Gambling911 has pieced together some additional information about the Pinnacle Sports and Victor Chandler events I posted about yesterday.
Pinnacle: May have gotten popped by US authorities as part of a larger crackdown on US bookies. This actually fits with something I read on Cappers Mall which indicated that Pinnacle had been using agents in the US and some of those guys may have flipped on Pinnacle when arrested. According to Gambling911
Of primary concern to some offshore bookmakers conducting business within the US in recent days is that some individuals connected with a major gambling sting two months ago in Queens, New York, may be providing authorities with information about other gambling firm owners.
According to a Cappers Mall poster with connections over at Pinnacle, the US basically told Pinnacle that they could leave the US market and walk free or they could stay and duke it out. That would put some additional context behind the quote from a Pinnacle “main man” yesterday:
“When the U.S. focuses on something and says ‘enough,’ and when they go to ‘war,’ no individual company can possibly win in a fight of this nature.”
Victor Chandler: I actually heard about this from some inside sources but had to wait until at least one major news source could confirm it. eGamingReview was the first but their source obviously lacked the same concrete facts as did mine. Now that the dust has settled a bit Gambling911 is reporting that Michael Carlton was allowed to return to Gibraltar last night after being detained for two hours in Israel. According to Gambling911 VC had launched a major push into Israel and counted the country as one of its largest markets.