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The group reduced its pre-COVID-19 estimate of $473bn to $421bn, estimating an 11% drop in worldwide gross gaming revenue (GGR). GGR in Asia and Oceania is predicted to drop 16% from pre-outbreak estimates, while Europe’s GGR is expected to fall 9%. North America’s estimate is down 7% as a result of the virus. An increase […]

Russian gambling websites Betcity and Parimatch are both offering COVID-19 betting categories. Betcity is offering options such as, ‘WHO announces creation of vaccine against COVID-19 by 31 Dec 2020?’ and ‘WHO announces end of COVID-19 pandemic before 01 Jan 2021?’ Meanwhile, Parimatch allows betting on whether Russia will impose movement restrictions for its citizens or

CEO of the virtual sports supplier, Martin Wachter, believes the absence of live sports betting due to the coronavirus outbreak provides virtual sports the opportunity to become more familiar with players. Speaking at the Betting In Face Of COVID-19 virtual conference, Wachter said: “Our virtual basketball game will be released in the UK in a

During a time of global shutdown for major sport, operators have turned to other verticals such as online casino, poker and esports. Also chief among those verticals is virtual sports, as explored in last week’s Virtuals Special of GI Friday. DraftKings recently entered into an agreement to offer virtuals with Inspired Entertainment, while Golden Race

Speaking with Gambling Insider for the May/June edition of its magazine, Donoughue explained that while all changes in betting behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic had the potential to be permanent, the shift away from customers physically visiting betting shops could have a lasting impact for retail-reliant operators. He said: “Land-based is going to suffer as

The agreement comes after sportwetten.de announced it has ended its sports betting partnership with Cashpoint and is now operating under the license of its sister company, NetXbetting Ltd. Both NetXbetting and sportwetten.de are subsidiaries of pferdewetten.de AG, Germany’s horseracing gaming provider. The agreement sees BetConstruct add the operator to existing partners such as Interwetten, STS

Matches were played behind closed doors, with social distancing carried out on each team’s bench and any elaborate goal celebrations discouraged. That didn’t stop fans tuning in to their television sets, with early ps suggesting a record six million viewers watched Sky Germany’s goal programme on Saturday, shown for free. Reports also suggest TV viewership

The partnership will see the MGA and the WPBSA share information in cases of irregular and suspicious snooker betting activity, and breaches of WPBSA Betting Rules. Antonio Zerafa, MGA Sports Integrity Manager. said: “In these unprecedented times there has been a shift in focus from team sports to more individual sports. “Hence, this period proved

The newspaper’s return has been planned to coincide with the return of British horseracing, which aims to re-start at Newcastle racecourse on 1 June. A final decision as to whether racing will be able to resume next week rests with the British Government, but speaking last week on Racing TV’s Luck On Sunday show, Brant

The operator has sent an email to its customers informing them of its decision to cease operations from 6 July 2020. The company stopped accepting new registrations from UK customers yesterday. Customers will be permitted to log in and play using Bethard’s services until the end date. All open bets after this point will be