Events & Reports

Michigan Gears Up for Online Gambling Legalization Push

Michigan Gears Up for Online Gambling Legalization Push

by August 28, 2017

Although the huge potential the US online gaming market has turned into a some sort of a mantra in the iGaming space, the idea of more states legalizing their online gaming markets seems to have failed to gain much legislative support over the past several years and get to any fo ...

Sebastian Sorensson Takes Down 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona €5,300 Main Event

Sebastian Sorensson Takes Down 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona €5,300 Main Event

by August 28, 2017

The final table of the PokerStars Championship Barcelona €5,300 Main Event included a PokerStars Team Pro member and a former PokerStars Championship Main Event winner. And understandably, eyes were mostly set on these two players. However, it was eventually a live tournament pok ...

Raffaele Sorrentino Eyes Second PokerStars Championship Main Event Title in Barcelona

Raffaele Sorrentino Eyes Second PokerStars Championship Main Event Title in Barcelona

by August 27, 2017

Italy’s Raffaele Sorrentino is just a six-handed final table away from making PokerStars Championship history by winning a second Main Event on the festival’s schedule within just four months.The 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona €5,300 Main Event completed ...

Andre Akkari Leads Final 16 Into 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona €5,300 Main Event Day 5

Andre Akkari Leads Final 16 Into 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona €5,300 Main Event Day 5

by August 26, 2017

The 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona attracted a field of 1,682 entries from all around Europe and the rest of the world. And it took four days of play before that original field was reduced to just 16 hopefuls, all eyeing the €1.4-million-plus first-place prize, the tourna ...

Uruguay Plans to Ban Online Gambling

Uruguay Plans to Ban Online Gambling

by August 25, 2017

Uruguay has commenced the legislative process that would see the implementation of a ban on the provision of online gambling services by international operators, local media reported. This announcement comes a month after reports emerged that an iGaming crackdown was considered b ...

Benjamin Richardson Leads after 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona €5,300 Main Event Day 3

Benjamin Richardson Leads after 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona €5,300 Main Event Day 3

by August 25, 2017

Day 3 of the 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona €5,300 Main Event was yet another day of quality poker action, a perfect manifestation of why the Barcelona stop has always been highly popular with players since the first EPT Barcelona festival took place more than a decade ag ...

Latest Casino Revenue Figures Show Brighter Signals for Atlantic City’s Future Revival

Latest Casino Revenue Figures Show Brighter Signals for Atlantic City’s Future Revival

by August 24, 2017

It was in the late 1970s when Resorts Casino Hotel opened doors as the first land-based casino in Atlantic City, in New Jersey, and on the East Coast as a whole. The city remained the sole casino destination in the region for over three decades, thriving and luring gambling custo ...

Mauricio Salazar Sanches Ends 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona €5,300 Main Event Day 2 as Chip Leader

Mauricio Salazar Sanches Ends 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona €5,300 Main Event Day 2 as Chip Leader

by August 24, 2017

Day 2 of the 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona €5,300 Main Event was just as action-packed as expected. It saw 850 players return at the tables of Casino Barcelona on Wednesday, accompanied by 13 entries who took advantage of the late registration option.This brought th ...

Gambling Provider Playtech Expands and Rebrands Financials Division

Gambling Provider Playtech Expands and Rebrands Financials Division

by August 23, 2017

Playtech announced today the acquisition of financial services company ACM Group for a total consideration of $150 million. The new deal will see Playtech further expand its Financials Division, which it created several years ago.Under the terms of the deal, Playtech will ta ...

Jose Latorre Leads 850 Hopefuls Into 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona €5,300 Main Event Day 2

Jose Latorre Leads 850 Hopefuls Into 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona €5,300 Main Event Day 2

by August 23, 2017

Day 1B of the PokerStars Championship Barcelona €5,300 Main Event was even busier than the tournament’s first starting flight. There were 1,229 entries to register for the major event on Tuesday when its second starting flight took place. By the time all eight scheduled levels we ...

Sweden Sees Continued Drop in Regulated Gambling Revenue

Sweden Sees Continued Drop in Regulated Gambling Revenue

by August 22, 2017

Estimated to around $5 billion, Sweden’s gambling market is currently one of Europe’s largest. Apart from the regulated gambling options provided to local customers by several state-run entities, Svenska Spel being the biggest one, a number of international iGaming operators have ...

Adalfer Morales Leads after 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona €5,300 Main Event Day 1A

Adalfer Morales Leads after 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona €5,300 Main Event Day 1A

by August 22, 2017

When PokerStars announced the end of the European Poker Tour era and the replacement of the tournament series with PokerStars Championships and PokerStars Festivals, it was more than clear that Barcelona would remain part of the new formats.The Spanish city hosted EPT summer ...

Sean Winter Wins Latest Aria Casino $25,000 High Roller

Sean Winter Wins Latest Aria Casino $25,000 High Roller

by August 21, 2017

The final of the three high roller events that took place at Aria Resort & Casino this past weekend concluded on Saturday. The tournament saw Sean Winter make his way through a field of ten participants to emerge victorious for a first-place prize of $175,000. Here it is inte ...

Sean Winter and Cary Katz Win Latest Aria Casino High Rollers

Sean Winter and Cary Katz Win Latest Aria Casino High Rollers

by August 20, 2017

It was a high roller weekend at Aria Resort & Casino in the heart of Las Vegas, and as any high roller weekend at the popular gambling venue, there was quality poker action in huge quantities, fierce competition, and attractive prize pools.Aria’s high roller tourna ...

Absolute Poker Players to Be Paid $34 Million in Post-Black Friday Remissions Process

Absolute Poker Players to Be Paid $34 Million in Post-Black Friday Remissions Process

by August 19, 2017

More than 7,400 former Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet customers will be made whole, a recent announcement on the Absolute Poker Claims site reads. Players of the two online gambling brands will be returned nearly $33.5 million, after the process was approved by the Money Launder ...