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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. -
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Gambling News
666Bet Announced They Have No Money to Repay Players
One of the most important things that online gambling sites are supposed to do with money in player accounts is keep them in segregated bank accounts so that the funds don't mix with each other and so they do not mix with operating funds for the site itself. The point is that the money still belongs to the player at that point, even though it's in an account with the casino. -
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Gambling News
The Fight for Online Gambling Continues in South Africa
In South Africa, there's a long and really interesting history when it comes to online gambling because it's been legalized and made illegal in various forms over and over again. Right now certain types of online gambling are legal like sports betting, but most forms are not. -
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Internet Bingo
Stride Gaming Continues to Show Sizable Growth
Financial reports for online gambling companies are important on both the micro and macro levels. On the micro level, you get to see how an individual company is doing. However, on the macro level, you can look at the financials for several companies to see how one particular sector of the industry is doing as a whole. -
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Slot Winners
Royal Panda Creates Nice Winner on The Wish Master
Royal Panda Casino has recently announced a big winner. A player who goes by Joakim from Sweden picked up a payout worth $31,118, and this win came mostly on the Wish Master slot. It's worth noting that this didn't come from a single jackpot win, but instead, it came from a number of payouts over a session. -
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Online Tournament
The Monthly Monster Tournament Offers $25,000
In the online slot world, casino tournaments are a big way for players to scratch a competitive itch while enjoying some of the most popular games available. To end the month of May on a strong note, the Immortal Romance game was used for this event. -
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Gambling News
Police Union Finance Officer Stole One Million for Gambling
It's not looking like a good time for the financial officer of the Queensland Police Union Kelly Harris. Harris is accused of stealing about a million dollars from union accounts over around six months. These allegations state that funds were moved to accounts that did not belong to the union where the funds were then used to bet online on horse races. -
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Games & Casino News
Five New Microgaming Titles Coming June 3, 2015
Several new games are being released by Microgaming in the month of June. They've done this thing for a few months now where they're releasing a lot of new titles at once in the beginning of the month, and they're doing it again on June 3. Five new games and four mobile titles are being released as a part of this mass release party of sorts. New Games First up is Hound Hotel, a game with 25 paylines and Dashing Wilds. -
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Casino Bonus Promotions
Guts.com Giving Away €35,000 for Birthday Promotion
When an online casino has a birthday, it's a big deal because it shows that they are sticking around to provide players with a service they can depend on. This is definitely the case with Guts.com, and they're celebrating their second birthday this month. -
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Gambling News
California Continues Looking at Online Poker
In hearings this week in the joint Senate-Assembly for the state of California, Governmental Organization committees heard expert testimony from several interesting parties that had a lot to say about the feasibility of vetting and licensing operators. -
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Games & Casino News
New Prison Break Game Released by Soft Magic Dice
Various forms of media have been used as the themes for online slots for more than a decade. Television shows, movies, comic books, video games, books and tons of other forms of media have been used to build on brand recognition and to provide players with fun experiences. -
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Games & Casino News
Quickspin Launches New Hidden Valley Slot
New online slots are coming out all the time, but it's somewhat rare that new games come out that break the traditional mold of what you expect video slots to be like. Quickspin's new Hidden Valley slot is a good example of a game that doesn't look like the rest, even starting with its initial layout. You'll have five reels of symbols, but three symbols show on the first and last reels. On the middle three reels, you'll get four symbols apiece. -
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Gambling News
Online Gambling in the UK Has Grown at 8.3 Percent Annually
Anyone who is involved in the online gambling industry in any capacity can tell you that it's growing, but we don't always get straight-forward numbers on just how much it is. -
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Gambling News
Dutch Regulators Working With Isle of Man in New Agreement
One of the main problems facing the online gambling world is that there are no unified rules about what should and shouldn't be allowed. There are no standards of behavior or for licensing, and because different countries have different rules on taxation, it wouldn't necessarily be helpful if they did. It's been a long time coming for countries to start working together more on this issue because independent licensing and accrediting groups can only do so much. -
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Gambling News
Romania Creates Questionable Retroactive Tax Policy for Online Gambling
Romania has been a trouble area for online gambling legislation for a while, and for the past several years, they have been trying to get together some kind of comprehensive plan to create a better situation for licensing and regulation of the industry. All of that is finally over, and all that's left is the president's signature. -
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Gambling News
Genii's New Spin16 Slots Platform Promises an Innovative Experience
For a long time, the slots industry has been stuck in a certain mode of thinking, and this has prevented much in terms of high-level innovation. Instead, most innovation happens at the lower level with new features like wilds that move in different directions or new ways to trigger free spins bonus rounds. -
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Gambling News
Dutch Politicians Continue to Debate Internet Gambling Taxes
Lawmakers in most countries are really good at two things: raising taxes and talking a lot. Heavy doses of both are underway right now as Dutch lawmakers debate the specifics of tax rates for the upcoming licensed online gambling that will be underway for the Remote Gaming Act. The major point of contention is that the original rate of 20 percent that was suggested is lower than the 29 percent rate that's paid by land-based establishments.
