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Joel Williams Leaves Crown Poker For Apl Poker Tour

After a 23-year affiliate with Crown Melbourne, most recently as the poker room’s tournament director, Joel Williams decided to make a change in early 2021. He left the most famous poker room in Australia to join with the Australian Poker League (APL) to oversee the impending launch of the APL...

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NSW Young People Exposed to Gambling at 11-12

The New South Wales Office of Responsible Gambling released the results of its latest study in January 2021, this one focusing on the young people. The NSW Responsible Gambling Fund commissioned the research, which resulted in the NSW Youth Gambling Study 2020. Gambling habits change with the introduction of new...

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Isoftbet Kicks Off 2021 With Neptune And Mighty Stallion

If any online casino game developer is going to crank out new games at a steady pace this year, it’s going to be iSoftBet. The company released one of its most exciting games of 2020 in mid-December, as Raging Dragons delivered a mystical land, 243 paylines, and Fortune Spins. Exclusive...

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Rsl Manager Who Stole From Pokies Avoids Conviction

A Victorian woman who stole money from an RSL poker machine said she was diagnosed with a mental illness that led to her thieving. The Herald Sun reports that Georgina Connell was sentenced to a 24-month adjourned undertaking to be of good behaviour at Heidelberg Magistrates’ Court on January 18,...

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Apt Brisbane Awards $1.5M In First Series of 2021

The Australian Poker Tour had quite enough of 2020. The coronavirus pandemic forced the tour operator to cancel most of its events last year, so they invited players to Brisbane for the first stop of 2021. They hoped to show good results to start the new year. And they did....

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The Takeover of Asx-listed Silver Heritage By Hatchasia Completed

An Australia-listed casino company has been taken over by HatchAsia, a Filipino organisation. Gambling Insider reports that Silver Heritage, the operators of Tiger Palace Resort Bhairahawa on Nepal’s border with India and the Millionaire’s Club in Kathmandu, went into voluntary administration eight months ago. The board will now be replaced...

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Crime Boss Linked to Money Laundering Arrested In The Netherlands

Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko A reputed crime boss who allegedly laundering money through Crown’s Melbourne casino has been arrested in the Netherlands. Casino.org reports that Dutch authorities have arrested Tse Chi Lop, a man alleged to be one of the world’s biggest drug kingpins. Chinese-born Canadian citizen Tse Chi Lop,...

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Gambler Pleads Guilty to Scamming Star Sydney Out of Almost $500,000

Photo by Keenan Constance A man who scammed Sydney’s Star Casino out of about $500,000 has appeared in court. The Daily Telegraph reports that 36-year-old Hieu Duc Lam did his work at the baccarat table where he stole sums ranging from $10,000 to $44,000 from the casino on 15 occasions....

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Pg Soft Releases Flurry of New iGaming Slots to Start 2021

Based in Malta, PG Soft launched its company in 2015 with a specialty in mobile game development. It debuted its products at the 2017 London ICE Totally Gaming conference. PG Soft’s graphics and fresh game ideas quickly caught the attention of online casinos around the world. Quick growth prompted the...

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Aussie Company Playup Finds Success In Us Market

PlayUp is a company based in Australia, in New South Wales to be exact. It started operating in Australia and New Zealand, eventually expanding to India. Most recently, the online betting technologies provider obtained a license to operate in New Jersey in the United States. Its foray into the US...

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