Sportech Sells The Football Pools Brand for £97 Million

by September 13, 2016

UK gambling operator Sportech PLC is selling The Football Pools division to venture capital fund managing company Burlywood Capital LLP for the amount of £97.25 million, local media reported earlier today.The deal is subject to Sportech shareholders’ approval and will also n ...

IGT’s Powerbucks Progressive Jackpot Goes Live in British Columbia

by September 13, 2016

Supplier of a diverse selection of products for the international gambling industry International Game Technology and the British Columbia Lottery Corporation announced that they have reached another important milestone in their long-standing partnership. Powerbucks, the first om ...

“bencb789” Wins 2016 WCOOP $102,000 Super High Roller

by September 13, 2016

Since the beginning of 2016, German poker pro Fedor Holz has won almost all major live high roller tournaments that have taken place all over the globe, scooping more than $16.1 million in earnings. Last night, the player was really close to winning the highest buy-in online poke ...

US Casino Operator to Launch Overseas Gambling Website with GAN

by September 12, 2016

Developer and supplier of software systems and gaming content for the international online gambling industry GAN plc today announced that a leading US casino operator has selected the company to launch together an international real-money online casino and accompanying mobile app ...

Salman “salfshb” Behbehani Leads 2016 WCOOP $102,000 Super High Roller Final 6

by September 12, 2016

High roller tournaments tend to attract more attention than regular poker events and this hardly surprises anyone. With enormous, sometimes even monstrous, amounts of money at stake, a player really needs to have quite a nerve to enter such tournaments. And the audacious are alwa ...

Poker Tournaments to Start between September 12-18

by September 12, 2016

Manila, Florida, and Arizona, these are the three destinations that will likely gather the most attention among poker players in the week between September 12-18, as they will host several really noteworthy tournaments. Different poker variants and thousands of dollars in prize p ...

Dallas Berry Wins 2016/17 WSOP Circuit IP Biloxi $365 No-Limit Hold’em (Single-Day)

by September 11, 2016

Dallas Berry, a 71-year-old retired truck driver and occasional poker player, won his first WSOP Circuit gold ring last night. The single-day $365 No-Limit Hold’em tournament at IP Biloxi Mississippi was clearly his event to emerge victorious in. Berry collected a first-pla ...

WSOP Announces 2016 Poker Hall of Fame Class

by September 10, 2016

About this time every year, the WSOP announces the ten Poker Hall of Fame finalists who have accumulated the most votes by poker fans within a preliminary designated voting period. The 2016 Class of the Poker Hall of Fame was revealed on Friday and it contains ten well-known play ...

Cairns Likely to Apply for Vacant Far North Queensland Casino License

by September 10, 2016

After developers of the A$8-billion Aquis Great Barrier Reef Resort abandoned plans for the addition of a casino, a new expression of interest process is expected to be initiated by the Queensland government and according to local media, this is likely to happen soon.The cit ...

Caesars Bankruptcy Mediator Quits over “Atypical Views” on Mediation Process

by September 10, 2016

Another surprising turn of events will add another tangle to the already complex $18-billion bankruptcy case, involving casino operator Caesars Entertainment Operating Co. Inc. (CEOC), known to be the main operating unit of industry giant Caesars Entertainment corporation.It ...

NetEnt Online Casino Games Go Live for Romanian Players

by September 10, 2016

Swedish developer and distributor of online casino content NetEnt announced that it has gone live in Romania after an integration process was successfully completed. A number of major operators that have formerly obtained licenses by the country’s gambling authority are now live ...

Jason Mercier to Stream WCOOP $102,000 Super High Roller on Twitch

by September 9, 2016

If the WSOP is generally accepted to be the world’s most highly anticipated live poker festival, the World Championship of Online Poker could be said to be its online equivalent. Annually, poker players from around the world enter the numerous WCOOP events on PokerStars to conten ...

CIRSA Reports Improved Half-Year Results

by September 9, 2016

Leading Spanish gambling operator and B2B provider of products and services for the industry CIRSA Gaming Corporation reported its financial results for the six months ended June 30, 2016. The company said that its operational plans have improved its operations across multiple ju ...

Betsson Extends Baltic Reach with TonyBet Acquisition

by September 9, 2016

Swedish online gambling operator Betsson AB announced the acquisition of Lithuanian gambling company Lošimų strateginė grupė, UAB, operating under the TonyBet brand. Lithuania has recently regulated its gambling market and TonyBet is now one of the leading operators to be providi ...

Scientific Games Designates Social Casino Entities as Unrestricted Subsidiaries

by September 8, 2016

Developer and provider of products and services for the international gambling industry, both land-based and online, Scientific Games Corp. confirmed on Wednesday the designation of its wholly owned interactive social gaming subsidiaries as unrestricted entities under the company ...