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Bally Technologies is a name needing little introduction to casino enthusiasts. This reputable brand has been in operation since 1932 developing, designing, manufacturing and distributing slot machines and other gaming devices. Among others, Bally produces high-class video slots games, reel spinning slots, mobile applications, wide-area progressive jackpot slots, Class 2 lottery and other games. Bally Technologies' experience extends into other areas too, including table management solutions, slot accounting and overall casino management too. Bally Moves to Secure Access to the UK Online Gaming Industry Bally slots are instantly recognizable on a global scale. Now players across the United Kingdom will be able to enjoy a wide range of Bally Technologies slots games. These games will be showcased courtesy of Mr Green online casino. Plans are afoot to begin development of mobile gaming technology on Android smartphones/tablets and the like in the not too distant future. The massive success of Bally Technologies slots games in the land-based arena is likely to bode well with fans in the online gaming arena too. The Benefits of Partnering with Mr Green Casino For Bally's Interactive Entertainment, the decision to partner with Mr Green was a no-brainer. Mr Green provides a proprietary solution by offering casino games via multiple vendors. Players can quickly and easily switch between vendors without the need for exchanging coins, chips or the like. Further, players are able to determine their own gaming limits, their preferred risk, practice online games for free or play for real. Mr Green is licensed and regulated by the LGA (Lotteries and Gaming Authority) of Malta.
Inspired Gaming Group are a well-known software developer for a wide-range of online casinos. They offer a huge line of slots, table games and Virtual Sports products to many of the best online casino brands in the world and have recently added to their stunning client portfolio by partnering with Italy's Gamenet. The major Italian operator Gamenet is taking advantage of Inspired's award-winning Virtual Sports joining other big Italian names like SNAI, Eurobet, Sisal, Cogetech and Lottomatica. Gamenet is already one of the leading Italian providers for VLT's, online betting and online gaming products respectively. "With this agreement, Gamenet is ready to broaden its games portfolio; customers using our own platform are now able to bet on Inspired virtual events such as football, horse racing, horse trotting, greyhound racing, speedway, motor racing, tennis, and cycling on gamenet.com website. The betting offer is also available in venue in more than 100 shops and corners all over Italy," commented Claudio Sforza the Managing Director of Gamenet.Virtual Sports Betting is growing in popularity and more and more of the best online brands are offering a complete virtual sports betting platform which is appealing to thousands of players each week. With new agreements like Gamenet and Inspired, it is only a matter of time until virtual sports bets are just as popular as real sports bets.
Novomatic subsidiary Austrian Gaming Industries has completed a deal to acquire two Dutch gambling machine manufacturers and developers - JVH Exploitatie and JVH Gaming Products. European Expansion Under the deal, JVH products will be integrated into Novomatic's portfolio in the German market, where Novomatic already has a major market share through two existing subsidiaries. Exploitatie's gaming machines, which are already found around Dutch pubs, are being brought into Germany immediately. According to Novomatic's Hannes Reichmann, this latest deal continues the firm's strategic and dual acquisitions program. He said its own group brands, AGI, Astra and Bell-Fruit, are already market leaders in digital gaming, and JVH products will complement this growing portfolio - especially in Germany. Online Gambling Novomatic has made big progress in the online gambling arena in recent years through partner casinos such as the Quasar Gaming Casino - where its platform is the same as the one with high definition graphics that has been certified by regulators for use in real-land-based casinos.Quasar Casino brings you all the best of Novomatic in an online gambling experience you can enjoy from your own home. Their platform includes many top slots plus a range of table games including Roulette, Blackjack, Baccarat and Sic Bo. This should eventually expand following these latest acquisitions.
Despite finishing the regular season with easily the National Hockey League's best record, the title favorite Chicago Blackhawks were forced to work well into triple overtime to lift themselves to a 4-3 victory over the Boston Bruins in a pulsating Game One of the Stanley Cup Finals on Wednesday night. On Saturday night, the two teams take to the United Center ice all over again to battle it out in Game 2. If Boston, who finished fourth in the East in the regular season but then blasted their way through the playoffs, are to have any chance of winning, they will have to match the intensity of the other night. The Bruins' defense will need to find a way to shut down Chicago's potent offense in the same way it did to other teams earlier in the postseason, while its attacking trio of David Krejci, Nathan Horton and Milan Lucic will need to continue the form that sees them leading all points scorers in the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs. William Hill will release betting odds on match result (money line, points spread and total goals) plus dozens of other wagering options on everything from points totals to individual specials in the days ahead of the game. For now, Hill Sports is offering the following odds on Stanley Cup title: Chicago 5/12, Boston 2/1. It is also allowing customers to place bets on Series Correct Score, with the most likely option being Chicago Blackhakws 4-1 or 4-2 at 7/2 odds, and the least likely being Boston 4-1 at 12/1 odds. This leading online sportsbook will be with you through the entirety of Saturday night's match, thanks to its In-Play Betting option. Place a live wager on game result or play-by-play scenarios with Hill's updated odds while you enjoy the game at the arena or on your TV screen.
There is nothing online poker players love more than bragging about their best hands and biggest wins, and now everybody will have the chance to do it thanks to the new ShareMyPair app. Share Your Pair ShareMyPair, developed by poker industry veteran Steve Miller and his business partner Richard Sondheimer was recently launched for iPhones and iPads, and will be released for Android devices in June. As owners of iOS smartphone and tablet devices are already finding out, users can quickly enter all card and betting information from their most memorable poker hands into the app. Once the data has been entered, ShareMyPair instantly creates an animated video of the hand which can be rated and commented upon by other app users. Learn From Others According to Miller, this creation is more than just an app - its' Poker 2.0, a free social network exclusively designed for the 100 million poker players from around the world who routinely discuss, dissect and analyse their hands with the intent of improving their game. Business partner Sondheimer added that the app was made free so that it could be accessed by anybody who enjoys a game of poker. He pointed out that it includes extra features like Pro's Corner, where top poker pros will post hands they've played and comment on hands posted by amateur players.
Spain online gambling services have leveled off following a long-time economic recession that is still going on today. Unemployment in Spain is around a whopping 27 percent, but the Spanish government is convinced the worst is past and by the end of 2013, the country can expect growth due to the country's more competitive nature and growing number of exports. During the first quarter of 2013, the Spanish gross gaming revenues reached 60.4 million euro, down approximately 1 million euros from the final quarter of 2012. Wagering, on the other hand, was up by a little more than 1 percent, reaching 1.37 billion euros. "All the indicators which look forward in Spain point to recovery, and a much better economy that one year ago," related Economy Minister Mr. Luis de Guindos. The predictions say that the Spanish online gambling market could skyrocket in the near future because in due course, online slots, a huge revenue maker in the industry will soon be allowed in Spain. With the addition of online slots to the Spanish market, the sky is the limit. Now with the market liberalized, the market has leveled off. The first quarter of 2013 showed that new player acquisitions fell only 51,342 compared to the 4 th quarter of 2012 in which 72,453 was the magic number. It has been online sports bets which raked in over 50 percent of the markets gross gaming revenues, representing a minor increase over the prior quarter. There has been talk that the Spanish Gambling Authority is discussing the possibility of a compact with Italy and France to increase player liquidity.
With its seemingly ever-rising value since the beginning of 2013, the digital currency Bitcoin is skyrocketing in its popularity nowadays. This of course has its repercussions on the world of online gambling, displayed amongst others, with the recent actions carried out by the US Government to rule out a possibility of the usage of Bitcoin as a viable currency for online gambling by offshore US gambling operators. Popularity in China While the acceptance of Bitcoin's unregulated, decentralized character remains rocky by US authorities, Bitcoin's popularity seems to be on the rise in China. Only in May, Bitcoin client downloads in China surpassed their counterpart US downloads with a ratio of 85k Chinese client downloads opposite to 64k American downloads. This also has to do with the airing of a documentary about Bitcoin on national Chinese TV, in the beginning of May, which shed a positive light on the Digital Currency. This emergence of Bitcoin in China has triggered some opinions regarding the currency's potential positive role in dealing with the Chinese government's strict regulations dealing with online movement of money. However this might prove problematic due to Bitcoin's expected inability to stand within the required monetary scopes required by Macau's junket operators. Bitcoin could indeed be a great solution for the hardships imposed on Chinese online gamblers by their government; but perhaps this solution is too good to be true. It is only foreseeable that the Chinese authorities will work to confine Bitcoin if it becomes a prevalent funding method among online gamblers.
Could Baccarat become a leading game in the world of online gambling? If the trends out of Macau's land-based casinos are any indication, then the answer is a definite yes. Asia's Most Popular Game The latest news out of Asia's gambling mecca of Macau is that Baccarat accounted for most of the $38 million in gambling revenue last year. And considering that gambling figures were six times higher than those in Las Vegas in the same year, this is pretty significant. Baccarat takes a back seat to Blackjack and Poker in Las Vegas, Atlantic City and Monaco, but in Macau it has been growing just as much as the booming gaming town, thanks to a clear preference from the growing number of Chinese high-rollers who frequently visit from the mainland. The Baccarat boom is only set to get bigger, as Macau casinos who take in two-thirds of revenues from VIP Baccarat plan to open new resorts around 2015. Baccarat is also the biggest game in the other Asian gambling hub of Singapore. Live Baccarat If your budget or schedule don't allow you to make it to Macau, then you can enjoy Live Baccarat and other live casino games such as Blackjack, Roulette and Hold'em, from the comfort of your own homes, thanks to leading online gambling brands like EuroGrand Casino and bet365 Casino. EuroGrand brings you ultra-realistic Baccarat from its live studios, allowing players to switch between a classic real view and a 3D view. In reality, this brings you what you get from a land-based casino plus even more that you won't find in Vegas or Macau.
UEFA, European football's governing body, has opened disciplinary proceedings against three big clubs from Turkey and Romania in relation to match-fixing allegations. Three Clubs Investigated Fenerbahce and Besiktas, two of Turkey's three biggest clubs, will both front up to UEFA's Control and Disciplinary Body later this month. The latter will be familiar with the body, as it was banned from the 2011-12 Champions League and its president was jailed for six years over previous cases of match-fixing. Fenerbahce is being investigated following a July 2012 civil trial in which 93 people - including club officials, coaches and players - were charged in a case which centered around its winning streak in 2011. Besiktas is being investigated over allegations relating to the 2011 Turkish Cup final. In a separate case, Romanian club Steaua Bucharest will face UEFA in relation to admission criteria for participation in European tournaments. Clamping Down on Corruption The leading online sportsbook such as William Hill Sports, Ladbrokes, bet365 and 888 all play their part in clamping down on match-fixing, by cooperating with European and global sports bodies, regularly putting their betting systems to the scrutiny of independent auditors, and generally encouraging an atmosphere of responsible gambling. Players can play their part in ensuring sport remains clean and free of corruption by heading to the aforementioned online sportsbooks and other certified and reputable betting outlets that have no involvement in the dark underworld of illegal betting.
Aston Villa has become the latest European football club to partner with an online sportsbook, with the English Premier League club signing a sponsorship agreement with Asian online gaming site Dafabet. Villa and Dafabet Under the two-year agreement, the Dafabet logo will appear on Aston Villa's new kit and the online gambling operator will participate in various activities, most notably as part of its support for the Acorns Children's Hospice in West Midlands, Birmingham, not far from Villa's home base. Dafabet realized the increased potential of becoming an official club sponsor following its signing last season of international betting partner deals with two other rival English Premier League clubs - Everton and West Bromwich Albion. About DafabetDafabet is one of Asia's biggest operators of online gambling, including its flagship online betting product. Established in 2004, it serves the Chinese and Asia Pacific market through licensing and regulation by CEZA and First Cagayan in the Philippines. The English Premier League is big business in Asia with television ratings and kit sales outstripping those of local clubs, so the new partnership between Dafabet and Aston Villa is sure to help both of them become even more recognizable.
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