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Online Sports and Casino options for Canadians

When it comes to online gambling and online sports betting, the gambling laws in Canada don’t prohibit playing at international sites. What this essentially means is that Canadians are free to enjoy all the thrills that offshore online gambling websites offer.

This includes gambling establishments that are based in the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Malta, and Antigua.

According to gaming law expert with Dickinson Wright, Toronto, Michael Lipton, there have been no prosecutions that have resulted in convictions or guilty pleas. Offshore sports betting sites see Canada as a grey zone. Lipton has been involved with legal issues surrounding offshore gambling in Canada for a long time.

Popularity of eSports soars in Japan

Asia's love of eSports has been clearly evident over recent years, with bumper attendances at tournaments in South Korea and high playing numbers in China. One Asian country that has taken its time to embrace eSports, however, has been Japan; something of a surprise considering the country's passion for video games. But things are beginning to change, with Game Party Japan 2016, held earlier this year, demonstrating just how big a leap is being made by the country’s gaming community. In addition to the number of fans that turned up to watch the event, the prize money of around ¥100 million highlighted just how serious Japan is getting when it comes to eSports. 

Japan's new age of eSports

Solverde Hospitality Beyond Borders, Espinho-Chaves-Algarve

José Manuel Xambre, Casino Director at Solverde, S.A. speaks to Peter White

How important is hospitality and entertainment to the Leisure Hotel Casino?

The hospitality and events organized by Casino Chaves are of the utmost importance to the success of the project carried out in the region.

In addition to essential resources to enhance the profitability of the Casino, - Solverde’s core business in Portugal, - events also allow our integrated region to be boosted through a diverse schedule of gastronomic and musical events that otherwise would not be available.

UK Gambling Commission May Tax Free Bets

What started off as an act created to ensure the UK receive its duty from online gambling companies that target its citizens, slowly transformed into a more encompassing law that will, after the following year, also force betting operators to pay taxes for their free bets, which have become such an important promotion for every casino or sport betting operator.

For the time being, players can still enjoy their favorite free bonuses (change-free) until the deadline given to operators ends on August 2017. Unfortunately, the changes may come prior to the given time-frame as game providers might want to start off adapting to the new provisions early, but, in the meantime, you can keep an eye on the situation by tracking free offers at NoDepositMonitor.com for any major changes. 

The right solution for every need

Aristidis Tsikouras, Managing Director, GeWeTe speaks to Rebecca Green, Technology Correspondent, Casino Life

How was 2015 and how is 2016 looking so far for the company?

GeWeTe is the specialist company within the Gauselmann Group for solutions centred on money changing and innovative payment methods. With 23 years of experience, the focus is, and always has been, on providing solutions for individual applications in our markets with the best and most secure technology available to us. We have embodied this from day one and this it has enabled GeWeTe to grow so strongly over the years. 2015 was, once again, a successful year for us and we foresee not only matching this success but exceeding it this year.

The Customer Experience

The Customer path, at times, is like walking a bull through a china shop. There are narrow twists and turns line the experience along the way and in the process you hope nothing gets broken.

As in the my china shop example; the path to follow is difficult for your employees engaged in the Customer Experience (CE.) It is layered strewn with both predictable and unpredictable moments that can either fracture or enhance a the customer experience.

What narrow twists and turns define your customer’s experience? How strong is your employee’s dedication to guide them? I recently questioned a group of my Hospitality Master students on what a ‘Great Customer Service Experience’ meant to them.

Creating Memories

 

Glyn Thomas chats to Thérèse Liljeqvist, General Manager at Casino Cosmopol Stockholm, about how staff contribute significantly to making the casino offer unique and unforgettable

I met Thérèse last year at G2E when we had our Casino Life reception at the Wynn. With busy times in between it’s taken until now to complete our interview but it gives a clear insight into how the Casino Cosmopol ticks.

Thérèse, as you know we at Casino Life take great pride in interviewing leading industry CEO’s and Senior Level Management both to get to know the companies that they work for as discover their key attributes for success. Please tell our readers about yourself and your role at Casino Cosmopol.

2016’s top gambling tournaments

As ever 2016 looks to provide the world’s top gamblers with some truly spectacular tournaments that continue to showcase games of poker, blackjack and roulette as being some of the most gripping activities in the world.

From dazzling poker competitions in some of the world’s most iconic gambling locations, to some seriously impressive online roulette innovations, it looks like 2016 could be a watershed year thanks to these massive gambling tournaments.

Absolute Entertainment

Michael Silberling CEO at Affinity Gaming, LLC sat down with our Associate Editor David McKee in Las Vegas to talk about the company’s future

You wouldn’t think to look at it but, behind a generic office door in Summerlin, Nevada, lie the headquarters of a national casino company. Affinity Gaming is firm both new and old, having been reconstituted from the ashes of Herbst Gaming, which crashed and burned under the financial weight of buying both a large Nevada slot route and three MGM Mirage casinos (for $400 million) at the height of the casino boom. Bankruptcy quickly followed.

Technology is Driving the Poker Revolution

In the last two decades, the world has changed faster than anyone could have imagined. Every single aspect of life has been affected in one way or another. 

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