From USA Today SAN FRANCISCO — Zynga CEO Mark Pincus may have an ace up his sleeve after all to save the troubled social games company he founded. UltimatePoker.com on Tuesday delivered Nevada residents a first taste of real-money Internet gambling, a move that could soon be dealt up by Zynga — not to mention others in high-tech, such as payment-processors like PayPal. “It’s a significant opportunity for Zynga,” IDC analyst Lewis Ward says of the company’s online gambling prospects. Billions of dollars could be in the offing after Ultimate Gaming, a Las Vegas-based casino operation, launches the first fully…

From iGaming Business In Canada, a trio of chamber of commerce organizations have joined forces in order to lobby for the legalization of single event sportsbetting under the proposed Bill C-290 legislation currently before the nation’s Senate. Introduced into the House of Commons as a Private Member’s Bill in February of 2011 by Joe Comartin, a member of the left-leaning New Democratic Party and the representative for the Windsor-Tecumseh electoral district, Bill C-290 would, if passed, delete section 207(4)(b) of the nation’s Criminal Code prohibiting provinces from permitting wagering on ‘any race or fight, or on a single sports event…

From iGaming Business Independent online gaming systems and software provider GameAccount Network has announced that its performance in the Italian slot and mobile iGaming markets has led it to post record first-quarter financial results. London-based GameAccount Network revealed that gross gaming revenues from Italy over the initial three months of 2013 increased by 170 percent year-on-year alongside a corresponding 273 percent rise in the numbers of active players. GameAccount Network stated that its first-quarter improvements were driven by ‘new product launches in Italy’s fast-growing regulated Internet gaming market and mobile gaming in various European markets’ while it posted a 110…

On Monday, July 6, 2009, a video poker was the center of attention. Two engineers from Nevada’s Gaming Control Board showed up at the Silverton Casino Lodge. The off-the-strip South Las Vegas casino is best known for its mermaid aquarium, but the GCB geek squad wasn’t there to see swimmers in bikini tops and zip-on fish tails. They’d come to examine machine 50102, a Game King video poker unit on the casino floor that had been waiting for them, taped off like a crime scene, all weekend. Manufactured by International Game Technology – a gambling leviathan that boasts $2 billion…

From Daily Markets A Tucson, Arizona man became a new millionaire when he won a $1,135,558 jackpot on an International Game Technology (NYSE:IGT) Wheel of Fortune Double 3X4X5X Pay video slot machine on April 26, 2013 at Desert Diamond Casino.   OUR INTERVIEW WITH IGT ABOUT THE FUTURE:   Mohan N. celebrated his winning together with his son and daughter, and his son-in-law. The new millionaire plans to use his life-changing jackpot to pay off his children’s student loans and help his wife as she prepares to undergo surgery. IGT launched MegaJackpots® progressive product line in 1986 and has since…

From PR Newswire / SHFL Entertainment SHFL entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ Global Select Market: SHFL) (“SHFL” or the “Company”) announced today that it has begun the installation of its Video Lottery Terminals (“VLTs”) in New York. “Our first big rollout of VLTs in such an important market as New York is very exciting,” said Gavin Isaacs , Chief Executive Officer for SHFL. This is only the beginning of what we hope to be a very promising future for our slot machine segment in the United States. The rollout was made possible through a November 2012 agreement between SHFL and SPIELO International…