A billboard featuring a convicted sex offender has proven to be too much for Paddy Power in Australia, Ireland's largest independent bookmaker. The edgy advertisement, which has been torn down and destroyed, included a large photo of former Aussie TV host, and convicted sex offender, Rolf Harris smiling and waving. A caption on the billboard…
888 Holdings is closing a deal to purchase Bwin.Party for $898 millon (GBP) ($1.8 billion USD). The deal ends months of wheeling and dealing by Bwin.Party's potential suitors and leaves 888 rival GVC Holdings in the cold. According to MorningStar UK, 888's offer for Bwin.Party was actually less than GVC's offer, but offered more long-term…
A new survey of daily fantasy sports (DFS) players sheds some light on who's playing DFS; where they're playing DFS; and a whole lot more. If you're considering a move into this fast growing corner of the online gambling world, this is information you need to know. The study titled, Daily Fantasy Sports Player Survey…
GVC Holdings is getting very close to closing its blockbuster bid to take over Bwin.party. If they're successful, the deal could dramatically change the face of the online poker industry. Earlier this week, Bloomberg.com reported that GVC had teamed up with Amaya Gaming (owners of PokerStars) to offer Bwin.party 906.5 million-pound ($1.4 billion USD) for…
Yahoo! is looking to revive their flagging fortunes with a major foray into online gambling's hottest vertical, real-money daily fantasy sports. Besides shaking up the ultra-competitive, and fast-growing, world of daily fantasy sports, Yahoo's move represents the first mainstream US company to venture into real-money online gambling. Despite their failings as a search engine (they…
PokerStars is bringing their case for regulated California online poker directly to the people the Golden State with a star-studded promotional poker tour. The eight-stop tour will hit a variety of California poker rooms and will pit Texas Hold 'Em all stars against local players. Among the poker greats participating in the tour, which begins…
Billionaire Mark Cuban is going on all in on gambling's hottest new vertical, e-sports betting. The colorful owner of the Dallas Mavericks is making a big investment in a site called Unikrn (pronounced, "unicorn") and that's great news for the rapidly growing e-sports business. Unikrn is one of a number of start ups that are…
A hacker recently cheated Bitcoin casino PrimeDice out of a cool million, there's not a damn thing the site's operators can do it about it. The PrimeDice con, which exploited a weakness in the site's random number generator, and the brouhaha that followed in the Bitcoin community, illustrate some of the challenges operators face in…
Nevada gaming revenues topped $1 billion in May, thanks to a big boost from the Mayweather-Pacquio fight and increased action on slot machines and table games. The final number for May came in at $1.003 billion when the month was done. That's a 3.3% increase over the same period last year, which is even better…
Poker legend Doyle Brunson's 400,000+ Twitter followers received a rude surprise earlier this week when his feed began spewing out obscenities and pornographic images. What followed was an ongoing Twitter war between the 82-year-old cowboy card player and the hacker who had hijacked his account. The drama began unfolding when Brunson's account began sending out…
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