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Jarrod LeBlanc Gaming Guru - Page 4  Catena Media continues to focus on North American affiliation market3 August 2023
Catena Media selling its UK and Australian sports betting brands. Initiation, planning, implementation and closure are the stepping stones on the way toward every milestone. Today, Catena Media hit the last step as it signed an agreement to sell its U.K. and Australian online sports betting brands for €6 million to Moneta Communications Ltd, a U.K.-based sports betting affiliate. ... (read more)
Aristocrat’s acquisition of NeoGames moves forward19 July 2023
Aristocrat’s acquisition of NeoGames moves forward. (photo by Aristocrat Gaming)Like anything in life, it starts with the first step. Today, Aristocrat Leisure Limited announced that it’s onto the second step after NeoGames S.A. shareholders voted to adopt the Business Combination Agreement and approved the ... (read more)
Top 10 casinos I want to visit17 July 2023
Sportsbooks. Table games. Drinks. Atmosphere. Slots. Restaurants. There are so many reasons to visit a casino. Luckily, there are so many casinos to choose from when planning a vacation. Here’s a list of casinos that I’d like to visit. 10. Wynn Las Vegas With so many casinos to choose from in Sin City, one would think it’s difficult to narrow it down to just one, but for me, it’s Wynn Las Vegas. ... (read more)
Casino City’s Friday Five: Spheres, firsts and poker records edition14 July 2023
The Fourth of July may be in the calendar rearview mirror, but in the gambling world there are always fireworks. The Sphere in Las Vegas introduced itself to the world as it illuminated for the first time over the holiday week, plus there’s rumblings of an NBA team in Sin City. Kentucky announced that it’s launching retail and online sports betting in September. ... (read more)
Top 10 fun facts about WSOP Main Event3 July 2023
The WSOP Main Event kicks off today at the Horseshoe Las Vegas. (photo by WSOP)While U.S. citizens will be lighting off fireworks to celebrate the Fourth of July tomorrow, today is actually the real holiday, for poker enthusiasts, that is. The World Series of Poker’s marquee event, the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’ em Championship aka the Main Event kicks off today at the Horseshoe Las Vegas. ... (read more)
UKGC launches hub for operators working with third parties21 June 2023
UKGC launches hub for operators working with third parties. If you don’t know, now you know. That is at least what the U.K. Gambling Commission is betting on as it launched a specific hub for operators that enter business relationships with third parties, including white-label partners. The hub will provide licensees the obligations that they must adhere to when contracting with third parties. ... (read more)
Newly appointed Finnish government takes stand on gambling monopoly20 June 2023
Newly appointed Finnish government takes stand on gambling monopoly. Talk about hitting the ground running. Today, the current Finnish Government will resign and the new one will be appointed, but it’s already made a statement in the world of gambling. The new government announced that it’s committed to ending the current monopoly system for gambling in favor of a licensing model by 2026. ... (read more)
Sweden aims to strengthen consumer protection19 June 2023
Spelinspektionen looking into fine scale for MLA violations. An offense is an offense in the eyes of the Swedish Gaming Authority, and in some cases, certain offenses are just as bad, if not worse, than others. Today, lawmakers in Sweden released a memorandum with the hopes of increasing the fine for Money Laundering Act violations to equal the same maximum amounts as Gambling Act violations. ... (read more)
DraftKings ups the ante in bid for PointsBet16 June 2023
DraftKings ups the ante in bid for PointsBet. As if it was sitting at a gaming table in Las Vegas, this morning DraftKings in a sense said ‘I raise. I’m all-in’ as it submitted a $195 million offer for the U.S. assets of PointsBet. The all-cash offer not only shows the Massachusetts-based company’s desire ... (read more)
Videoslots accepts £2 million regulatory settlement15 June 2023
Less than three months after its last fine, Videoslots, again, finds itself in hot water. Today, the U.K. Gambling Commission announced that the operator, which runs videoslots.com, videoslots.co.uk and mrvegas.com, will pay £2 million for social responsibility and anti-money laundering failures following an investigation by the Commission. ... (read more)
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