| Daniel Negreanu loses out as Robert Campbell is awarded POY win after WSOP error
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 To say that the race to become the 2019 WSOP Player of the Year was an intriguing race would be to present the understatement of the poker year. It had everything; Shaun Deeb and Daniel Negreanu going head-to-head across the world, multiple bracelet winners like Robert Campbell and Kahle Burns from Australia, old stagers like Phil Hellmuth and Chris Ferguson and the possibility of a late winner courtesy of surge to a final event win, such as Anthony Zinno's near miss. Now, it has some extra controversy after the 115 WSOP events have finished. Yes, with the winner's photo pics from the final event in Rozvadov not yet dry, the World Series of Poker have announced their mistake in awarding Daniel Negreanu too many points and therefore having got it all wrong. It turns out Robert Campbell is this year's champion. Confused? Welcome to the club. After Negreanu's Twitter celebrations put him on the plane home in the best of moods, 'DNegs' was likely 'DStraught' to learn that in Event #68 back in Vegas during the ...
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| Sri Lanka tightens sports betting rules to fight cricket graft
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| Sri Lanka introduced tough penalties for match-fixing and tightened sports betting restrictions on Monday in a bid to stamp out graft scandals that have dogged the country's cricket team. Allegations of corruption have plagued Sri Lankan cricket for years, including claims of match-fixing ahead of an international Test against England last year. "Many tried to prevent this piece of legislation, but I am happy that it was taken up today," Sports Minister Harin Fernando said after the law was passed unanimously by parliament. Betting on sports matches hosted in Sri Lanka was already illegal, but the new rules will also ban Sri Lankans from gambling on overseas contests. Offenders could face up to 10 years' jail and fines of up to 100 million rupees ($555,000) for match-fixing under the new law, which also bans people with family links to gambling businesses from sitting on the sport's local governing body. The provision appears in part to target the former president of Sri Lanka ...
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| Kenya tribunal sides with sports betting ops in tax fight with gov't
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 Kenya's sports betting operators have won a legal victory in their war with the government over how wagering is taxed. On Thursday, Business Daily reported that the Tax Appeals Tribunal in Nairobi had sided with the country's two largest betting firms, SportPesa and Betin, who argued that the government's new 20% betting tax applies only to punters' net winnings, not their betting stakes. The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has been hounding local betting operators to collect the controversial 20% tax on punters' winnings, which took effect on July 1, 2018. However, betting operators and the gambling public took issue with the KRA's amended definition of winnings, which held that the tax applied to all money paid by operators to winning bettors, including the return of their original betting stake. The Tribunal also shifted more responsibility for remitting the tax onto the individual punters rather than the operators deducting the tax at source. The Tribunal's intention was reportedly to shield betting ...
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| Gamblers in New Jersey can bet on esports this weekend
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 New Jersey already has one of the most robust sports gambling markets in the U.S., but it isn't done yet. Something new is coming this weekend – and this weekend only – that could be a prelude to an even more expansive market going forward. For the first time, the Garden State will see wagers being placed in esports at the state's licensed sportsbooks. According to EGR North America, New Jersey's gambling regulator, the Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE), has given a weekend pass for sportsbooks to receive bets for the 2019 League of Legends (LOL) World Championship Finals, scheduled to take place this weekend. The DGE told sportsbooks this past Wednesday that it would allow them to accept the wagers, provided they adhered to a couple of stipulations. These include a cap of $1,000 in bets on the match and a prohibition of offering in-game betting. New Jersey, when it legalized sports gambling last year, prohibited wagers on high school sports events, video game competitions and esports. Shortly after, ...
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| Flutter's US betting growth offsets overall online, retail decline
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 UK-listed gaming giant Flutter Entertainment is relying on its US market growth to offset declines in both retail and online business at home. On Thursday, Flutter – the artist formerly known as Paddy Power Betfair – issued a trading update covering the three months ending September 30, during which revenue rose 10% to £533m, with sports betting up 11% to £417m and gaming rising 8% to £116m. Around four points of Flutter's Q3 growth was due to contributions from the Republic of Georgia's leading gambling operator Adjarabet, which Flutter acquired in February. Flutter's Q3 growth was also significantly slower than the 17% rate it enjoyed in Q1 or the 18% reported during the first half of 2019. Investors didn't care, pushing the stock nearly 3% higher by the end of Thursday's trading. Total online gambling revenue outside Australia and the US slipped 1% to £247m, a fall the company blamed on a poor comparison with a World Cup quarter last year and recent 'switch offs' in certain European grey/black markets.
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| Report: Bwin's Russian-licensed betting site not long for this world
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 The Bwin sports betting brand may soon disappear from Russia's online gambling landscape, according to local reports. On Thursday, Russian affiliate Bookmaker Ratings reported that A&NN Investments is looking to unload the Russian sports betting license held by Digital Betting LLC, which operates online in Russia using the Bwin.ru domain through a joint venture with UK-listed GVC Holdings. While no deal has been finalized, a Bookmaker Ratings source claimed that Digital Betting's license may be transferred to a division of payment processing outfit Qiwi, which handles transactions for multiple Russian-licensed bookmakers. Qiwi has denied this report. Other sources claimed that The Stars Group (TSG) is in the running to acquire Digital Betting's license. In August, TSG CEO Rafi Ashkenazi said the company planned to apply for a Russian betting license using its PokerStars Sports brand. PokerStars derives a significant chunk of its revenue from Russia's online black market but this revenue is under threat ...
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| Retail sportsbook initiatives in New Hampshire gather momentum
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 November in the U.S. is always a stressful month, but not because the holidays are approaching. Instead, it's due to the number of elections that are held on a local, regional or national level, and states across the country are wrapping up some important cycles of growth, or, in some cases, withdrawal. In New Hampshire, both are found as cities are divided on whether or not they want retail sportsbooks in their neighborhoods. According to the latest poll data, nine cities had ballot initiatives to determine whether or not sports gambling operations should be allowed in their areas. Of these, five have said yes, while the other four opted out of the activity. Berlin, Claremont, Laconia, Manchester and Somersworth all approved the measure, while voters in Concord, Dover, Nashua and Rochester said thanks, no thanks. Even in the cities that see the economic benefit of allowing legal sports gambling, instead of watching the money flow to offshore accounts, the race was a tight one. For example, Manchester, ...
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| Isaac Baron wins Poker Masters Event #1 for $223,100
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 The Poker Masters is back in action in Las Vegas and that can only mean one thing – the Purple Jacket is back! As well as huge guarantees, high rolling action and the best poker studio in the world, someone will take the Purple Jacket and $100,000 in added money for becoming the Poker Masters Series Winner. Steffen Sontheimer did it in 2017, Ali Imsirovic won it in 2018. But who will win the Purple Jacket in 2019? Isaac Baron is off to the best start this year, winning Event #1 for $223,100 after outlasting 96 opponents in the $10,000-entry no limit hold'em event. Baron did so after winning his first-ever WSOP bracelet in the summer in Las Vegas and could well be a fixture not just in this latest Poker Central high roller series but many others if he keeps up this level of play. The money bubble burst in Event #1 when J.J. Feregrino bubbled when Ralph Wong and Isaac Baron pushed him out of the reckoning in a three-way pot where Baron held aces and Wong a set of eights, which held. But while Baron would ...
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