5349 stories by Casino.org Staff Writer
Battle for Bwin.party Heats Up as 888 Enters Fray and Amaya Teams with GVC
Looks like bwin.party is the debutante at the online gaming ball who has all the names on her dance card. A major bidding war has heated up following some initial suitor announcements late last week. The latest bid came from 888 Holdings,...
New York State Senators Ask Congressional Delegation To Oppose RAWA
New York hasn’t been at the forefront of the movement to regulate online gambling in the United States, but it hasn’t exactly been ignoring the issue entirely, either. While Nevada, Delaware and neighboring New Jersey have already regulated Internet gaming, New York...
Internet Gaming Revenues Up In New Jersey
Online gambling in New Jersey got off to a slow start, leading some to wonder if state-by-state regulation of Internet gaming would ever bring in the type of revenues lawmakers had been hoping for. On the other hand, maybe we only needed...
Nevada Skill Gaming Bill Hailed As “Monumental Moment” For Gambling Industry
A new bill that could revolutionize the Nevada gambling industry by adding skill-gaming elements to slot machines has sailed through the State Assembly and now just needs a signature from Governor Sandoval to be passed into law. Senate Bill 9, which was...
GVC Launches Bid for Bwin.party
GVC Holdings, the company that owns Sportingbet, announced today that it had made a bid to acquire its larger rival, bwin.party, for an undisclosed sum. Should the sale go ahead, GVC said it would be a reverse takeover, as bwin.party’s market value,...
Feds Slam Paul Phua with Conspiracy Charge in Effort to Convict
Paul Phua, the Malaysian high-stakes poker player and businessman accused of masterminding a million-dollar World Cup betting operation in Las Vegas last summer, is due to stand trial on June 1. The prosecution’s case appeared to have been eviscerated when a federal...
Brockton Voters Narrowly Approve Casino Plan
Casinos only need a small edge over their players in order to score a win in the long run. Backers of a proposed resort in Brockton, Massachusetts are hoping that the same can be said for casino referendums. Voters in Brockton narrowly...
IGT Revenues Down In Q1, While GTECH Sees Growth
International Game Technology is in the process of fully integrating the two companies that merged together to form it: IGT and GTECH. That means it’s impossible to truly evaluate how well the merger is going as of yet, but the first numbers...
666Bet and Metro Play Begin Customer Payback
666Bet and Metro Play have begun to repay their customers. A “significant number” of former players at the troubled online casinos have had their balances refunded via a Skrill account, according to a statement from Metro Play Ltd, which operates both sites....
Amaya Receives Danish License for FullTilt.dk
FullTilt.dk will launch in Denmark, having been granted a license to offer poker and casino games from the Danish Gambling Authority (DGA). PokerStars has been operating licensed gaming in the country since the beginning of 2012, well before Amaya Inc acquired the...
