Canadian Gambling News July 26 2013

Our first piece of news is about DoubeDown Interactive, which is a subsidiary of IGT (International Game Technology). The company has entered a deal with Century Casinos Incorporated, this deal will witness the app of DoubleDown being offered to players through some of the casino sites that belong to Century Casinos.

DoubleDown offers a great social gaming app that is very fun to play. The app will become available to players through the casino sites of Century Casinos.  These casinos include two land based Canadian casinos. These two casinos are in Alberta, Canada. The first one is in Calgary while the other one is in Edmonton. This means that the app will be available for many Canadian players who enjoy their gambling at these two casinos. The gaming content that is offered by IGT homes more than forty slot machines with some of the favorite games for millions of players such as Kitty Glitter, Siberian Storm and Wolf Run among other games. It also includes blackjack games, poker, bingo and roulette alongside video poker games.

The other news is coming straight from Ontario, Peterborough where a lucky family has become 50 million dollar richer after they have won the Lotto Max jackpot lottery in July. The family is the Powells, it includes 4 adult children, Sion, Michael Gaylene and Daniel alongside their mother Lynda and their father John. They have been buying lottery tickets for almost two years and the mother alone has been buying tickets for almost 25 years. This persistence of the family and their mother finally paid off as they have won the top prize of the Lotto Max Prize.

During the press conference where they took the 50 million dollar check, the Powell mother gave their statement but she did not have any voice and this is why her statement was read out. The children stated that after winning and confirming the win, she started screaming and chatting a lot that she lost her voice and this is why she was unable to talk at the press conference.

The statement reads that she checked the ticket at the grocery shop at the self scanner and she was in shock once she saw the number of zeroes. She said that she went back home quickly and to tell her husband who was also shocked and had to go to the store at the corner in his slippers in order to make sure. The news of such great win spread like wildfire between the family and their relatives and friends started flocking to their house in order to celebrate the great win and wish them the best.