William Hill has announced that it is to exit the Estonia and Portugal gambling markets by the end of the month due to “recent regulatory developments”. In an email to affiliates, the bookmaker said that none of its products will be available to access in the two countries as of June 28. Players will still have access to their accounts in order to withdraw any existing funds, but affiliates will be required to remove all marketing materials from their websites that relate to Estonian and Portuguese punters. “We would like to inform you that following recent regulatory developments in Estonia…

Net Entertainment (NetEnt) has entered into a content distribution agreement with Caesars Interactive Entertainment (CIE). Under the agreement, content developer NetEnt will provide a full suite of casino games for both desktop and mobile to CIE, which has operations across online, mobile and social platforms in the US. The deal will initially cover CaesarsCasino.com, CIE’s online gaming brand in the state of New Jersey. NetEnt has not yet been granted permission to offer games in the state, but has applied for a licence and is awaiting approval from New Jersey regulators to commence operations, while its application for a full…

Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) introduced H.R. 2888, the Internet Poker Freedom Act of 2015 Thursday morning. The legislation licenses and regulates Internet poker and seeks to restore the rights of people to play the “all-American” game, while at the same time protecting them from fraud. H.R. 2888 also mandates the implementation of technology that prohibits underage players, provides aid for problem gamblers, and preserves state’s rights. Rep. Barton issued the following statement about the Internet Poker Freedom Act of 2015: “Poker is an all-American game. It’s a game that I learned as a teen and continue to play today. Just…

Two Republican senators running for president reintroduced a bill Wednesday that would effectively ban Internet poker and other forms of online gambling—legislation that has long been championed by casino magnate and GOP mega-donor Sheldon Adelson. Both Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio joined a handful of Republicans and one Democrat in reviving the Restoration of America’s Wire Act, a measure that proponents say would “restore” the proper interpretation of a decades-old federal ban on some gambling operations by expanding it to include Internet gambling. The four-page bill is nearly the same as a measure introduced last year and closely mirrors a…

Coral has launched its first in-house omni-channel in the form of ‘Wild Magic’, with the bookmaker confirming that a series of other new titles will also be hitting the market in the near future. Available to access via desktop and mobile, Wild Magic is the first game to have been developed by Coral’s studio in Manchester, UK under its CR Games brand. The launch will confirm Coral as the first bookmaker to design and build its own omni-channel game across all retail, social, mobile and desktop channels. Already available in Coral’s networking of UK betting shops and within the firm’s…

Bryan Micon, former operator of the ‘Seals with Clubs’ Bitcoin poker site, will this week attend a court hearing in the US state of Nevada after being charged with operating an unlicensed gaming website. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Micon will on Thursday travel from his home in Antigua for the hearing in a Nevada court. The news comes after Micon was in April charged with one count of operating an unlicensed interactive gambling website. However, an arrest warrant that was approved in April in connection with the charges has now been recalled in order to allow Micon to…