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RIVAL GAMING RELEASES JAPAN-O-RAMA
2021-12-23
Japan-O-Rama I-slot captures vibrant nature of the Japanese
Online software developer, Rival Gaming has announced the launch of Japan-O-Rama, an exclusive 20 payline, 5-reel i-slot.
The game features three Pachinko bonus rounds featuring different Japanese themes, expanding wilds on reels 1, 2, and 3 and unique animations for each icon that lands in a row of 4 or 5.
Arena – Georgia at Philadelphia
2021-04-09
This was almost a fantastic match-up of two unbeaten teams until Georgia was upset last week. Instead it is the marquee contest on ESPN2 with one piping hot signal caller. Tony Graziani is playing the best of his career and is running a highly efficient offense which is averaging a league leading 67 PPG. According to quarterback rating system, Graziani is fourth and is backed by a ball-hawking defense that has forced 16 turnovers in just four games.
Georgia's record starting the season with four games at better then 60 points a contest lasted all of one week as Philadelphia matched them in last game. The Force played without usual focus in committing four turnovers and need to make sure this doesn’t happen again against the Soul. Chris Greisen keeps putting up impressive numbers for Georgia who makes first ever trip to Wachovia Center. From a mental standpoint the Force could have an edge with 9-1 ATS record after a loss by 6 or less points.
Teams are evenly matched and this should come down to last few minutes. Philadelphia has been bet down to a three point favorite from opening number of six , with a total of 121.
Key Totals Trend – Philadelphia is 7-0 UNDER in home games against National Conference, Southern Division opponents over the last two seasons.
Tough Times For Funtech
2021-03-30
Big losses at skill games group
Losses of US$ 128.2 million on revenues of $41.6 million clouded the results from FUN Technologies Inc, the Canadian provider of online and interactive casual and fantasy sports games this week.
Revenue from FUN Games totalled $21.4 million for the year, substantially from cash skill games platforms which include WorldWinner.com, SkillJam.com and their partner destination sites. The company also launched SCRABBLE Cubes, a 3-D adaptation of Hasbro’s classic crossword game, and leveraged SkillJam’s popular branded games content, including Bejeweled 2, Big Money, Chuzzle, Dynomite and Zuma, across the WorldWinner platform.
Revenue from FUN Sports totalled $20.2 million for the year.
During the year under review FUN cemented its position in the skill games market by acquiring WorldWinner.com, Inc., SkillJam’s largest U.S. competitor at that time. The group also purchased Teagames, a UK-based casual games portal, in the third quarter. Teagames boasts a portfolio of 41 proprietary casual games. Adding Teagames’ more than 4.6 million unique visitors per month from 19 countries to FUN’s games platform allowed the company to leverage the additional traffic for advertising revenue with little incremental cost.
The company’s adjusted EBITDA loss for the year ending 31st December 2006 amounted to $9.5 million.
Fantasy Sports - Why The MLB Likes The Carve-out
2021-03-16
Big bucks for sports bodies...and politicians
The New York Sun carried an insightful op-ed piece this week which examines why American sports bodies like Major League Baseball have implacably opposed online gambling in the USA.....as long as there's a carve-out in the legislation for fantasy sports.
Along with horse-racing and state lotteries, the carve-out for fantasy sports is continued in the latest American legislation that seeks to hamstring online gambling in the United States by making financial transactions with online gambling companies illegal.
The article explains that the MLB spent a good part of last year trying to corner the fantasy baseball market, unsuccessfully arguing in court that player names and statistics are not public events, and raising the licensing fees for officially endorsed fantasy baseball games such as those run by ESPN well into the millions of dollars.
This, the article claims was part of a basic strategy to centralise the huge fantasy market around MLB's Web site, thus giving baseball a finger in every fantasy pie.
Though that strategy was dealt a blow by the August decision that MLB could not stop small companies from running fantasy games using baseball statistics, fantasy games remain a large and growing revenue stream for MLB, with seven officially licensed fantasy games, with each licensee paying a reported $2.5 million - an extremely valuable platform for the promotion of the sport.
The piece goes on to sharply criticise Senator Jon Kyl, long the nemesis of the online gambling industry with his repeated attempts to introduce banning laws: "Happily for baseball, Mr. Kyl's ban on online gambling includes a carve-out for fantasy sports," the article explains. "Five card stud might be crack, but apparently the crystal meth that is fantasy baseball is fine with the good senator, who obligingly cleared out a whole gang of rival dealers so that MLB and the other major team sports could sling their product on the corner.
"Head over to MLB.com and you'll be pointed to clean destinations where you can wager on baseball through fantasy sports leagues - a good, legal way to spend some of that cash you otherwise would have burned in your virtual crackpipe."
The author then claims that according to records accessed through the Center for Responsive Politics, Kyl raked in $41 398 from MLB executives and the game's political action committee last year. And he wasn't the only one to benefit from this organisation's largesse.
Senator McCain, for instance, received $20 343 toward his Straight Talk America PAC from MLB. And Rep. Tom Davis, in his guise as chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, counted the MLB among his top 20 donors - right up there with Microsoft, at $11 250. Senator DeWine counted up $21 200 in contributions from MLB bigwigs, and another $27 210 from the lobbying firm of Baker & Hostetler, whose main client is.....MLB.
Another thing these politicians have in common with each other and with Senator Kyl is their membership of the Republican Party. But MLB owners happily cut their checks to both political parties - around $280 000 funneled toward the Democratic senatorial and congressional committees, and another $72 000 to the Democratic National Committee Services Corp., will keep Hill staffers returning phone calls.
Sadly for baseball, a look over the pattern of giving, gives off the feeling of a lot of bets gone bad, something of which Kyl would no doubt disapprove. DeWine wasn't the only MLB-backed loser. Baseball sent Washington's Senator Cantwell, a frequent sponsor of bills approving of various heroic baseball deeds, $14 800 - but her opponent, Michael McGavick, got $23 400. In Virginia, Senator Allen got $9 400. In Pennsylvania, Senator Santorum nearly doubled up on Senator Casey in baseball cash. Ex- New York Mayor Rudi Giuliani's campaign funds received $21 400 from MLB owners.
Fantasy Sports - Why The MLB Likes The Carve-out
2021-03-12
Big bucks for sports bodies...and politicians
The New York Sun carried an insightful op-ed piece this week which examines why American sports bodies like Major League Baseball have implacably opposed online gambling in the USA.....as long as there's a carve-out in the legislation for fantasy sports.
Along with horse-racing and state lotteries, the carve-out for fantasy sports is continued in the latest American legislation that seeks to hamstring online gambling in the United States by making financial transactions with online gambling companies illegal.
The article explains that the MLB spent a good part of last year trying to corner the fantasy baseball market, unsuccessfully arguing in court that player names and statistics are not public events, and raising the licensing fees for officially endorsed fantasy baseball games such as those run by ESPN well into the millions of dollars.
This, the article claims was part of a basic strategy to centralise the huge fantasy market around MLB's Web site, thus giving baseball a finger in every fantasy pie.
Though that strategy was dealt a blow by the August decision that MLB could not stop small companies from running fantasy games using baseball statistics, fantasy games remain a large and growing revenue stream for MLB, with seven officially licensed fantasy games, with each licensee paying a reported $2.5 million - an extremely valuable platform for the promotion of the sport.
The piece goes on to sharply criticise Senator Jon Kyl, long the nemesis of the online gambling industry with his repeated attempts to introduce banning laws: "Happily for baseball, Mr. Kyl's ban on online gambling includes a carve-out for fantasy sports," the article explains. "Five card stud might be crack, but apparently the crystal meth that is fantasy baseball is fine with the good senator, who obligingly cleared out a whole gang of rival dealers so that MLB and the other major team sports could sling their product on the corner.
"Head over to MLB.com and you'll be pointed to clean destinations where you can wager on baseball through fantasy sports leagues - a good, legal way to spend some of that cash you otherwise would have burned in your virtual crackpipe."
The author then claims that according to records accessed through the Center for Responsive Politics, Kyl raked in $41 398 from MLB executives and the game's political action committee last year. And he wasn't the only one to benefit from this organisation's largesse.
Senator McCain, for instance, received $20 343 toward his Straight Talk America PAC from MLB. And Rep. Tom Davis, in his guise as chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, counted the MLB among his top 20 donors - right up there with Microsoft, at $11 250. Senator DeWine counted up $21 200 in contributions from MLB bigwigs, and another $27 210 from the lobbying firm of Baker & Hostetler, whose main client is.....MLB.
Another thing these politicians have in common with each other and with Senator Kyl is their membership of the Republican Party. But MLB owners happily cut their checks to both political parties - around $280 000 funneled toward the Democratic senatorial and congressional committees, and another $72 000 to the Democratic National Committee Services Corp., will keep Hill staffers returning phone calls.
Sadly for baseball, a look over the pattern of giving, gives off the feeling of a lot of bets gone bad, something of which Kyl would no doubt disapprove. DeWine wasn't the only MLB-backed loser. Baseball sent Washington's Senator Cantwell, a frequent sponsor of bills approving of various heroic baseball deeds, $14 800 - but her opponent, Michael McGavick, got $23 400. In Virginia, Senator Allen got $9 400. In Pennsylvania, Senator Santorum nearly doubled up on Senator Casey in baseball cash. Ex- New York Mayor Rudi Giuliani's campaign funds received $21 400 from MLB owners.