Gambling in the USA

Americorp Investments And Arrow Gaming Expand Gaming Portfolios

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5 years ago

June 12, 2019

Patents Provide Extensive Protection for Wagering and Technology

Americorp Investments LLC, a company focused on acquiring, developing and commercializing innovative technologies for the gaming industry, announced that it has been awarded an additional patent by the United States Patent Office. This patent is the 25^th U.S. patent for gaming granted to Americorp or its affiliate Arrow Gaming. Americorp and Arrow also hold six gaming patents issued in Japan and the Philippines and have 37 gaming and related blockchain technology patents pending in the EPO and PCT countries and jurisdictions worldwide.

Newly-granted U.S. Patent No. 10,297,106 covers distributed multi-ledger gaming architectures allowing for the creation and execution of customized bets. The patent includes the latest in technology such as smart contracts and also covers the technology in Americorp’s forthcoming blockchain wagering platform. This comprehensive patent also covers the generation and management of customized transactions (such as transactions that can be stored and automatically executed through smart contracts) via a gaming application/service. The customized bets can be between the player and any other party, including, among others, a casino, another player and a sports book.

Sports betting is expanding rapidly across the United States since a federal law limiting the activity to Nevada was overturned in 2018.

Arrow’s U.S. and international patents and patents-pending cover numerous aspects of gaming including, among others:

Online and land-based casino and interactive games involving skill, including eSports, card, skill-based, hybrid, peer-to-peer, augmented and virtual reality games, gamblification of arcade games and video games;
Tournament style games, individual player games and games with virtual tables, among others;
Location-based restrictions for mobile gaming allowing platforms to customize or restrict gameplay based on location;
Games with variable payback and dynamic adjustment of gaming parameters;
Collusion detection and detection of automated play;
Artificial intelligence for the review of gameplay;
Land-based machines and electronic gaming devices, smartphones and tablets such as Apple iOS and Android models;
Daily fantasy sports; and
Numerous other technologies.

Americorp founder and CEO Jordan Simons remarked: “Our combined inventions, as reflected in our growing patent portfolios include a broad range of the technologies and services that are core to the next generation gaming experience. Our patents include regulated and non-regulated cash and social gaming and offer an intellectual property roadmap for the industry’s future. We have assembled a great team of industry insiders and we welcome partnerships that will enhance our deployment and distribution of our portfolio.”

Gaming Industry veteran John English, Partner and Managing Director of Sports Betting and Technology at Global Market Advisors stated: “Americorp’s new patent recognizes a dynamic innovation that I believe will revolutionize the gaming industry. Sports betting and Esports are growing at incredible rates globally. The ability to easily create and track customized bets utilizing the blockchain is a truly exciting proposition.”

Mr. English added: “Arrow Gaming created and resolved key impediments for the gaming sector with its cutting-edge geolocation-based solutions, smart contracts and collusion detection systems. The Americorp blockchain technology covered by its latest patent will be a phenomenal asset to current operations and to the next wave of the gambling and hospitality boom.”

Gaming industry analysts report that the demand for modernized gaming technology and services is rapidly growing as consumers seek the ease and convenience of cash and social gaming from mobile devices. Americorp’s and Arrow’s inventions and patents are key to unlocking the value of this demand.

About Americorp:
Americorp Investments is a private holding company that develops, invests in, manages assets and businesses, with a focus on intellectual property rights related to new technologies. Americorp has 14 issued patents and patents-pending worldwide.

About Arrow Gaming:
Arrow Gaming has built an IP portfolio built around advanced gaming technologies that includes more than 50 issued patents and patents-pending around the world, including patents issued in the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines, and patents-pending in the United States, EPO and PCT countries. Collectively, these patents and patents-pending cover numerous aspects of interactive gaming, network-based gaming, skill-based gaming, peer-to-peer gaming, collusion avoidance techniques, multi-player skill-based tournaments, matching techniques for peer-to-peer play, odds-based sports wagering, pari-mutuel wagering and daily fantasy sports wagering.

Editors and investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which may affect business prospects and performance. Actual results may differ materially from the results predicted and reported results should not be considered an indication of future performance. Potential risks and uncertainties may include economic, competitive, governmental, technological, or other factors.

Source: Arrow Gaming

eSports

CAPCOM’S STREET FIGHTERTM 6 GOING TO COLLEGE THIS FALL

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2 days ago

May 3, 2024

Zoltan Tundik

College conference Street Fighter 6 champions will punch their ticket to the national Collegiate Esports Commissioner’s Cup (CECC) & May Madness in 2025

CSMG will create and operate College Street FighterTM Tour in North America for the 2024-25 academic year
College conference Street Fighter 6 champions will punch their ticket to the national Collegiate Esports Commissioner’s Cup (CECC) & May Madness in 2025

Collegiate Sports Management Group (CSMG) announced today during the kick-off of its Collegiate Esports Commissioner’s Cup (CECC) Texas presented by McDonald’s that it has joined forces with Capcom to launch the College Street FighterTM Tour during its 2024-25 academic year with the finalists competing at CECC Texas in 2025 throughout its May Madness event. Street FighterTM 6 will join Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Overwatch 2®, Rocket League, and VALORANT as part of the official game titles for CECC.

“We are immensely excited to welcome Capcom into the CECC family and provide a path to glory for student athletes to showcase their skills in Street Fighter 6,” said Michael Schreck, Chief Executive Officer for CSMG. “In our fourth year of building May Madness, we continue to listen to our players, coaches and fans on how to make our event more inclusive, and the partnership with Street Fighter 6 is a resounding success.”

“The Street Fighter franchise is a multi-generational and global game series, so it’s important for us to continue to grow that fandom at the collegiate level,” said Michael Larson, Head of Esports at Capcom USA. “CECC continues to set the standard for competition and community, so it’s a natural format for expansion, and we’re eager for College Street Fighter Tour competitors across North America to show off their skills and join us in Texas next year.”

”The vision for the College Street Fighter Tour is a publisher backed esports series that integrates into the existing infrastructure of The Collegiate Esports Commissioners Cup, a bracket style event series that takes place every year and has been coined May Madness. The path to championship includes invitational bids to national and regional level conferences as well as official CECC qualifiers held regionally,” said Angela Bernhard Thomas, Chief Esports Officer for CSMG’s ESPORTSU.

Every college or university from a 2-year or 4-year institution can participate through their conference or through select qualifiers. Wim Stocks will serve as the Commissioner of the College Street Fighter Tour and bring his 20 years of experience in college esports to create a dynamic and engaging format of competitive gaming.

“Since the launch of Street Fighter 6 in June of ’23, it is clear the rich legacy of Street Fighter is stronger than ever and helping lift the fighting game community to still greater heights,” said Stocks. “Having a structure now for a national collegiate competitive series, league, and events, Capcom and ESPORTSU are building a phenomenal ecosystem and mechanism for developing up and coming Street Fighter 6 competitors.”

More details on the College Street Fighter Tour will be shared later this year.

CSMG welcomes 84 teams (up from 64 in 2023) this weekend from a record breaking 19 conference champions to the largest scholastic esports festival globally. They will compete at Esports Stadium Arlington on May 3-5 for the chance to hoist one of the coveted trophies. Fans can watch the CECC Texas on ESPORTSU’s Twitch channel at https://www.twitch.tv/esportsu.

CECC Texas 2023 was also recently awarded LAN Event of the Year during the inaugural Scholars Awards in Las Vegas, which are produced in partnership with the Esports Awards.

Gambling in the USA

Clark County residents can bring a friend for free to next week’s Super Bingo $160,000 tournament at the Plaza Hotel & Casino, May 6-8

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2 days ago

May 3, 2024

Zoltan Tundik

Home to downtown Las Vegas’ only bingo room, the Plaza Hotel & Casino is offering Clark County, Nevada residents who register to play in next week’s Super Bingo tournament the opportunity to bring a friend for free.

Happening Monday, May 6 through Wednesday, May 8 in the Plaza’s expansive ballroom, Super Bingo is expected to draw nearly 1,000 people from the local Las Vegas valley and across the country and Canada for the opportunity to win big playing fun-filled games of bingo over two days, with a $50,000 super coverall both days while socializing with like-minded bingo players.

Bingo-only registration is $160 per person, and Clark County residents who register can bring a friend for free. Registration is available online at https://www.plazahotelcasino.com/bingo/super-bingo-registration/. Hotel-and-bingo packages start at $300 for a four-night stay with no resort fee.

All Super Bingo players receive one 6-on paper pack for both days, two daubers, free drinks via an open bar at all sessions, boxed lunch both days, and $10 in free slot play after the first day’s session.

The Plaza’s Bingo room offers six daily bingo sessions at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. and is located on the 3rd floor. By parking on the third floor of the Plaza’s self-parking garage, guests have convenient and direct access to the Plaza’s bingo room and parking is validated for bingo players.

Gambling in the USA

Kambi Group plc extends Mohegan partnership with on-property sports betting agreement in Pennsylvania

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3 days ago

May 2, 2024

Adrienn Sarkany

Kambi Group plc (“Kambi”), the world’s trusted sports betting partner, has agreed a long-term on-property sportsbook partnership with Mohegan to provide its award-winning sportsbook at two retail locations in the state of Pennsylvania.

The partnership will see Mohegan utilise Kambi’s cutting-edge retail sportsbook offering across more than 20 kiosks in sportsbook locations at Mohegan Pennsylvania and Mohegan Pennsylvania at Lehigh Valley Race and Sportsbook.

The deal further strengthens Kambi’s relationship with Mohegan, which already utilises Kambi’s suite of sports betting products at ilani in Washington, as well as online and on-property in the Canadian province of Ontario at Fallsview Casino Resort and Casino Niagara.

Kristian Nylén, Kambi CEO and Co-founder, said: “With several successful partnerships with Mohegan already in place, we are pleased to agree this new partnership as we continue to build on our strong relationship.

“This latest deal further reinforces Kambi’s position as the sportsbook provider of choice for tribes across North America, and we look forward to our ongoing collaboration with Mohegan.”

Tony Carlucci, President & GM of Mohegan Pennsylvania, said: “Mohegan Pennsylvania is excited to continue utilising the same Kambi technology platform that existed under our Kindred partnership, which will help to create a seamless process as the Sportsbook at Mohegan Pennsylvania fully rebrands later this Spring.”