Events & Reports

PokerStars Shuts Australian Online Gambling Operations on September 11

PokerStars Shuts Australian Online Gambling Operations on September 11

by August 23, 2017

PokerStars will shut its real-money operations for Australian players on September 11, 2017, the online poker room has announced recently. The move comes shortly after the Australian Senate passed a bill that prohibits the provision of unlicensed online casino and poker services ...

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 ...

Cherry Reports Largest Online Gambling Revenue Growth in Q1

Cherry Reports Largest Online Gambling Revenue Growth in Q1

by August 21, 2017

Swedish gambling operator Cherry AB was the company to register the biggest increase in online gambling revenue during the first quarter of 2017, a report by Munich-based industry research firm MECN showed.Cherry, which operates both land-based and online gambling services, ...

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 ...

Europe’s Hottest Casino Destinations

Europe’s Hottest Casino Destinations

by August 18, 2017

August is the month of easygoingness, of melting hot weather, of ice cubes clinking in glasses full of delicious drinks. And to many of those with severe travel-itch, August is that time of the year when they can finally appease that itch by hitting the road.Casino gambling ...

Guaranteed $10-Million $5,200 Main Event Shines in 2017 WCOOP Schedule

Guaranteed $10-Million $5,200 Main Event Shines in 2017 WCOOP Schedule

by August 18, 2017

The 2017 World Championship of Online Poker, hosted by PokerStars, is set to kick off a little more than two weeks from now. One of the world’s most prestigious online poker festivals first took place in 2002 when it featured nine events only.Fifteen years later, it has turn ...

RakeTech Online Gambling Affiliate Website Slapped for Use of Children-Related Content

RakeTech Online Gambling Affiliate Website Slapped for Use of Children-Related Content

by August 17, 2017

Online gambling company RakeTech Group has been found to have used a website with children-oriented content to refer potential customers to online gambling operators, Swedish news outlet Breakit reported earlier today.In addition, RakeTech seems to have used a domain similar ...

Cara Delevingne Is Bookmakers’ Favorite for Next Bond Girl

Cara Delevingne Is Bookmakers’ Favorite for Next Bond Girl

by August 16, 2017

Despite previous comments that he would rather slash his wrists than play James Bond again, Daniel Craig confirmed last night that we will see him as the famously smug British Secret Service agent in the upcoming 25th installment of the popular movie series.Craig has starred ...

Japan’s Second Casino Bill: What We Know So Far

Japan’s Second Casino Bill: What We Know So Far

by August 16, 2017

The Japanese government legalized casino gambling last December after a prolonged discussion process. Lawmakers are now vested with the responsible task to craft a second legislative piece that will set the rules under which the country’s gambling industry will be managed.Wo ...

Biggest Sports Betting English Premier League Sponsorship Deals

Biggest Sports Betting English Premier League Sponsorship Deals

by August 15, 2017

The English Premier League was created in early 1992 and at a time when English football had just emerged from a rather long period of mediocre popularity. Since established, the league has evolved not only into a national phenomenon, but also into a global one, reaching audience ...

Las Vegas’ Highest Rated Casino Resorts on TripAdvisor

Las Vegas’ Highest Rated Casino Resorts on TripAdvisor

by August 14, 2017

Las Vegas – a city that never sleeps, a place that promises immense opportunities for entertainment, a venue for escapism from the mundanity of everyday life, a dot in the world where even the most well-composed and well-behaved people could easily be convinced to awake the dorma ...

Sweden’s State-Run Gambling Operator Demands Fair Competition Rules upon Market’s Regulation

Sweden’s State-Run Gambling Operator Demands Fair Competition Rules upon Market’s Regulation

by August 14, 2017

The results from a year-and-a-half-long review of Sweden’s gambling industry were published this spring, recommending the replacement of Svenska Spel’s monopoly over the provision of licensed iGaming services with a more liberal licensing system that would admit international ope ...

Online Gambling Hopes Not Dead Yet in Several US States, Despite Slow Legalization Progress

Online Gambling Hopes Not Dead Yet in Several US States, Despite Slow Legalization Progress

by August 12, 2017

Although there has been apparent significant support for the legalization of online gambling in several US states over the past several years, no proposed bill in any of those states has made it to the crucial vote that would make it a law.Given the progress Pennsylvania mad ...

Biggest Online Casino Jackpot Wins in 2017

Biggest Online Casino Jackpot Wins in 2017

by August 11, 2017

Although much younger than their physical predecessors, online slots games have developed a huge and devoted following, comprised of a mixture of people of different ages, from different parts of the world, and from different social strata.The experience games of this kind o ...

Highly Demonized Fixed-Odds Betting Terminals Generate £11.7 Billion in 2008-2016

Highly Demonized Fixed-Odds Betting Terminals Generate £11.7 Billion in 2008-2016

by August 11, 2017

The UK is a nation with rich betting traditions and this is why the rapid and constant growth of its gambling industry has barely surprised anyone. The expanding industry necessitated an expanded scope of regulations. That need culminated in the introduction of the Gambling Act 2 ...