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TGG interactive clinch BetEast and Balkan Bet deals

19 Dec 2016

Hong Kong-based interactive entertainment firm TGG Takara Gaming Group has clinched a deal with online betting operator BetEast for the integration of customised sportsbetting, casino and e-sports content. The agreement grows BetEast’s content portfolio while enabling TGG further expansion in internet gaming. “TGG is proud to partner with BETEAST and supply them with our vast …

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Ladbrokes launch Inspired HTML5 content

19 Dec 2016

Ladbrokes has launched a range of HTML5 mobile slots from Inspired and will soon debut the company’s Virtuals-On-Demand products which will include Rush Football Live and Rush Horses Live. Lucy Buckley, MD Mobile, Inspired commented: “The successful deployment of Inspired’s premium HTML5 content with Ladbrokes is testament to the efficiency of our Virgo RGS technology, …

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Betconstruct awarded Romanian license

19 Dec 2016

Gaming solutions provider BetConstruct has secured a Class II software provider’s licence from the Romanian National Gambling Office (ONJN) enabling the company to supply its platform to online gaming operators in Romania’s regulated market. “BetConstruct views Romania as a significant and forward-looking jurisdiction. With the ONJN license we are bringing our powerful betting technology to …

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Kentucky licensing for Watch and Wager

19 Dec 2016

Webis Holding’s Advanced Deposit Wagering business, Watch and Wager, has been awarded a license by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission enabling the company to accept advanced deposit wagers in Kentucky. The company began taking live registrations, deposits and wagering from residents of the State from Wednesday 14th December. The licence is conditional on a $100,000 …

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GVC sells off Kalixa payment processor

19 Dec 2016

GVC Holdings announced Monday that it has sold off its online payments processor Kalixa to Singapore-based Senjō Group Pte. Ltd for Euro 29 million. GVC announced its intention to dispose of the subsidiary back in September this year. The consideration will be paid on completion of the deal, probably during the first quarter of 2017, …

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Digital Sports Tech seals third Aussie deal

19 Dec 2016

Digital Sports Tech, which develops and supplies business-to-business sports betting software such as proposition betting, announced Monday that it has signed its third Australian client in TopSport. Previous Australian signings have been Ladbrokes and MadBookie. TopSport will be launching Digital Sport Tech’s ‘Player Props’ product, where customers can customise and create their own prop bets …

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Kiron Interactive to integrate Supervivo

19 Dec 2016

Virtual games specialist Kiron Interactive has agreed a deal with Isle of Man-based Link2Win, to integrate the Supervivo product into its Betman Online Remote Gaming System. Supervivo is a patented product which offers a draw mechanism that gives players the opportunity to win large fixed or progressive jackpots alongside their regular bets. As a betting …

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Online gambling trade association supports advertising restriction in Australia

19 Dec 2016

Responsible Wagering Australia, a newly formed trade body supported by Bet365, Betfair, CrownBet, Sportsbet and Unibet (see previous report) has announced that it is to support government moves to ban inducement advertising, e.g. the offering of bonuses and free games to attract and persuade punters to sign up. Stephen Conroy, a controversial former Australian federal …

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Winning streak for Codeta player

19 Dec 2016

Most online punters would regard a single six-figure jackpot win as a once-in-a-lifetime stroke of good fortune, but a Swedish player has achieved three such hits in the space of a week. The anonymous online punter, who lives in Stockholm, has enjoyed an extraordinary run of good fortune on the slots at the Codeta online …

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Tiger Gaming adds poker bad beat tables

19 Dec 2016

Tiger Gaming has joined the growing number of online poker operators in offering Bad Beat Tables, initially with a jackpot of $100,000. That jackpot will grow with every real-money hand on specified Bad Beat tables clearly marked in the site lobby. Players qualify for the jackpot by having a hand of four of a kind …

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Ivey and companion ordered to pay $10.1 million back to Borgata

19 Dec 2016

Our readers will no doubt recall the furore back in 2012 over the use of edge-sorting tactics by poker pro Phil Ivey and his talented and observant companion Cheng Yun Lin in two seven-figure Baccarat wins at land casinos in London (Crockfords) and Atlantic City (Borgata). The former refused to pay out after discovering the disadvantage …

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Internet censorship in South Carolina

19 Dec 2016

A Republican state representative in South Carolina, Bill Chumley, has proposed a bill that would require sellers of computers to install digital blocking capabilities in the machines, ostensibly and arbitrarily to prevent access to vice and pornography websites. The bill has wide-ranging and loosely defined implications, embracing not just direct vice and porn sites, but …

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More Camelot revelations

19 Dec 2016

UK newspapers continued to chew on the GBP 2.5 million pay-out by Camelot on a fraudulent “damaged” national lottery ticket several years ago (see previous  reports), suggesting Monday that the reason that the police had released the claimant last year without prosecuting him was that the ticket in question had disappeared whilst in Camelot’s possession. …

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Spain gearing up for ‘The Fat One’

19 Dec 2016

Billions of Euros will soon be offered to lottery players in Spain’s El Gordo (The Fat One) lottery held every year during the festive season, and arrangements are well in hand for the three-hour televised entertainment spectacle which accompanies the December 22 draw. Whole communities have in the past benefitted from El Gordo after purchasing …

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Betsoft games launched on major Italian online casino site

19 Dec 2016

Online gambling software and games developer BetSoft has announced that its games have gone live in the Italian market through the major operator Microgame S.p.A. Under the terms of the licence agreement, BetSoft will deliver its range of 3D Cinematic Casino content, including SugarPop!, Alkemor’s Tower and Boomanji, to Microgame’s long list of gaming sites. …

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More bidders for Tatts?

18 Dec 2016

Tabcorp’s proposed acquisition of Tatts in Australia, already under threat from a competing offer from the Pacific Consortium (see previous  reports) may be further complicated by British bookmakers William Hill and Ladbrokes-Coral, who are believed to be potential new bidders for the wagering side of Tatts business, according to reports Monday in The Australian newspaper. …

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Philippines president enters corruption row

17 Dec 2016

Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte arrived back home from a foreign mission Saturday and immediately entered the Immigration corruption scandal by ordering the seizure of all online gambling tycoon Jack Lam’s Philippines assets, accusing him of not paying the correct taxes, and directing the immediate dismissal of two senior Immigration officials. Although a statement from the …

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Antigua regulator hastens to reassure online gambling licensees

17 Dec 2016

Perhaps stung by criticism of its new tax proposals during its recent consultative meetings with the few operators it has left (see previous reports) the Antigua and Barbuda regulator has hastened to reassure licensees that no new tax regime or licensing fees will be imposed without full consultation. The Financial Services Regulatory Commission (FSRC) said …

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888 online casino punter wins $4.3 million

17 Dec 2016

A 47-year-old female online punter in the UK is enjoying an early Christmas after hitting a $4.3 million jackpot on a stake of just GBP 1.50 at 888 online casino playing the Millionaire Genie slot. The player, who has elected to remain anonymous, is a regular visitor to the online casino, a statement from 888 …

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Was UK lottery fraud an inside job?

17 Dec 2016

The UK media has been quick to uncover the sort of detail not made public by Camelot, the police and the UK Gambling Commission regarding this week’s GBP 3 million fine imposed on the lottery operator (see previous report). By Friday evening newspaper reports appeared claiming that: * The allegedly fraudulent claimant of the GBP …

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Mr Green appoints new technical chief

16 Dec 2016

Online casino group Mr Green has announced the appointment of Stefan Gustafsson as CEO of its Stockholm-based technical division, Mr Green & Co Technology AB, replacing former chief Niclas Enhörning, who vacates the post after two years in the hot seat in order to start his own business. Gustafsson has an impressive IT c.v. that …

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Philippines immigration duo resign

16 Dec 2016

Friday evening local time saw new drama in the Philippines online gambling corruption scandal (see previous  reports) as the two Bureau of Immigration assistant directors at the centre of the storm advised local media that they had written to the national president tendering their resignations “to spare President Rodrigo Duterte from concerns brought about by …

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Online gambling dodges the RAWA bullet again

16 Dec 2016

Despite strong rumours and speculation, a federal ban on internet gambling via a resurrection of the Wire Act did not emerge in the lame duck session of the 114th US Congress, which ended this week. Despite bills in the Senate (Sen. Tom Cotton’s SB 3326) and the House (Rep. Mike Fitzgerald’s HB 6453) fears that …

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Camelot’s lottery fine is intriguing

16 Dec 2016

In the wake of the announcement by the Gambling Commission that it has slapped a GBP 3 million fine on National Lottery operator Camelot in respect of inefficient processes in paying out a fraudulent ticket seven years ago, the UK media have been trying to get to grips with the detail behind the rather bland …

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