Brian Rast Wins $50,000 Aria Super High Roller 15
It was one of those weekends when Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas hosted a handful of high roller tournaments that, just as usual, attracted representatives of poker’s elite.…
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CrownBet Captures Bigger New South Wales Betting Market Share with ClubsNSW Deal
Australian online sports betting operator CrownBet and New South Wales club-operating body ClubsNSW have locked a landmark deal that would allow club members to place in-venue online bets. The partnership…
Mr Green Eyes Danish iGaming Market Entry with Dansk Underholdning Acquisition
Online gambling operator Mr Green Ltd. today announced the acquisition of its Danish counterpart Dansk Underholdning. The deal represents part of the Malta-based gambling company’s strategy to expand into regulated…
Borgata Casino Seeks Final Judgment in Phil Ivey Baccarat Case
Atlantic City’s Borgata has recently responded formally to Phil Ivey’s call for a final judgment in a long-standing baccarat edge sorting case. The popular poker pro and his companion player…
Biggest World Poker Tour Main Event Winners
Daniel Weinman has just won the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event, the latest such tournament on the tour’s 2016/2017 calendar. The player, a poker professional from Georgia, cashed…
Daniel Weinman Wins 2017 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open $3,500 Main Event
Daniel Weinman, a poker pro from Alpharetta, Georgia, spoilt himself with the best possible gift for his 29th birthday – a WPT Main Event title. Last night, the player emerged…
OPAP Starts Delivering on Previously Announced Growth Strategy
Greek games of chance operator OPAP has been a constant presence in the gambling headlines over the past several days. After the company announced last year that it would put…
Jonas Kraft Wins 2017 888Live Rozvadov €5,300 High Roller
The poker room at King’s Casino Rozvadov has gradually become a favorite destination to poker players from all around Europe as well as to some of the biggest live poker…
Pennsylvania House Representatives Seek Co-Sponsors for New Online Gambling Bill
Last year, online gambling legislative efforts made historic progress in the Pennsylvania Legislature. An omnibus gambling expansion bill that, among other things, included the legalization of iGaming options and daily…
The Inaugural PokerStars Festival London in Numbers
Last year, PokerStars announced that it would bid farewell to the live poker tours it has sponsored around the globe for years to replace them with new festival and championship…
Glenn Straub Reopens Former Revel Resort without Casino
Florida real estate developer Glenn Straub will have to obtain a license from the New Jersey Casino Control Commission in order to be able to reopen the gambling operations of…
AI Program Beats Top Poker Pros in Ground-Breaking Research
Artificial intelligence has been a scientific area broadly explored over the past decades. And its application in the game of poker has become the focus of research of two scholars…
New York State Senator Launches New Online Poker Push
As expected, New York Sen. John Bonacic has renewed efforts to legalize online poker within the state’s borders. A new bill, sponsored by the official, was presented to the state…
Biggest 2017 Aussie Millions Poker Championship Winners
Now, as the PokerStars Championship Bahamas, the PokerStars Festival London, and the Aussie Millions Poker Championship are history, it could be said that the poker year is off to a…
Cashcade Affiliate Program’s Closure or When Lifetime Deals Do Not Mean for Life
‘Risk’ and ‘trust’ are two very important words in the iGaming affiliate business. And while the amount of risk taken is mainly up to the one who takes it, trust…
New Hampshire Lawmakers Introduce Online Gambling Decriminalization Bill
A bill that aims to remove iGaming from the list of illegal gambling activities in New Hampshire has emerged in the state Legislature earlier this month. If enacted, HB 562…
Monthly Gambling Regulatory Developments from around Europe: January 2017
We are one month into 2017 and the year has so far proved to be an eventful one in terms of regulatory updates. More EU member states opened their markets…
Rehman Kassam Wins 2017 PokerStars Festival London £990 Main Event
There were 24 players to return for Day 3 of the inaugural PokerStars Festival London Main Event on Sunday but only one left the Hippodrome Casino as the big winner…
Alexis Fleur Leads 2017 PokerStars Festival London £990 Main Event Final Day
It could be said today, on the very last day of the inaugural PokerStars Festival London, that the successor of the UKIPT turned out to be a pure success. Hosted…
Nick Petrangelo Wins 2017 Aussie Millions A$100,000 Challenge
Another event on the 2017 Aussie Millions Poker Championship has just been ticked off as completed. Nick Petrangelo, a well-recognized name in the poker community, won the A$100,000 Challenge mere…
Joe Johnson Wins 2017 PokerStars Festival £2,200 High Roller
Joe Johnson won the action-packed PokerStars Festival London £2,200 High Roller event that extended into an unscheduled third day of play to scoop a first-place prize of £59,912 and a…
Florida Gambling Expansion Bill Survives First Legislative Hurdle
A bill that calls for statewide gambling expansion has passed a vote in the Florida Senate’s Regulated Industries Committee. Sponsored by Sen. Bill Galvano, the proposed 112-page law will next…
PokerStars Tests New Functionality to Curb Seating Scripts Use
Online poker room PokerStars has recently announced that it will be taking measures to curb bumhunting and the use of seating scripts. A special new functionality will be tested in…
Mike Leah Adds TCOOP Title to Online Poker Record
The 2017 Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) is well under way on PokerStars. This year’s edition of the online poker series kicked off on January 18 and is set…
Google Blocks 17 Million “Bad” Gambling Ads in 2016
A total of 17 million gambling-related ads fell victim to Google’s crackdown on non-compliant advertisers last year. According to a Wednesday report, the search engine took down 1.7 billion ads…
Steffen Sontheimer Leads 2017 Aussie Millions A$100,000 Challenge Final 7
As the 2017 edition of the Aussie Millions is progressing toward a conclusion, the champions in several of its highlight tournaments are yet to be determined. Day 1 of the…
Georgia Lawmakers to Submit New Casino Legalization Bills
Georgia makers have renewed push for the legalization of casino gambling after their efforts have failed to gain the necessary support for several years now. Two separate, but identical, bills…
Nick Georgoulas Wins 2017 Aussie Millions Australian Poker Hall of Fame Classic
Event #14 on the 2017 Aussie Millions schedule was a special one. The Australian Poker Hall of Fame Classic was a A$1,150 buy-in tournament that attracted six local Hall of…
GVC Holdings Boosts Personalization Efforts with Beehive Deal
Provider of marketing optimization solutions Beehive today announced that its tools have been deployed by online gambling operator GVC Holdings and more particularly by its Playtech-powered iGaming brands. The move…
Is Sweden’s iGaming Market Poised to Grow?
The online gambling market has been growing at an exponential rate across Europe. And the need for new regulations has increased with that. Pressured by the European Commission, a number…