The online betting industry relies on trust more than any other single factor. Trust serves as the lubrication of the whole engine. You may start with a working engine, but it all grinds to a burning halt if you try to run it for any length of time without any oil. To put it simply,…
Recent numbers coming out of Sweden’s newly regulated gambling industry show revenue in Q1 of 2019 was higher than the same period last year. This indicates the country is succeeding in channeling players to legal gambling platforms. That is not to say that the regulated market, which went live on 1 January 2019, is not…
Betting exchanges are all too often touted as better than online bookmakers in every way. While it is true that betting exchanges do offer some advantages in certain situations, it is a gross oversimplification to just call one or the other “better” without stipulating better at what. Betting exchanges and bookmakers both have their strong…
Western Australia is preparing to go scorched earth in the war against lottery betting sites. The state government has introduced legislation that calls for not only jailing the operators of lottery betting sites, but also fining their customers A$2,500 for betting on “unapproved domestic and international events and contingencies.”
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
