Are loot boxes gambling in Austrian law? According to local news, an unnamed Austrian gamer is requesting that Sony pay them €85,000 ($90,599) for losses incurred buying FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT) packs. The gamer contacted the law firm Salburg Rechtsanwalts GmbH asking for representation in the case against Sony following a court ruling on February ...
A Twitter firestorm Jami Lafay — the professional name of Jami Daniels, a poker player and Twitter personality who is best known for her semi-regular appearances on Hustler Casino Live — became the center of a Twitter firestorm this week when her GoFundMe became the target of one of Todd Witteles’s investigations. a goal of $50,000 ...
Nemo struggles to hustle in NYC FIDE Master, Woman Grandmaster, and WPT Global ambassador Nemo Zhou tried to put together a video hustling some New York chess players, but things did not quite go as planned. Players who were hoping to see Nemo return to high stakes action after her poker controversy last year will ...
“The biggest hand in televised US poker history” Everyone is talking about the No Gamble, No Future million-dollar cash game on PokerGO from Sunday. During the Day 3 stream of the epic “Cash of the Titans” series, poker pro Patrik Antonius went head-to-head with casino owner Eric Persson in a pot that ended up being ...
Localized test run Ahead of Super Bowl LVII, TikTok conducted a limited experiment with gambling advertisements. The popular social media app has banned gambling ads, but the team at TikTok allowed Sportsbet to advertise to a small number of users in Australia, who were shown ads for novelty bets on Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime show. “ads ...
One of the world’s most decorated players Vave, a crypto-based gambling site, recently announced Judd Trump MBE as its new global brand ambassador. At the time, Vave’s website described the team as “excited” about the announcement, but since then, Trump has had to face a backlash from his fans. Trump built his reputation as a professional ...
Making headlines For gamblers used to online slots, casino tables, and coffee-klatch poker games, the world of cockfighting seems like a mere blood-boltered shambles. However, from underground fights in the US to a national pastime in the Philippines, gambling on cockfighting remains a multibillion-dollar industry. This week, for example, has seen a glut of cockfighting-related headlines ...
Play the player According to Israeli security company Security Joes, the gambling sector has been the victim of a series of cyber attacks that started in September. Since then, the company has tracked the attacks under the codename: “IceBreaker APT.” made the company reps hack themselves In poker, there is a time-sanded platitude that one must “play ...
