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Sports integrity monitoring and intelligence supplier Sportradar Integrity Services has issued its second annual report, Betting Corruption and Match-fixing in 2022, revealing the company identified 1,212 suspicious matches in total in 2022, within 12 sports and in 92 countries from the 850,000 matches the company monitors across 70+ sports globally.   While reflecting an increase of 34% from 2021, the total number of suspicious matches indicates that match-fixing occurs at a low percentage within global sports. Overall, the data confirms that 99.5% of sporting events are free from match-fixing, with no single sport having a suspicious match ratio greater than 1%, according to…

Casino giant Las Vegas Sands is in talks to bring a destination resort-style casino to Texas if approved by the state, a representative for the company informed legislators on Wednesday. The casino and resort firm is spearheading the effort to expand gambling in Texas to include commercial casinos that provide resort-style amenities such as hotels, restaurants, meeting spaces and entertainment venues. Members of the House’s State Affairs Committee on Wednesday heard several gambling bills, including a proposal by Rep. Charlie Geren, a Fort Worth Republican, that would permit a limited number of destination resort casinos in Texas.  Geren’s proposal says the…

As we head more deeply into 2023, the American sports betting industry continues to grow and evolve. The legalization of betting on sports in many states has led to a surge in online betting, with more customers turning to mobile apps and desktop platforms to make bets. What a time to be alive, eh? One of the biggest trends for the sports betting industry is the rise of in-play betting, which allows customers to place bets on games and events as they are happening, and giving them a more immersive and engaging betting experience. This trend is expected to continue…

The Prague Gaming and Tech Summit, a betting and gaming industry conference aimed at the Central and Eastern Europe market, has announced its list of headline sponsors ahead of the event. The now sold-out seventh edition of the show, organized by media and events platform Hipther Agency, will take place March 28-30 at Vienna House in Prague’s Andel district, starting at 08:45 am.  Zoltan Tuendik, Co-Founder and Head of Business at Hipther, commented: “We have allocated a limited amount of sponsorship packages in order to provide the optimal visibility for all companies that have decided to support our event as…

Online gaming and betting technology provider BetConstruct has won One-Stop Platform Solution and Online Sports Betting Solution awards at the latest edition of the Asia Gaming Awards. Held in Manila on March 21, the Asia Gaming Awards brought together industry leaders and stakeholders from all across the globe – including operators, regulators, suppliers, and service providers – to celebrate achievements within the gaming industry and showcase their latest offerings. “BetConstruct’s One-Stop Platform Solution is an all-in-one and worry-free platform that offers a complete suite of products for partners to easily manage all aspects of their iGaming business from a single…

Hard Rock International is teaming up with conservation organization World Wildlife Fund (WWF) for its annual Earth Hour movement. Hard Rock Hotels, Cafes and Casinos around the globe will participate on March 25, 2023, by “going dark” for one hour starting at 8:30 pm local property time. Guests at participating properties’ restaurants, bars, Rock Shops, hotel rooms, lobbies and outdoor spaces will partake in the movement by engaging in activities without the use of electricity: from candle-lit dinners and acoustic musical performances to flame shows, cocktail promotions, and ROXITY Kids Club events. The effort is part of Hard Rock’s “Save the…

This week’s gambling news finds that more people will place March Madness bets this year than on the Super Bowl! And the continued growth of sports betting is pushing those numbers higher all the time! We discuss this trend and gambling news from New Jersey and Nevada! Hello friends! And welcome to This Week in Gambling, where the NCAA basketball tournament is well underway, and wow! Purdue: Gone! Virginia: Gone! Kansas and Arizona: Gone! It’s Madness, I tell you! Madness! This week’s big story finds several major upsets as we reach the Sweet 16. And whether or not that’s a…

RG24seven, a video-based training platform for gaming employees, announced it will be attending and sponsoring the Indian Gaming Tradeshow & Convention (IGA) in San Diego, California, March 27-30, 2023. The company will provide free demonstrations in booth #1836 during the event. Wendy Anderson, RG24seven CEO, and Andres Molina, Marketing Manager, will be presenting a short overview of RG24seven’s free training for Tribal gaming employees on Thursday, March 30, at 11:00 am in the Tribal Leader’s Lounge.  “We are honored to be able to share the RG24seven story with the attendees at this year’s Indian Gaming Show. RG24seven has spent the…

International Game Technology (IGT) announced Tuesday it will showcase its portfolio of new games, cabinet, systems and sports betting solutions for tribal gaming customers at the 2023 Indian Gaming Tradeshow & Convention (IGA), taking place March 27-30 in San Diego, California.  Under the theme “We’ve Got Game,” the company will “reinforce its commitment to tribal gaming through its performance-tested solutions that help operators modernize their gaming floors, elevate their loyalty programs, and maximize growth opportunities.” In addition, IGT will host the fifth annual Spirit of Sovereignty Slot Tournament on the first day of the trade show. Participants will have a chance…

Connecticut’s legislature is considering a measure to ban public colleges in the state from partnering with sponsors to solicit students to gamble. The proposal to ban all forms of sports betting advertising and promotions that target student communities comes as an effort to reign in what some see as “excesses” of legal sports betting. If approved, HB 5232 would limit the involvement of universities with sports betting companies as they attempt to market their products and services to students. The bill proposes a restriction on universities from sharing students’ information, including email, phone, or mailing address, for advertising sports betting…

iGaming content provider Pragmatic Play is sending its players “back in time” in its latest online slot, the medieval-themed “The Knight King.” Played across 5×3 reels, the slot introduces the brave Knight King protagonist, queen, his trusty steed and the fierce dragon antagonist, which must form matching combinations across the slot’s 20 paylines to award a win.  During any spin, one of these symbols can be randomly selected as the special symbol and assigned an instant win value. Any instance of this symbol on the game board will award a cash prize.  — Pragmatic Play (@PragmaticPlay) March 16, 2023 Three scatter…

Another important gaming industry B2B event returned in March, post-Covid, with the 42nd edition of the Dublin-based Irish Gaming Show. The expo was hosted in a new venue, the Crowne Plaza Hotel, in Santry. Merkur Gaming attended the meeting and showcased what it described as “a strong product range.” Catering for all sectors of the Irish gaming industry – casinos, amusements, arcades, bingo halls, and single-site operations – the Irish Gaming Show was run under the backdrop of the 2022 creation of the new Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland that has moved to create forthcoming new regulations for gaming operations;…

The Georgia Senate Economic Development and Tourism Committee revived a proposal to legalize online sports betting on Thursday, though its prospects of passage into law remain uncertain. The committee amended House Bill 237 to include the legality of online betting by early 2024 at the latest in legislation that would not require a voters’ referendum to amend the state constitution. With the legislative session drawing to a close, lawmakers have taken a last-ditch effort to legalize sports betting by piggybacking the proposal on an earlier bill. The move comes as legalization bills in both the House and Senate failed to…

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Gaming products manufacturer and distributor SUZOHAPP announced Friday it will be exhibiting at the Indian Gaming Tradeshow & Convention (IGA) from March 27-30 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Entering its 37th year, IGA is the major event for the Indian Gaming industry and boasts the largest gathering of tribal leaders and casino executives in the country. A focal point of SUZOHAPP’s exhibit this year will be its suite of terminals that covers the entire lifecycle of the sports betting experience. This ecosystem includes terminals in full kiosk format, tabletop, over-the-counter models and cash redemption terminals for…

Multinational company Enjoy launched February EnjoyWin.com, its online gambling and betting platform targeted at the Brazilian market, an initiative that is expected to become the company’s new “big” business. In an interview with Yogonet, EnjoyWin’s Business Manager, Juan Ignacio Juanena, said that the new online brand will seek to position itself in the “seventh largest country in the world” based on a proposal that differentiates it from its competitors. Additionally, the executive shared his opinion about the debates on the regulation of the online sector that is currently taking place in Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay and highlighted that the company has…