Intertain Group Ltd, a Toronto-based online gaming holding company has formally signified its intent to acquire the entire assets and issued capital shares of Dumarca Holdings Ltd (DHL), parent company to Vera&John one of the newest and leading global online and mobile gaming company in today's remote gambling industry. The Canadian company has executed a…
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Game Account Network (GAN), the London-based developer, and provider of enterprise grade business-to-business (B2B) online gaming content has successfully launched another Simulated Gaming™ website, this time in collaboration with Yonkers, NY-based Empire City Casino. Early this year, GAN had launched a similar free-to-play/pay-to-play online facility powered by its Simulated Gaming™ platform for the Foxwoods Resort…
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The judge presiding over the UK lawsuit filed in 2013 by American poker pro Phil Ivey vs. Crockford Casino, handed a ruling that sided with the latter. The UK judge dismissed Ivey's petition for the court to order Crockfords Casino to pay the $12.4 million in accumulated winnings, which Ivey won from playing Punto Blanco,…
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Three weeks ago, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie had announced that NJ casinos and racetracks could offer sports betting, as the state has no existing legislation that imposes regulations or that prohibits such gambling activity from taking place within the Garden State. As expected, the four (4) major North American professional sports associations that previously…
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Atlantic County Democratic state legislators, Senator Jim Whelan and Assemblyman Vincent Mazzeo have disclosed plans of advancing a proposal to collect a small fee on wagers that New Jersey betting enthusiasts will place, once sports betting offers become available in the Garden State. However, the revelation came around not as a public announcement but as…
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Real Gaming, the company that made history as the first to receive an approved Nevada, U.S. license for regulated online poker has added the PayNearMe cash-based payment platform to its roster of available banking methods. The new service allows "unbanked" RealGaming poker players, to place cash deposits via PayNearMe at Nevada-based 7-Eleven Stores, as alternative…
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New Jersey players arriving at Ultimate Gaming's UCasino.com and UltimatePoker.com are being greeted with a large and very noticeable message of an "Important Notice for New Jersey Players." As it is, Ultimate Gaming is giving notice about the company's intention to cease with its NJ-facing operations in the near future, and therefore no longer accepting…
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In line with the forthcoming implementation of UK's new gambling duties, the governments of Gibraltar and the Isle of Man, through their respective revenue agency or taxation authority, have agreed to impose on behalf of the UK government, the gambling tax liabilities due from businesses with established principal place of operations in Gibraltar or in…
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Last week, the New Jersey Casino Control Commission (NJCCC) granted its approval of MGM's Statement of Compliance, a precursor to the company's bid to re-enter Atlantic City's gambling market. In a formal meeting last Wednesday, the members of the NJCCC reviewed the documents submitted and heard the testimonies related to the investigation of the suitability…
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After the New Jersey state government announced last week that sportsbetting is no longer deemed as an illegal business in the Garden State, Monmouth Park Racetrack released a statement that it hopes to start accepting sports bets by Sunday. Monmouth Park's legal counsel Dennis Drazin said that there is a high demand for the…
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