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Pinnacle Entertainment announced today that the Company has entered into agreements to acquire substantially all of the assets of Federated Sports & Gaming, Inc. and Federated Heartland, Inc. These entities own the Heartland Poker Tour and other related assets and intellectual property. The Heartland Poker Tour is a live and televised poker tournament series that made 17 stops across 15 U.S. states in 2011.

Tonight, Ernst & Young will honor one of 18 finalists including Double Down Interactive CEO, Greg Enell, as Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2012. Enell represents the only social gaming company recognized as a finalist in the Pacific Northwest for this prestigious business award. Enell co-founded Double Down Interactive in 2010 with the launch of DoubleDown Casino, which is now one of the world’s largest ...

Interblock proudly announces its first G4 Organic product installation in Chile’s south part of Central zone, named Talcahuano. In the beginning of June 2012, Interblock carried out successful installation of G4 Organic Roulette™ in Football Shape with 10 player stations in Casino del Sol. Mr. Michael Ecclefield, Director at Koala Gaming, explained: “Interblock’s Organic Roulette in eye-catching Football shape is one ...

Scientific Games Corporation today announced that Jeffrey S. Lipkin, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will present at the Jefferies 2012 Global Consumer Conference in Nantucket, MA on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 4:00 PM ET. An audio webcast will be available at http://ir.scientificgames.com/. A replay of the webcast will be archived for 90 days.

WMS Industries Inc., a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of games, gaming content and gaming machines, announced today that it has acquired Genesis Communications Inc., d/b/a Phantom EFX, a leading publisher and developer of interactive casino and slot-based games for social, casual and mobile gaming entertainment. The tuck-in acquisition of privately held Phantom EFX further expands WMS ...

It has only been a matter of a few short weeks that DRGT announced at the Slot Summit in Hanover that its casino slot sales and service division had secured the contract with Konami Gaming as exclusive distributor and service partner for Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg. Saarland Spielbanken are a group of casinos in the German state called Saarland. The Saarland is situated in southwest Germany and borders ...

Online gaming consultants ThinkManagement.com have launched a new service to offer social gaming strategy advice to the industry. The launch of the service comes as social gaming, including Facebook Poker, Fantasy Football, Virtual Worlds and the use of Twitter for social gaming increase in popularity.

Cantor Gaming® and Colusa Casino Resort ("Colusa") announced today that they have reached an agreement for Cantor Gaming to provide a complete mobile casino gaming solution at the Colusa Casino Resort, the popular gaming and entertainment destination in Colusa, California.  This marks Cantor Gaming's first partnership within the California gaming market.

The Microgaming Poker Network is poised to release a revolutionary new rake allocation method called True Value. True Value works in two ways. Firstly, it allocates player rake to operators based upon volume, activity and win/loss ratio, as opposed to traditional methods, which only work with volume. Additionally, it gives greater value to new players, thus encouraging operators to acquire, retain and ...

Union Gaming Advisors, a wholly owned subsidiary of Union Gaming Group and FINRA member firm, today announced the hires of Matthew Brown, Kevin Debbs and Michael Glynn as Managing Directors in a landmark hire to build out its institutional equity trading platform. Both Brown and Debbs will join Travis French and will be based in Las Vegas, with Glynn establishing a New York presence for the firm.