BetMGM Poker Championship Final Table To Take Place In PokerGO Studio
Major tournaments with huge guaranteed prize pools remain one of poker’s biggest draws for recreational poker players. Cash games may present the most consistent revenue stream for pros and poker rooms alike, but they don’t offer the possibility to win life-changing money off of an affordable buy-in. Of course, the marketing value of big tournaments […]
Canada’s Homegrown NorthStar Bets Plans To Try Its Hand At Online Poker
The Ontario online gambling market is a battleground. For now, it remains an open question who will have the upper hand: Major US brands, former offshore gray market operators, or homegrown companies. In that latter camp, you’ll find NorthStar Bets. This new brand is an offshoot of Torstar, a media company whose holdings include the Toronto […]
1-800-GAMBLER Problem Gambling Hotline Gains National Nonprofit Support
In a personal crisis, probably the last thing someone dialing 1-800-GAMBLER is considering is the hotline’s issues. Yesterday, the people behind the crisis hotline took a significant step to ensure problem gamblers continue to have access to resources. They say they must, because legal online casino gambling is scaling up in the US. To that […]
PokerStars Receives AGCO Approval, Prepares To Enter The Ontario White Market
PokerStars gained approval from Ontario‘s iGaming regulator yesterday. Thus begins the online poker operator’s journey from the gray market to legal online gambling in Canada. Yesterday’s acceptance by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) is just the beginning of the process for PokerStars, though. The brand operated by Dublin-based Flutter Entertainment still needs […]
Bonus.com Q&A: EvenBet Gaming’s Julia Panina On Online Casino Marketing Costs
In fiction, a third-person narrator can usually be trusted to provide objective thoughts on the characters. That’s because they’re simply observing the action, not part of the story. At the moment, Malta-based online poker software developer EvenBet Gaming has a similar role when it comes to the US. It’s watching the growth of US online […]
Is BetMGM’s Bid To Acquire LeoVegas In Peril As Swedish Authorities Allege Insider Trading?
BetMGM, the US online casino market leader, is considering buying competitor LeoVegas Group. Or at least it was. It’s unclear if today’s announced investigation into LeoVegas concerning possible insider trading will impact BetMGM’s $607 million acquisition offer. On May 2, Jersey City, NJ-headquartered BetMGM released information about the online gambling operator’s bid to buy Sweden-based […]
Kindred’s Ongoing Efforts To Zero-Out Problem Gambling Revenue
It’s not every day you’ll find an online casino operator hoping to bring a revenue figure to zero on its quarterly earnings reports. However, that’s exactly what Malta-based Kindred Group’s personnel are hoping will happen by 2023. The metric they’re aiming to zero out is revenue generated from “harmful gambling” behavior by players. That may […]
What Happens In Vegas Stays In Vegas… Unless It’s An Intellectual Property Infringement
Even amidst a global pandemic, Clark County’s Las Vegas has persevered. The lights are on, the slot reels are spinning, and profits continue to climb (a blip in May notwithstanding). Las Vegas is the land of novelty. With its celebrity resident shows, gambling galore, and casinos that still allow smoking, Vegas has maintained itself as […]
First Nations-Operated Saskatchewan Online Gambling Site To Use BCLC’s PlayNow Platform
These days, Ontario gets all the attention when it comes to regulated online gambling in Canada. However, it isn’t the only province trying to chart its own course in that regard. Saskatchewan is also attempting something unprecedented. Last September, the province announced that it had signed a new Gaming Framework Agreement with the Federation of […]
Deep Dive: Did Former Casino Mogul Steve Wynn Act As A Foreign Agent For China?
Last month the Justice Department announced a lawsuit against retired Las Vegas and Macau casino mogul Steve Wynn. The news didn’t shock the gambling community quite as much as you might expect. Wynn, after all, had already resigned as chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts way back in 2018, following allegations of sexual misconduct. The nature […]
