Online gaming and software provider CryptoLogic announced a whopping GBP2.6 million jackpot win this week. A 37-year old civil servant from Newcastle, England won the jackpot at SkyVegas playing on CryptoLogic’s Millionaires Club online slot game with just a 90 pence stake. The player, who is the biggest SkyVegas winner to date, plans to spend [...]
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Victor Chandler adds Financial Fixed Odds offering
UK-based financial fixed odds betting service provider Cantor Gaming & Wagering (Cantor) inked a deal with online gaming firm Victor Chandler International, this week. Victor Chandler will add the new product via an integrated platform provided by Cantor along side its own spread betting offering. The new service will give customers of Victor Chandler access [...]
Local resident accused of providing internet sports betting and money laundering
Residents of a quiet suburb in Henrico County, Virginia were intrigued to see a large police presence at the home of one of their neighbours, Khen Han Tran recently in a state police enforcement initiative which turned out to be a search warrant-backed raid on an alleged internet sports betting operation. CBS6 reports that the [...]
Many players are out of the Main Event
Day 2B of the Main Event at the 41st World Series of Poker started Saturday afternoon in Las Vegas, bringing together the survivors of Days 1b and 1d as the attrition process continues. The field of 2,412 was heavily star-laden for the $10 000 buy-in flight, but by the end of the day some of [...]
US Senator wants to treat investing like gambling
US Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) is leading an effort to employ the same kinds of laws that states use to regulate casino operations and apply them on a much bigger financial stage: Wall Street. Senator Cantwell is proposing that the kind of “casino capitalism” that led to the downturn in the mortgage markets late last [...]
eCOGRA Training Courses in High Demand With Casino Operators
Building on their promise to once again raise the bar for responsible gaming standards expected of online casino operators, eCommerce Online Gaming Regulation Assurance (eCOGRA), has completed a training course in which seventy attendants were schooled in the areas of problem gambling, the implementation of eCOGRA general accepted practices, and advertising guidelines for gaming operators. [...]
TV gambling gets interactive
The UK’s Channel Five announced a new five-year contract with NetPlay TV this week. The new deal will give NetPlay TV’s SuperCasino.com a four-hour time slot on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. In October, the show will expand to six nights a week, and by next year SuperCasino.com will be live on Five every night [...]
