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RedKings giving up online poker and sports gambling

RedKings, part of Microgaming Poker Network (MPN), has announced on their website that on April 28 will cancel their online poker and sports gambling operations. Online casino activities will continue, at least for now. Without going into details, the announcement indicates that Betsafe will take over the operator’s RedKings Promotions. …

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Receiving bets from all over the world online. I cheated the law and the law lost.

Today’s editorial title is a rephrasing of the famous lyrics in “I Fought the Law”  a song written by Sonny Curtis of the Crickets popularized by a cover by the Bobby Fuller Four, 1966 and also recorded by the Clash in 1979 (which is the version that I like). However, …

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Interview with Milena Tsankarska Project Manager, Marketing & Sales Balkan Entertainment and Gaming Expo

Balkan Entertainment and Gaming Expo it’s a great place for networking, how did you come to this idea? Since it’s inception in 2008 we realized that the Balkan and Eastern European region in particular at that time needed a specialist event dedicated to our industry which was undergoing radical expansion. …

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Tiger Roll makes bookmakers pay in Grand National

4-1 favourite Tiger Roll didn’t disappoint his backers and has won on Saturday the Grand National for the second year in a row. Bookmakers estimate that his winning cost them around quarter-of-a-billion-pound. ”We’ve been well and truly wiped out.” – it’s not the first time that bookmakers worldwide show a …

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Record sales by Polish state-owned lottery

Totalizator Sportowy, Polish state-owned lottery and online casino monopoly, for the first time has topped six billion zloty mark in 2018. According to new figures released during the first week of April total sales jumped by 8.5% to PLN6.1b (US$1.6b). This resulted in two more new records, the total contribution …

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5 online gambling firms caught advertising to children

After sting operation run by UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) five gambling companies have been found to violate the country’s rules for targeting ads at children, The Guardian reports. The operation lasted two weeks and during that time authorities have found 20 Youtube channels as well as two dozen children’s …

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Puerto Rico wants a piece of sports gambling cake

Puerto Rico, a U.S.- controlled territory in the Caribbean, plans to offer sports gambling in near future. This would also open the doors for fantasy sports and esports gamblers. Local media informed that Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosello announced the bill this past Monday on April 1. According to Rosello …

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The dark side of women’s equality in Sweden

According to the latest surveys, women overtaken men and now consists of a majority of Swedes with a gambling addiction. Local experts attribute it to the rising popularity of online gambling. It’s a surprising development as just for years ago women were accounted only for 18% of gamblers with a …

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FOBT stakes slash puts shops future in risk

1,000 closed betting shops and 5,000 jobs in risk, this according to Ladbrokes officials will be a result of slashing fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs) maximum stakes to two pounds. After years of discussing what the maximum stake on FOBTs should be, UK politicians decided that it must be lowered …

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Illegal gambling operation busted inside Phillipines’ jail

Philippines immigration operatives have done a surprise raid on a Bureau of Immigration (BI) jail in Taguig to stop illegal online operators running their business from there. Looks like they found what they were looking too. After two months of surveillance of the facility investigators found previously arrested several Chinese …

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25 illegal websites blocked in Denmark

Copenhagen City Court upheld the order from the Danish Gambling Authority (Spillemyndigheden) which will block access to 25 unlicensed gaming websites. Local internet service providers are required now to prevent their customers from visiting accessing 10 igaming sites and 15 skin betting sites. “We use our authority to block websites …

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Gambling advertisement targeted in Norway

Norway’s government plans to take another step against foreign gambling websites. This time it will be done by restricting media advertisement. Plan was presented by Minister of Culture Trine Skei Grande. Norway’s officials want state media authority „Medietilsysnet” to prevent or obstruct access to gambling advertisements. Media outlets, which would …

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Bucharest Official Calls For Gambling Halls Ban

Bucharest could relocate its gambling halls to a “neighborhood of gambling” located outside the Romanian capital, if a proposal by a general council survives a vote in the city’s General Council, local news outlet the Romania Insider reports. According to data quoted by local media, the city is home to …

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Tom Horn Gaming live with Betshop

Online casino games supplier Tom Horn Gaming is pleased to announce it has started supplying its content to one of the most popular sports betting sites in Europe, Betshop. The operator has gained access to Tom Horn’s entire portfolio of original and highly popular games like 243 Crystal Fruits, Frozen …

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Nikolay BALETSKIY: Football.ua continues to occupy a leading position in Ukraine

The chief editor of Football.ua Nikolay Baletskiy spoke to Gamblers Post about biggest achievement and advantages of its resource, as well as shares objectives for the future. – Please, tell us about your resource: when it appeared, how did you come up with the idea of ​​creating a sports format? …

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West Virginia became the fifth state to legalizes online gambling

On Wednesday, March 27, the governor approved a law on interactive bets on lottery in West Virginia , which earlier this month signed. This bill will allow five land gaming licensees to offer online poker and casino products to locals. Now West Virginia has replenished the list of states that …

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William Hill agreed a new partnership with NHL

The National Hockey League has secured a deal with leading betting operatot William Hill that makes the sportsbook operator the league’s official sports betting partner. Betting on NHL games has increased 38% during the 2018-19 season at William Hill’s Nevada Sports Books. Additionally, NHL fans, when compared to fans of …

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Red Rake Gaming presents Knights

The Spanish company Red Rake Gaming has launched a new 5×3 reel video slot with a magic reel that will help you to gain incredible riches. You join an unprecedented heroic act in the Kingdom of Camelot to find the Holy Grail with the most courageous knights of the round …

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Sportsbet convicted of posting an illegal gambling advertisement

Australian online betting provider, Sportsbet, has been convicted and hit with a fine Aus$10,000 by authorities in New South Wales after posting an illegal gambling advertisement on its website. It comes an investigation by state regulator Liquor & Gaming NSW into an advertisement on the Sportsbet.com.au website on 5 July …

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