With its judgement of the 10th. of May 2022 the Administrative Court Düsseldorf has immediately revoked two prohibition orders against casino operators. The gambling providers were previously forbidden from organising public gambling on the internet, as well as from advertising for gambling. But why were the prohibition orders revoked by the court after such a long time?
In 2020 the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Thailand had declared all gambling as well as all claw cranes as illegal. At the time, a former claw crane operator was then arrested in this connection. The process started a few weeks ago - with a surprising outcome.
The investment firm Blackstone has taken over the gambling company Crown Resorts. The purchase price is said to have amounted to 8.9 billion Australian Dollar, which when converted amounts to 5.6 billion Euro. The finance giant Blackstone had previously strived for a long time to acquire the casino. But why is Blackstone purchasing a gambling company which has recently made the headlines with negative news?
International Women’s Day is celebrated today, on the 8th. March 2022. Many gambling firms took the opportunity of today‘s celebration of International Women’s Day to launch a campaign which addresses gender specific differences in the gambling branch. But what exactly is this campaign about?
The most popular German Streamer MontanaBlack wants to retire completely from the internet for the time being. As the guy who was born in Upper Saxony publicly announced a few days ago, he will for the time being retire from social networks. But what are the reasons for this surprise decision?
Very soon there could be a strict smoking ban in the casinos in the gambling metropole Atlantic City. Till now the operators may permit smoking in a quarter of the gambling area. A complete smoking ban was then introduced in the whole casino due to the restrictions of the corona pandemic.
In the past business year 2021, PokerStars managed to defend its position as the worldwide leading poker provider on the internet. But the competitors are not sleeping. The new poker provider GGPoker is becoming increasingly oppressive, The online poker room GGPoker was only founded in 2017. But which poker provider will be the Number 1 in the future?
Sponsoring by the gambling industry has been part of the international sports industry for a long time and it would be hard to imagine the latter without the former. In der Football Bundesliga for example there are several clubs which are sponsored by gambling providers. However, a recent study from Great Britain shows that the majority of the sports fans who were interviewed and who hailed from 17 countries are against the sponsoring by the gambling industry in sports.
Many gambling providers are currently following the market. The reason for this is that there are several changes to the majority of the legal requirements and also internal restructuring measures. As it was announced recently, 888 is selling its complete Bingo-business. Was the bingo division of the company not lucrative anymore or was the bid too lucrative?
A woman from Australia allegedly stole more than 600,000 Euro from her employer. However she did not gamble the money in a “normal“ online casino, but in a so-called social casino. Therefore at no time did she have any chance of winning real money.
As it was announced around two weeks ago, a young US-American must appear in court. She is being accused of defrauding a family member of his lottery scratch ticket jackpot. But what sentence is the accused expected to receive and how was the case detected?
A bold theft took place some time ago in the Chinese city of Macau. Here a female casino employee was suspected to have stolen several million Euro from many VIP accounts. But how did the employee manage to defraud the customers out of such high amounts?
The 31-year old Tiffani H. became a millionaire through a scratch card. A short while later she got married. The young mother is now dead. Murdered by her own husband. What lies behind the shocking criminal act from the US-Federal State Oklahoma?
Not only employees, but also managers participate regularly in gambling. This is the result of a new study from Great Britain, which was carried out on behalf of the online poker platform CardsChat. The concept of gambling was here broadly interpreted. But do CEOs have a problematic gambling behaviour more frequently?
As it was announced recently, the British gambling group Entain supports the children’s charity “Chance for Childhood”. Entain is an internationally active gambling group, which in 2020 generated a turnover of over 2,5 billion euro. To what extent is Entain engaged in the social sphere and which projects are especially encouraged?
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