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Old classic Treasures of the Pyramids now available for mobile and desktop International Game Technology plc has announced that it has started to offer content from the legacy GTech game portfolio on its social gaming app, DoubleDown Casino, with the launch Tuesday of the originally Boss Media Treasures of the Pyramids slot for mobile and desktop. InfoPowa readers will recall...
Team Gravity priced at a million dollars The competitive Team Gravity League of Legends eSports team has been bought for a million dollars by former National Basketball star Rick Fox. Fox, who played for the LA Lakers and Boston Celtics in a sparkling 14 year professional career, has revealed that he plans to rebrand the team as Echo Fox and...
Second WPT title for online and live tourney poker pro Online and live tournament poker pro Kevin "1sickdisease" Eyster claimed his second World Poker Tour title and the WPT Champions Cup this weekend by besting the field in the Five Diamond World Poker Classic at Bellagio. The win gave Eyster his biggest career pay day at $1,587,382 - the lion's...
Martin Shkreli chairs the merged Odyssey eSports, Imagine and Leviathan eSports teams Martin Shkreli, a young US entrepreneur and eSports fan who chairs the merged Odyssey eSports, Imagine and Leviathan eSports teams, has been charged with securities fraud in the United States. The charges, which include falsifying investment returns, using company funds to settle personal disputes, and personal enrichment arise...
Sen. David Carlucci signs on to Assemblyman Felix Ortiz's proposal A proposal to regulate and licence daily fantasy sports in New York state gained an important ally this week when Sen. David Carlucci agreed to support a bill introduced recently to the Assembly by Assemblyman Felix Ortiz. Carlucci's support could give the bill a foothold in the state Senate as...
Independent monitor SuperLobby says overall industry entry fees were down to $35.5 million last week Daily fantasy sport market leaders DraftKings and FanDuel may be hoping that the holiday season brings more fans and competition entry fees to their sites following last week's numbers from independent monitor SuperLobby, which portrayed a marked slowdown in action since the DFS gambling furore...
Attorney General Lisa Madigan opines that fantasy online sports is gambling and illegal Responding to earlier requests for legal clarity from Illinois politicians, the Illinois Attorney General, Lisa Madigan, issued an opinion Wednesday that online fantasy sports is illegal gambling under the state's criminal code. The AG has already communicated with market leaders DraftKings and FanDuel asking them to change...
$163,632 won on Let 'Em Ride Last weekend turned out to be a profitable one for Arizona online punter EricM, who hit a progressive jackpot with a Royal Flush on the Let 'em Ride game at Bovada online casino. Unfortunately the Bovada presser tells us nothing about the player's reaction or his plans for the windfall. Online Casino News Courtesy...
Judge Wingate's original judgement was for $535,951,020 In an interesting postscript to reports earlier this week that a Kentucky judge had issued a $290,000 damages order against Pokerstars parent group Amaya Inc., the publication Flushdraw reports that it has seen the original 18-page judgement, and that presiding Judge Wingate had initially awarded $535,951,020 against Amaya. "The $290 million judgment issued...
