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Charles Strutt, 63, the executive director of the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) ever since it was founded in 1987, was stripped of his title and relieved from his duties in October 2015 by the group's board, which includes directors of lotteries in 37 states and territories in the US.

Read more » Powerball Director Removed From Post Due To Multi-State Lottery Scandal

A mere $9 on over 5 bets placed on the 2015 Men's Cricket World Cup final had landed female Australian cricketer Angela Reakes in hot water with the officials of the sport, Cricket Australia (CA), and they charged her for breaching the anti-corruption code.

Read more » Australian Cricketer Banned 2 Years for $9 Bets on the Cricket World Cup Final

This year we continued the Lottery tradition from previous years, where you could win MobPoints, MobDraw tickets and MobSafe shots. The way to get tickets to the lottery, would be if you won a prize in the Christmas Calendar that you were unable to use, for one reason or another.

Example: If you won a freeroll entry worth $15 you would get 15 tickets for the lottery if you decided to claim lottery tickets, instead of the actual prize. 

The lottery in 2015 had the following prizes available:

• 2 x 4,000 MobPoints
• 3 x 3,000 MobPoints
• 5 x 2,000 MobPoints
• 15 x 500 MobDraw tickets
• 10 x 100 MobSafe "shots"
• 15 x 50 MobSafe "shots"

And today we ran the "randomizer" and found the winners to the prizes above. Basically, the more tickets you had, the bigger chances of winning.Read more » Christmas Calendar 2015: Lottery Winners

On December 23, New England's media personality and top professional poker player Bernard Lee, donated holiday packages to more than 50 children in Milford, Massachusetts as a part of The Full House Charity Program. Lee even delivered the holiday packages in person, along with the help of his son and daughter.

Read more » Children in Need Receive Holiday Packages from Poker Player Bernard Lee

Many people from all over the world who watched the Miss Universe 2015 pageant on Sunday, December 20, would definitely agree that this rather "minor slipup" made by Steve Harvey became something strangely memorable and controversial for everyone, especially to the 2 contestants, the first runner up and the winner of the pageant.

Read more » Host Announced Wrong Winner at Miss Universe Event - Reportedly Drank & Gambled Before The Event

An online gambling addict who works as a bookkeeper swindled her employers out of almost £1 million, costing one of her bosses to lose his retirement fund, has now been put behind bars.

Read more » Bookkeeper Stole Almost £1M From Employers To Fuel Gambling Addiction

Just a few hours after winning a handsome amount of £1,600 on a gaming machine, a man lost almost all of it at a bookie's shop. The weird thing is - he then demanded the manager to give him his money back!

Read more » Man Jailed After Attempting To Rob Betting Shop

What would you do if you happen to pick up cash that somebody lost on the streets? This man's lucky find in San Francisco, USA turned out to be his ticket to winning the $1 million jackpot in the lottery!

Read more » Twice The Luck

Michael Engfors, age 61, had been tagged as homeless and roamed the streets for 6 years when he then decided to purchase the Eternal Splendour scratchcard that would change his life forever.

Michael was born and raised in Aspen. After losing his business and his home, and after his divorce, Michael had been terribly down in the dumps.

Read more » Homeless Man Wins $500,00 On Lottery Scratchcard

Hong Kong-based gaming machine manufacturer and supplier Paradise Entertainment Ltd. is offering innovative card dealer robots to US and other land-based casinos worldwide.

Read more » Humanoid Card Dealer Robots to Enter US-Based Casinos

The most expensive tournament in World Poker Tour history will be played at the WPT National Philippines in January 2016. The tournament will have a buy-in of $200,000 and, according to WPT.com, some of the biggest names in poker have already confirmed that they will be taking part.

Read more » Ivey, Dwan & Cates Among Participants In Upcoming Super High Roller

Tony G has been rather anonymous in the poker world ever since being elected to the European Parliament in 2014. However, it seems like the former poker pro is not done with poker just yet. The fact is that he just challenged Canada's Prime Minster to play poker against him.

The reason? Well, in a special 60-second challenge by maccleans.co, Canada's PM Justin Trudeau responded "That's not a thing" when asked what his favourite Baltic nation was". As many of you probably know, the Baltic states consist of Estonia, Latvia and Tony G's Lithuania. 

Read more » Tony G's Poker Challenge To Canada's PM: "I'll take everything you have"

The online processing subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, ClickandBuy, was recently reported to close at the end of April 2016.

As of now, customers are being notified to clear out their accounts prior to the announced date. According to Deutsche Telekom, the reason for the discontinuation of ClickandBuy is due to its failure to keep up with the strong market competition.

Read more » ClickandBuy To Close Down In 2016

Hossein Ensan, 51, was unknown to most people in the poker world before winning an EPT Seniors Event in Barcelona last year. He used some of his winnings to a live satellite that eventually took him to the EPT Barcelona Main Event in which he finished in third place. Then he finished 6th in the EPT Malta Main Event a few months later.

Read more » Hossein Ensan Wins EPT Prague Main Event

How lucky can one person get when it comes to the lottery? It looks like the lucky stars of this particular Californian lottery punter were aligned just right on the last week of November 2015.

He started off by winning $1,000 on a scratchcard, then he decided to reinvest his winnings, and shortly thereafter, he was able to hit the $10 million jackpot prize!

Read more » Super Lucky Californian Man Wins Twice on Lottery, Including a $10 Million Jackpot!

There are only six players left after 5 thrilling days of poker in Prague. Ilkin Amirov will lead the remaining players into today's final table with 9.9 million in chips. Amirov, who is the first person from the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan to make an EPT final table, slowly worked his was to the chip lead early on Day 5.

Read more » EPT Prague: Main Event Final Table Is Set

It's official! Microgaming has been awarded the title of "Largest jackpot payout in an online slot machine game" by the Guinness World Records.

It was on October 6, 2015, that a UK player named Jon Heywood hit the mega jackpot prize while playing on Microgaming's Mega Moolah online slot game, making him £13,213,838.68 (€17,879,645.12 or US$19,745,207.27) richer!

Read more » Microgaming Holds Guinness World Record For Biggest Jackpot Online

When it was announced that it was Marie Holmes who won the Powerball, she touched the hearts of almost everyone in America, declaring how this miraculous win would help her start anew in life with her 4 children.

Read more » Powerball Lottery Winner Squandering $10 Million on ‘Hot Sauce'

The plan for Day 4 of the EPT Prague Main Event was to play down from 67 to 16 players. Well, 23 players still remained when the tournament director called it a day after several thrilling levels of play on Day 4. Marc Macdonell, from Ireland, bagged up the chip lead with 3.6 million to his name - just about 70k more than Gleb Tremzin in 2nd and 400k more than Benjamin Lamprecht in 3rd.

Read more » EPT Prague: Marc Macdonell To Bring Small Lead Into Day 5 Of Main Event

Day 4 of the EPT Prague Main Event will see the return of 67 players (total entrants: 1,044 - prize pool: €5,063,400). The plan is to play down to 16 players and move one step closer to Wednesday's final table - where a trophy and €921,540 is awaiting the winner!

Read more » EPT Prague: Abbas Moradi Leads Final 67

Earlier this year some of you might have heard about a potential MMA fight between Sorel Mizzi and Luke Schwartz. Well, Schwartz ended up backing down from the challenge, claiming that he didn't have the time and effort to make the fight happen.

Read more » Upcoming MMA Fight Between Sorel Mizzi & Brian Rast

Steve O'Dwyer became the first-ever player on the European Poker Tour to win a second Super High Roller title last night! Amazingly enough this was only the fifteenth time the EPT held an event with a Super High Roller attached. (Aside from two EPT Super High Roller titles, he also has a Super High Roller title victory from the 2014 APPT in Macau).

Read more » WPT Prague: Steve O'Dwyer Wins Yet Another Super High Roller!

Once registration for the EPT €50k Super High Roller closed on Wednesday, the total number of entrants had increased from 51 to 56 (46 players, 10 re-entries). This means that this year's Super High Roller in Prague enjoyed an increase of 5 entries over last year's 51 entries.

Read more » EPT Prague Super High Roller: Netherland's Luuk Gieles Leads Final 8

When it comes to gambling, Australians are deemed to be very big spenders, and because of that, they have hit a new top record this year concerning the total sum of cash they spent on various gambling activities. A report by iGaming Business revealed that the country has reached that record-high gambling spend during the 12 months from September 30, 2014 up September 30, 2015.

Read more » Australians' Spend Record Amount On Gambling In 2015