Sports Betting in the News — Weekly Round-up for September 21, 2018

Betstars Enters New Jersey Sports Betting Market The Stars Group subsidiary offers a full range of bet types, including in-play betting Thursday evening saw the entry into the New Jersey online sports betting market of a formidable competitor, The Stars Group subsidiary BetStars, which became the eighth online - mobile operator to arrive, offering a full range of bet types,...

New Hampshire State Lottery Goes Online

Sixth state to see the advantages The New Hampshire state lottery has become the sixth US state lottery to take iLottery ticket sales online and offer instant-win games to state residents. The state Legislature passed laws authorising the online activity in June last year, enabling New Hampshire to join other progressive states with iLottery activity such as Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky,...

Poker in the News — Weekly Round-up for September 21, 2018

Imsirovic Does It Again - Another Big Poker Masters Win US poker pro scores $799,000 in $50,000 buy-in NLHE High Roller US poker pro Ali Imsirovic has scored a back-to-back big win at the Poker Masters, following his $462,000 victory in the $25,000 buy-in Poker Masters NLHE High Roller event earlier this week with the top prize of $799,000 in...

IGT To Introduce Wide Area Progressive Products To U.S. Online Operators

Tried and tested for years in Europe, WAP games should prove popular in the US International Gaming Technology (IGT) has announced that it is to introduce its first Wide Area Progressive games to the United States, bringing a concept that has been popular for years on European online gambling sites to American online punters. In a press release Friday the...

GAN Goes After Patent Infringers

Online gambling provider hires Chicago legal firm to protect its patents Online gambling provider Game Account Network (GAN) has hired an intellectual property litigation firm in the US to seek settlements for infringements to its patented US technology. The developer and supplier of enterprise-level business to business internet gambling software and services in the US has hired Chicago law firm...

Two More Online Gambling Licences Awarded In Pennsylvania

Penn National Gaming’s Hollywood Casino and Rush Street Gaming’s SugarHouse the latest licensees On Wednesday the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) awarded online gambling licenses to two more state casino operators, Penn National Gaming’s Hollywood Casino and Rush Street Gaming’s SugarHouse, bringing the number of online gambling licenses issued so far in the state to five. In both cases, the...

Internet Gambling Revenues Up Again In New Jersey

But sports betting gets the headlines as wagers reach $95.6 million in August Figures released Wednesday by the New Jersey Division for Gaming Enforcement show that online gambling revenues continued double digit growth in August, rising 17 percent year-on-year to $24.8 million, although the media focused rather on the state's burgeoning sports betting sector, which delivered $95.6 million in wagers...

Russian Hacker Extradited To The United States

Tyurin allegedly compromised the personal information of tens of millions of people in several US industries Late Friday the US Attorney's Office in Manhattan announced that a 35-year-old Russian man allegedly involved in widespread IT-related criminal activity in the United States will soon face justice in an American court following an extradition agreement with the eastern European country of Georgia....

Sports Betting in the News — Weekly Round-up for September 14, 2018

Tropicana Atlantic City And William Hill Partner Up For Sports Betting New Jersey operations get under way Tropicana Atlantic City Casino & Resort has confirmed that it has entered a partnership with William Hill Sportsbook & Racebook to bring more gaming offerings to its New Jersey guests. In an announcement Thursday Tropicana said: "We pride ourselves on creating unique and...

High 5 Games Releases Two New Titles In New Jersey

Different themes but similar formats in Jungle Jack and The Three Graces Land and online games developer High 5 Games has launched two new slots in the New Jersey market, Jungle Jack and The Three Graces. The games will be available from Golden Nugget, Caesars, Sugar House Rush Street, Resorts, Mohegan Sun and Pala, and feature Scatters, Wiolds, Stacked Wilds,...