Home News Links Lines
Home
NEWS
Live odds
Links
calendar
sitemap
Poker Blog Now
March 1st Poker news ... Poker Blog Now at pokerblognow.com
BRANDED BETTING SERVICE FOR THE SUN?
2014-04-17
Marketing Week report News UK's News Group Newspapers subsidiary Sun is delving into the possibility of launching its own-branded gambling service.
News UK has reportedly applied for a range of "Sun Bets" trademarks, two of which carry the strapline "back yourself".
Sun Bet's betting service would join a gambling portfolio that comprises Sun Bingo and the Sun+ "Second Chance Sunday" Lotto game.
Britains most popular paper is the number once choice of more than half of the UKs online gamblers, so we are always seeking ways to strengthen our sports offer to them, a Sun spokesperson told Marketing Week.
An own-branded betting service would provide another revenue stream for the Sun, but may alienate big-spending advertisers such as Paddy Power who sponsored the Sun Goals app when it launched in the middle of last year (see previous InfoPowa report).
ZYNGA WITHDRAWS NEVADA ONLINE POKER APPLICATION
2013-09-27
Eagle-eyed John Mehaffey of the Bicimotos online poker information site US Poker.com, reports that social gaming giant Zynga appears to have abandoned, for now anyway, its ambitions for a Nevada intrastate online poker licence.
Mehaffey spotted the withdrawal of the Zynga application on the September Nevada Gaming Control Board preliminary agenda, where it is listed as a "request to withdraw application."
The application to withdraw was subsequently granted, and a Zynga insider confirmed to US Poker that a withdrawal had been requested.
US Poker points out that Zynga advised in its Q2-2013 posting that it intended to drop its US real money poker plans in order to focus on freemium social games, although it affirmed that will continue to "...evaluate all of its priorities against the growing market opportunity in free, social gaming, including social casino offerings.
The report referred in particular to real money online poker operations in the United Kingdom under the Zynga Poker Plus brand on the Party Poker network, confirming that its evaluation process continues.
The decision is undoubtedly that of Zynga's CEO, Dan Mattrick, who was appointed earlier this year and almost immediately voiced his intention to focus on the core social gaming business of the company (see previous InfoPowa reports).
POKER REPORTER WINS FIRST EVENT IN 2013 WORLD SERIES OF POKER
2013-05-31
The first event of this year's World Series of Poker - the $500 buy-in employees event - has been won by poker journalist Chad Holloway and is in the record books.
Holloway is the senior news editor for PokerNews.com, and as such he qualified as a WSOP contractor for entry.
PMU LAUNCH POKER CLIENT FOR MAC
2013-05-21
French gambling operator Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU) has identified the growing Apple MAC user base and has expanded access to its poker offering with the launch of a MAC version of its poker client.
The client can be downloaded from a MAC computer following http://poker.pmu.fr/telecharger.html