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New DruckGluck Ads Feature German Celebrity Reiner Calmund
Advertising for online gambling is a pretty interesting subject. In some countries, it's not regulated at all, and in other countries, it's not even allowed. Germany has some regulations on how their advertisements are handled, but they are allowed to run them on television and other forms of media. -
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SkyVegas Player Earns £2.4 Million on Sky Millions
One of the biggest things to get the most attention in the online gambling world is progressive jackpot wins, particularly those attached to slots. The basic idea of a progressive jackpot is that a portion of every bet is added to the jackpot until someone wins. From that point, it's restarted with a pre-set value, and then it runs up again until there's another big winner. -
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American Tribal Groups Hit the International Casino Expo
Each year, the biggest event for the casino industry is the International Casino Expo, or ICE for short. In this year's event, there are a number of tribal groups coming to London from the United States to seek out new opportunities. Already confirmed are the Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association, the Arizona Indian Gaming Association and the National Indian Gaming Association. -
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Big Lottery Jackpots, Powerball Jackpot, Keep Growing in the UK and USA
In a bit of really interesting timing, some of the USA's and UK's biggest lotteries have built up to massive levels at the same time. In the United Kingdom, the jackpot of the National Lottery kicked up over the £66 million level, a record for that game. Over in the United States, the Powerball built up to $949.8 million. However, no won hit the winning numbers, so it rolls over yet again to an overwhelming $1.3 billion. -
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Daily Fantasy Sports Giants Make Deal With Illinois
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan was asked by the legislature recently what her opinion was on the legality of daily fantasy sports in the state. She said that her opinion was that it was illegal. DraftKings, in turn, made a deal with the state that will allow them to continue to operate there until a hearing in June that will determine the legality of the contests. -
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The Greek Online Licensing Process Has Been Cleared
Over the past few years, we've seen the online gambling industry change quite a bit. What was once a wide open industry with little to no regulation has seen many individual countries make moves to regulate the industry on their own terms. Greece has recently joined them after efforts from the Greek parliament led to the Deputy Finance Minister giving the go-ahead. Terms and Conditions of the Deal Right now, there are 24 operators who have been issued temporary 36-month licenses. -
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New EveryMatrix-Global Bet Partnership
One of the most important things for a provider of an online casino platform is to offer up a sufficient number of high-quality ways to bet. For casino operators especially, having a lot of great games is one of the most critical things they can do to bring in new players. -
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Golden Tiger Ad Deemed Misleading According to UK Authority
Wagering requirements are a part of life for online gambling bonuses, and they're in place to keep people from abusing the promotions. These requirements are annoying to some, but they allow the sites to keep running bonus offers in the first place. -
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Wisconsin Pushes for Legalized Daily Fantasy Sports
Over the past six months or so, daily fantasy sport contests have been a segment of the industry that has gotten a lot of bad press and a lot of bad news. They saw a ton of rabid expansion in late 2013 and early-to-mid 2014, and that expansion brought a lot of attention to the contests. -
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Boosted Italian Market Penetration for NYX Gaming
One of the effects of the new era of regulation for online gambling in Europe is that business deals have become strategic for different reasons. Now companies have to try to maneuver to gain ground in individual markets because of how each country has their own form of regulation. -
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Fruit Shop Touch Winner Picks Up $122,000 at Royal Panda
Big wins come all through the year, but a lot of people are surprised that Royal Panda Casino has already paid out a whooping six-figure win. This win came on the Fruit Shop Touch slot, the mobile version of the regular game, when a lucky player scored $122,289. This is a major slot win to start off 2016. A History of Big Wins Royal Panda has a history of big wins. Back in July 2015, one player nailed his own six-figure win less than 24 hours from the time he first signed up at the site. -
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Poker News
Philippines Hosts High Roller $200,000 Poker Tournament
Something that started happening a few years ago in the poker world is the concept of the high roller tournament. The basic idea was to have tournament buy-ins of $25,000 and $50,000 to thin the field and offer an atmosphere that consists more of the elites battling it out than thousands of people hoping to get a good run of cards. -
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Three California Betting Bills for Consideration
The Government Oversight Committee of the California state legislature has put a lot of emphasis and priority on a hearing that's happening on January 6. The point of this hearing is to look at legalizing intrastate online poker along with the same for sports betting and daily fantasy sports. -
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Lucky Irish Woman Gets £100,000 Christmas Surprise
Lots of people from all over the world go shopping in the weeks and months leading up to the end of December for a variety of holidays and occasions. -
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Regulators Watching Adelson's Newspaper Takeover
Sheldon Adelson's family recently bought up the Las Vegas Review-Journal for a total of about $140 million. Because he has gambling businesses running in both Pennsylvania and the state of Nevada, Adelson is going to be subject to monitoring from gambling regulators over this transaction. -
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A Big 888 and William Hill Merger Could Be Coming
The online gambling industry has seen a lot of activity in the past year when it comes to major mergers and acquisitions. There have been lots of takeovers, purchases, buyouts and mergers that have completely changed the face of the industry and where the top companies rank relative to each other. -
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DFS Decided to Be Illegal by Illinois Attorney General
Daily fantasy sports providers have been hit left and right by unfavorable opinions by Attorneys General lately, and the one from Illinois just adds to that list. Illinois AG Lisa Madigan gave her opinion lately that DFS is illegal in the state after being prompted to the question by figures in the legislature. -
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Sports-Based Partnership Between NBC and Yahoo Continues
NBC Sports and Yahoo have had a deal for a while that sees them combining Yahoo's daily fantasy sports product with NBC Sports' video library and other promotional services. This partnership is interesting because of the synergy that the two entities create since they complement each other so ridiculously well. -
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Cherry Group Purchased Moorgate Media, NorgesSpill
The online gambling world sees business deals happen all the time with one company buying another or selling a part of itself to another business. These frequent deals introduce a lot of strategy in terms of how business is done, and the Cherry Group seems to have this strategy down to an art form. They've recently picked up two different companies for two different reasons with Moorgate Ltd. -
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UK Gambling Licensed Awarded to Yggdrasil Gaming
Yggdrasil Gaming has made a name for itself in the past few years. They've been coming out with very high-quality content that players love, and they've made a lot of deals to have their games distributed through a lot of different channels. All of this momentum has been punctuated in a major way here in the last month of 2015 by gaining a license from the United Kingdom Gambling Commission. -
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London Stock Exchange Receives Paysafe Group
It might sound strange to some people from places like the United States, but there are tons of online gambling companies that are publicly traded. These companies are viewed as being just as legitimate as any other business, chiefly because they are. -
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Amaya Finally Launches BetStars Daily Fantasy Site
In the online gambling world, the biggest thing that's come out over the past two years is the push for the daily fantasy sports leagues. The Amaya Gaming Group has decided to throw their hat into the ring with their BetStars brand in a strategic move that could pay some massive dividends. -
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UK Bookkeeper Gets Jail For Gambling With Stolen Funds
There are cases every single year of people stealing to gamble, and that's just a part of the industry that seems like it will never go away. If you look at a recent case out of Maidstone in the United Kingdom, you'll find a 57-year-old grandmother who has received jail time for 40 months for stealing from her employer. She stole a total of £913,000 from Tara Plant Hire and an additional £33,000 from Steadfast Carpentry. -
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A New European Disputes Platform is Coming
One of the issues that we run into in the online gambling world is that there are no unified standards. It can be difficult enough to get politicians in a single country to agree on rules and regulations, so it's easy to see how it's nearly impossible get multiple countries to come together. -
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Paul Sorvina Stars in New Poker Movie: Cold Deck
There are a handful of gambling-related movies that have become classics. Rounders is the greatest poker movie of all time with Matt Damon and Ed Norton, and the older Cincinnati Kid is a classic as well. There have been multiple attempts to create new films based on gambling themes, especially poker, but none of them have really gained the steam behind them that those two films did. -
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Effectiveness of the PokerStars Boycott Questioned
High stakes and high volume players on PokerStars staged a boycott for the first three days of December, and it's not clear how effective it was. While they definitely brought attention to their complaints, the main effect was in the high stakes games, and how much that effects the company or the general player pool is difficult to measure.
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GVC Holdings Vote Coming Over Bwin.Party Acquisition
Big business deals happen fairly often in the online gambling industry, but there's been one this year that stands out among all of the rest. The acquisition of Bwin.Party by GVC Holdings was the result of a massive bidding war against 888 Holdings, and it was one of the most entertaining stories of the year from the larger industry as a whole. -
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Ukraine Unveils High Licensing Fees for Online Gambling
The online gambling industry is interesting in that it's regulated in completely different ways in virtually every country on the planet. Ukraine has recently been working on legislation that would see them open up and regulate the industry as well, and the first indication is that the licensing fees and costs for doing business will be rather high. -
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Mobile Version of Mega Fortune Pays €8.6 Million
The Mega Fortune progressive jackpot is running hot, it seems. Fresh off of a jackpot win worth about €4.5 million that was won a few weeks ago by a lucky Swedish player, another Swede has picked up €8.6 million on the same jackpot. -
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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.
