Month: August 2024

Ontario recently celebrated a year since the opening of the iGaming market for third-party operators, which recorded more than C$35 billion in place bets in the first 12 months. At SBC Summit North America, Andrew Darley, vice president of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Company, said combining OLG’s volume and revenue could make it the world’s No. 1 market.

In April 2022, Ontario became the first Canadian province to open a legitimate eye-gaming market for private operators. It is managed by Ontario’s Alcohol and Gaming Commission and its subsidiary, iGaming Ontario, and has attracted a lot of attention from the global betting industry. It was introduced to deal with a huge offshore market where many locals play games.

The newly introduced market in Ontario saw total bets exceed C$35.6 billion in the first 12 months of operation. This translated into approximately C$1.4 billion in gaming revenue, with 40 operators operating 76 websites or apps in their jurisdictions. According to data from regulators, there are currently more than 1.6 million active user accounts in the iGaming sector.

In a recent Ontario-based discussion at OLG’s SBC Summit North America VP, Mr. Dali spoke a few words about the iGaming market and its achievements. He said that combined with OLG’s numbers, the private market could be large enough to match the world’s leading market, but the crown remained undisclosed at the time.

In addition, a study found that market introduction was effective and many private operators switched to regulatory areas, and a poll by Ipsos found that 85% of respondents betting in the province used controlled websites, a significant improvement from 70% before market launch.

iGaming Ontario reported that players spent an average of 70 Canadian dollars per month in the first 12 months. Surprisingly, basketball was the second most paid sport in the region after soccer, soccer, hockey, and baseball. On the other hand, on the online casino side, slots accounted for 48% of bets, while table games represent nearly a third and represent computer-based table games.

A few weeks ago, Ontario’s Alcohol and Gaming Commission came up with a proposal to ban sports stars from appearing in game ads. This was linked to a huge uproar among experts and local parents as advertisements featuring professional athletes became quite common. According to experts, this can be bad because young viewers idolize such individuals.

BY: 파워볼사이트

Kia was considered one of the “three strongest teams” along with the LG Twins and the KT Wiz ahead of this season. It was praised that foreign pitchers have been upgraded due to the stable pitching and batting performance.

Even with good performance, however, Kia has no skills to cope with injury. Kia struggled with frequent injuries to its key players last year, and unfavorable factors continued from the beginning of this season.

It started when Na Sung-beom left during the exhibition game. Since the opening, first baseman Hwang Dae-in, pitcher Lim Ki-young and shortstop Park Chan-ho have been injured one after another.

In the game on the 10th, there were two injuries at once. Park Min, who was expected to take responsibility for Park Chan-ho’s vacancy, and starting pitcher Lee Eui-ri joined the ranks of the injured.

Less than three weeks after the opening, as many as six main players left, so a difficult fight was expected.

Kia, however, has not collapsed easily. It has maintained the lead with 11 wins and four losses (0.733) so far on Wednesday.

The “foreign one-two punch” Will Crow and James Nail are showing outstanding skills, while the “pil Seung-jo,” which leads to Jang Hyun-sik, Jeon Sang-hyun, Choi Ji-min and Jung Hae-young, is strong.

In addition, the ‘power of the gum’ shines in the batting line. Replacement players are performing better than expected in their respective positions.

On the 11th, the LG Twins match appeared properly.

KIA showed an active batting of 15 hits in the lineup on the day, of which seven hits, nearly half, came from the hands of “non-mainstream” players.

Seo Geon-chang was the spearhead. Starting as the second batter and second baseman, Seo Geon-chang displayed stellar performance by making two hits, two walks, and two runs from three times at bat. He bothered the LG mound so much that he got on base four times in five at-bats.

Seo Geon-chang, who signed a contract for a 50 million won annual salary before the season and wore his hometown team KIA uniform, is playing well with “500 million” at the beginning of the season.

Since Hwang Dae-in’s absence, he has played as a first baseman, and after Park Chan-ho left the team, he has also played as a familiar second baseman. He is thus playing a role in arranging the physical strength of veteran Kim Sun-bin.

He has a batting average of 0.452 (14 hits in 31 times at bat) with one homer and eight RBIs in 13 games so far. It is still early in the season, but with the recent pace, we can look forward to seeing him repeat his heyday when he was an MVP.

Catcher Han Jun-su, who was placed in the eighth, also recorded three hits, two runs and one RBI in three at-bats, and shortstop Hong Jong-pyo, who was called up before the game, recorded two hits, one run and one RBI in three at-bats.

Han Jun-su is in the spotlight as a catcher with good batting performance. It is not easy to secure the starting position because Kia has Kim Tae-gun, but he has been performing well as providing physical stamina and as a substitute for the latter half of the game.

As soon as he was called up, Hong showed a “surprise” performance, and is recognized for his stable defense. The registration of the first team was inevitable due to a series of departures by Park Chan-ho and Park Min-ho, but he impressed Coach Lee Beom-ho properly as he performed from the first day.

Of course, it is not easy to expect continued performance by non-mainstream players. Considering last year’s collapse when its main players were absent, however, Kia’s strength in this season certainly shows solidarity.

BY: 메이저사이트

Macau’s casino gross gaming revenue (GGR) rose 9.6% month-on-month to 16.66 billion MOPs ($2.07 billion) in July, the Game Inspection Coordination Bureau, a local regulator, said on Tuesday.

That beat the May GGR performance, which was the highest monthly performance since January 2020, the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the GGR hitting MOP 22.13 billion.

Securities firm JPMorgan Securities (Asia-Pacific) said in a mid-July memo that the Macau industry was strong in its monthly earnings, with the company posting 500 million MOPs per day compared with 500 million MOPs per day in the second quarter. The GGR fell 2.3% month-on-month in June.

The July tally represents a 4,082.9% increase from July 2022, when COVID-19-related travel restrictions were still in place. The city’s casinos were temporarily closed during July last year as part of its response to the pandemic, which at the time occupied a low GGR base.

In the seven months to July 31, Macau’s GGR was nearly MOP 96.8 billion, up 263.0% from the first seven months of 2022, the latest data showed.

BY: 바카라사이트 추천

Fitch Ratings says consolidation trends sweeping the slot supplier industry are “definitely overdue.”

“We believe that redundant costs, including R&D, have helped to make the industry a priming point for consolidation, and that M&A activity in the sector highlights demand for content from slot vendors, particularly in a slow-growing environment in the United States,” the rating agency said in a statement released Tuesday.

Last week, U.S.-based Scientific Games announced that it would acquire its supplier, Bali Technologies Inc., in a $5.1 billion deal. Initially a lottery equipment and care provider, Scientific Games acquired WMS Industries Inc., the nation’s four largest slot provider, in 2013. Also that year, Bali Technologies acquired casino equipment company, SHFL Entertainment Inc., for $1.3 billion.

The Scientific Games-Bally deal follows the announcement of GTech SpA’s acquisition of International Game Technology (IGT). The $6.4 billion deal, which was confirmed last month, allows GTech, an Italian company that is a commercial lottery operator and game technology provider, to enter the U.S. casino slot provider industry, where IGT is a top player.

“The merger of Scientific Games further solidifies the already oligopolized slot vendor industry, creating a competitor on par with IGT, which is currently the market share leader, and delivering tangible cost synergies,” Fitch said. “In addition to cost synergies, the combination of slot and lottery businesses will enable Scientific Games and GTech to leverage slot content from Bali and IGT, respectively, across the lottery business.”

The consolidation is also taking place in other sectors of the casino supplier industry. JCM Innovation Corp, a subsidiary of JCM American Corp, announced Monday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire U.S.-based FutureLogic. The acquisition adds a line of peripheral components, including bill verifiers, printers, and digital media.

In April, U.S.-based Global Cash Access Holdings Inc., which supplies cash access products and related services to the gaming industry, completed the U.S.-based acquisition of New Wave Inc. New Wave is a supplier of compliance, audit, and data efficiency software to the gaming industry.

BY: 안전한 카지노사이트

Nasdaq-listed gaming provider TransAct Technologies Inc. reported a quarterly cash dividend of $0.08 per share on Monday. TransAct is a supplier of printers and print software to the gaming industry, among other industries.

The dividend will be paid to record shareholders on Sept. 15 at the close of business on Aug. 20, the company said in a filing.

On an annualized basis, the quarterly dividend represents an annualized return of 3.6% based on the closing price of $8.88 per share for the company’s stock on August 1.

Transact is set to report second-quarter 2014 earnings Wednesday. Transact posted net sales of $13.6 million in the first three months of the year, down 10% from a year earlier, while casino and gaming revenue fell 3% to $6.5 million.

Two of TransAct’s market rivals announced Monday that they would connect. JCM Innovation Corp, a subsidiary of JCM American Corp, said it has entered into an agreement to acquire U.S.-based FutureLogic Inc from American Capital Ltd.

BY: 슬롯사이트 순위

Guns (shooting), knives (fencing) and bows (bowl) are a must-have item for the gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics. In less than half of the Olympic Games, nine gold medals were poured out in three sports, exceeding the Korean team’s goal of five gold medals and 15th overall ranking before the opening of the event.

The rebound in shooting, which had lost its momentum, was a major factor. Shooting only won one silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago. Jin Jong-oh, who led the golden age of shooting in Korea, failed to fill the retirement gap of four gold medals and two silver medals.

As Hanwha, which had supported shooting for a long time, withdrew from the race last year, few predicted that the Paris Olympics would be sluggish, but won three gold medals and two silver medals, tying with the 2012 London Olympics, which is the highest record ever. Some say that a renaissance in shooting has come as there is still a chance to add more medals in the remaining games.

Shooting experts find the key to improvement of shooting structure in three years. The Korea Shooting Federation appointed Lee Eun-cheol, the gold medalist at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, as the head of the performance improvement committee. Currently, Lee has elevated his competitiveness by selecting players who are strong in the final round as national team members. Since the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, shooting has changed to a method of lowering the score points in the final round, but since we picked the national team members in the order of high score, we have decided that we have revealed our limitations in the Tokyo Olympics.

The difference was evident by the number of medals won. Six events made it to the finals in both the Tokyo and Paris Olympics. The result is that the Tokyo Olympics won one silver medal, and the Paris Olympics won three gold medals and two silver medals. “It is a sudden death in the finals to decide the gold medal. It is our athletes’ talent,” said Kim Tae-ho, vice chairman of the Korea Shooting Federation, who met at the women’s 25-meter pistol finals on the 2nd, and was confident in Yang Ji-in’s good performance, but a day later, the third gold medal in shooting came out in the finals on the 3rd.

Efforts were made to reduce the trials and errors of the Tokyo Olympics. At that time, our athletes had insufficient practical experience because they had to participate in the Olympics without experience in international competitions due to COVID-19. The Korean Shooting Federation concluded in early April that this part also affected the weakening of their competitiveness. This allowed athletes to participate in the Olympics with the experience of participating in at least three international competitions. It is also noteworthy that adaptation training began two weeks before the opening of the Olympics.

“In fact, it will be the same in all sports, but it is important to help players who are good in Korea do well in international competitions,” an official from the Korea Shooting Federation said. “I am proud that I have achieved good results in this competition because I selected players who can do well and helped them do well.”

BY: 토토사이트

Jeonbuk Hyundai of professional soccer K League 1 announced on the 31st that it had acquired defender Kim Tae-hyun (27), who is good at using both feet, on loan from Jeonnam Dragons (2nd division) with a permanent transfer condition.

Kim Tae-hyun, who made his professional debut in 2018 through Ansan Greeners (2nd division), 커뮤니티 transferred to Seoul E-Land FC and then Jeonnam in 2021, where he played as a starting defender.

Kim Tae-hyeon, who enlisted in Gimcheon Sangmu last year, played in 13 games this season and was recently discharged and returned to Jeonnam, but received a love call from Jeonbuk and transferred to another team.

Kim Tae-hyun is a multi-player who can play as a defensive midfielder as well as a left or right fullback, using both feet freely.

Kim Kyung-min, who led his team Gangwon FC to a great victory by scoring multiple goals against professional soccer team Jeonbuk Hyundai, was selected as the MVP of the 25th round of Hana Bank K League 1.

The Korea Professional Football League announced on the 31st, “Kim Kyung-min, who scored two goals against Jeonbuk in the match held at Gangneung Stadium on the 26th, leading Gangwon to a 4-2 victory, has been selected as the 25th round MVP.”

In the 32nd minute of the first half, with Gangwon leading 1-0 thanks to Yang Min-hyeok’s opening goal, Kim Kyung-min, who came on as a substitute for Jo Jin-hyeok in the 추천 8th minute of the second half, shook the goal net with a powerful right-footed shot immediately after being brought in, marking the season’s best goal of the season.

When Gangwon gave up a goal to Jeonbuk’s Song Min-gyu in the 16th minute of the second half, trailing 2-1, Kim Kyung-min completed a multi-goal with a calm finish in a one-on-one situation in the 18th minute of the second half.

The 2024 Seoul EOU Cup U-19 International Youth Soccer Tournament will be held at Mokdong Stadium in Seoul from August 28 to September 1.

This tournament, in which the U-19 national teams of four countries, including Korea, Argentina, Thailand, and Indonesia, participate, will be played in a round-robin format to determine the winning team.

The South Korean U-19 national team, led by coach Lee Chang-won, will use this tournament as a final mock test in preparation for the 2025 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-20 Asian Cup qualifiers scheduled for September.

Korea won the inaugural U-18 championship at the tournament, which was first held last year.

Korea will play its first match against Thailand on August 28, followed by Argentina on the 30th and Indonesia on September 1st.

This competition, hosted by the Seoul City Football Association and the Korea Sports Agents Association, is organized by the Seoul City Sports Council and the Korea Sports 스포츠 Agents Association and sponsored by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and Shinhan Bank.

Yoon Do-young of Daejeon Hana Citizen, a professional soccer team that was selected as a K-League All-Star at the age of 17, boldly declared that he would break through Tottenham Hotspur’s defender Emerson Royale of the English Premier League (EPL) with a one-on-one breakthrough.

Yoon Do-young met with reporters at a team K-League interview held at the Mayfield Hotel in Gangseo-gu, Seoul on the 31st and expressed his determination ahead of the match against Tottenham, saying, “I was just trying to have fun, but now that I’ve actually joined the team, I also want to show (my skills).”

Born in 2006, striker Do-young Yoon is a 17-year-old boy who has not yet celebrated his birthday.

Do-young Yoon, who started playing in the K-League since May as a semi-pro, was consistently given opportunities in Daejeon, appearing in 10 games and recording 2 assists, and delighting the eyes of soccer fans with his flashy moves on the wing.

As a result, he was selected by Pohang Steelers manager Park Tae-ha and Suwon FC manager Kim Eun-joong to join the K-League team and will play in the first match of the 2024 Coupang Play Series against Tottenham, which will be held at Seoul World Cup Stadium at 8:00 PM today.

Yoon Do-young said, “Since this is an event match, I will show off skills such as dribbling that the fans will enjoy,” and “Last year, among the players from Daejeon in Team K League, Anton and Lee Chang-geun did well, and although the team was different at the time, Lee Soon-min scored a goal. I will continue the momentum of Daejeon.”

He also expressed his anticipation to see how well his skills would fare against Tottenham players.

Yoon Do-young, who had said, “I want to try a one-on-one breakthrough against Cristian Romero,” could not hide his excitement when he heard that Romero was not included in the Tottenham team visiting Korea, saying, “Then I will go against Emerson.”

He continued, “Since winning or losing isn’t that important, I want to try everything I can and, even if it doesn’t work out, I want to feel it with my body and find meaning in 한국을 the challenge.” He added, “I haven’t scored my debut goal in the K-League yet, but if I score in this game, I want to gain confidence and continue my performance in the league.”

Yoon Do-young, who is still a third-year high school student, is also the envy of his school friends.

Yoon Do-young, who relayed the reactions of those around him by saying, “My friends said, ‘Are you playing with Son Heung-min? That’s cool,'” aroused curiosity by saying, “If I’m lucky enough to get a chance, I’ll shoot. I’ve prepared a ceremony, but it’s a secret. Since it’s related to Tottenham, I’ll do a ceremony that we can all do together.”