subsidiary Bet24 for Euro 13.5 million, the newspaper Malta Today reported Wednesday. Malta-based Unibet plans to strengthen its Danish market activities through the acquisition, the company’s third major transaction targeted at regulated markets in recent months. A Unibet statement disclosed that the takeover will “…strengthen Unibet’s …
The troubled interactive television gambling group NetplayTV has posted more encouraging Q1 2012 numbers, showing: • A 70 percent increase in new depositing casino players to 12,436 (Q1 2011: 7,320) and 34 percent increase on Q4 2011 • 44 percent increase in active depositing casino players to 21,869 (Q1 2011: 15,194) and 23 percent increase …
New Jersey’s Atlantic City land casinos took another drubbing in March 2012, with gambling revenues dipping another 5 percent, according to figures released Tuesday by the state Division of Gaming Enforcement. The twelve AC casinos took in $266.3 million in March, down $280.5 million from a year ago. Table game revenue fell by 10.6 percent …
The Northern Ireland press is reporting on a call by politician Alex Maskey for the gambling laws in the United Kingdom to be updated to contend with internet gambling. Maskey urged his colleagues in the Stormont Executive to put pressure on British Prime Minister David Cameron to update British and Northern Ireland gambling laws, expressing …
For the past week a MacDonald’s Maryland employee, thirty-seven-year old Mirlande Wilson, has strung the media and the public along, claiming to be the one third winner of this month’s record $656 millions. On Tuesday her fabrication was exposed when the real winners, retaining their anonymity but disclosing their professions, stepped forward. The Reuters news …
State gambling officials in Nevada said Tuesday that land revenue was up 5.7 percent in February after casinos brought in $932 million. The Nevada Gaming Control Board released stats showing that Las Vegas Strip revenue of $531 million was up 3.3 percent compared with the same month a year ago. Downtown Las Vegas brought in …
Totedaddy.com, an onloine gambling site that characterises itself as “the e–Bay of internet gambling” has signed up for live dealer internet gambling provided by Entwinetech, bring the latter’s client list to over sixty websites. Totedaddy boasts over 100,000 punters, who create their own betting events, whether these are of global importance, or simply local or …
GamblingData’s latest quarterly In-Play Tracker (IPT) survey sees Ladbrokes in the lead in football action, but Bet365 the total events leader across 19 sports The second quarterly report for 2012 found that within the 10-minute betting windows of the 14-day survey, it was Ladbrokes that lead the way with 310 football matches captured, just ahead …
GVC Holdings plc’s Maltese subsidiary, GVC Corporation Limited has entered into an agreement with an independent third party company, GVC New Limited to sell the failed Betaland sports book venture for a nominal sum. The buyer is, according to the GVC Holdings statement, “….not owned by GVC, nor any of its officers, shareholders or directors, …
Economically beleaguered racetracks in several US states have introduced an innovative way to generate wagering action, and a significant number of punters are going for it, reports the Journal Star newspaper. Dubbed ‘historical’ or ‘instant’ horseracing, the concept is to offer punters wagers on randomly selected televised races from the past, along with sufficiently edited …
Goonga cards used by illegal mobile bettors on Indian cricket are leaving the cops clueless, according to a piece in the Bangalore Mirror on Monday. In cricket-mad India the bookies and bettors are resorting to more sophisticated methods to work around bans on betting, the newspaper reports, noting that the latest is Goonga cards – …
Michigan’s Attorney General, Bill Schuette, has signed cease and desist orders on three Internet cafes in state capital Lansing which investigators have found to be providing internet gambling thinly disguised as sweepstakes. The Times Herald quotes Schuette, who said Monday that his staff has warned internet cafe operators they risk legal action unless they stop …
Asia-focused bookmaker Mansion 88 (M88) and CTXM have extended their games supply agreement to include CTXM’s Mini Games portfolio in addition to its existing RNG Casino offering. Functioning as side-games, CTXM’s mini games will support a cross-platform retention strategy by exposing Mansion88’s poker, live casino or sportsbook players to alternative game play. “Mini Games play …
The period leading up to the Easter holidays has seen a slew of new game releases from various operators and development studios. The licencing agreement signed last year between 888 Holdings PLC and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution has come to fruition with the launch of a new branded game titled “The Clash of the Titans”. …
The High Court in Australia’s recent decision that Racing NSW could claim fees from online bookmakers like Betfair and Sportsbet is creating ripples in other sports that attract the punters, claims a report in the Sun Herald newspaper. Quick to see commercial advantage in applying the ruling to their own sports, the Australian Football League …