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William Hill, Nevada’s largest sports book operator, announced Friday it’s opening virtual racing at the Plaza and Silver Sevens casinos, a process over a year in the making after winning approval from the Gaming Commission in early 2015. William Hill also hopes to open virtual racing at other books...
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Tom Lippa says his elderly mother Elfriede was once “a vibrant woman” who was living in her own condo in Victoria and would visit his sister every day to walk her dog. But unbeknown to Lippa and his sister, their mother, now 91, would go to the View Royal Casino after those...
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A Swedish court of appeal has found six men, including three former players of the Kristianstads FF club, guilty of match fixing after one of the players admitted his involvement. Two men found guilty of bribing the players to influence the outcome of games between October 2013 and June...
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iPro, Inc. today announced an exclusive partnership with International Game Technology (“IGT”) to launch its real-time sports gaming platform, ringit!, on the IGT-owned Lottomatica Italian sports betting platform for 2016’s largest soccer event, the UEFA Euro Cup. Fans win cash in ringit! by predicting what will happen next during their...
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Online gambling operator Bet365 is being publicly shamed by a disgruntled punter who says she can’t get her winnings off the site. On Tuesday, The Guardian published the story of an unidentified female punter who claims to be having difficulties convincing Bet365 to fork over her £54k account balance....
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The gambling rule book in Russia gets a little thicker as the government announces more legislation that could impact not just investors and operators but also potential players. First, the Russian government is now mulling whether to allow gambling stakeholders to use foreign currencies to pay for services in...
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Hong Kong police have confiscated about HK$130 million in betting records and arrested more than 50 people in a crackdown on illegal football gambling launched ahead of the Euro 2016 tournament. One of the bookmaking rackets, which had raked in orders of HK$31 million, was broken up on June...
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The UK Gambling Commission has written to operators to warn them about facilitating betting on television programmes and other novelty markets. The regulator said that there had been repeated instances of operators offering markets on pre-recorded TV programmes such as Great British Bake Off, Strictly Come Dancing, and other...
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South Korea’s gambling tax revenue rose by 4 percent in 2015 amid persisting weakness in the Asian gambling sector. Thanks to the gambling sector’s increased sale, the Asian country bucked the regional downward trend of gambling tax revenues and posted a KRW2.42 trillion (US$2.06 billion) profit in 2015 from...
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Nos primeiros cinco meses do ano (1 de janeiro a 31 de maio), os portugueses apostaram 161 milhões de euros no Placard, o mais recente jogo com a chancela da Santa Casa. Em média, os portugueses gastaram mais de um milhão de euros (1 059 210 euros) neste portefólio:...