EveryMatrix gets Malta Gaming Licence for Greentube Games

EveryMatrix is proud to announce that they have been awarded a Class 1 on 4 license by the Malta Gaming Authority. As EveryMatrix gets Malta Gaming Licence, the company has the opportunity to handle the distribution of Greentube games to its business partners operating under Maltese jurisdiction. Greentube is the global interactive unit of NOVOMATIC, a leading developer and supplier ...

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Brad Albrinck Eyes Back-to-Back Title in WSOP Circuit Harrah’s Cherokee Main Event

Brad Albrinck is looking to lock a back-to-back title in the WSOP Circuit Harrah’s Cherokee Main Event. The player topped the tournament’s field this time last year and secured himself with a good starting position on Day 2 of this year’s edition of the event.

The player entered the event on its second of two starting flights. Day 1B was played on Saturday at the host venue Harrah’s Cherokee in Cherokee, North Carolina. After 15 levels of play, Albrinck finished third in chips with a total of 316,500. Here it is important to note that the player is vying not only for a back-to-back title, but also for his third WSOP Circuit gold ring.

Aside from last year’s triumph in the Harrah’s Cherokee Main Event, when the player collected $275,877 in addition to the gold piece, he also captured a piece of WSOP Circuit jewelry in September 2013. Back then, the player bested the field of another Main Event, the $1,675 buy-in tournament at Horseshoe Cincinnati in his hometown. He also scooped the amount of $221,994 for his victory.

Currently, Albrinck has nearly $748,827 in live tournament earnings from the WSOP Circuit. The player has cashed in 20 events within the series over the course of his poker career. It is yet to be seen whether he will be able to score a back-to-back victory, but one thing is for sure – this will not be an easy task as the player will certainly face fierce competition.

Harrah’s Cherokee Main Event Sees Great Interest

The Harrah’s Cherokee Main Event featured a guaranteed prize pool of $1 million, which was more than exceeded due to great interest among players. The tournament attracted a total of 957 entries who generated a prize pool of $1,435,500. The top 99 finishers will receive a share of the money. The winner will be awarded the amount of $272,744 and the coveted gold ring, of course.

Day 1B of the event was played on Saturday and saw 579 people enter it before registration was closed. Participants played 15 levels throughout the day and by the time the final one was completed, Philipp Salewski had accumulated the largest chip stack. The player bagged 336,000 in chips and was followed by Matthew Higgins with 326,000 and Albrinck.

Day 1A chip leader Nathan Gentry will enter Day 2 action as the overall chip leader. The player will start the third day of the tournament with a total of 399,500 in chips.

Notables who will return for more action at Harrah’s Cherokee include Robert Hankins, who is vying for a ninth WSOP Circuit gold ring, Mark ‘Pegasus’ Smith, and Mike Wang, among others. Other notables, with some of them being ten-time gold ring winner Maurice Hawkins, seven-time gold ring winner Cory Waaland, and three-time WSOP gold bracelet winner David Bach, were less lucky and were eliminated during the Main Event’s earlier stages.

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Sportsbooks Getting Hurt by NFL Favorites Covering Spreads

Bettors of the NFL are learning this season it is probably smart to wager on the favorite. They have been dominating at the window, covering at a 60 percent mark against the spread and sportsbooks are taking a hit because of it.

For six consecutive weeks the favorites have won and from Week 7 to Week 12 they have been ahead 69 percent of the time. Since 2003 Bet Labs reported that the preferred team has a 49,9 percent mark.

Jeff Fogle, who works for Vegas Stats & Information Network, wrote recently that the NFL is having a unique year with its teams.

“It’s not supposed to be this easy for the favorite-loving general public to cash so many tickets,” he wrote. “But we have a unique situation where almost half the league is in the playoff chase, and must keep winning to have a chance at the postseason . . . while the other half is incentivized to lose for draft position. The market hasn’t been able to find the right pricing strategy when decent teams with good quarterbacks are facing non-contenders with bad or inexperienced quarterbacks.”

The last two weeks have been even more impressive. They have a record of 22-7-1 ATS for a 75.9 mark. Last week they went 12-4 ATS. Jacksonville, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Kansas City were the teams that didn’t cover.

Chiefs Save Sportsbooks

The Chiefs lost outright to the Buffalo Bills, 16-10, despite being given a 9-point advantage and that actually helped the venues. They were one of two squads that was supposed to win and didn’t. Jacksonville lost to Arizona, 27-24, despite giving 6 points.

Vice president for race and sports for MGM resorts told Covers.com that the Chiefs game helped even things out.

“The public can always do the most damage. But at some point, the public is gonna take it in the shorts. Fortunately, they did with Kansas City,” he said. “To really crush us, they have to get it all right. Sunday was close to a complete disaster. But Buffalo outright was huge. The public was on Kansas City, and thankfully so.”

Some teams fare better than others. Philadelphia is 9-2 and Minnesota is 8-3 ATS. The LA Rams, New England, Carolina and Houston are all 7-4. Sixteen of the 32 teams have winning records, while 14 have losing marks and two are even. Cleveland, who is winless on the season, is 2-9 ATS.

College Teams More Average

The best teams in college football have more of a statistical regularity when favored. Of the Top 10 teams in the Associated Press Top 25, they have a cumulative record of 53-54-3 ATS when favored, similar to what the NFL is usually at.

Despite gamblers taking advantage of the anomaly with the professionals and gaining an edge at the betting window, don’t feel too sorry for the casinos. Nevada sportsbooks won $31.4 million overall in October, their 51st straight winning month.

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Dan Smith Beats Daniel Negreanu Heads-Up to Win 2017 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic $100,000 Super High Roller

The Bellagio Poker Room, one of the hottest poker spots on the Las Vegas Strip, is currently playing host to this year’s WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic. The festival has long been one of the most popular tournament poker events to be taking place within WPT’s schedule, and this year presents no exception to what has become a general rule.

A number of tournaments on the schedule of this year’s edition of the festival have already been completed, and the $100,000 Super High Roller was the one to crown a victor mere hours ago. Dan Smith, a vivid member of global poker’s elite, bested the tournament’s field to collect the amount of $1,404,000 for his performance that included battling against some of the world’s best high roller pros.

The tournament drew 39 participants who generated a prize pool of $3.9 million. There were payouts for the top six finishers, with min-cashes starting from $234,000. Bryn Kenney was the first to leave the event with a payout, after falling in sixth place on Thursday night. Following his elimination, the five remaining players bagged it for that day and were instructed to return at the host venue on Friday when they played down to a winner.

The five finalists were led by Isaac Haxton, who entered the final day of play with a total of 1.81 million in chips. Daniel Negreanu trailed behind with the second largest stack of 1.472 million. Smith, Germany’s Stefan Schillhabel, and Spain’s Sergio Aido were the other three players left to contend for the title and the hefty first-place payout.

Aido was the first to go on Friday, and was followed by Haxton, who apparently had lost his momentum from Thursday. The two players received $312,000 and $390,000, respectively.

Three-handed play was packed with action, and according to Negreanu, who kept tweeting throughout the day, Schillhabel and Smith often engaged in massive pot confrontations. Smith prevailed over his German opponent to enter heads-up against Negreanu. Schillhabel thus headed to the payout desk to collect his third-place payout of $624,000.

The eventual winner held a significant chip advantage over his Canadian colleague, and it did not take long before the name of the winner became clear. As Negreanu revealed on Twitter, the final hand of the evening saw his [Q][10] fall to Smith’s [A][K]. The popular Canadian poker pro scooped a payout of $936,000 for his deep run into the tournament.

Facts and Figures about the Super High Roller’s Finalists

Negreanu’s runner-up finish in the Super High Roller and his payout of nearly $1 million cemented his top position in the all-time money list. The player now has more than $35 million in live tournament earnings.

As for the winner, last night’s payout brought his live tournament earnings to over $19 million. The player has cashed in a number of live tournament earnings over the course of his career. He scooped his largest live cash last year, when he finished runner-up to Fedor Holz in the WSOP $111,111 High Roller for ONE DROP. Smith received the amount of $3,078,974 for his efforts.

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SugarHouse Casino announces December events and promotions

The Pennsylvania casino has planned a month of slot bonuses and poker tournaments, in addition to exciting New Year's Eve festivities.

Amax International to operate VIP room at Poipet casino

A recently signed three-year deal will see Hong-Kong-based investment holding company Amax International (HKEx:959) operate a VIP room in Cambodian boomtown Poipet at Genting Crown Casino, which has no affiliation with either Genting or Crown Resorts. G3Newswire reports that 13 VIP tables will be operated by the junket group, for which it will pay Crown Resorts Co., Ltd a monthly fee of RMB500,000 (US$75,650) for the first year’s operation of the VIP room, RMB550,000 for the second year and increasing to RMB600,000 for year three. Commenting on the deal, Amax stated: “Given the support of the Cambodian government to the local hotel and entertainment industry and the booming tourism year on year in Cambodia, the Board has spotted a valuable opportunity to tap into the entertainment businesses. Cambodia is still one of the smallest economies within ASEAN and remains one of the less developed countries in Asia when competitors and other investors are still unaware of this golden gem. The local casino industry in Cambodia has been growing in recent years. In the first nine months of 2015, 75 casinos, with 10 new establishments licensed in the third quarter alone, were responsible for US$29m in government revenue and US$2bn in income for casino owners, most of which are foreign investment companies.” Amax, which is principally engaged in the investment in gaming and entertainment businesses, added that it would be outsourcing the VIP room’s operations to the group who previously ran a room in Macau at its Greek Mythology casino between 2006 and 2001 and who currently runs junket operations at Imperial Pacific Resort in Saipan and Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Amax reportedly said it would be responsible for ‘formulating strategies; monitoring the human resources and administration functions; promoting the Target VIP Room; overseeing the entire day-to-day operations of the Target VIP Room as well as liaising with the operator’s junkets network to bring players to the Target VIP Room.’ A 24.8 percent equity interest is held by the Group in the Greek Mythology casino in Macau, which is the operator and manager of the Greek Mythology casino located at the former New Century Hotel, Beijing Imperial Palace Hotel, in Macau. An increase of 156.3 percent, revenues of HK$10.53m were reportedly recorded by Amex for the last year, with the significant increase in revenue mainly attributed to the revenue derived from the Vanuatu gaming operation, which continues achieve progress after in July 2016 having commenced and for 77.2 per cent of Amax’s total revenues. Amex stated, “Together with the company’s existing gaming business in Vanuatu, the Board believes that the company is gradually building a broad network in the gaming and entertainment business beyond Macau,” as reported by G3Newswire.

Dan Smith Beats Daniel Negreanu Heads-Up to Win 2017 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic $100,000 Super High Roller

The Bellagio Poker Room, one of the hottest poker spots on the Las Vegas Strip, is currently playing host to this year’s WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic. The festival has long been one of the most popular tournament poker events to be taking place within WPT’s schedule, and this year presents no exception to what has become a general rule.

A number of tournaments on the schedule of this year’s edition of the festival have already been completed, and the $100,000 Super High Roller was the one to crown a victor mere hours ago. Dan Smith, a vivid member of global poker’s elite, bested the tournament’s field to collect the amount of $1,404,000 for his performance that included battling against some of the world’s best high roller pros.

The tournament drew 39 participants who generated a prize pool of $3.9 million. There were payouts for the top six finishers, with min-cashes starting from $234,000. Bryn Kenney was the first to leave the event with a payout, after falling in sixth place on Thursday night. Following his elimination, the five remaining players bagged it for that day and were instructed to return at the host venue on Friday when they played down to a winner.

The five finalists were led by Isaac Haxton, who entered the final day of play with a total of 1.81 million in chips. Daniel Negreanu trailed behind with the second largest stack of 1.472 million. Smith, Germany’s Stefan Schillhabel, and Spain’s Sergio Aido were the other three players left to contend for the title and the hefty first-place payout.

Aido was the first to go on Friday, and was followed by Haxton, who apparently had lost his momentum from Thursday. The two players received $312,000 and $390,000, respectively.

Three-handed play was packed with action, and according to Negreanu, who kept tweeting throughout the day, Schillhabel and Smith often engaged in massive pot confrontations. Smith prevailed over his German opponent to enter heads-up against Negreanu. Schillhabel thus headed to the payout desk to collect his third-place payout of $624,000.

The eventual winner held a significant chip advantage over his Canadian colleague, and it did not take long before the name of the winner became clear. As Negreanu revealed on Twitter, the final hand of the evening saw his [Q][10] fall to Smith’s [A][K]. The popular Canadian poker pro scooped a payout of $936,000 for his deep run into the tournament.

Facts and Figures about the Super High Roller’s Finalists

Negreanu’s runner-up finish in the Super High Roller and his payout of nearly $1 million cemented his top position in the all-time money list. The player now has more than $35 million in live tournament earnings.

As for the winner, last night’s payout brought his live tournament earnings to over $19 million. The player has cashed in a number of live tournament earnings over the course of his career. He scooped his largest live cash last year, when he finished runner-up to Fedor Holz in the WSOP $111,111 High Roller for ONE DROP. Smith received the amount of $3,078,974 for his efforts.

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