A Premier League star has been banned by a bookmaker after depositing and betting more than £5.5 million in just a matter of just months. According to recent reports, the unnamed footballer earns more than £100,000 per month but was flagged for review after employees of the betting site saw depositing staggering amounts of money month after month. Continue reading
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In comments made at the ESSA Sports Betting Integrity Conference last month, Netherlands Gaming Authority Vice Chairman Henk Kessler indicated that the Commission is confident new Dutch gambling laws could take effect by January of 2019. Continue reading
eSports betting platform provider UltraPlay is planning to launch a new cryptocurrency called eGold on the Ethereum blockchain. To this end, UltraPlay has announced an initial coin offering (ICO). Sales will go live beginning 18 December 2017 and will run until 28 February 2018 or until a hard cap of 25,000 ETH is reached, whichever comes first. Continue reading
A punter named only as “Joe from Liverpool” made a killing off Sky Bet last night with a unique accumulator that paid nearly £38,000 off a single £1 bet. What’s particularly noteworthy is this was just a 4-fold accumulator. If you know accumulators, that’s quite an accomplishment considering the punter only had to get 4 picks correct to score such a massive return on investment. Continue reading
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One lucky gambler started the 2017 NFL season on a very positive note this past weekend with a 10-leg parlay that netted him nearly $69,000 in a single day. On Monday, Bovada took to social media to publish a copy of their biggest winning ticket of the NFL season to date: Continue reading
The next EuroMillions Superdraw quickly approaches and as usual, we’re all wondering whose name they’ll be announcing next as the newest millionaire to join the ranks of other lottery winners around the world. As nice as it is to dream of sipping champagne and jetting off to exotic beaches at will, the first step is to actually get a ticket of your own. As the saying goes, you can’t win if you don’t play. Continue reading
A Panamanian woman has just claimed a $30 million lottery jackpot courtesy of a ticket she bought online through theLotter.com. Aura D. from Panama said she was inspired to sign up for an account with the online lotto service after reading a local newspaper article about a recent lottery winner. She researched how to buy lottery tickets online and decided to sign up for an account with theLotter. Continue reading
For the most part, sports betting is a long term game with small wins and losses that add up over time to form a trend. Hopefully you win more than you lose, but generally sports betting is not a high volatility endeavor. That is, you do not often see huge swings in either direction. Continue reading
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Major golf returns to the state of Wisconsin for the seventh time – the fourth in the last seven years (2010 and 2015 PGA Championship, 2012 Women’s U.S. Open) – as Erin Hills (par 72, 7,812 yards) hosts the state’s first ever U.S. Open this week. Continue reading
As one of the 10-most active websites in the world and home to a massive community of real people, Reddit is a goldmine of interesting and useful information for just about every topic imaginable. Regardless of the topic that interests you, there is a high likelihood Reddit has an active community dedicated specifically to that topic. Continue reading
