Esports

Esports odds provider UltraPlay is giving everyone a chance to join the fastest growing segment the industry has ever seen.  For the past couple of years UltraPlay has been building its product and establishing operator clients. Fresh off the back of being shortlisted for the SBC Awards Esports Betting Operator of the Year, the company has announced ODDS.gg. This is an esports focused data feed …

XLIVE will take place in Las Vegas this December (5-7) and with an extensive esports track, one of the panel naturally focuses on the convergence of esports and gambling. Chris Grove, Partner at Narus Advisors ,who recently put on the Esports and Casino Resort conference will speak on the panel titled ‘Show Me the Money – Are esports the next …

The futures of gambling and gaming converged at the Esports & Casino Resorts conference hosted October 25th and 26th at the SLS Las Vegas last week, and Maestro emerged as the winner of the launchpad on the second day. Ari Evans, Co-Founder and CEO of Maestro, delivered a precise and convincing pitch which saw the judges vote for Maestro as …

US tech news sources are reporting that FanDuel and DraftKings are fast tracking merger plans, with their corporate governances ‘hammering out’ combined enterprise details for stakeholders and investors.   Last weekend, news broke that FanDuel and DraftKings governances had entered initial merger negotiations. Nevertheless, industry commentators quickly pointed to the pairs’ fraught relationship following years of hostile battle for outright …

US tech news sources have reported that fierce daily fantasy sports (DFS) rivals FanDuel and DraftKings are heading towards an ‘imminent’ merger. Following a tough year of legal and regulatory battles for both operators, it has been reported this weekend that the leaderships of both firms are studying a potential merger to fully takeover the US DFS market. A FanDuel-DraftKings …

UltraPlay, a market leader in eSports, has announced three new key hires in its management team to further develop the strategic and technical operations in the company. Metodi Zaburtov has been confirmed as the new Head of eSports Optimisation, after spending five years with Bwin as Live Betting Manager. Zaburtov, who was among the first to introduce live betting to …

Don’t mess with the NY general attorney’s office was the lesson from last night as the details of the settlement agreed with DFS operators FanDuel and DraftKings were revealed. A total of $12m (£9.8m), with an even split of $6m (£4.9m) from each, was the fee for the daily fantasy heavyweights for deceptive advertising practices employed by them last year.   …

Stakeholders from across the wide world of igaming will be meeting in Cape Town this week as the 4th Annual BiG Africa Summit gets underway today.  Issues such as compliance, responsibilities and the future of the market in South Africa will be discussed. Another major point of discussion on the table will be esports which continues to garner the attention of major investors, …

Responding to news reports that it had closed down its eSports market, bookmaker Ladbrokes has stated that it will continue to take bets on the vertical. The bookmaker moved to clear up industry rumours that it had shut down its eSports market, following reports by esportsbettingreport.com that eSports would no longer be offered as a market. Ladbrokes detailed that the …

eSports industry news source eSportsbettingreport.com has informed that Ladbrokes has ‘quietly dropped its eSports betting markets’. The news source points to a customer query with Ladbrokes support asking the bookmaker why no eSports markets were visible on its sports betting product. The bookmaker replied to the query stating that its eSports markets had been ‘taken away currently’, further noting that …