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Gambling News
Amaya CEO David Baazov Charged With Insider Trading
The Amaya Gaming Group's rise to prominence in the online gambling industry has been a pretty big story over the past few years. Starting out as a relatively small company that seemed to specialize in buying up undervalued online gambling software companies like CryptoLogic and turning them around, they really broke out in 2014 when they purchased the Rational Group in mid-2014 for a huge sum of around $5 billion.
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Games & Casino News
Play N Go Signs Deal With 24Bettle
A new deal has seen Play'n Go (read more) add their titles to 24Bettle, an online casino that uses software from a number of other top software providers, including Microgaming and Net Entertainment.
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Internet Bingo
Big Spring Break Tournament Running at CyberBingo
Tournaments are one of the most important types of events that you can take part in with any type of online gambling because it pits you up against other players instead of having to play against the house. This allows you to test out your combination of luck and skill on any given day against others that are trying to do the same, and that leads to an extremely fun and fast-paced experience. -
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Slot Winners
Vegas Partner Lounge Casinos Make Big Recent Winners
Big winners get a lot of attention in the online casino world, particularly with online slots, because that's who everyone wants to be. Everyone wants to be the big winner who takes down a large jackpot, and that's why it gets so much attention when a single player picks up a big payout. -
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Internet Bingo
Bingo Billy Offers Big St Patricks Day Specials
St. Patrick's Day is known for being a day for a party, and that's exactly what Bingo Billy is offering their players. On Thursday, March 17, players will get a number of different special offers that will give chances to add some serious value to their bankrolls and boost their account balances in the process. This is typical of the bingo room since they always look for any excuse they can to give players tremendous offers. Special St.
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Gambling News
Habanero Releases Newest Slot: Roman Empire
One of the most common themes in all of online slots is that of the Roman empire, especially the gladiator games, and Habanero's new Roman Empire slot is based on the same kind of theme. This game uses 25 paylines with a usual five-by-three format, and it's suggested to have a medium overall volatility. -
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Casino Bonus Promotions
BitStarz Offers 100 Percent Cashback
BitStarz is hosting a really valuable promotion during this week, and it's running through March 12. This promotion is based around getting cashback on your losses so that you get an extra chance to get in on the action and take down some big winnings. This is BitStarz's way of helping players get their bankrolls boosted up and ready with Easter just around the corner, so it's a bit of a pre-holiday surprise for your account balance. Details of the Promotion Here's how this promotion works. -
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Gambling News
Omni Slots Adds 35 New Amatic Titles
There are always big deals happening in the online casino industry, specially when it comes to content distribution. The current model for how content is distributed can see a single online casino have games available from dozens of different software developers, and that creates a huge advantage for players who like to get everything they can in one place. -
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Gambling News
Deckmedia Casinos Get TopGame and BetSoft Titles
In the online casino world, having more games from strong software providers will always be a good thing, and that's apparently the opinion that Deckmedia has since they have added titles from two big software developers to three of their brands. -
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Gambling News
New Omni-Channel Judge Dredd Slot Release by William Hill
William Hill has a distinct advantage in the United Kingdom because they've been releasing new online slots through their omni-channel program that includes betting terminals in a lot of their betting shops all over. This is also the case with the new NYX Gaming Group title Judge Dredd, an online slot based on the popular comic franchise. -
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Slot Winners
Rizk Casino Offers a New Promotion and a Couple of Winners
Rizk Casino hasn't been around for very long compared to some of the competition, but they've already announced their biggest win yet, and it's well into the five-figure range. A lucky player from Norway was able to take down a win worth about €59,000 thanks to the Jack and the Beanstalk slot by Net Entertainment. -
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Gambling News
UK Market Next for Rizk Casino
Growth strategy is one of the most important parts of an online casino's business plan. Without consistent growth, a site's player base will slowly fall, and they will eventually fall completely out of favor since the competition is always trying to get a leg up. -
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Internet Bingo
$50,000 Coverall Venice Getaway Event at CyberBingo
Big promotions and events are a key part of any online bingo room, because CyberBingo has been around so long, they know this as well as anyone. The key to a big event at this stage in their history in the industry is to offer up huge prize pools and awesome individual prizes that the competition has trouble matching. -
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Gambling News
High Roller Skrill Account Hacked for Around €150,000
One of the biggest fears of anyone who gambles online is having their accounts hacked and funds stolen away with no resource. This is exactly what happened to one high roller who lost a total of about €150,000 after his Skrill account was hacked and the funds were sent out to plenty of other Skrill accounts and promptly withdrawn. -
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Gambling News
Novomatic Forms StakeLogic Company for 3D HTML5 Slots
Novomatic is a company known for having a lot of interests in different parts of the online casino industry. Recently, they've advanced these interests by forming the company StakeLogic, which will be a subsidiary that focuses on making a special type of game: 3D slots using HTML5. -
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Gambling News
New Deal With SBTech Distributing Content From Quickspin
With the nature of today's online casino environment, content distribution deals are an extremely important part of the growth of modern casino software companies. -
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Gambling News
First Web Casino, Owned by Jackpot Factory, Closing
According to emails that have been going out to players, First Web Casino will be closing its doors this month. This is one of the original nine casinos launched by the Jackpot Factory group, once known for being one of the most important companies to operate online casinos in the world. This closure will leave them with only four casino sites left out of those original nine, and they include names that were among the most well-known around five years ago. -
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Gambling News
Yggdrasil Could Be Getting a Gibraltar License
In the online casino world, there are tons of different jurisdictions for licensing. Because there are no unifying, global standards, some jurisdictions naturally become known for being more trustworthy than others based on how strict their rules are, how well those rules are enforced and how well they work with the regulatory bodies from other jurisdictions. -
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Slot Winners
Microgaming Earns Guinness World Records Jackpot Spot
One of the biggest stories of 2015 was when a player by the name of Jon Heywood broke the world record for the largest online slot win. His payout was worth a whooping EUR 17,879,645.12 million in October, and he's received his official plaque for winning. Microgaming was also awarded a plaque since they are the ones who developed the game that he won on, Mega Moolah. How the Win Happened Mega Moolah is Microgaming's largest progressive jackpot slot. -
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Poker News
Bill for Online Poker in New York Gets Traction
The situation with online poker in the United States is extremely tricky. Because the game is unlikely to be regulated on a national level, it's up to the states to regulate things one at a time. New York has been one of the states putting up the most resistance to regulating the industry, but a recent development has put players in a position of being a bit more hopeful than before. -
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Gambling News
Microgaming Announces Deal for Jurassic World Slot
In the world of online slots, Microgaming is known for bringing some of the biggest brands in television and film to the reels. One of their biggest releases was Jurassic Park, based on the hit movie by the same name, and they've acquired the rights to produce a Jurassic World slot as well. This was the fourth-highest grossing movie in history up to this point, so it's clear that there's going to be a huge audience. -
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Gambling News
CURO B.V. Sanction From Netherlands Sends Clear Message
The Netherlands has been in an interesting situation over the past couple of years as they've taken a series of steps towards creating a regulated online gambling environment. There had been questions until recently about whether or not they would really push back and offer sanctions against companies that facilitated unregulated online gambling in the country. -
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Gambling News
Vantiv to Suspend Daily Fantasy Sports Payments
For the past six months or so, daily fantasy sports have been dealt setback after setback in what seems to be a series of dominoes that are taking their sweet time in falling over. For about 18 months, the top DFS providers got a ton of attention through aggressive marketing tactics and sponsorships and deals with everything from ESPN to major league sports teams. After a scandal broke last fall, they've seen a lot of negative attention as well. The Most Recent Developments Vantiv Inc. -
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Internet Bingo
BingoSKY $50,000 Coverall and Other Big Events
Online bingo always seems like it's in the shadow of other sectors of the industry, especially the online casino sector. One of the things that has created this difference is that the casino side of things tends to be more aggressive with promotions and advertising. BingoSKY doesn't subscribe to that particular viewpoint, however, because they're always coming out with something big for their players. -
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Gambling News
Spike Games to Launch Alice Cooper Slot
Something that we've seen a lot of in the past year is emphasis on rock stars as being the centerpieces for online slot releases. This push started back in the first quarter of 2015 when Net Entertainment announced that they would be releases a Guns N Roses-themed slot in 2016. This was such a huge announcement that other software providers starting following suit, making plans for their own rockstar-themed games. -
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Gambling News
An ISP-Level Gambling Site Block Could Come in Sweden
For a long time, Sweden has a been a country that's been known for having policies geared towards keeping Internet access as open as possible. When the government tried to block access to The Pirate Bay, one of the most popular piracy sites in the world, courts rejected it because it wasn't allowed under Swedish law. -
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Slot Winners
Foxy Bingo Showcases New Television Advertisement
Tricycle is a London-based agency for advertising, and they have been handling the advertising for Foxy Bingo for the past nine years. This month, they've launched a new television ad that's reminding a lot of people of the Grand Budapest Hotel. They've already said that the movie was the inspiration for the ad, and it has Foxy being followed by cameras through her own Foxy hotel. -
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Slot Winners
Largest Mobile Jackpot Comes in For Playtech
Playtech is no stranger to offering up huge jackpots, but they've recently broken their record for the largest mobile jackpot out there. They did this on Gala Bingo, of all places, when a lucky player from Scotland nailed a €5.89 million payout. This was achieved on a spin worth just €4, and that's a tremendous payout. -
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Poker News
Russia Could Legalize Internet Poker Games
In the past, Vladimir Putin has expressed an interest in legalizing online poker because of the sport and competition elements of the game. A lot of industry experts assumed it most likely wouldn't actually happen, but they could have been mistaken. -
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Gambling News
Major Problems for Online Sportsbook GR88
The GR88 online sportsbook seems to be having some major problems, and it's become very concerning. For more than two weeks, there has been no activity at the site since their website says they are down for maintenance, but there's been no announcement or response of any kind when it comes to figuring out when (or if) they'll be back up and running. Previous Problems GR88 is a site that's been known to have some problems for a bit of time now.
