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Poker News
EPT Malta High Roller Event Won by Byron Kaverman
An American professional online poker player by the name of Byron Kaverman has taken top honors in the EPT Malta High Roller Event. This event had a buy-in of €10,300, and there were a total of 210 players for a prize pool of over €2 million. Kaverman was able to take down €430,800 for first place in this event. Multiple High Roller Places Kaverman is no stranger to these top-tier places. -
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Gambling News
Big Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling Self-Embarrassment
Sometimes it's easy to poke fun at your political opponents over things that don't really matter all that much. -
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Gambling News
EveryMatrix Earns Belgium Online Gambling License
Over the past five years or so, the regulation of the online gambling industry has taken on a completely different form than it saw before, and many countries in Europe started regulating the industry on an individual basis. EveryMatrix has really gotten on the ball with this type of regulation after picking up their fifth license this week after earning the ability to run their games in Belgium. -
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Gambling News
Oshi! Online Casino Launched by 90Digital
It's common knowledge that new online casinos are launched on a regular basis, so when a new site comes out, it's not necessarily all that important in the grand scheme of things. However, there are a lot of details that make the launch of the new Oshi! online casino really interesting. -
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Gambling News
Fantasy Sport Trade Association Control Board Coming
The fastest-growing segment of the online gambling industry in the United States over the past couple of years has been daily fantasy sports. Unfortunately, a scandal-type situation created a lot of negative attention for the industry, and now the government is looking at stepping in to curb it. -
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Gambling News
Video Scratch Card Game Released by OMI Gaming
Online scratch cards in Internet casinos are an interesting genre of game. They have much higher payouts than their land-based counterparts, and they have similar themes and concepts. The basic ideas behind these games haven't really changed much since online gambling was first invented, and OMI Gaming is looking to change that. -
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Gambling News
Microgaming Makes Content Distribution Deal With Ainsworth
Microgaming's Quickfire platform is extremely important because it gives a lot of third-party developers a chance to get their best titles in front of tons of new players at some of the most popular and most respected online casinos in the world. While this platform also contains a lot of classic and newer Microgaming-produced titles, a lot of the content is distributed from other suppliers, and this gives them a chance to get their games out there. -
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Gambling News
Azurolongo Starting New Monsieur Vegas Online Casino
New online casinos launch on a regular basis, and it creates a situation where many players don't really see a reason to get excited about a site until they've been around for a few years and taken the time to prove themselves. -
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Gambling News
Bitcoin Exempt From VAT Says European Court of Justice
One of the problems that has come up around bitcoin-based casinos is the chance that the currency itself will not be treated as currency regarding certain types of tax situations. In Europe, for example, there was the question that the cryptocurrency might not be considered a currency at all. -
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Poker News
Seating Policy for Cash Games Changed at Party Poker
Online poker is really atypical game in terms of how gambling the Internet gambling works as a whole because the maintenance of the player pool is so important. It's natural that the better players are going to win money from those of a lesser skill, but if this happens at too fast of a rate, then it can cause the size of the overall player pool to decline over time.
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Gambling News
Slots.Lv Has the Scary Rich Slot Set for Halloween
Rival Games has a cool set of online slots that will really get you in the mood for Halloween. With the Scary Rich series, you'll have lots of ways to win big payouts and stay in the Halloween spirit. There are three games total in the series, and it starts with the original of Scary Rich. -
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Gambling News
Changes Are Happening to DFS and Amaya is Responding
The daily fantasy sports market in the United States has absolutely exploded over the past couple of years, and the Amaya Gaming Group has gotten in on the action with their StarsDraft brand. Coming off of the legacy of PokerStars and the "bad actor" reputation that it gained, they were very careful about where they allowed their games to run on a state-by-state basis. -
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Gambling News
SlotsMillion to Get Virtual Reality Games
Virtual reality online casino games have been demoed at various trade shows over the past couple of years, and several companies are working on products for it because it seems to be the next big thing in the industry that's not quite to the mainstream level just yet. -
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Gambling News
SkillOnNet Opens Another Regulated Schleswig Holstein Casino
A decade ago, running an online casino brand was relatively simple. You had one piece of software licensed by an operator, and that operator might have support for multiple languages and currencies to accept players from many different parts of the world. Fast-forward to today, and this macro-based approach is no longer applicable if you want to be competitive. -
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Gambling News
BetConstruct Now Holds a License to Operate in Spain
About five or six years ago, countries in Western Europe started regulating the online gambling industry on a country-by-country basis. Spain was one of the first countries to do so in the region, and they were one of the pioneers in what's now known as standard operating procedure for countries who want to regulate online gambling. -
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Gambling News
Russia Takes UIGEA-Like Approach Against Online Gambling
The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act in the United States, known as the UIGEA for short, absolutely crippled the industry by attacking the financial transactions for the sites in a way that was very difficult for players to get around. -
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Internet Bingo
Two Big October Promos Come to CyberBingo
The month of October is all about getting in the spirit of Halloween, and that's exactly what CyberBingo is doing with a pair of big promotions. It starts with a simple costume contest. If you send end pictures of yourself dressed up in your costumes to play at CyberBingo, then you could win $100 cash as a reward for your efforts. -
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Gambling News
Daily Fantasy Sports Called Out by UIGEA Author
Daily fantasy sports has become the single fastest-growing segment of the online gambling industry in the United States over the past 12-18 months. Major sports teams have signed on to sponsor daily fantasy sports services, and so have major league and college sports leagues. This popularity isn't sitting well with everyone, and this includes the author of the UIGEA. -
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Slot Winners
Florida is the Latest State to Take a Closer Look at Daily Fantasy Sports
Daily fantasy sports is a particularly interesting issue in Florida because of the timing of the big FanDuel/DraftKings scandal coinciding with Florida ending a gambling pact with native tribes. -
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Gambling News
Aussie Gambling Advertising Laws Could Be Revamped
Advertising for gambling is an interesting topic that really incorporates the balance between increasing outreach and the responsibilities that companies have to make sure they aren't targeting underage or problem gamblers. This is why oversight and self-regulation in the industry is really important. -
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Poker News
Steam Gaming Platform Target for Full Tilt
Full Tilt Poker has recently applied to become a part of the Steam online gaming platform. This platform helps to put out games for online and computer-based play (as well as play through smart televisions), and it could lead to some pretty interesting situations if they're able to get included. -
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Poker News
Avramidis Wins First WSOPE Bracelet of the Year
No-limit hold'em is the most popular form of poker in the world, and it's been that way for a little over a decade. Several formats of the game exist, but tournament poker is where all of the fame and glory is at this stage in the game. -
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Slot Winners
World Progressive Record Confirmed Broken by Mega Moolah
The Mega Moolah progressive jackpot hit not that long ago and broke its own record with a payout worth £13,213,838.68. This £13.2 million payout was the largest win on Mega Moolah ever, but as it turns out, it's also the largest win ever. This is the equivalent of €17.9 million, and that breaks the previous jackpot that was held by Net Entertainment's Mega Fortune online slot. -
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Gambling News
Ladbrokes Raises £1.35 Billion in Merger Funding
It seems like 2015 has been the year of the merger, and the floodgates have really blown open with lots of different companies combining or being taken over, with the notable case of the huge bidding war over Bwin.Party being a good example. There's another merger on the horizon, and that's between Ladbrokes and Coral. -
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Gambling News
Self-Regulation Could Head Off Government Intervention in Sweden
There are pros and cons when it comes to government regulation. One of the main pros is that the players get taken care of in better ways with fewer chances for companies to take advantage of them. However, there are also cons like the simple fact that government regulations can often overshoot the mark and paralyze the industry instead of keeping it safe. -
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Gambling News
EveryMatrix Taking Steps to Boost DDOS Protection
Something that has been happening on and off in the online gambling world is the idea of hackers using extortion to try to get payoffs from online gambling sites behind the threat of DDoS (Distributed Denial of Services). The way these attacks work is that computers from all over the world that are under the control of these hackers try to access the site all at the same time. -
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Gambling News
Game Lounge Launches Additional Whitelabel Suomi
In Europe right now, we're seeing more and more countries regulate the online gambling industry. As a result, different providers, operators and software companies are getting in on the action of building up a foothold in each individual country as much as they can according to their own strategic directives. -
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Casino Bonus Promotions
Halloween Howler by Slots.lv Offering $2,800 Promo
The month of October is known for really starting off the beginning of the holiday season. The countdown to Halloween starts shifting the online casino world into that mode of thinking as well. The holiday season is so important for online gambling because it's when the most people are playing each year, so the promotions and special offers increase to match. -
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Gambling News
Daily Fantasy Sports Regulations Called on by Amaya
The daily fantasy sports industry has been absolutely exploding in the past year, and one of the reasons why it's become so open in the United States is that it's not considered sports betting. It's also considered, for the time being, protected from the UIGEA thanks to a carve-out for fantasy sports. -
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Casino Bonus Promotions
Rich Casino to Host Sin City Raffle During October
One of the complaints that many players have about online casino promotions is that they largely consist of plain bonuses that can become boring after a while. Too much of a good thing can make it seem less special, and that's exactly what's happened to reload bonuses and other similar deals in the online casino world.
