General casino industry related articles that may well be of interest. These articles vary from general casino news, to regulation and well, just pretty much anything I want to write about to be honest. If you want information specific to individual casinos, then the Online Casinos section is where you should probably be heading.
Email communications with affiliate marketers this week confirmed that Chiligaming subsidiary Chili Poker has established a partnership with an unidentified Spanish company in order to be eligible for a licence to operate in the newly regulated Spanish online gambling market.
Chili Poker will extend its relationship with the Playtech platform in Spain and will operate through chilipoker.es.
Full Story: CHILI POKER TO ENTER SPANISH MARKET
The popularity of Full Tilt Poker's "first to market" concept of fast online poker, Rush Poker, appears to have motivated other companies to offer similar services despite threatening noises from FTP that it has applied for patents.
The concept behind the popular trend is to deliver a fast game for players in a hurry by moving them to a new table immediately after folding a hand.
Full Story: TURBO-POKER THE NEW ONLINE TREND?
The frequently considered regulatory tactic of forcing Internet Service Providers to block (read censor) “unacceptable” online gambling sites suffered a setback Thursday when the European Court of Justice ruled that ISPs cannot be forced to collaborate in such an order.
Although the ruling was made in a case involving music piracy, it is in principle applicable to all Internet usage and is therefore a powerful precedent.
Full Story: EU TOP COURT RULES THAT ISP BLOCKING IS ILLEGAL
The graphic possibilities of colourful insects such as The Grand Monarch - widely recognised as the king of butterflies - are fully realised in the latest slot of the same name from IGT-Wagerworks as the company continues to convert top faves from its land gambling inventory to the internet environment.
The new 50 pay-line game transports players to a dewy rainforest filled with brightly coloured flowers, foliage and wildlife and depicted in sharp, colourful graphics, setting the scene for a …
Full Story: NEW ONLINE SLOT FROM WAGERWORKS-IGT
Online poker fans were pondering what has gone wrong at 24Poker.com Thursday following the appearance of a press release from software provider Microgaming advising that the website has been blocked.
The Microgaming press release read:
Full Story: ONLINE POKER OPERATOR HAS LICENCE SUSPENDED
The frequently considered regulatory tactic of forcing Internet Service Providers to block (read censor) "unacceptable" online gambling sites suffered a setback Thursday when the European Court of Justice ruled that ISPs cannot be forced to collaborate in such an order.
Although the ruling was made in a case involving music piracy, it is in principle applicable to all Internet usage and is therefore a powerful precedent.
Full Story: EU’S TOP COURT RULES THAT ISP BLOCKING IS ILLEGAL
The Montreal Gazette reports this week that the Mohawks of Kahnawake - already a significant online gambling regulatory jurisdiction - plan to take another run at operating a land casino in their home province of Quebec.
"In addition to the prospect of a new lottery offering for Quebec, a bricks-and-mortar casino has been proposed for the South Shore community by the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake," the newspaper reported, claiming that the tribal council recently hired a U.S. …
Full Story: KAHNAWAKE LAND CASINO AMBITIONS?
Online scratch card developer NeoGames has a foot in the Peruvian gambling market door following an agreement to integrate its products into the websites of Intralot Peru, arguably the largest lottery operator in the market.
This deal is a first for NeoGames and Intralot Interactive in the Latin American market, and calls for the provision of scratch card and instant win games, all customised and branded for the Peruvian market.
Full Story: NEOGAMES ENTERS THE PERUVIAN MARKET
Playtech's GBP 100 million placing to raise funds for acquisitions (see previous reports) has enabled its billionaire founder, Tedi Sagi, to increase his holding by as much as 49.9 percent, according to widespread reports in the UK business press Thursday.
Following the company's publication of the response to its offering of 46.5 million shares at 215p, it appeared that Sagi had raised his shareholding in the online gambling software provider to at least 43.7 percent after …
Full Story: PLAYTECH PLACING A BIG HIT WITH FOUNDER
Just a day ago, InfoPowa commented on the lucrative high stakes poker heater being enjoyed by Finnish poker ace Ilari Sahamies, who was closing in on top leaderboard player Rafi Amit; overnight Sahamies has enjoyed more success and now occupies the lead position.
Playing 836 hands, mainly on the Pokerstars $200/$400 6-Max tables against several players including Peter Chan and Jens Kyllonen, Sahamies ended the session up $426,000, taking him to $2.1 million in profit this year and overtaking …
Full Story: FINNISH POKER ACE SCORES ON NOSEBLEED TABLES