The acquisition and merger wave in the online gambling industry is not yet at an end. After barely a month of negotiations, GVC and Ladbrokes Coral struck a deal. GVC acquires Ladbrokes for a maximum amount of 4.5 billion euros. Ladbrokes receives 46.5 percent of the shares of the new combination GVC Ladbrokes Coral. GVC will soon own 53.5 percent of the shares. Together, GVC and Ladbrokes Coral accounted for a turnover of around € 3.4 billion, of which € 1.6 billion through online gambling. GVC Ladbrokes Coral will soon become the new global market leader.

We just added another article because we still hear many players who have problems playing a bonus. Especially when winning, very happy players sometimes get really disappointed. In a previous article we emphasized the need to read the bonus conditions ( terms & conditions), but here we like to go a little deeper into the matter, with a couple of examples.

We are going towards the end of 2017 and what a year it has been. But instead of looking back, we prefer to look forward and look at what 2018 has in store for the online casino market. Of course we will continue to improve our offering of trustworthy online casinos and we will relentlessly kick out online casinos that make unfair changes for players or mess up on other subjects even if they are currently listed as trusted.

A Scottish player is about to have a Christmas he will never forget after winning the Hall of Gods jackpot at Casumo Casino. The jackpot stood at almost €7.3m, the online casino's biggest ever recorded jackpot by almost doubling its predecessor. How this jackpot win came about is a pretty cool story.

This is the question that the Dutch Gaming Authority (KSA) is investigating because if this is the case, then these loot boxes are illegal. With the current (outdated) Dutch law on gambling, all forms of online gambling are still banned in the Netherlands at the moment. There are online games in which players can obtain these so-called 'loot boxes' as part of the game. In these virtual boxes, for example, there are upgrades and outfits for characters. Players do not know in advance what they will find in a purchased box, and in a number of games they can also be bought with real money. Here the issue starts for the KSA.