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Slot Winners
Bovada Casino Gives Two Big Payouts to the Same Player
One of the things that all online slot players wish for is a big payout or jackpot. Bovada Casino is known for being home to a lot of winners, but they were able to produce a very special winner recently who took down two different six-figure wins. What's so interesting is that this happened on two different games as well, though they have some similar features. -
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Games & Casino News
Casino Saga to Become Casino Heroes After Name Request
In the online gaming world, a name can mean everything. We've seen tons of situations in the past of lawsuits over one company using a name that's too similar to that of a competitor, and we've recently seen another potential lawsuit be sidestepped by Casino Saga. King is the owner of Candy Crush Saga, and they requested that Casino Saga change their name to avoid a lawsuit over the branding. -
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Gambling News
Betway to Innovate with Pub Ads on Screach Platform
Being able to target key demographics is a major part of what can make an online gambling brand successful. Advertising is great, but if you're not advertising to the people who want to use your product, then it's not very useful. -
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Gambling News
888 Holdings Wins Bwin.Party Bidding War vs. GVC-Amaya
For anyone who has been around the online gambling world for any amount of time can tell you, companies are constantly being bought and sold. Whether it's a large software company purchasing a smaller one to boost their portfolio and prevent future competition, or whether it's a large investment group buying up companies they believe are undervalued, there's always some kind of business news attached to the online gambling industry. -
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Gambling News
USA Anti-Online Gambling Lobby Grows Larger
The lobbying effort against the expansion of US online gambling has continued to grow. Sheldon Adelson's Restoration of America's Wire Act is the main focus, and Squire Patton Boggs of Washington has joined the cause. This has been done through Adelson's Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling. -
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Poker News
PokerStars Could Enter US Daily Fantasy Sports Market
Something you have to remember about PokerStars is that they still have the information of thousands of players who were super into online poker before they were forced out of the market by Black Friday on April 15, 2011. -
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Games & Casino News
32Red Pays £8.4 Million For Roxy Palace
In the United Kingdom online gambling scene, it's hard to find a group more reputable with a longer history than 32Red. Their 32Red Casino is known for being one of the most trustworthy online casinos of the past decade, so when they make a major business move, people really sit back and take notice. -
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Poker News
$4.9 Million Raised for Global Poker Index
Global Poker Index (GPI) is a company based around the idea of bringing together poker under one central league and ranking system. Mediarex Sports & Entertainment is the parent company of GPI, and they've recently raised $4.9 million in funding to back GPI in its quest to bring all poker players together under one set of rankings.
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Gambling News
Unibet Buys Bookmaker Stan James Online Operations
In the United Kingdom, the online gambling market has seen a bit of a chokehold put on it after regulations and licensing changed over the past couple of years. One of the major effects on the industry was that there aren't very many large online sports betting operations going, and that means that when a company like Unibet is looking to expand their market reach in the UK, they don't have many options for acquisitions. -
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Poker News
American Gaming Association Changes Online Poker Focus
The American Gaming Association is a very important entity for gambling companies in the United States. They act as a sort of trade and lobbying body, and they are the largest such organization in the US. They showed support for quite a while for federally-regulated online poker, but they have changed that support to now being against it. -
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Games & Casino News
Metro Play-Bet666 Done for Business, Face Liquidation
Back when the regulations changed over the past couple of years for online gambling in the United Kingdom, a lot of fuss was made about the position that it placed certain companies in. However, the end result was better regulations for players, and we're seeing that in action in a major way with the official end of the Metro Play scandal. -
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Slot Winners
Playtech's Beach Life Progressive Pays Seven-Figure Win
Playtech has been around for 16 years, and in that time, they have only paid out one win that was worth more than their most recent progressive jackpot. A lucky player from the United Kingdom was able to nail a £3.7 million payday on the Beach Life progressive slot recently. This player goes by the name Hilton, and Hilton has set a definite record with Playtech with this impressive payout. The History of Beach Life Beach Life has a long history of big wins for Playtech players. -
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Slot Winners
Six-Figure Payout Won at Bodog on Super Diamond Mine
In the world of online slots, different players hit big wins in different ways. Some nail progressive jackpots, others run up massive payouts during bonus features, and others just have a really good streak of luck with regular-sized wins that pile up over time. -
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Games & Casino News
Crown Casino Dodges $32 Million Scam
In an incredible series of events, the Crown Casino found itself in a position of trying to drum up publicity. They decided that a way to do this would be to set a Guinness Book of Records entry for the purchase of the most expensive cocktail. This would come in the form of a AU$12,500 price-tag on the drink called "The Winston," a drink made with 1858-vintage cognac. It was named after Winston Churchill because the drink was a favorite of his. The Plot Thickens So far, so good. -
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Poker News
Takahiro Nakai From Osaka Wins WSOP Event 57
A total field of 2,497 players were in attendance for the World Series of Poker event 57, a $1,000 buy-in no-limit hold'em event. This event used nine-handed tables, the norm for this style of poker, and it was won by Takahiro Nakai. Nakai is 36 years old, and he resides in Osaka, Japan. This was his first trip to Las Vegas, his first time playing in the World Series, his first final table and his first World Series bracelet. -
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Slot Winners
Six-Figure Royal Panda Winner Hits Within 24 Hours
They call them pokies in Australia and slots in most of the world, but whatever you call them, you can't deny that a player named Henry from Australia has performed a very impressive feat. This player nailed a jackpot worth $107,470 less than 24 hours after joining Royal Panda Casino. This is on top of a few thousand in other wins that came before the jackpot spin. How the Jackpot Was Won The game in question was Net Entertainment's Jack and the Beanstalk slot. -
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Games & Casino News
Mr Green Casino Gets United Kingdom License
When the United Kingdom changed up how they were handling online gambling licenses and taxing, it created a world of chaos for a period of time as many sites tried to leave the country without just abandoning their players and others tried to figure out how to afford to continue operating in the UK. -
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Gambling News
Operator Primedice Taken for Over a Million in Bitcoin
Bitcoin of what we think about when it comes to how currency works and the opportunities that come up when we have anonymous payment methods. A number of online gambling sites like Primedice have found themselves offering deposits and withdrawals in bitcoin as a sort of marketing ploy that's gained some sites a fair amount of attention. -
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Poker News
More Bracelets Awarded at the WSOP
There are tons of events at the World Series of Poker, but it was event 45 that saw Upeshka De Silva, 27 from Texas, take down a $424,577 win. The game was no-limit hold'em, and the buy-in was for $1,500. These smaller buy-in events have been turning out some major prize funds, and a total of $2.23 million was up for grabs in this event. -
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Poker News
Ourgame International to Purchase World Poker Tour
In the history of poker over the past two decades, few brands have been as important as the World Poker Tour. First founded in 2002, this brand was responsible for major tournaments that were televised with hole cameras for the first time outside of the WSOP, and it turned into a major show with a lot of followers that helped to drastically increase the popularity of no-limit hold'em poker. -
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Games & Casino News
New Slotmob Online Casino Opens Their Doors
New online casinos are coming out all the time, and this is an industry where tons of companies try to get in on the action to get a piece of the market. While most of those new sites are suspect until they have time to build a reputation, there are some exceptions. -
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Poker News
Ivan Luca First Argentinian to Win WSOP Bracelet
In the World Series of Poker, there are tons of different events at different buy-in levels for different types of poker. If you come out on top in one of these events, then you're given a gold bracelet as a winning token along with your prize money. -
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Games & Casino News
Playtech Raising Funds for Plus500 Purchase
Playtech has made a lot of moves over the past few years when it comes to expanding into different parts of the market. They've recently been looking closely at CFD trading, and they've decided to try to purchase CFD trading company Plus500. -
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Games & Casino News
iGaming Tech Signs Deal to Offer BetSoft Games
The online casino world has been seeing more and more levels of regulation over the past few years, and Italy is one of the countries that decided to go ahead and regulate the industry to make tax revenues from it. -
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Poker News
John Gale Beats Odds and Wins WSOP NLH Turbo Event
In another chapter of an amazing story, British John Gale picked up his second World Series of Poker bracelet. This second bracelet came in the $1,500 turbo no-limit hold'em event, a two-day event with a very fast blind structure. -
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Poker News
Viejas Attack PokerStars With Inaccurate Radio Ads
Online poker in California has been under debate for several years, and one of the main reasons it hasn't made it anywhere in that time is that certain native tribes have been seriously combating the initiative to keep out major competitors like top-tier online poker sites. -
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Poker News
Potential Cheating Scandal Happens in WSOP Event
Valeriu Coca was a player in the $10,000 heads-up no-limit hold'em championship event, and after his fifth-place finish for over $54,000, there is some suspicion that he could have been cheating. While there is no concrete evidence against him at this time, there's a ton of circumstantial evidence that's piling up quickly. -
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Gambling News
NetEnt Granted Spanish Online Gambling License
The Directorate General for the Regulation of Gambling has awarded a license to operate in Spain for Net Entertainment, and this comes just as they have allowed online casinos to offer slots. The timing doesn't seem to be coincidental, and it's a big step forward for the market as a whole. -
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Poker News
Tuan Le Repeats in WSOP 2-7 Triple Draw Championship
At the World Series of Poker each year, there is a series of championship events for all of the common games. These events have a standard $10,000 buy-in, and for all of the non-hold'em games, they are typically seen as the world championship each year for that particular event. -
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Gambling News
Italian Regulator Blocks 5,000+ Illegal Gambling Sites
The regulator for online gambling in Italy is the Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli, and they send out regular reports about their activities each year. This includes financial reports, but it also includes other information like the ways they have been enforcing rules about unlicensed sites operating in the country.
