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Slot Winners
Mega Fortune Dreams Progressive Jackpot Triggered
Progressive jackpot wins are the largest in the industry, and the Mega Fortune progressive jackpot is known for being one of the biggest. Until earlier this year, it had held the world record for the largest jackpot online that was ever won, and it wasn't beaten by much. Now a lucky player has nailed this jackpot on the Mega Fortune Dreams slot at Maria Casino. About the Win The big win on this online slot was worth SEK 42.1 million or €4.5 million. -
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Gambling News
DraftKings Sues Payment Processors for Pulling Service
The drama just doesn't end for the daily fantasy sports industry. DraftKings has launched a lawsuit in Boston against Vantiv and Optimal, two payment processing companies, over a breach of contract issue after they pulled their services. This pull came after the New York Attorney General filed a cease and desist warning, which DraftKings is currently contesting in court. -
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Gambling News
Daily Fantasy Sports Companies Wait on NY Decision
Daily fantasy sports have been having a really hard time over the past couple of months. It started off with a handful of states deciding that the service was against their online gambling and/or sweepstakes laws, and then there was the scandal. This scandal involved a DraftKings employee using inside information to pull six figures in winnings in one weekend at FanDuel. -
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Poker News
PokerStars Targets Social Gaming Market With New App
The Amaya Gaming Group has made a number of big changes since taking over PokerStars back near the middle of 2014, and they've expanded in several different directions in the process. They seem to be going after casual players after a new move has them unveiling their new Jackpot Poker game. This free play game will appear on iOS, Android and Facebook, and it's based primarily around their Spin & Go tournament format. -
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Gambling News
Cat Shelter Donations Gambled Online by Ex-Stripper
There are really weird cases that happen a lot of the time, but it's hard to find one weirder than what's been going on in South Australia. A ex-stripper by the name of Nicky Hocking has been accused of using donations for her The Furry Ones cat shelter charity for online gambling. -
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Internet Bingo
Jingle Bingo Online Room Launched by 888 Holdings
Online bingo really ramps up in popularity around the holidays. Because people have so much free time in December away from their jobs and other obligations, there's a bit of an influx of individuals with plenty of time to get in on the action in online bingo rooms. 888 Holdings has decided to take advantage of that with the release of the new Jingle Bingo online bingo room. Game Offering The selection of games at Jingle Bingo will seem familiar to veteran players. -
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Gambling News
EveryMatrix Granted License in Denmark
The way licenses are handled in Europe right now is complicated because each country handles regulation in its own way, and there are no unifying standards. -
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Gambling News
Details From Paysafe Group's 2009-2010 Hacking Released
In the online gambling world, one of the biggest worries of players is that their personal and financial information will be hacked. That's exactly what happened to some degree with a handful of attacks that happened in 2009 and 2010, and these attacks were investigated in detail. -
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Internet Bingo
Sun Bingo Switching to Playtech's Virtue Fusion Software
When an online gambling operator of any type chooses a software company to work with, it's typically for a long deal. Back in 2008, Sun Bingo relaunched itself using Gamesys software, and this was a pretty big deal at the time. That contract is apparently coming to an end because Sun Bingo has announced that they will be switching players over to the Virtue Fusion platform by Playtech. The Virtue Fusion Product Virtue Fusion is the online bingo product produced by Playtech. -
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Poker News
PokerStars Could See Three-Day Boycott in December
When the Amaya Gaming Group took over PokerStars in mid-2014, players knew that there would be some big changes coming because the acquisition was a part of a nine-figure deal. Changes came very swiftly for PokerStars players, as expected, and they added casino games and eventually brought on the StarsDraft daily fantasy league. -
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Gambling News
New NetEnt Content Deal Awarded to SoftSwiss
This year has been a big one for SoftSwiss, but they're ending 2015 on an even stronger note with a new content deal. This deal will see Net Entertainment titles released on the SoftSwiss platform in another step by SoftSwiss to include third-party developers. -
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Gambling News
Certification in the UK Added to iSoftBet's Credentials
Different jurisdictions hold different weights in the online casino industry. A license in Costa Rica, for example, is generally seen as little more than a rubber stamp, but a license in the United Kingdom is a really big deal. This all comes down to how the different jurisdictions are handled and how much credibility they have in terms of having solid rules that are enforced. -
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Casino Affiliate News
Betsson Affiliate Manager Hit With Money Laundering Charges
The affiliate portion of the online gambling industry is important to understand as a player because it's supposed to be a mutually-beneficial relationship. The affiliate offers up a lot of helpful information that you can use to find a trustworthy place to play and maximize your chances of winning, and the gambling sites you are referred to give that affiliate a small piece of their profits in exchange for bringing players to their sites. -
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Slot Winners
888 Partners With NYX Gaming for Content
Different business deals are always going on in the online casino world, but the ones that seem the most important these days are when an established operator adds even more games through a new content deal. That type of arrangement has happened recently as NYX Gaming has seen its NextGen content added to the list of games that 888 has to offer. -
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Gambling News
Yggdrasil Offers Up Nirvana Online Slot
Mythology is a heavy word for a lot of people, but it's something that online slot providers have used as the inspiration for many of their games. Yggdrasil is no different, and they've recently added a new game called Nirvana that's based around three goddesses. -
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Gambling News
Estonian Chanz Casino Has Initial Launch
One aspect of online casino play that's always been inferior to the land-based product is the social factor. A lot of people go out to play in land-based casinos to meet people and have a good time socially, and that's something that can't really be matched in most online casinos. -
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Gambling News
Daily Fantasy Sports Giant FanDuel Forms Board of Advisors
A new advisory board has been created for FanDuel, one of the two largest daily fantasy sports companies in the world. The board's express purpose is to help the company develop policy, but it's not hard to see that they're scrambling at this point to get as much positive publicity as possible after the scandals and other hits that the industry has taken in the past couple of months. Who is on the Board This board consists of a number of big names in sports and politics. -
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Gambling News
Realistic Games and Rank Interactive Sign Content Deal
New content deals have been happening left and right lately, and there's yet another that affects Realistic Games this time. They've signed a deal that will have a lot of their content featured on the Bede software platform, one of Rank Interactive's key products. This includes all of their new games like the Super Graphics Super Lucky line, Fireworks, 6 Appeal and others. -
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Gambling News
BetSoft Now Providing Content for SlotsMillion
SlotsMillion is an online casino that's known for having an overwhelming number of online slots. Their whole gimmick is this idea that they have more slots in one place than anyone else, and it's really the case since they have well over 1,000 titles. -
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Gambling News
Illegal Operators Get Big Fines in the Netherlands
In the Netherlands, the gambling regulator's name is Kansspelautoriteit, and they have thrown some pretty big fines in the direction of two companies, backers of RedSlots.com. The two companies in question are Bluemay Enterprises and Redcorp, and a further look into RedSlots.com has shown some shady claims about their payment processor Megaton Ltd. -
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Gambling News
BetSoft Pairs With CoinGaming.io for Bitcoin Releases
When bitcoin's popularity really went through the roof in 2014, players and industry experts realized that the cryptocurrency could be used to fund deposits and withdrawals for online casinos. Bitcoin casinos sprung up afterwards, but a lot of them had limited software selections. -
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Gambling News
The AGA Has Taken a Position on Daily Fantasy Sports Regulations
The American Gaming Association has had what some would consider a questionable history when it comes to supporting online gambling in the United States. Because their primary backers are those involved with land-based gambling, it's hard to know exactly where their motives lie when they make statements about the online sector, and this includes daily fantasy sports. -
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Gambling News
New York Supreme Court Lawsuits for DFS Juggernauts
Daily fantasy sports hasn't been doing so well over the past couple of months. After a scandal broke loose when a DraftKings employee used insider information to pull about $300,000 in winnings from FanDuel, they have been under fire from virtually every direction. -
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Gambling News
Aussie Advertising Code to be Influenced by Watchdog
Advertising for any type of gambling is an extremely touchy subject. On one hand, it's reasonable to think that businesses should be able to advertise their products and services so that they can gain more customers and remain profitable. On the other hand, gambling can be advertised in predatory ways, especially towards underage individuals and those with compulsive gambling problems. -
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Gambling News
Cease and Desist Letters Sent to DFS Giants from New York AG
If you want to see how much regulation is needed for anything resembling online gambling in the United States, then you don't have to look further than what's happening for daily fantasy sports right now in New York. -
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Poker News
More Eliminations From the WSOP Main Event
A few years ago, the World Series of Poker and ESPN came together to form the idea that later became known as the November Nine. The concept was that they would have the final table for the Main Event play out live on television several months after the rest of the tournament had already happened. -
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Gambling News
Deckmedia Group Opening New Red Stag Casino Site
The Deckmedia group is known for operating a selection of well-received online casinos that have all earned their stripes independently and as a group. -
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Gambling News
Congressional Hearing Set Up for RAWA in Early December
The Restoration of America's Wire Act is the product of Sheldon Adelson's campaign to end online gambling in the United States to protect his land-based casino empire. It hinges on changing the Wire Act from the 1960s, an act used to combat organized crime sports betting operations that took bets over the phone, to something it was never meant to be: a law that affects all forms of gambling on a piece of technology that wasn't even invented yet. -
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Gambling News
Optimal Payments User Info Possibly Compromised From Old Attack
Forbes has released a big investigative article that goes into a lot of detail about the attacks against Moneybookers (now Skrill) and Neteller that happened between 2009 and 2010. Those hacks were thought to be fairly harmless at first, but it's come to light that millions of individuals had their data stolen in the breach. -
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Casino Bonus Promotions
Slots.lv Hosts $5,000 Thanksgiving Bonanza Promotion
November is known for being the first time of the year that that holiday season gets into full swing, and Slots.lv knows this as well as anyone. To take advantage, they're offering up a great promotion called the Thanksgiving Bonanza that will have players picking up a piece of $5,000 in free chip. Every single day from November 2 through November 26, there will be three random winners. A VIP player will pick up a $100 free chip, and two regular players will be awarded a $50 free chip each.
