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 …
With the introduction of the new point-of-consumption regulatory and taxation regime on internet gambling companies wishing to access the UK market just a year away, the British government has reportedly been consulting extensively with interested parties on Gibraltar, home to many online gambling companies that have become key contributors to the Gibraltar economy and employment …
39-year-old London-based Israeli entrepreneur David Galan briefed the Jewish Chronicle on the progress of his socially oriented fantasy football enterprise PickLive this week, revealing that he is making moves toward the Indian and US markets. Galan said that at least 4 million UK residents play online fantasy sports games, and that number can be significantly …
Playtech’s online casino provision agreement with Olympic Entertainment Group came to fruition Friday with the launch of the new Olybet brand and website. OEG has a long-standing business relationship with Playtech as one of its top licensees, and the launch strengthens the partnership as OEG expands its operations into Estonia and Latvia using the new …
Online gambling software and gamer provider Net Entertainment’s latest content deal is with the major UK-based online gambling operator bet365. Under the terms of the agreement, Net Entertainment will deliver a number of its top online games across bet365’s mobile and desktop channels. In a short period of time, the Swedish provider has successfully signed …
Britain’s opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has again nailed his colours to the mast on the question of retail betting shop approvals and the restriction of Fixed Odds Betting Terminal numbers. UK media reports have carried Miliband’s view that local councils should be given powers to rid their communities of FOBTs and decide whether …