From SBR Forum Sports Book Review Sports Book Review Sportsbook Review.com provides an SBR iGaming News video rundown for the last week of May 2013. Today’s show topics include lottery and jackpot casino games supplier TopJack Games striking a deal with Asian gaming software company Market Dimension Ltd, as well as other recent iGaming sportsbook news. Lottery and jackpot casino games supplier Topjack Games has struck a deal with Asian gaming and software provider Market Dimension Ltd. The terms of the deal will have Tojack’s suite of jackpot games such as blackjack, keno, scratchcard, roulette, video poker and more converted…

Red Hawk Casino, underperforming since the day it opened and struggling to pay its bills, moved a step closer Thursday toward gaining financial relief. Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a new gambling compact that reduces the revenue the state will collect from Red Hawk and its owner, the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians. Brown signed AB 1267 by Assemblyman Isadore Hall, D-Compton, which ratified the new compact the governor signed with the tribe last November. Despite the governor’s signature, the Shingle Springs casino isn’t out of financial trouble yet. The tribe has to restructure $500 million in debt…

From Android Police Everyone knows that adding a bit of money to a game makes it more interesting. Ubiquitous developer Glu Mobile is putting a lot of faith in that idea, and they plan to roll out a real-world gambling system to their games very soon, starting with Deer Hunter Reloaded. Glu will be using the Skillz platform, allowing players to bet small amounts of real money on the outcome of skill-based games, usually in some kind of tournament or winner-take-all round. Note the term “skill-based” – that’s very important to how this all works. Gambling is an incredibly complex…

From Gambling 911 One lucky customer of BetOnline has just won a 25-team parlay after betting $300.  His total take – an amazing $17,404.51. or those who don’t know, a parlay bet requires all picks within that parlay to win.  As such, because there are multiple teams that must win, the payout odds go up tremendously for each team added. In this case, the customer in question wagered on multi-sports parlays that included both soccer (international football) and the French Open. FULL STORY

Wait, poker is not gambling? That’s what we hear! In recent weeks, public radio stations, including New Hampshire’s NHPR, have been airing a broadcast of the storytelling program The Moth that includes a segment by Concord native Annie Duke, who was known as Annie Lederer when she was a student at Rundlett Junior High School. Duke, whose parents were teachers, her mother at Concord High, her father at St. Paul’s, is one of the world’s best poker players, as is her brother, Howard Lederer. For The Moth, Duke recounts the crisis of confidence she faced at the 2004 world series…

From LA Times Poker aficionados will descend on Las Vegas as the 44th World Series of Poker kicks off at Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. The first event, which began Wednesday, is a two-day No-Limit Hold ‘em tournament exclusively for casino employees. This year, the World Series of Poker, first held in 1970, will run until July 15 and will feature 62 events on 480 tables. Seemingly every major poker variation is present in the tournament, with buy-ins for the various events ranging from $500 to $111,111. Anyone 21 years or older can enter. Tens of thousands of poker enthusiasts…