GPWA Times Magazine - Issue 17 - September 2011

£1,000 Bonus earned by a Scot who placed the millionth bet on William Hill’s Racing Post App. € 2 million Investment made by GTECH G2 in the International Poker Network. $150 million Amount sought by poker star Phil Ivey in a lawsuit filed against Full Tilt Poker. The suit has since been dropped. 10 Number of Team UB Pros who were informed in May that their sponsorship agreements had been terminated. BY THE NUMBERS $470,407.62 The amount received by the Anne Arundel County Police Department for its involvement in a two-year investigation called “Operation Texas Hold’em.” $100 million The amount paid out to American customers by PokerStars in the month after Black Friday. 1/8 The odds that players would not be playing real money poker on Full Tilt Poker on July 27, according to Paddy Power. The bet paid off! £1.5m The price paid by KAX Media for the domain Gambling.com. 16.67% Germany’s proposed licensing tax on betting turnover. 6,865 The number of players who paid the $10,000 entry fee to play in the 2011 WSOP Main Event. The tournament was the third-largest in history. $3.9 million The amount paid by Caesars Entertainment in 2010 in lobbying efforts for online gambling legislation, according to The Republic. 1 billion The number of unique visitors Google’s websites had in May, according to comScore. 7 million The number of active users Facebook lost in the U.S. and Canada in May, according to data from the Inside Facebook blog. 1% The percentage of Americans who placed a bet online in 2010, according to a VP Communications poll commissioned by the American Gaming Association. $34.6 billion The amount lost by Americans in commercial casinos in 2010, according to the American Gaming Association’s 2011 “State of the States” report. $125,000 The amount won by a middle-aged father on Slotland’s Witch’s Brew slot machine. 4.4% Online gambling’s projected rate of growth in 2011, according to H2 Gambling Capital. By the Numbers