GGPoker and Grosvenor Casinos agreed a sponsorship covering more than 50 live tournaments at over 35 UK venues. GGPoker said eligible players qualifying or buying in through its platform can receive cash boosts, including 20% at Goliath, G200 and G300 events and 10% at UK Open events.
The sponsorship connects GGPoker’s online qualification and buy-in routes with Grosvenor’s UK live tournaments.
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The UKGC said on 12 October 2022 that NSUS Limited, trading as GGPoker, would pay a £672,829 penalty and receive a formal warning. It identified safer gambling and anti-money laundering failures, including inadequate customer interventions and marketing emails sent to 125 customers who had self-excluded.
It was reported that AGLC issued GGPoker an Alberta operator licence on 12 August. The poker platform had not yet relaunched in the province.
The Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke has decided not to seek leave to intervene in the Supreme Court of Canada case over Ontario’s cross-border iGaming liquidity model. The council said its views would be represented by other intervenors and that further participation would not be an effective use of its resources.
A German-language weekly roundup covered a European Court of Justice ruling on recovering losses from online gambling prohibited in Germany, alongside poker news, digitalisation and the black market. It also reported that ZEAL had launched a social lottery and that a Spiel 77 player won more than €5.5 million.
Switzerland’s Gespa reported 327 suspicious betting reports involving 307 sports competitions in 2025. The authority said the figures compared with 184 reports across 166 events in 2024, with football accounting for 217 reports and basketball for 23.