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Casino Affiliate News
Casino Rewards Wins Advertising Standards Case
One 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 Republic
The 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 Sites
Something 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 Bet365
Operating 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 Changes
If 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 Sale
In 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 WCOOP
No 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 Launch
It'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 Review
Elections 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 Evolution
Live 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 Computer
Oculus 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. -
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Gambling News
RAWA Supporters Could Attempt Another Tactic
A new approach could be coming from supporters of the Restoration of America's Wire Act. They could impose what's known as a moratorium for two years that would effectively stop states from legalizing online gambling. -
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Gambling News
GBGC Announces Report on Virtual Sports Betting
Virtual sports betting is something that critics have pointed to as being ridiculous, but a new report by the Global Betting and Gaming Consultants (GBGC) based out of the Isle of Man shows that it's very much on the rise. -
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Games & Casino News
Realistic Games Signs LeoVegas Mobile
Over the past 18 months, we've seen NYX Gaming really start to push forward when it comes to making big deals with companies and expanding the reach of their OGS platform. This is their content distribution platform that is the main point of their expansion, and they've signed deals with tons of different operators in that time. -
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Gambling News
Opposition for RAWA Starts Piling Up
Lots of different organizations have started lining up against the Restoration of America's Wire Act, a proposal that could see online gambling banned on a federal level. Among other things, it would seek to officially change the ruling on the Wire Act to ban all forms of online gambling instead of just betting on sports. -
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Games & Casino News
NYX Inks Deal With Royal Panda for OGS Platform
The games that an online casino offers used to be determined by exclusive contracts from major software companies. The way this worked is that a site would agree to be an operator for a single software brand, and they would only carry titles for that brand. This approach doesn't fly anymore, and casino operators want to be able to offer games from a lot of different providers. -
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Gambling News
HollywoodBets Sponsors South African Team
Gambling is an extremely complicated topic in South Africa. A part of that has to do with how dynamic some of the political changes have been from one party and administration to another and how wildly their viewpoints can vary. -
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Gambling News
Sweden Online Gambling Reform Coming
Regulation for online gambling is a particularly interesting subject on a global level because so many different countries handle things in so many different ways, and there's not really any unified concept of how it should be handled specifically. Sweden has been adopting a model for a while based on a government-backed monopoly through a company called Svenska Spel, but like most other attempts at this type of monopoly in this industry, the approach has not been working. -
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Poker News
PokerStars Opens Betting on WCOOP Event
The World Championship of Online Poker at PokerStars is considered to be the single-largest online tournament series ever, and it's broken records for the largest prize pools for tournament series and individual events online. This year, there's a Super High Roller event with a $51,000 entry fee that is expected to attract a crowd of well-known players that will see a ton of spectators. -
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Games & Casino News
Launch of Kaboo Casino Announced
Online casinos have been looking for different ways to give players unique experiences for a long time. Many of the key features that we take for granted today like a live chat support option and an instant play/no download casino platform were originally put into place to try to gain a competitive advantage over everyone else. -
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Games & Casino News
The Final Rose Slot Added to Bodog Mobile
Bodog Casino is known for having a ton of different games from a variety of software providers. This wide range of titles on multiple platforms (desktop, mobile and instant play) has been one of the key factors in their huge popularity. They've recently added yet another title, this time to their mobile platform, and this new game is The Final Rose by Genesis Gaming. -
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Slot Winners
LeoVegas Makes Six-Figure Winner From Tiny Bet
The dream for every online slots fan is to hit a big win without having to break the bank in the process. That's exactly what happened to one lucky player who was able to run up a win worth more than £100,000 with a bet worth less than £1. -
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Internet Bingo
CyberBingo/BingoSky Bringing Two Major Promotions
On Saturday, September 26, bingo fans are going to really want to log into CyberBingo because of their incredible Lucky $13,000 Guaranteed Event. Starting at 8 pm Eastern, players will be able to enter the Bingo Tourney room with three different warm-up games that are worth $1,000 guaranteed apiece. -
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Online Tournament
Upcoming Crazy Vegas Immortal Romance Tournament
Crazy Vegas Casino knows as much as anyone that players like different types of events that test their luck and skill. With their Monthly Monster event, they have a different game that they choose each month for players to fight over €1,000 in prizes. -
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Gambling News
Unibet Finishes Acquiring iGame
Since the beginning of the year, and even as far back as the middle of 2014, we've been seeing a lot more mergers and purchases in the online gambling world than we've probably ever seen before. Lots of companies have been executing extremely strategic purchases recently, and it's creating a situation where a lot more connections have to be remembered than ever before. -
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Slot Winners
Six-Figure Bovada Casino Win for Alexander D
Winning streaks and big jackpots are what the online casino world is all about, and it's every player's goal to hit the right combination of luck and skill at the right moment that allows them to take home some major winnings. This is what happened to a player who goes by Alexander D when he was playing at Bovada Casino. -
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Games & Casino News
Betit Launches Kaboo Casino and Others in Beta
Something that you don't see all that often in the online gambling world is a true beta release. Usually all of the bugs are worked out before a game goes to market, but this is only true because it's relatively easy to catch all of the problems in a single game as a unit. -
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Gambling News
Daily Fantasy Sports Hearing Called For in Congress
It's no secret right now that daily fantasy sports represent one of the fastest-growing segments of the online gambling market. It's gained more steam in the United States over the past 18 months than most forms of online gambling ever had, and more states have started making decisions about the legality of the game. Now there could be an upcoming congressional hearing on the subject as well. The Need for the Meeting Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. -
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Gambling News
California Daily Fantasy Sports Regulations Proposed
There has been a pretty fierce battle going on in California over the online poker industry for the past few years, and a bill supporting it has failed once again because of political issues between racetrack operators, native tribes and other groups. -
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Poker News
First Legal Poker Tourney in Norway Ran by Amaya
The Amaya Gaming Group has made a number of big strides for poker since taking over PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker last year. One of their brands is Global Poker Tours Ltd, and they have announced that the 2016 Norweigian Championships for poker will actually be held in Norway this year for the first time ever. It's been held overseas for over 12 years in a variety of other countries including Ireland, Latvia and England.
