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Irish bookmaking heavyweight Flutter Entertainment, owner of brands including FanDuel and PokerStars, announced on Thursday changes to its Board of Directors, informing that Michael Cawley has stepped down as Non-Executive Director of Flutter and Chair of the Audit Committee and Zillah Byng-Thorne has stepped down as Chair of the Risk and Sustainability Committee The changes have become effective upon the conclusion of the company’s annual general meeting (AGM), held on Thursday. Zillah Byng-Thorne will continue as Non-Executive Director of the company,  while Holly Keller Koeppel has been appointed as Chair of Flutter’s Audit Committee and David Lazzarato has been appointed as Chair of Flutter’s Risk…

According to figures released last week by the Louisiana Gaming Control Board, winnings at Louisiana’s state-regulated casinos were down 1.6% in March compared to the year before. The 13 riverboat casinos, four racinos, and Harrah’s land-based casino brought in $221.5 million during the month, compared to $225.1 million in March 2021.  The drop in business at casinos Shreveport and Bossier City and Lake Charles was the primary reason for the drop in revenue, as the Shreveport and Bossier City boats showed an overall drop of 9.9%, with none of the area’s six casinos showing any gains. Margaritaville had a 4.5%…

Sports betting and gaming consultancy SCCG Management has announced the appointment of Pariekshit Maadishetti to its leadership team in India. The move was confirmed by SCCG Management Founder and CEO Stephen Crystal on Wednesday, who also unveiled the opening of a new office in Hyderabad, India. Maadishetti has significant experience in online media and gaming and is known within the industry for being the founder of Gridlogic, a skill game platform provider. Headquartered in India, the company is a fast-growing group with a diversified set of interests across various sectors besides gaming, including media and hospitality. The executive has also been…

Diversia Entertainment Group’s Casino Palacio Royal Chiclayo is the first Peruvian casino to add Zitro’s award-winning 88 Link game to its entertainment offer. 88 Link – Wild Duels is a five-reel, 243-ways-to-win video slot featuring a five-level mystery jackpot, enabled by the Allure ONE Platform. This cabinet deploys three 27” HD monitors and offers unprecedented benefits including built-in overhead signage that connects to create inspiring graphics. “This is Zitro’s first Allure ONE platform installed in Peru, and we are tremendously proud of the great reception it has received in the region,” commented Alejandra Burato, Zitro’s Regional Director for Latin America. David…

Polish bookmaker GO+Bet chose BetConstruct’s platform and sports betting software offering to go live in Poland.  BetConstruct provides the operator with a complete sports betting platform, featuring an all-inclusive operator backoffice and 120+ event types in Sportsbook. The range includes traditional sports alongside 9 types of virtuals and an extensive suite of Esports with player-facing features and top demanded games. All of them are developed and monitored in-house by BetConstruct. Grzegorz Kiczko, CEO at GO+Bet, commented: “As GO+Bet, we are glad that at the very beginning of our activity, we cooperate with partners of recognized, international reputation. BetConstruct is the…

Gaming Innovation Group Inc. (GiG), has signed a head of terms agreement with a Tier 1 retail operator in the UK for the provision of its turnkey managed service solutions. The turnkey solution includes the technical platform, fully managed services, gaming content, frontend development, CRM, compliance, and marketing, all powered by GiG’s unique data and GiG Logic rules-based solutions. GiG will provide its fully managed solution to operate the online casino as phase one with expansion into further verticals planned for the second phase of the partnership.  It is anticipated that the full contract will be signed during May or…

Gaming operator Penn National Gaming has shared its 2021 Corporate Social Responsibility Report. The dossier details “Penn’s commitment to its people, communities and planet,” and includes major new diversity and charitable initiatives launched over the past year. The report details how Penn National, which operates more than 40 facilities in the US and Canada, is addressing the CSR matters that are seen as most important to the business and stakeholders, and the progress the company has made in advancing its CSR strategy over the last year. “This year’s report highlights the many ways in which we are advancing our corporate…

Customer relationship is an important field in any industry. No business would be without its customers, and as customer loyalty becomes more difficult to obtain due to rising competition, industries and companies across the globe are looking to shape their goods and services to match evolving trends. In particular, we have seen how the influence of player demographics has shaped casino content over the years, especially as more younger generations enter the space looking for all things fast, exciting, and volatile. Years ago, the casino industry marketed towards demographics playing “games of chance”, which included video poker, craps, roulette, blackjack.…

The European Casino Association (ECA) announced on Friday that after a two-year absence the European Dealer Championship will be taking place at Casino de Monte-Carlo in Monaco on May 16-18, 2022. National teams from 22 European countries will be sending a total of 39 participants, and 37 judges will be responsible for evaluating the gaming and hospitality skills of the continent’s best and brightest. The 2022 European dealer champion will be found over the three-day competition. Additionally, the competitors will also fight it out in some spectacular side events to find the best chipper, mathematician, cutter of chips, card handler,…

The Oneida Nation has now officially opened its permanent sportsbook at Oneida Casino in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The tribe held a grand opening for its Sportsbook Lounge on Thursday, celebrating nearly six months of sports wagering in Wisconsin, and about two months after a soft opening for the amenity took place in February, ahead of Super Bowl. The grand opening was attended by Oneida Casino officials, who said the lounge is not meant to be just a place for wagers but for guests to enjoy a wider array of experiences. The amenity features wall-to-wall television coverage of sporting events, betting…

The economic recovery from the Covid pandemic continues for Las Vegas Strip casinos. The Nevada Gaming Control Board has reported March was the 3rd highest monthly gambling revenue ever recorded for resorts up and down the Boulevard, while the state reached it’s 2nd highest revenue figured of all time. Strip casinos hauled in over $745 million, which was up nearly 50% from the same time last year.  As a whole, the state brought in $1.35 billion in revenue, second only to the $1.59 billion earned in July of 2021. All of this began back in March of 2021 when Nevada…

The Nevada Gaming Control Board reported Thursday that the state’s $1.355 billion gaming revenue figure in March trailed only July 2021, which holds the record at $1.59 billion. The March figure was a 26.8% increase over March 2021, which kicked off the billion-dollar monthly figure, thus reaching now its 13th consecutive month. Las Vegas Strip casinos recorded their third-highest revenue month of all time. Analysts attributed these results to locals’ gaming markets and slot machine players. On the Strip, gaming revenue of $746.2 million represented a 48.8% increase over March 2021, when COVID-19 operating restrictions were still in place for half…

Slotegrator, a developer of solutions for the gambling business, has issued a new guide that breaks down the process for launching an online sportsbook and analyzes the utility of possible solutions. The iGaming aggregator recognizes the dynamism of the iGaming industry, with a growing number of bettors who place bets on sports in bookmakers and earn on it, and entrepreneurs’ incomes in the field of online betting also increasing. In 2021, Americans bet a record $57.22 billion on sports, up 165% from 2020, generating $4.29 billion in revenue, according to data cited by Slotegrator. In Europe, sports betting accounts for…

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has now greenlighted for schools and conferences to sign deals with sports betting data companies. The NCAA Division I Interpretations Committee determined Wednesday that an individual, program or entire conference can offer stats to sports betting companies. The stats can be provided to sports wagering companies as long as that information is also made available to the general public. The move is expected to open the way for programs and conferences to reach juicy, lucrative deals with companies that sell sports data to betting operators. The decision is a new step in collegiate athletics’…

The union that represents casino dealers in Atlantic City is calling on New Jersey lawmakers to prohibit smoking in casinos in the popular tourism destination, thus backing a casino smoking ban proposal that has been gaining momentum in the legislature as of late. In a letter to state legislators, United Auto Workers (UAW) asked them to hold hearings on legislation that would close a loophole in state law, which eliminated smoking in all New Jersey workplaces sixteen years ago while specifically exempting casinos and simulcasting facilities. “Our members include dealers who sit inches away from patrons who blow smoke directly…

So-called “gray casinos” have begun emerging in Colorado, leading city officials to push regulators for further control, with some describing the situation as a public safety issue, given a lack of consumer protections, reports The Denver Channel. The establishments operate outside of Colorado’s gambling laws, which permit gaming as long as it occurs within casinos, under strict guidelines and supervision. A Denver7 Investigates team has found “adult gaming arcades” are open all over the state, and visited establishments of this kind across the Denver metro area, where the storefronts are often located in strip malls.  “Gray casinos” staff told the…