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Global online sportsbook operator PointsBet Holdings Limited has announced the inking of an arrangement that has seen its embryonic PointsBet Canada subsidiary become the official sportsbetting partner for Alpine Canada Alpin.

The Melbourne-headquartered firm used an official Wednesday press release to detail that the multi-year alliance with the national ski racing organization begins as athletes from across the length and breadth of Canada are preparing to take part in the 2022 Winter Olympics from tomorrow morning.

Promising possibilities:

The move from PointsBet Holdings Limited comes some seven months after Canada ratified new legislation that allows punters to place legal bets on single football, baseball and ice hockey events as well as a range of action from other sports. This measure, which was colloquially known as the Safe and Regulated Sports Betting Act, was last week followed by a revelation from officials in Ontario that this province is to adopt an ‘open market’ model and allow an unlimited number of commercial enterprises to obtain operating licenses.

Impressive intention:

Scott Vanderwel (pictured) serves as the Chief Executive Officer for Toronto-headquartered PointsBet Canada and he used the press release to proclaim that PointsBet Holdings Limited ‘founded in the mature sports wagering market of Australia’ and currently holds a coveted position as ‘one of the fastest growing online gaming operators in the United States’. He furthermore declared that his enterprise is currently working towards launch in order to bring its ‘unmatched speed and ease of use’ in addition to ‘robust in-play capabilities and the deepest slate of pre-game and in-play betting options’ to sportsbetting aficionados from Sayward to St John’s.

Read a statement from Vanderwel…

“PointsBet Canada is committed to bringing our nation’s fans gold medal experiences and we are excited to be partnering with our world-class Canadian skiers as they follow their dreams and represent our great country on the world stage.”

Beneficial body:

Currently celebrating its 100th birthday, Alpine Canada Alpin is additionally responsible for governing Canada’s vast selection of para-alpine and ski cross disciplines while simultaneously providing a wide range of education, insurance, certification and coaching compliance facilities. This organization’s Chief Executive Officer and President, Therese Brisson, used the press release to assert that her enterprise works with a plethora of corporate and governmental partners ‘to stimulate visibility, inspiration and growth in the ski community.’

Brisson’s statement read…

“Alpine Canada Alpin is thrilled to welcome PointsBet Canada to our corporate family. It is a true Canadian operator in an exciting emerging space and a wonderful reflection of this is its support of athletes and the ski community in Canada.”

A fast-growing live casino content provider, Authentic Gaming, has received the authorization from the Michigan Gaming Control Board to live stream its casino table games in the jurisdiction. The provider’s real-time content will be launched with live dealers from a Farmington Hills studio to mark the Authentic Gaming’s debut in the North American market.

North American Debut:

The provider’s milestone simultaneously marks the third authorization granted by the Michigan’s regulator to live dealer gaming providers. As Playtech and Evolution received authorizations in December 2021 and July 2021, respectively, Authentic Gaming will join to form the trilling of aces currently dealing in this state. Time will tell whether this combination will be the winning hand in the market, but the global provider of live dealer games setting foot in North America seems determined to make it its home.

The provider therefore launched its selected hybrid live/online games already on 5 October, 2023 with more live dealer content to be delivered through the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and the partnership with the Community’s platform provider Golden Nugget Casino under the Golden Nugget brand. Also, Authentic Gaming’s parallel partnership with the platform provider Rush Street Interactive and the BetRivers brand of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians is set to be another channel to supply the reputable provider’s content to the player community in Michigan.

MGCB Executive Director Henry Williams reportedly said: “Live dealer online casino table games offer an immersive and engaging gambling experience that combines the convenience of online gaming with the authenticity of the environment in a land-based casino. Players can enjoy the excitement of playing their favorite casino games with real dealers in real-time, all from the comfort of their home or wherever they may be.”

Live Dealer Content Preferred:

Live dealer games involving human dealers have been increasingly preferred by players to the traditional online casino games based on graphics and algorithms generated automatically by computers. Live games are interactive and players are involved in a live video stream with real human dealers. These games offer players to engage in the real-time experience and watch the dealing process live which is, according to the Michigan Gaming Control Board, ”particularly important for players who may be skeptical about the fairness of online casino games.”

In its North American debut, Authentic Gaming will reportedly offer an array of live dealer gaming options to meet various player’s requirements, including blackjack, baccarat, and roulette. The provider received the approval of the Michigan’s regulator upon the fulfillment of the respective internet gaming requirements including a review by the regulatory staff.

Following the rapid Latin American expansions and the recent partnership with Ecuadorian sports betting operator, Nekobet, Pragmatic Play, a premium content provider to the iGaming industry, keeps the momentum to launch its latest slot, Mammoth Gold™ Megaways™. The game featuring the kings of the ice age, mighty mammoths, and their icy tundra kingdom, will be added to the provider’s portfolio to meet the continuously growing demand for Pragmatic’s titles around the globe.

Big win potential:

Mammoth Gold™ Megaways™takes players to the ice age to meet the long-forgotten creatures emerging in the pale whiteness to help or distract the player on their way to the reward hidden somewhere in the spacious tundras. The mighty mammoths joining players along the way are outweighed only by the game’s big win potential.

Multiplied win opportunities:

The ice-age-themed slot played across six reels and driven by the innovative Megaways™ mechanics, features ancient creatures such as wolves, bears, or saber-tooth tigers. These symbols must match across the reels for the players to score a win. In the following sequence, winning symbols are replaced with several new characters which take their positions to render additional winning opportunities. Multiplier wilds are spread across the reels to help players create wins with the existing symbols and increase the value at the same time.

Free spins multiply wins:

As for scatter symbols, a minimum of three scatter symbols are required to enter the bonus free spins round, where the player can gamble to be awarded the opportunity to win more free spins. Each cascade triggered in this bonus wheel round awards an increasing game multiplier of 1x. If a multiplier is present on the reels when the win is made, its value will be multiplied by the total bonus multiplier.

Winning portfolio:

Mammoth Gold™ Megaways,™  the latest Pragmatic Play release, follows the winning formula of recent hits like Secret City Gold™, Pinup Girls™, and Sweet Bonanza Dice™. All of these are now added to a collection of over 300 unique slots from Pragmatic’s award-winning portfolio continuously extended to meet the growing global market demands. Pragmatic currently produces up to seven slot titles monthly and also delivers live casino, virtual sports, and bingo games to meet various player requirements.

Feature-packed gameplay:

Irina Cornides, Chief Operating Officer at Pragmatic Play, said: “Mammoth Gold™ Megaways™ offers players a huge amount of entertainment in the base game with cascades, multiplier wilds, and the ever-popular Megaways™ mechanic, which work in tandem to deliver high-intensity action.”

Cornides added: “The free spins round allows for some direct interaction with a gambling mechanic and the bonus round upgrades the features in the base game by introducing an overall game multiplier for a feature-packed gameplay packaged in a beautifully crafted slot.”

Complete with professional croupiers and 4K camera technology, the live dealer solution provides an “immersive, mobile-friendly online live casino experience.

Established relationship:

Commenting on the strategic move, Vice President for Pragmatic Play, Lena Yasir, said…

“We’re thrilled to have further developed our relationship with SOFTSWISS and look forward to working closely with them in the future.

The supplier of white label solutions boasts to over 50 active online casino brands and offers a comprehensive casino management platform and game aggregator with “thousands of games” from some of the top providers in the industry.

Pragmatic’s entire portfolio of live casino games, scratchcards, bingo, and video slots is available to all of its operator partners by way of a single API.

Slots and SiGMA’19:

The Maltese online casino games developer recently released its heroic themed title, Hercules and Pegasus, its second online video slot launch for the month of November.

Pragmatic also announced that it will be making its presence felt at SiGMA’19, which is taking place November 27-29 in Malta, where it will showcase its complete portfolio of live casino, bingo and video slots, with an emphasis on the features of one of its latest 3×5, 20-lines video slots, Aladdin and the Sorcerer, for some 12,500 delegates.

American online casino operator Rush Street Interactive Incorporated has announced that it is planning to launch into the Canadian province of Ontario from early next month after being registered by the jurisdiction’s gaming regulator.

The Chicago-headquartered firm used an official Thursday press release to detail that its application with the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario could allow its mobile-friendly online casino and sportsbook at BetRivers.ca to go live for aficionados living in Ontario from as early as April 4. The company stated that it already runs a free-play version of this service aimed at those in Canada’s most populated province and now intends ‘to satisfy all remaining regulatory requirements’ in order to be ready to roll out a real-money compatriot.

Proper pledge:

Rush Street Interactive Incorporated is also behind the Colombia-facing domain at RushBet.co as well as the Pennsylvania and New Jersey-licensed PlaySugarHouse.com site. The firm’s Chief Executive Officer, Richard Schwartz, used the press release to declare that the move into Canada will serve as ‘an important milestone’ and show the commitment of his company towards ‘operating only in legalized markets where we pay local taxes.’

Read a statement from Schwartz…

“We are now one step closer to launching the BetRivers.ca real-money online casino and sportsbook in Ontario and bringing unique betting options such as our innovative peer-to-peer slot tournaments and same-game parlays, fast payouts and award-winning customer service to the province’s millions of residents. Our free-play social gaming platform has experienced strong traction in Ontario to date and we look forward to offering those players similarly entertaining and responsible experiences when our real-money offerings come on April 4.”

Confident challenger:

The notice from Rush Street Interactive Incorporated was followed by a declaration from Swedish competitor LeoVegas AB that it had similarly been registered with the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario. The Stockholm-headquartered iGaming enterprise disclosed that this move should analogously allow it to begin offering online casino, live-dealer and sportsbetting entertainment to punters in the Canadian jurisdicton via its RoyalPanda and LeoVegas-branded domains from as soon as April 4.

Tempting territory:

The Chief Executive Officer for LeoVegas AB, Gustaf Hagman, used an official Monday press release to proclaim that his firm now intends to complete ‘the necessary onboarding steps’ so as to further grow its presence in an Ontario market that currently accounts for approximately 13% of its total revenues. The boss additionally asserted that his company’s domain at LeoVegas.com is already ‘the third most well-known online casino brand in the Canadian market’ while its RoyalPanda.com site ‘has shown strong growth’ to indicate its services are ‘appreciated by North American customers.’

A statement from Hagman read…

“Our full focus now is to complete the process and we look forward to launching in a regulated environment. Given our track record and knowledge of operating in regulated markets, we continue to have high expectations and ambitions for continued growth in the Ontario market.”

Pioneering provision:

Finally, prominent online casino games developer Play‘n GO has revealed that the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario recently awarded it with a supplier licence, which means that its titles will be able to be deployed by any of Ontario’s certified iGaming sites. The Malta-licensed innovator used a Monday press release of its own to note that this accreditation is to additionally allow such Canada-facing domains to feature its wide range of video slots including the five-reel Rise of Olympus, Tome of Madness and Book of Dead advances from next month.

Expansion exercise:

Magnus Olsson (pictured) serves as the Chief Commercial Officer for Play‘n GO and he pronounced that regulated iGaming markets are ‘vital’ to the business strategy of his firm and ‘the industry as a whole’ as these help to ‘ensure a safe gaming environment for players’. He subsequently divulged that his company’s entry into Ontario represents only the first stage in its ‘North American entry strategy’ as it soon intends to begin making its innovations available to punters in selected jurisdictions of the United States ‘for the very first time.’

Olsson’s statement read…

“Ontario is an important province representing some 40% of the population of Canada and we look forward to players there enjoying our games. With Ontario’s regulated market opening, followed by our entry into the United States, it’s set to be an exciting year for Play‘n GO.”

On the heels of its first slot release for the month of March, Swedish slots specialist Quickspin is now live with SkillOnNet’s popular operator partners.

Under the terms of the content integration first announced in early January 2020, the Playtech Group subsidiary’s full suite of games can now be engaged by way of the provider’s online casino partners, including white label brands such as the UK-focused operator, PlayOJO, along with AHTIGames, and LuckyVegas, the latest brand to launch via the SkillOnNet platform.

Games access:

The deal allows their players to enjoy such Quickspin classics as Easter Emeralds, Big Bad Wolf and Sakura Fortune, as well as more recent hit releases like Sticky Bandits: Wild Return, and reactor game Golden Glyph.

Additionally, players will be able to access all of the Stockholm-headquartered studio‘s new releases going forward, according to the official press release.

For SkillOnNet, Michael Golembo, said…

“We have curated one of the largest game portfolios in the industry which will now be strengthened with the addition of Quickspin and their awesome games. Quickspin is renowned for creating chart-topping slots that deliver a thrilling and exciting player experience and we are delighted to be able to offer them to our operator partners and their players.”

Chief Commercial Officer for Quickspin, Paul Myatt, added…

“SkillOnNet powers some of the most popular online casino brands in the world and we are thrilled to be able to offer our games to their players. Our games combine stunning graphics and illustrations with smart math to deliver a market-leading player experience that has seen our slots top charts at casinos in Europe and beyond. We believe they will be just as popular with SkillOnNet’s operator partners and, more importantly, their discerning players.”

Welcome to the jungle:

As mentioned, Quickspin just released its latest video slot, Panther’s Reign, that transports players to the Amazon for a once-of-a-lifetime adventure where the big cat is the king of the jungle. In addition to exciting features such as the random, Wild Spray, the high volatility game also offers a maximum win potential of 5,202x the stake.

SkillOnNet Network adds iconic brand:

Meanwhile, SkillOnNet recently signed an exclusive agreement with leading mobile gaming company Gaming Realms for its iconic Slingo brand. The deal not only significantly expands its global footprint, but also gives the site’s players access to more than 3,000 additional games from some of the industry’s top developers.

Veteran operator Prime Gaming, owner of top brands such as MegaCasino.com and ICE36.com, will market Slingo on the SkillOnNet Network.

Commenting on the strategic deal in an official press release, Chief Financial Officer for Gaming Realms, Mark Segal, said…

“SkillOnNet is behind some of the most successful online casino brands in the world and we wanted to leverage its technology and experience to drive Slingo.com forwards. Through SkillOnNet’s platform and licences we know we can operate in new markets around the world with utmost compliance. This marks the start of a new chapter for Slingo.com, one that we believe will be a great success for the brand.”