Playtech has announced a new retail sports betting partnership with Gold Rush Gaming, which will allow Playtech to officially enter the US retail sports betting market.
As part of the deal, Playtech will supply its sports betting kiosk software and management systems to Gold Rush, which will be distributed across Ohio.
The rollout will initially cover 50 locations, and will be activated ahead of Super Bowl LVII on 12 February.
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Flutter Entertainment-owned Sisal has been awarded Morocco’s sports betting concession licence for an eight-year term.
The Italy-facing online operator, which launched Morocco’s lotteries licence in 2019, obtained the betting concession from La Marocaine des Jeux et des Sports (MDJS). The deal, which sees Sisal replace Intralot from January 2024, also includes the possibility of a two-year extension.
The offering, which includes fixed-odds and mutual betting, will be exclusively distributed by Sisal Jeux Maroc through a network of retail outlets and online. Sisal Jeux Maroc is a joint venture between Sisal and Paddy Power, another Flutter division.
The award comes a year after the beginning of the tender process, and six months after Sisal was acquired by Flutter in a €1.91bn deal.
Marco Caccavale, chief executive of Sisal Jeux Maroc and international managing director of Sisal, said: “We are extremely pleased to announce the consolidation of our offering in Morocco. The decision b..
Sports betting revenue and handle in Washington DC both declined month-on-month during December, although revenue increased year-on-year.
Player spending for the month amounted to $18.7m, which was 12.6% lower than $21.4m in November and also 3.1% behind the $19.3m wagered in December 2021.
In terms of gross gaming revenue, this reached $2.4m in December, a 7.7% drop from $2.6m in November, but 71.4% up from $1.4m in December of the previous year.
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Infront Bettor, the betting-focused division of Infront, has agreed a global deal with Bet365 to supply the operator with a range of sports content.
Under the agreement, Bet365 will distribute 18,000 hours of content from over 30 rights holders to more than 80 million customers from over 160 countries around the world.
Infront Bettor’s content portfolio includes football competitions such as the English League Cup, Coupe de France and Turkish Superlig, as well as the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship and the Champions Hockey League.
In addition, Infront Bettor will work with Bet365 in an effort to reduce stream latency from the current standard of between six and nine seconds to help improve the experience for customers.
“This is a major agreement for Infront Bettor. It has been a busy and exhilarating few months launching the division, building out major and robust operations, acquiring a highly desirable set of betting rights and communicating to the market our new service,” Inf..
Marese O’Hagan speaks to Luka Pataky, chief product officer computer vision at Sportradar, about how Sportradar’s computer vision technology could revolutionise sports betting for good.
In a market as crowded as sports betting, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies like computer vision must continually reinvent themselves in order to remain relevant.
Arguably, it has a well-founded basis in this space, having begun as a completely different project close to 10 years ago.
“Before this role, I was head of innovation at Sportradar, and that’s how we started this computer vision journey as well – it was an innovation project that actually grew,” says Pataky.
Pataky acknowledges that similar technologies have been around for a long time, existing well outside the realms of sports betting.
“It’s not a new area,” he admits. “Computer vision has been around for decades and in some industries it has been used a lot – manufacturing, production lines.”
In describing exactly what compute..
A record 50.4 million Americans are expected to wager an estimated $16.0bn on Super Bowl LVII this weekend, according to forecasts from the American Gaming Association (AGA).
Based on a national sample of 2,199 adults, the AGA said 20% of American adults will place at least one bet on the game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs this weekend.
This would be a 61% increase on the record set in 2022, while the AGA also said the amount wagered by players is expected to more than double year-on-year.
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Introducing the US sports betting dashboard
iGB is proud to launch its new US dashboard. Tracking the US sports betting market size by providing handle and revenue data for all states where commercial sports betting is live, as well as highlighting some of the key developments of the past 12 months.
Sports betting supplier Kambi Group has signed an extension to its multi-channel sportsbook partnership with South African operator Sun International.
Under the multi-year deal, Kambi will continue to provide Sun International with its sports betting technology and services across online and retail.
Kambi and Sun International have been working together across both channels in the South African market since November 2017.
Listed on the Johannesburg stock exchange, Sun International operates online betting brand SunBet and also owns a number of major casinos and hotel resorts.
“Sun International is delighted to continue its successful sports betting partnership with Kambi and to continue leveraging the company’s award-winning technology and services,” SunBet chief executive Simon Gregory said.
“We have ambitious plans for the SunBet brand over the coming years and I am thrilled we will continue to do this with the support of a world-leading B2B sportsbook like Kambi.”
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European gaming operator Bet-at-home has expanded its partnership with EveryMatrix to include its full sportsbook platform.
Bet-at-home has added to EveryMatrix’s existing casino technology by adopting the supplier’s OddsMatrix sportsbook and turnkey solution, including player management, payments module, and affiliate software.
The deal covers every market where Bet-at-home is present with a two-phased launch kicking off with the MGA-licensed business, followed soon after by the German regulated business.
EveryMatrix said Bet-at-home will become one of its largest sports clients in both revenue and brand value.
Marco Falchetto, chief executive of Bet-at-home, said: “We have been thrilled with the results EveryMatrix have achieved within our casino division, therefore we are delighted to extend this to integrating their proven sportsbook platform and services and pushing the go live button.
“The combination of their outstanding track record, best-in-class technology and enormous ..
