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With all 12 Pennsylvania casinos open for business in July, there were more than a few big winners. Topping the list was Jonathan F. He won $785,427.36 at Valley Forge Casino Resort. On July 9, he won a Super 4 Progressive Blackjack side bet. Casino officials stated this was one of this venue’s biggest wins ever. Lucky slot players took home some four-digit hits at that casino as well. Another big...

One lucky high roller at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas is $320,000 richer. The slots jackpot was hit on a $200 two-coin pinball-style game. The big win took place on Saturday, July 25. The casino was quick to tweet out “Winner, winner. Congrats to one lucky guest.” This was posted on the Cosmopolitan’s Twitter page. The winner chose to remain anonymous after the landing the six-figure grand prize....

One big winner at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood just walked away with a life-changing jackpot. Playing five dollars on a $1 Megabucks progressive slot turned into $3,854,682 when three Double Bars appeared on the reels. The 60-year old Fort Lauderdale resident was a guest at the Guitar Hotel. This is another name for this Hard Rock casino. The Seminole Tribe runs six casinos in...

UK-based Health Games offers real money online casino gambling through slots and bingo. One of its most popular progressive jackpot games now has a grand prize of more than 2.3 million pounds. That game is called Hall of Gods. It is actually one of three progressive titles with a current jackpot crossing the $2 million pound threshold. The other two are Millionaire Genie and Rise of the Pharaohs....

he live sports betting industry is still dealing with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Most live sports were shutdown back in mid-March. Online sportsbooks tried to fill that void with anything that would appeal to avid bettors. This led to a major increase in betting on international table tennis. Most notably in Russia and the Ukraine. The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement just su...

 Most online casino players looking for potential life-changing jackpots turn to slots. One lucky player in Blackpool, England landed 1 million pounds playing an online scratchcard. The game was Pragmatic Play’s popular Wolf Gold. The operator is SkillOnNet and the win took place on PlayOJO. This was one of the largest wins ever on a Pragmatic Play scratchcard. The Wolf Gold series has been a favo...

    After faithfully playing the lottery for more than 40 years, an Arizona couple hit paydirt with the numbers 1, 5, 9, 10, 23. Add in the Mega Ball number 22 and it added up to $410 million. The grand prize rolled over 33 times dating back to early February before that winning combination was played on June 9. The winning couple are from Glendale, Arizona. They decided to remain anonymous after...

  Two online casino players scored a pair of life-changing seven-figure slot jackpots at the end of May. The first was worth $2,256,578 Canadian dollars on the Powerbucks Wheel of Fortune Exotic Far East progressive slot. Three days later, another player won $1,015,561 Canadian dollars  on the Powerbucks’ Hawaiian Getaway Wheel of Fortune slot game. IGT is the gaming company behind the Powerbucks...

as Vegas reopened many of its casino doors the first weekend of June. That is good news for avid slot players who have sat idle since mid-March. This is when all the state’s casinos were shuttered to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. One of the first big winners playing slots was at Red Rock Casino. Located south of Las Vegas, the lucky player walked away with a $9092 jackpot on an 88 cent...

Las Vegas was back up and running on Thursday, June 4. The number of open casinos was limited as was each one’s capacity. None the less, casino stock investors were pleased with the early reports. Demand was stronger than expected in the early Las Vegas crowds. The road to recovery remains rather long but clearing this first hurdle was an important step forward. One financial firm with a vested in...

n an effort to promote the reopening of Las Vegas, casino mogul Derek Stevens is giving away 1000 free flights to town. Many of the flights will originate from his home town of Detroit. Grand Rapids is another city in Michigan with a number of scheduled flights. Stevens owns the D Casino and The Golden Gate in the downtown section of Las Vegas. His goal is to help jump start the sagging local econ...

Going back 43 years in time, land-based casino slot wins of $1,200 or more require a W-2G tax form. As a key industry governing body, the American Gaming Association wants this figure revised. If the current amount would be adjusted for inflation, the new figure would top $5,000. The AGA believes the benefits would be two-fold. It would alleviate paperwork for the Internal Revenue Service. It also...

NFL free agency has been in play since mid-March. The recent draft at the end of April filled in a few more roster spots for all 32 teams. Now is the best time of the extended NFL offseason to bet on next reason’s results. One team that has garnered some favorable odds in its Week 1 opener is the Dallas Cowboys. They will open the 2020 season on the road as 2.5-point favorites against the Los Ange...

he of the games greatest golfers ever are teeing it up in Florida later this month. The goal is to raise $10 million for the ongoing fight against the coronavirus health crisis. Tiger Woods will team up with former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning. That twosome will square off against Phil Mickelson and current Tampa Bay quarterback Tom Brady. The 18-hole charity event is called “The Match: Champion...

One of the highly popular UK real money bingo sites with progressive jackpots just paid out a winner. Going back to early April, a pair of lucky players have been able to hit it big. The latest winner from Wigan is Vicky Bevan. She is relatively new to playing bingo for real money online. Yet, after four months she must feel like a pro with a jackpot hit of more than 35,000 pounds. She won with ju...

The highly popular daily fantasy league and sports betting site DraftKings started trading on Nasdaq late last week. Under the symbol DKNG, the initial share price opened at $20.49. The current company is a result of a three-way merger with an investment company and a gambling tech firm. The investment company is Diamond Eagle Acquisition Corp and the tech firm is SBTech Global. DraftKings’ co-fou...

The timetable to reopen the casinos in Las Vegas has not been set. However, select casino executives have met informally to discuss potential plans. One idea was to open the casinos off the famed Las Vegas Strip first. This would get more locals back to work quicker. They also discussed the idea of mobile testing facilities for the coronavirus. This would benefit both casino employees and guests....

One very lucky online real money casino player just walked away with one of the biggest progressive jackpots ever. Playing the five-reel, 25-payline video slot Mega Moolah at JackpotCityCasino, they hit the $11.7 million grand prize. The game’s developer is Microgaming based out of Isle of Man. This game is part of a progressive network of slots that has a total prize pool of $1.2 billion. So far...

In this weeks in online casino gambling news podcast and video we discuss   Atari Set to Launch a Crypto Casino and Gaming Token and Caesars Entertainment UK Hit With Massive Gaming Penalty. After that we discuss Online Casinos Move Towards Provably Fair Games and UK Casino Players Move Gambling Activities Online.   One of the oldest gaming companies in the industry is making plans to launch an on...

Fugaso is a popular software supplier with a number of highly recognizable slot titles. One of the more acclaimed games is Trump It Deluxe. It also provided a highly lucrative jackpot for an online player in Turkey. With a 30 euro stake, the Mini Jackpot player walked away with 245,441 euros in winnings. The hit game features symbols of famous world leaders. It is part of the company’s collection...

The imagery of a classic disco dance floor highlight’s Pragmatic Play’s Dance Party. The gaming company’s latest release is a five by three reel video slot offering neon-lit action. This highly volatile game has a progressive multiplier free spin mode with big win potential. The mode is triggered by landing five diamond scatter symbols in one spin. The free spin session takes players to the middle...

  Cryptocurrency Casinos Pave the Way For Anonymous Online Gambling? By its very nature, financial transactions with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies remain completely anonymous. Digital currency exchanges are between two parties. They are only identified by a unique transaction number that is stored on the blockchain. This anonymity has created the perfect environment for online casino gambling...

Earlier this month it was reported that one lucky slot player walked away with a $1.2 million jackpot. The big hit took place at the Venetian on the Las Vegas Strip. The anonymous winner bet just $5 on Wheel of Fortune Wild Red Sevens’ progressive slot to land the $1,264,574 jackpot. This was the third seven-figure Las Vegas payout this year on the IGT series of Wheel of Fortune slots. Also in ear...

  Rapper Offset and his wife Cardi B made the recent trip to Las Vegas to catch the Tyson vs. Fury title fight. While in town, he tried his luck at Aria as a popular gambling venue on the famed Las Vegas Strip. Luck was definitely on his side with $100,000 in winnings. It was assumed by news sources that Offset was playing craps or some other dice game. A picture in one hip hop site showed 10 stac...

Dorothy Boone from Temple, Texas was planning a trip to Laughlin, Nevada which included some casino gambling. Taking the advice of some close friends, she and her husband decided visit Lake Tahoe instead. They ended up at Harveys Lake Tahoe in Nevada when Dorothy landed that big jackpot. She was playing 3 Card Progressive Poker when the winning combination added up to a $1,340,518 jackpot. She tol...