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Lucky warning

Mito — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:42:44 +0000

The anonymous winner of a $250 000 Mega Millions lottery prize in Maryland was doubly lucky this week when he almost discarded the winning ticket. The 49-year-old winner had previously bought his usual lottery tickets at a local store, checked them after the March 9 draw and mistakenly thought he had losing numbers, throwing the tickets [...]

Is this the biggest yet online scratch card jackpot?

Mito — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:41:56 +0000

Neogames-powered scratch card site Hopa.com reports that an Australian player, SanjaniH has scored what may well be the biggest scratch card jackpot win yet - a $200 000 windfall and the biggest single prize ever paid by the website. SanjaniH is apparently a regular player on Hopa.com, and will be helping members of her family with [...]

Another online gambling fights off DDoS attack

Mito — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:39:02 +0000

Yesterday’s story on a Distributed Denial of Service attack on the Internet gambling information portal Casinomeister.com has been followed by reports of a similar if less severe attack over the weekend on the Online Casino Reviewer.com website. The two websites are idependent of one another and have different owners. In neither case were the attacks accompanied [...]

Betstone in Italy

Mito — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:47:37 +0000

Server based gaming specialist Betstone.com will be among online gambling companies with ambitions for the Italian market exhibiting at the ENADA show this week. A spokesman for the company said that Server Based Gaming providers who can show proven technological global experience and can deliver access to large content libraries, are likely to best succeed in [...]

Casinomeister.com attacked

Mito — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:46:42 +0000

The popular German-based online gambling information portal Casinomeister.com was the target for a distributed denial of services attack over the weekend, but will soon be up and running again says webmaster Bryan Bailey. DDoS attacks are usually carried out by bots that have been maliciously taken over by criminal elements and bombard the target with so [...]

Major bingo jackpot

Mito — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:45:55 +0000

The Sands of Fortune shifted for a lucky Costa Bingo.com player last week when they won more than GBP 71,000 at the fast-growing online bingo website, which only launched last year. The online bingo player, who has elected to remain anonymous, deposited just GBP 50 before turning the stake into a staggering jackpot worth GBP 71 [...]

AGA spent $345000 lobbying in Q4 2009

Mito — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:32:29 +0000

The American Gaming Association, a trade association that represents the interests of the main land gambling firms in the United States, spent $345 000 in the fourth quarter 2009 to lobby on issues such as online gambling and health care reform, according to a recent mandatory disclosure report. The Washington D.C. based AGA also lobbied the federal [...]

Betcha.com tussle still ongoing

Mito — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:31:21 +0000

The legality of a business model for a betting exchange company that was closed in 2007 under pressure from Washington state officials is still the subject of court actions as the owner and the state gambling authorities wrestle through appeal and counter appeal actions. The dispute is rooted in the legality of a business model where [...]

CTV online gambling program: much ado about Ayre

Mito — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:29:34 +0000

Saturday’s Canada screening of CTV W5’s investigative program on Internet gambling was a fairly mild affair in which the life and times of Bodog founder Calvin Ayre (48) featured heavily, with the high profile exec speaking from Antigua on his latest venture, franchising the Bodog brand. As such it offered a mainly historical recap of past [...]

Betfair TV gets into its stride

Mito — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:02:40 +0000

The world’s largest online betting exchange, Betfair, has launched its new in-play betting service for Internet-enabled television sets, opening up new betting opportunities for punters across the world. The BetfairTV system allows punters to use a slimline version of the famously successful betting exchange alongside live broadcasts. Players use the remote control to place bets in [...]

Frank bill for markup soon?

Mito — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:59:15 +0000

With 66 congressional co-sponsors on board for his HR2267 Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act, Congressman Barney Frank may be about to make his next move in seeking to legalise online gambling in the United States, reports CardPlayer. The publication interviewed Poker Players Alliance executive director John Pappas this week, who said he was [...]

More Nevada restrictions for online gambling?

Mito — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:58:04 +0000

It could be a more progressive approach to online gambling, or maybe more restrictions, but a member of the Nevada Gaming Control Board is apparently drafting a document that will clarify the relationships between Nevada-licensed land casino operators and their online counterparts. The draft will be considered by the Gaming Control Board, and its progress will [...]

Continent 8 Technologies expanding into France

Mito — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:57:02 +0000

Continent 8 Technologies, which provides state-of-the-art, outsourced Internet infrastructure and related managed hosting services to the e-business and e-gaming industries has announced its continued international expansion with the opening of a point of presence (POP) in Paris. This will be followed shortly by co-location facilities and managed services offered to meet the needs of Continent 8’s growing [...]

Sportingbet in French online gambling partnership

Mito — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:54:56 +0000

Online betting group Sportingbet.com continued its preparations to enter a liberalised French gambling market with a deal this week with the online version of major newspaper Le Monde. Le Monde.fr and Sportingbet have inked a two-year exclusive partnership which plans to commence at the beginning of April 2010 in order to comply with French legislative changes. The [...]

34 busted for online gambling in Malaysia

Mito — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:53:47 +0000

Kuala Lumpur police raided five premises in the Jalan Klang Lama area this week, continuing an extensive drive against online gambling in Malaysia. DSP Razali Abu Samah led the raids and revealed to reporters that 34 men aged 20-50 years-old had been arrested and 102 computers seized, along with cash to the value of RM2 547. “The [...]

How not to treat customers

Mito — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:49:29 +0000

Yet another negative story on the notorious Virtual Casino group surfaced on the Casinomeister portal this week as disgruntled poster ‘pobeda’ described an experience that can only be characterised as a nightmare. The punter apparently asked for a withdrawal of $100, and the runaround started; here are the hoops he claims he was put through: He was [...]

Canadian TV looks at online gambling

Mito — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:48:11 +0000

Television network CTV W5 in Canada is to broadcast its take on Internet gambling in an early evening slot on Saturday March 13. Titled ‘The Jackpot’, the show “delves into the world of online gambling, a story that takes viewers from the sandy shores of Caribbean tax haven Antigua, to Quebec’s Kahnawake Reserve, the unlikely world [...]

New gambling poll shows resistance to online gambling

Mito — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:47:02 +0000

Is public opinion in the United States behind Congressman Barney Frank’s legislative attempts to legalise online gambling? A recent academic study suggests that may not be the case. A new US survey on gambling in general has found that two-thirds (67 percent) of 1 000 respondents oppose changing the law to allow bets to be placed [...]

Differing views at Betfair USA

Mito — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:37:22 +0000

In what seems to have been a major difference of opinion, Betfair’s US boss, Gerard Cunningham, has left the company. His responsibilities in the US horseracing division have been taken over by Stephen Burn, who will report to Betfair’s UK-based betting exchange md, Mathias Entenmann. In a company statement this week, Betfair announced: “We have decided [...]

Greek government to expand OPAP

Mito — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:36:06 +0000

The Greek government, struggling with a Euro 300 billion national debt and a floundering economy, is looking to its gambling monopoly OPAP to help make ends meet, reports the Reuters news agency. Moves are afoot to squeeze an extra Euro 400 million from gaming for the state coffers. One solution is a loosening of the strict controls on [...]

Plenty of choice in new game releases

Mito — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:34:54 +0000

If you thought that the last quarter of 2009 was a bumper period for new game releases, you’ll be even more impressed with the wide range of new offerings that online gambling software developers have pushed out since February this year. Microgaming released Thunderstruck 2, and up-to-the-minute version of its hugely popular orginal launched back in [...]

Deal Or No Deal now on Virtue Fusion Alderney

Mito — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:33:58 +0000

Virtue Fusion Alderney, recently acquired by Playtech plc, (see previous InfoPowa report) has added Deal or No Deal Classic across its network. The new addition is a fixed-odds version of the famous Endemol television hit show, in which players are offered a ‘deal’ by the banker at the end of each round, guaranteeing a cash [...]

New concept in online casino connectivity

Mito — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:32:26 +0000

Wajaras is an intriguing new online gambling service currently emerging from Beta testing with the claim that it simplifies connectivity without sacrificing quality, and has the added advantage of not leaving any trace on the computer used to play. Gone are irritating download delays, although the service does not rely on Flash technology, and the advantage [...]

B3W launches two new platforms

Mito — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:44:20 +0000

Malta-based online gambling software provider B3W has launched two new additions to its product offerings - Internet poker and horseracing. The new products join an inventory that includes online casino and scratchcard products. The new software is available to both fully licensed as well as white label operators, says B3W’s CEO, Francois Brust. “The demand we experienced [...]

Winnings Limited orders a Neogames white label

Mito — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:43:19 +0000

The latest white label deal inked by online scratchcard games and white label provider Neogames will see the company launch a scratchcard website branded Winnings.com for Winnings Limited, a subsidiary of the Infomeda group. Winnings Ltd., are experienced in both affiliate operations and SEO activity, augering well for the marketing of the new, 17 language website [...]

Cryptologic releases new slot

Mito — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:37:32 +0000

Virgin Games is one of the first online casinos this week to carry online gambling software provider Cryptologic’s latest Marvel comics-inspired Thor Jackpot Slot. The 5 reel, 9 pay-line game has a Nordic mythology theme centreing on the god of thunder, Thor, depicted through dynamic animation and artwork. Thor’s legendary hammer triggers a bonus round where up [...]

More prosecutions from Kansas City grand jury investigation

Mito — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:36:52 +0000

The Kansas City grand jury probe into online sportsbetting activities has generated more prosecutions, reports the Kansas City Star, revealing that a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday charged four men and two companies with running an illegal gambling business that attracted about $3.6 million in bets over three years. Gerlarmo Cammisano (56) James J. Moretina (60) James [...]

UEFA in shirt sponsorship row

Mito — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:34:48 +0000

The imposition of French bans on Internet gambling company logos on the shirts of French football teams playing away games outside France has come under attack. This week executives of the online gambling firm Betclic and the French football club Olympique Lyonnais were openly critical of UEFA’s support for such bans in regard to a match [...]

Gambling could be good for Belarus

Mito — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:33:35 +0000

Strictly regulated and controlled gambling could represent a valuable source of tax revenues to Belarus, the country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, told lawmakers this week. Addressing a meeting of the Cabinet, Lukashenko said that gambling corruption problems that had caused neighbouring states like Russia and Ukraine to impose draconian bans on the pastime could be obviated through [...]

Polish problems

Mito — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:12:36 +0000

The Polish Football Federation has been forced to suspend its sponsorship agreement with Swedish online sports-betting company Unibet, in order to fall into line with the Eastern European country’s new and draconian online gambling laws, which came into effect on January 1st 2010. Reporting on the move, Betfair’s initiative for free movement of goods and services in [...]