$25,000 buy-in delivers a return of the $462,000 main prize The $25,000 buy-in Poker Masters NLHE High Roller event completed Wednesday with US poker pro Ali Imsirovic besting a field heavy with professional players in a three hour final table. After eliminating Brian Rast at third for $214,500, Imsirovic took a significant chip lead into the heads up with three-WSOP-bracelet...
System generated predictions for 200 NHL hockey games over a 20-week period during the 2017-18 season On Tuesday researchers from Silicon Valley AI company Unanimous AI presented the first long-term study claiming that an AI-powered system can outperform Vegas betting markets over an extended period. The system used in this research generated predictions for 200 NHL hockey games over a...
West Virginia Becomes The Fifth U.S. State To Legalise Sports Betting Enabling legislation implemented Thursday On Thursday West Virginia became the fifth US state to legalise intrastate sports betting following the implementation of the enabling legislation, with the Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races taking the first wagers. State lawmakers earlier this year correctly anticipated that the restrictive federal Professional...
Bookmaker's US subsidiary forms US gambling partnership with Eldorado Resorts Online and land gambling group William Hill revealed Tuesday that it has entered into a partnership with its existing partner in Nevada, Eldorado Resorts, for digital and land-based sports betting and online gaming across the US. Eldorado is a major land casino group with 21 properties across 11 states and...
Retired Arizona senator brought back to temporarily replace Sen John McCain One of the most vociferous and cunning anti-online gambling politicians to walk the corridors of power on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, retired Arizona senator Jon Kyl, is to return to his old stamping ground after being named as the temporary replacement for recently deceased Sen. John McCain. The...
Following August 8 assault, operator secures a court order to help uncover the culprits Boston-based sportsbook and daily fantasy sports operator DraftKings is striking back at hackers who assaulted its website early in August and immobilised it for almost half an hour (see previous InfoPowa report). The operator has secured a court order from a US District Court in Massachusetts...
Lottery Director resigns day after sports betting goes live West Virginia's governor, Jim Justice announced late Friday that he had appointed Doug Buffington, the deputy secretary for the West Virginia Secretary of Revenue, to serve as acting lottery director following the unexpected resignation of West Virginia Lottery chief Alan Larrick just a day after the state went live with legalised...
Employee embezzled $1.4 million says Card Player owner Anna McCann, a former bookkeeper for the poker publications company Card Player, has been charged before a Las Vegas Clark County court with 24 felony offences regarding her criminal activities at the company. McCann stands accused of defrauding magazine owners Barry and Allyn Shulman of $1.4 million over a five-year period ending...
Is this the end of a five month rising trend? Figures from the Nevada Gaming Control Board for the month of July 2018 show that the US gambling hub saw a decline in revenues for the first time in five months. The overall decline was small at 0.16 percent to $996.4 million, but it was more impactful on the Las...
Jason Ader's Springowl Asset Management has reportedly invested over $100 million in recent weeks in share-buying spree Aggressive activist investor Jason Ader has reportedly been buying up large tranches of Playtech plc shares through his New York-based Springowl Asset Management company, triggering market speculation on his motives. Early reports are that over recent weeks over $100 million has been spent...
