Geoff Freeman, the American Gaming Association’s president and chief executive, has revealed that he is building more effective staff, consulting and lobbying resources with a view to taking a more proactive and aggressive approach to US gambling issues, particularly in the evolving online gambling sector. The Washington DC newspaper The Hill quotes Freeman as saying …
The New Jersey regulator has released the latest online gambling account creation stats for the new market, revealing that last week was the busiest yet with 22,256 new accounts opened at licensed operator sites. That brings the total since the market opened in November to 148,487 and counting. Industry observers attribute the surge last week …
Online sportbetting operator EliteBet is exploiting the proliferation of mobile smartphone technology in African countries by launching EliteBet Kenya .com in Kenya Football punters with a taste for international action can register and deposit through their mobiles, using a mobile phone-based money transfer system called M-Pesa. Once they have a personal identification number via SMS …
The Chinese New Year may still be a few weeks away but Crystal Spin Casino’s new Dice and Fire slot game from provider Top Game has already added a touch of the Orient. Dice and Fire is a 5-reel, 20-line, Asian-themed video slot with Jade Dragons and Golden Buddhas and a special double-or-nothing gamble feature …
The Ganabet.mx operations of Mexican gambling group Operadora General de Entretenimiento SA de CV will receive a new turnkey sports betting platform from UK provider SBTech following an agreement just signed. The deal requires SBTech to supply and integrate a full turnkey solution including sports and live betting, premium casino and live games, advanced HTML5 …
Oliver Frolich, the fifty-year-old director of the German online and retail sports betting firm HappyBet, has been found shot execution style at the back entrance to his offices in the Sachsenhausen district of Frankfurt. He had two bullet wounds to the head and was found by a local resident on Friday. The Frankfurter Neue Presse …
Swedish online gambling software provider Net Entertainment has started 2014 with a fun new cartoon-style online slot titled Wonky Wabbits. The new game is a 5-reel, 15-line video slot featuring Win Both Ways and a Wild duplication feature where any Wild that appears on the reel duplicates and appears on the area on the reels …
Starting the New Year with a bang, online gambling software developer Microgaming launched its Lucky Koi video slot Monday, sending online punters on a virtual trip to the tranquil and serene Far East. Lucky Koi is a five reel, 25 payline video slot with an Asian theme, depicted through beautifully rendered garden graphics and appropriate …
Illegal and online gambling will be the prime targets of a special police unit being set up in Malaysia, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi Monday. Illegal gambling victims were mostly low-income earners, he said in revealing that the police are to make a concerted effort at both district and state levels …
The Senegal National Lottery (LONASE), online gambling software developer Senejeux and the French gambling group PMU’s Senegal retail betting operation have collaborated to povide punters in the former French colony with virtual horse racing services. The venture has delivered a new fixed-odds, 3D virtual horseracing game to 35 PMU betting outlets, offering a high-frequency, RNG …
Anti-online gambling prosecution news continued to flow from the Malaysian province of Sarawak Friday with reports that an online gambling operator busted last October has been sentenced. Sia Kee Kwong (36) pleaded guilty to an offence under the Entertainment Ordinance 2000 By-Law of Sarawak and was sentenced to a fine of RM5,000 (US$1,522) or in …
In a move that is probably now of merely academic interest to the online gambling industry, the losing bidder in the auctioning-off of the failed Atlantic Club Casino has said it intends to seek a re-hearing and review of its bid, which was a million dollars better than that submitted by the winners, Caesars Entertainment …
UK snooker’s most prestigious invitation tournament, The Masters, will be sponsored by online betting firm Dafabet for the first time this season, reports the publication World Snooker. The Dafabet Masters runs from January 12 to 19 at Alexandra Palace in London and features the world’s leading 16 players, including defending champion Mark Selby, World Champion …
New Year police raids on online gambling operators in the Sarawak province of Malaysia are probably the work of a new police chief on the scene…and he is determined to put an end to online gambling on his patch before the end of 2014. The Star newspaper reports that new district police chief ACP Mohd …
The city attorney’s office for Los Angeles has filed litigation against Figure 8 Technologies, a North Carolina developer of casino-style software games it supplies to local internet cafes, alleging that the company is providing illegal gambling services, and accusing it of unfair competition and false advertising. The Associated Press news agency reports that prosecutors claim …
Operators of internet cafes in the Quezon region of the Philippines have again emerged victorious in their long running tax dispute with the local government. The litigation has been ongoing for the past four years and is rooted in the government’s questionable 2010 decision to impose a heavier tax on PAGCOR operators than had originally …
Malaysian police in Miri in the Sarawak province of Malaysia have reported three more raids on illegal online gambling premises and the arrest of 48 individuals. Police officers from the Anti-Vice, Gambling and Gangsterism Division (D7) launched the raids on New Year’s Eve, the Borneo Post reports, seizing a total of 312 computers, 23 modems …
Scandinavian online gambling software developer Yggdrasil Gaming, whose majority stakeholder is the Cherry group, has expanded the availability of its new 5 reels, 3 rows and 10 pay-lines slot Jokerizer. Launched in November 2013, but available initially only at Cherry online casinos Spilleautomater.com and Cherrycasino.com, Jokerizer uses dynamic and colourful graphics, vivid sound effects, animations …
Eliot Jacobson, the trusted and respected owner of online casino auditing company Certified Fair Gambling, is starting 2014 by taking his career in a different direction and selling CFG to a computer and casino gaming math expert like himself. Explaining his move away from online gambling, Jacobson said Thursday that at present he is mostly …
In an interview with the “Squawk Box” program on CNBC this week Tom Ballance – chief operating officer and president of Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa and its new online gambling operations in New Jersey – said that growth has exceeded expectations….and the new form of gambling does not pose a competitive threat to the …
WMS Gaming has been assigned a patent (8,613,648) developed by Dion K. Aoki, Allon G. Englman and Joel R. Jaffe for a “…multi-game video poker machine and system with asymmetrically accessible customization features.” Now a wholly owned subsidiary of Scientific Games, WMS first filed its application in November 2, 2011; the award of the patent …
The gambling island of Macau off the Chinese mainland delivered another outstanding year of positive results for casino operators in 2013, with official numbers released Thursday showing that the industry earned 360.8 billion patacas (US$45 billion) in gambling revenue in 2013, 18.6 percent up on comparative numbers from 2012. The Reuters news agency reports that …
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Lorna Hood, has used her New Year message to sound a note of caution on the proliferation of gambling, warning that the perception of gambling as a “cool and normal” activity has grown and is dangerous, diluting appreciation of the pastime’s potential hazards such …
The parent of Pokerstars, the Isle of Man-based Rational Group, has spoken out against the owners of the Atlantic Club, which earlier this (December) month was sold on auction after going bust, and is to be stripped down and the assets distributed by new owners Caesars Entertainment and Tropicana Entertainment . Quoting from an end-of-the-year …