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Gambling News UK Gambling Licensed Awarded to Yggdrasil GamingRead Full ArticleYggdrasil 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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Gambling News London Stock Exchange Receives Paysafe GroupRead Full ArticleIt 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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Gambling News Amaya Finally Launches BetStars Daily Fantasy SiteRead Full ArticleIn 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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Gambling News UK Bookkeeper Gets Jail For Gambling With Stolen FundsRead Full ArticleThere 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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Gambling News A New European Disputes Platform is ComingRead Full ArticleOne 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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Poker News Paul Sorvina Stars in New Poker Movie: Cold DeckRead Full ArticleThere 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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Poker News Effectiveness of the PokerStars Boycott QuestionedRead Full ArticleHigh 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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Gambling News GVC Holdings Vote Coming Over Bwin.Party AcquisitionRead Full ArticleBig 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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Slot Winners Ukraine Unveils High Licensing Fees for Online GamblingRead Full ArticleThe 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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Slot Winners Mobile Version of Mega Fortune Pays €8.6 MillionRead Full ArticleThe 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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Slot Winners Mega Fortune Dreams Progressive Jackpot TriggeredRead Full ArticleProgressive 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.
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Gambling News DraftKings Sues Payment Processors for Pulling ServiceRead Full ArticleThe drama just doesn't end for the daily fantasy sports industry. DraftKings has launched a lawsuit in Boston against Vantiv and Optimal, two payment processing companies, over a breach of contract issue after they pulled their services. This pull came after the New York Attorney General filed a cease and desist warning, which DraftKings is currently contesting in court.
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Gambling News Daily Fantasy Sports Companies Wait on NY DecisionRead Full ArticleDaily fantasy sports have been having a really hard time over the past couple of months. It started off with a handful of states deciding that the service was against their online gambling and/or sweepstakes laws, and then there was the scandal. This scandal involved a DraftKings employee using inside information to pull six figures in winnings in one weekend at FanDuel.
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Poker News PokerStars Targets Social Gaming Market With New AppRead Full ArticleThe Amaya Gaming Group has made a number of big changes since taking over PokerStars back near the middle of 2014, and they've expanded in several different directions in the process. They seem to be going after casual players after a new move has them unveiling their new Jackpot Poker game. This free play game will appear on iOS, Android and Facebook, and it's based primarily around their Spin & Go tournament format.
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Gambling News Cat Shelter Donations Gambled Online by Ex-StripperRead Full ArticleThere are really weird cases that happen a lot of the time, but it's hard to find one weirder than what's been going on in South Australia. A ex-stripper by the name of Nicky Hocking has been accused of using donations for her The Furry Ones cat shelter charity for online gambling.
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Internet Bingo Jingle Bingo Online Room Launched by 888 HoldingsRead Full ArticleOnline bingo really ramps up in popularity around the holidays. Because people have so much free time in December away from their jobs and other obligations, there's a bit of an influx of individuals with plenty of time to get in on the action in online bingo rooms. 888 Holdings has decided to take advantage of that with the release of the new Jingle Bingo online bingo room. Game Offering The selection of games at Jingle Bingo will seem familiar to veteran players.
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Gambling News EveryMatrix Granted License in DenmarkRead Full ArticleThe way licenses are handled in Europe right now is complicated because each country handles regulation in its own way, and there are no unifying standards.
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Gambling News Details From Paysafe Group's 2009-2010 Hacking ReleasedRead Full ArticleIn the online gambling world, one of the biggest worries of players is that their personal and financial information will be hacked. That's exactly what happened to some degree with a handful of attacks that happened in 2009 and 2010, and these attacks were investigated in detail.
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Internet Bingo Sun Bingo Switching to Playtech's Virtue Fusion SoftwareRead Full ArticleWhen an online gambling operator of any type chooses a software company to work with, it's typically for a long deal. Back in 2008, Sun Bingo relaunched itself using Gamesys software, and this was a pretty big deal at the time. That contract is apparently coming to an end because Sun Bingo has announced that they will be switching players over to the Virtue Fusion platform by Playtech. The Virtue Fusion Product Virtue Fusion is the online bingo product produced by Playtech.
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Poker News PokerStars Could See Three-Day Boycott in DecemberRead Full ArticleWhen the Amaya Gaming Group took over PokerStars in mid-2014, players knew that there would be some big changes coming because the acquisition was a part of a nine-figure deal. Changes came very swiftly for PokerStars players, as expected, and they added casino games and eventually brought on the StarsDraft daily fantasy league.
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Gambling News New NetEnt Content Deal Awarded to SoftSwissRead Full ArticleThis year has been a big one for SoftSwiss, but they're ending 2015 on an even stronger note with a new content deal. This deal will see Net Entertainment titles released on the SoftSwiss platform in another step by SoftSwiss to include third-party developers.
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Gambling News Certification in the UK Added to iSoftBet's CredentialsRead Full ArticleDifferent jurisdictions hold different weights in the online casino industry. A license in Costa Rica, for example, is generally seen as little more than a rubber stamp, but a license in the United Kingdom is a really big deal. This all comes down to how the different jurisdictions are handled and how much credibility they have in terms of having solid rules that are enforced.
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Casino Affiliate News Betsson Affiliate Manager Hit With Money Laundering ChargesRead Full ArticleThe affiliate portion of the online gambling industry is important to understand as a player because it's supposed to be a mutually-beneficial relationship. The affiliate offers up a lot of helpful information that you can use to find a trustworthy place to play and maximize your chances of winning, and the gambling sites you are referred to give that affiliate a small piece of their profits in exchange for bringing players to their sites.
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Slot Winners 888 Partners With NYX Gaming for ContentRead Full ArticleDifferent business deals are always going on in the online casino world, but the ones that seem the most important these days are when an established operator adds even more games through a new content deal. That type of arrangement has happened recently as NYX Gaming has seen its NextGen content added to the list of games that 888 has to offer.
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Gambling News Yggdrasil Offers Up Nirvana Online SlotRead Full ArticleMythology is a heavy word for a lot of people, but it's something that online slot providers have used as the inspiration for many of their games. Yggdrasil is no different, and they've recently added a new game called Nirvana that's based around three goddesses.
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Gambling News Estonian Chanz Casino Has Initial LaunchRead Full ArticleOne aspect of online casino play that's always been inferior to the land-based product is the social factor. A lot of people go out to play in land-based casinos to meet people and have a good time socially, and that's something that can't really be matched in most online casinos.
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Gambling News Daily Fantasy Sports Giant FanDuel Forms Board of AdvisorsRead Full ArticleA new advisory board has been created for FanDuel, one of the two largest daily fantasy sports companies in the world. The board's express purpose is to help the company develop policy, but it's not hard to see that they're scrambling at this point to get as much positive publicity as possible after the scandals and other hits that the industry has taken in the past couple of months. Who is on the Board This board consists of a number of big names in sports and politics.
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Gambling News Realistic Games and Rank Interactive Sign Content DealRead Full ArticleNew content deals have been happening left and right lately, and there's yet another that affects Realistic Games this time. They've signed a deal that will have a lot of their content featured on the Bede software platform, one of Rank Interactive's key products. This includes all of their new games like the Super Graphics Super Lucky line, Fireworks, 6 Appeal and others.
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Gambling News BetSoft Now Providing Content for SlotsMillionRead Full ArticleSlotsMillion is an online casino that's known for having an overwhelming number of online slots. Their whole gimmick is this idea that they have more slots in one place than anyone else, and it's really the case since they have well over 1,000 titles.
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Gambling News Illegal Operators Get Big Fines in the NetherlandsRead Full ArticleIn the Netherlands, the gambling regulator's name is Kansspelautoriteit, and they have thrown some pretty big fines in the direction of two companies, backers of RedSlots.com. The two companies in question are Bluemay Enterprises and Redcorp, and a further look into RedSlots.com has shown some shady claims about their payment processor Megaton Ltd.