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Gambling News Aussie Gambling Advertising Laws Could Be RevampedRead Full ArticleAdvertising for gambling is an interesting topic that really incorporates the balance between increasing outreach and the responsibilities that companies have to make sure they aren't targeting underage or problem gamblers. This is why oversight and self-regulation in the industry is really important.
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Poker News Steam Gaming Platform Target for Full TiltRead Full ArticleFull Tilt Poker has recently applied to become a part of the Steam online gaming platform. This platform helps to put out games for online and computer-based play (as well as play through smart televisions), and it could lead to some pretty interesting situations if they're able to get included.
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Poker News Avramidis Wins First WSOPE Bracelet of the YearRead Full ArticleNo-limit hold'em is the most popular form of poker in the world, and it's been that way for a little over a decade. Several formats of the game exist, but tournament poker is where all of the fame and glory is at this stage in the game.
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Slot Winners World Progressive Record Confirmed Broken by Mega MoolahRead Full ArticleThe Mega Moolah progressive jackpot hit not that long ago and broke its own record with a payout worth £13,213,838.68. This £13.2 million payout was the largest win on Mega Moolah ever, but as it turns out, it's also the largest win ever. This is the equivalent of €17.9 million, and that breaks the previous jackpot that was held by Net Entertainment's Mega Fortune online slot.
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Gambling News Ladbrokes Raises £1.35 Billion in Merger FundingRead Full ArticleIt seems like 2015 has been the year of the merger, and the floodgates have really blown open with lots of different companies combining or being taken over, with the notable case of the huge bidding war over Bwin.Party being a good example. There's another merger on the horizon, and that's between Ladbrokes and Coral.
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Gambling News Self-Regulation Could Head Off Government Intervention in SwedenRead Full ArticleThere are pros and cons when it comes to government regulation. One of the main pros is that the players get taken care of in better ways with fewer chances for companies to take advantage of them. However, there are also cons like the simple fact that government regulations can often overshoot the mark and paralyze the industry instead of keeping it safe.
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Gambling News EveryMatrix Taking Steps to Boost DDOS ProtectionRead Full ArticleSomething that has been happening on and off in the online gambling world is the idea of hackers using extortion to try to get payoffs from online gambling sites behind the threat of DDoS (Distributed Denial of Services). The way these attacks work is that computers from all over the world that are under the control of these hackers try to access the site all at the same time.
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Gambling News Game Lounge Launches Additional Whitelabel SuomiRead Full ArticleIn Europe right now, we're seeing more and more countries regulate the online gambling industry. As a result, different providers, operators and software companies are getting in on the action of building up a foothold in each individual country as much as they can according to their own strategic directives.
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Casino Bonus Promotions Halloween Howler by Slots.lv Offering $2,800 PromoRead Full ArticleThe month of October is known for really starting off the beginning of the holiday season. The countdown to Halloween starts shifting the online casino world into that mode of thinking as well. The holiday season is so important for online gambling because it's when the most people are playing each year, so the promotions and special offers increase to match.
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Gambling News Daily Fantasy Sports Regulations Called on by AmayaRead Full ArticleThe daily fantasy sports industry has been absolutely exploding in the past year, and one of the reasons why it's become so open in the United States is that it's not considered sports betting. It's also considered, for the time being, protected from the UIGEA thanks to a carve-out for fantasy sports.
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Casino Bonus Promotions Rich Casino to Host Sin City Raffle During OctoberRead Full ArticleOne of the complaints that many players have about online casino promotions is that they largely consist of plain bonuses that can become boring after a while. Too much of a good thing can make it seem less special, and that's exactly what's happened to reload bonuses and other similar deals in the online casino world.
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Online Tournament Halloween Slots Special Fest Running in OctoberRead Full ArticleDuring the month of October, four online casinos are coming together to offer a major slots promotion. The Halloween Slots Special Fest at Winward Casino, 7 Spins, 21 Dukes and Rich Casino will give you a chance to earn tournament points through your real money play, which can then be used to pick up a piece of a prize pool worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Slot Winners A Pair of Huge Slot Wins at SkillOnNet Break €300,000 MarkRead Full ArticleThe mobile side of the online casino industry has been getting bigger and bigger over time, and what we're starting to see is that more huge wins are coming via mobile than ever before as a result. SkillOnNet-powered mobile casinos paid out a couple of major wins recently, and these wins combined were worth over €300,000.
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Gambling News New Sportsbook Platform Launched by William HillRead Full ArticleAdvances in software platforms every so often are extremely important for any online gambling operation. William Hill knows this as much as anybody, and that's why their new Trafalgar platform is exciting, even if it's not all that surprising.
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Gambling News White Hat Launches Reel Island Online CasinoRead Full ArticleOnline casinos have evolved over the past two decades, and the entire history of the industry has been about pushing forward and coming up with new ways for players to get in on the action and have a great experience. The new Reel Island online casino, owned by Flip Gaming, is the newest online casino powered by the White Hat Gaming platform.
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Poker News Yet Another DDOS Attack Targets WPNRead Full ArticleA ploy that we've seen in recent years against different types of online gambling sites is hackers holding up events for a virtual ransom, costing operators tons of money. The Winning Poker Network has been the target of attacks like this in the past, and they saw another big loss tied into a big tournament overlay related to yet another DDOS attack.
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Gambling News Report Says Wearable Technology Right for Online GamblingRead Full ArticleTechnology and the gambling world are connected in a way that's impossible to overestimate. Whenever a new technology becomes available on a wide-enough basis, people inevitably want to gamble on it, and that demand becomes filled. It started back in the mid 1990s when Internet connections became widespread, and it continued in the early 2000s when mobile devices started having better graphic capabilities and their own Internet connections.
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Gambling News eCOGRA Approved by Portuguese Regulator for TestingRead Full ArticleeCOGRA is known for being one of the most important independent entities in all of online gambling. Right now, their Safe & Fair Seal is considered to be the single most-important certification that an online gambling site could have. Portugal's new regulator SRIJ has recognized this, and now they've made a deal where they will be using eCOGRA as a testing company.
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Poker News Another Set of Full Tilt Payments Are Being IssuedRead Full ArticleOn April 15, 2011, an event happened in the online poker world that's been dubbed Black Friday. This event had to do with US federal indictments against a number of the top online poker rooms in the world including PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. The Rational Group, owner of PokerStars, made a deal with the Department of Justice to purchase Full Tilt Poker and pay off the balances for all of their players since Full Tilt didn't have the funds to do so on their own.
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Casino Affiliate News Casino Rewards Wins Advertising Standards CaseRead Full ArticleOne of the problems with Internet gambling is that it opens up the door for underage gambling on certain levels if things aren't policed properly. While it's not necessarily easy for a 14-year-old boy to sign up and play for real money online, it's a lot easier than walking into a land-based casino and passing yourself off as being of legal age.
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Gambling News Major Growth for Online Gambling in the Czech RepublicRead Full ArticleThe Czech Republic does not currently license or regulate the online gambling industry in any meaningful way. That will probably change sooner rather than later because of a new report that has come out of the nation's capital of Prague that shows that virtually all sectors of the online gambling industry are expanding.
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Gambling News A New License Seal is Now Required for NJ Online SitesRead Full ArticleSomething that New Jersey online gambling sites have run into is the simple fact that there are a lot of foreign operators who are still going after their customers. In an effort to help players who would be confused about which sites are licensed and which are not, New Jersey's Directorate of Gaming Enforcement will now be requiring licensed sites to show a specific seal on their websites.
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Gambling News New Financials Have Been Posted for Bet365Read Full ArticleOperating in Europe as an online gambling business is especially tricky right now. There have been a number of major changes to how regulation works in different countries, especially in the United Kingdom with a completely revamped tax system over the past year, and new changes are happening in various countries all of the time.
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Gambling News Growth Has Changed After China's Policy ChangesRead Full ArticleIf you look at Eastern Asia as a whole, you'll see that gambling is growing as a whole. However, China is no longer leading the way here thanks to new policies that have come on the back of discoveries of corruption and other factors.
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Gambling News Tipico Sportsbook Possibly For SaleRead Full ArticleIn the online sports betting world and horse betting world, we've seen some pretty incredible changes to the overall landscape in the past six months. Different buy-outs and bidding wars have heated things up. There was a massive bidding war that led to the purchase of Bwin.Party by GVC, and there was also the big Paddy Power-Betfair deal that was accidentally spoiled on Twitter by a joke from a social media worker who didn't even know there was a deal in place to begin with.
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Poker News New Records Set by the 2015 WCOOPRead Full ArticleNo matter what type of online poker you play and no matter what stakes you play at, the World Championship of Online Poker at PokerStars is probably on your radar. It happens around this time each year, and it give players a chance to take part in dozens of major events, either as a player or a spectator. Tons of big name pros come out to duke it out and take a piece of a total eight-figure prize pool.
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Poker News Poker Central Set for October LaunchRead Full ArticleIt's really interesting to see how poker has waxed and waned over the past decade and a half. The big poker boom started around 2003 when Chris Moneymaker took down the World Series of Poker, and it started to crash in late 2006 when the UIGEA cut the legs out from under the online poker market.
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Slot Winners No Changes for Upcoming Australian Gambling ReviewRead Full ArticleElections have a funny way of creating big shifts in politics and the direction of certain aspects of policy, but that's not the case for the upcoming online gambling review in Australia.
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Gambling News Microgaming's European Live Dealer Games to be Handled by EvolutionRead Full ArticleLive dealer games are a pretty important part of today's online casino environment. They offer players an alternative to the normal online casino experience by tying in elements of playing in a land-based casino. These elements include playing games with real deals who spin a real roulette wheel or deal games with real cards. It also adds a social factor to the game since you can interact with your dealer and the other players.
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Gambling News Oculus Announces Wearable ComputerRead Full ArticleOculus is known primarily for its virtual reality products, and now they're coming out with a wearable computer. This device is expected to start at $99, and it's expected to have immediate support for Facebook, Twitch and Netflix. This company is owned by parent company Facebook, so it's obvious that it will have their integration, and that leads the way for social gaming and other types of gaming to be integrated as well.