Sportech closes year of US realignment recording £2.4 million loss
London-listed racing and wagering systems supplier Sportech Plc has published its full-year 2018 results, detailing a year of corporate adjustments as the company continues to pursue its US growth prospects. Updating the market, Sportech records a 4% decline in corporate revenues to £64 million (FY2017: £66 million) having detailed...
BetConstruct Live Casino suite secures UKGC accreditation
Industry technology supplier BetConstruct has secured a major operating mandate, confirming that it has been granted a UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) licence for its live casino suite. The BetConstruct Live Casino offering now features Baccarat, Speed Baccarat, Super Six Baccarat, Roulette, Blackjack, Bet On Poker, Russian Poker and Dragon...
Scientific Games fulfils $1 billion 2026 debt note financing
The governance of Nasdaq-listed gambling technology group Scientific Games Corporation (SGC) has confirmed that it has completed its $1.1 billion private note offering, first announced on 6 March 2019. The transaction is aggregate to 8.25% of SGC senior unsecured debt-notes, due for repayment in 2026 at an issue price...
STS: new sponsorship contract with KSW
STS, the largest bookmaker in Poland, has signed another sponsorship contract with KSW Federation (Martial Arts Confrontation). The contract was signed for one year – at least five galas planned for 2019. The cooperation between STS and KSW started in 2018. STS supports various disciplines of Polish sport. This...
NCAA Tournament round of 64 betting preview
The first game of the 2019 NCAA Tournament’s first round has perhaps the most unique story line of them all with No. 10 seed Minnesota taking on No. 7 Louisville in the East Region – the winner almost surely faces No. 2 Michigan State on Saturday, and both played...
Live Tournament News: Antonius gets a tour; Joberg and WSOPC AC results
Three live tournament stories to share including Patrik Antonius hosting a live tournament series and news from the World Poker Tour in Johannesburg and the World Series of Poker in Atlantic City. Patrik Antonius is many things. Father. Husband. Hunk. And now, a man with a live tournament poker...
PokerStars Italian Stars Rewards revamp; SCOOP dates; Spraggy v TonkaaaaP
Three stanzas from a PokerStars poem including news of a Stars Rewards revamp in Italy, dates for the Spring Championship of Online Poker, and a grudge heads-up encounter between Ben “Spraggy” Spragg and Parker “TonkaaaaP” Talbot. In early February, to everyone except his family, Severin Rasset, Director of Poker...
888 Holdings launch new poker client and Rake or Break promotion
888 Holdings has reacted to declining revenues by launching a new poker client, and including a new Rake or Break Sunday promotion designed to give more money back to the players. Sitting with Rob Yong in an empty restaurant deep in the bowels of the Landing Casino in South...
ASEAN Gaming Summit 2019 Day 2 highlights
For its second day, the ASEAN Gaming Summit 2019 in Manila shifted its focus to territories within Asia and the developments happening within their respective gaming space. Loading the player… Opened by Hon. Gus Tambunting, chairman of Games and Amusements committee of the host country’s Congress, Day 2 focused...
NJ spanks GVC, Borgata for online gambling self-exclusion fail
New Jersey gambling regulators have brought the hammer down on GVC Holdings and its Borgata casino partner for allowing excluded individuals to gamble online. In a civil action order dated March 9 but only just released, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement imposed an $81k financial penalty on...