Events & Reports

bwin.party Q1 Revenue Drops 6%

by May 21, 2015

Online gambling company bwin.party digital entertainment plc released information about its financial performance during the first quarter of 2015. The operator’s overall revenue fell 6% year-on-year to reach €155.3 million.During the period in review, nationally regul ...

Gambling Industry Revenue Report in Macau

by May 20, 2015

Lying on the western side of the Pearl River Delta, Macau is one of the two Special Administrative Regions in the People’s Republic of China, with Hong Kong being the other.As an offshore financial center and tax haven, Macau has a well-developed sector of banking and ...

Russian Gaming Week 2015 to Take Place on June 3-4

by May 19, 2015

The ninth annual Russian Gaming Week will be held at the Sokolniki Exhibition and Convention Centre in Moscow Russia between June 3-4. As usual, gaming software developers, manufacturers of gaming equipment, representatives of prominent companies, stock traders, investors, Europe ...

Gala Coral Posts Increase in H1 Net Revenue

by May 19, 2015

British gambling operator Gala Coral Group announced its financial results for this fiscal year’s first half ended April 11. The gaming company posted increase in both net revenue and EBITDA.Total net revenue for the first half of the fiscal year amounted to £684.8 mill ...

German Online Gambling Industry Overview

by May 19, 2015

Germany’s gambling legislation from 2008 was replaced by the ”Interstate Treaty on Gambling 2012” (ISTG). The latter was expected to come into force in January 2012, but there have been a number of aspects regarding it, that faced critism by the European Union Commission. T ...

bwin.party – A Partnership Gone Wrong

by May 18, 2015

bwin.party digital entertainment plc was the result of the merger between PartyGaming Plc and bwin interactive entertainment AG, which occurred on March 31st 2011. bwin.party became the largest publicly traded online gambling operator worldwide, as former Party Gaming shareholder ...

Poker Tournaments to Start between May 18-24

by May 18, 2015

Several major poker tournaments are scheduled to start in the upcoming week, with the APPT Season 9 Macau and the Deepstack Extravaganza III being among them. More about those and a number of other exciting poker events could be found below.2015 $100K GTD Mini-Series MayT ...

PokerStars Boosts Amaya Q1 Revenue

by May 14, 2015

Canadian gaming company Amaya Inc. released information about its financial performance during the first quarter of 2015. Revenue amounted to C$340.1 million compared to C$12.8 million posted for the three months ended March 31, 2014.The considerable increase was mainly attri ...

Paddy Power Announces Revenue Growth

by May 14, 2015

Irish gambling operator Paddy Power released its trading statement for the period January 1 to May 11. The group announced that its overall net revenue grew 26% year-on-year, with sports betting net revenue up 21%.Paddy Power pointed out that the weak Euro gave the operator a ...

French Gambling Industry Overview

by May 14, 2015

France began moving closer to legalization of online gambling activities in 2005. Back then the European Commission embarked on an investigation of the current state of the nation’s gambling industry. In 2007 the Commission stated that particular amends to the already exist ...

Atlantic City Casino Revenue Down 3% in April

by May 14, 2015

The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement released a report on the financial performance of Atlantic City’s eight casinos in April. Overall revenue from gambling operations amounted to $199 million, down 3% as compared to the $205.1 million posted for the same month a y ...

United Kingdom Gambling Market Development

by May 13, 2015

United Kingdom’s online gambling market, in consonance with the international tendency, has demonstrated a remarkable growth in the past decade. In 2009 the gross online gambling revenue for UK alone amounted to GBP 1.510 billion. Within this figure, online poker revenues w ...

mybet Posts Slight Q1 Revenue Increase

by May 13, 2015

German gambling operator mybet Holding SE published earlier today its financial results for the first quarter of 2015. Overall revenue for the reported period increased 2.3% to €18.3 million.The company’s largest division – sports betting – generated a total of €10.4 m ...

Online Gambling Market in Canada

by May 11, 2015

It has been almost 20 years since the launch of the first online casino, Internet Casinos Inc., while more than 2 000 gambling websites offering an array of gaming opportunities such as casino games, sports betting, bingo, poker and others have been estimated to be currently in o ...

Poker Tournaments to Start between May 11-17

by May 11, 2015

With tournaments in Melbourne, Connecticut, Florida, California, etc. the upcoming week promises to be quite exciting for both poker players and fans of the game. The following few lines contain a bit more details about what might be expected in the days to come, and where and wh ...