Best of iGaming Awards: The Choice Is Yours!

iGamingPlayer asked you, the players, to nominate your favorite online casinos, sportsbooks, poker rooms and more for our first-ever Best of iGaming Awards. The final nominations have been posted, and now it’s time to choose the winners.

As one of the leading iGaming marketing affiliates in North America, iGamingPlayer.com has thousands of followers and visitors to the content-rich website. They range from new online players to experienced gamblers, poker players, and sports bettors. All of them connect with online casinos and sportsbooks via iGamingPlayer.com.

What makes the Best of iGaming Awards different is that the players are the judges—not the operators or manufacturers.

“We think visitors to our site are the most savvy and knowledgeable around,” says Becky Kingman-Gros, CEO of iGamingPlayer.com. “Their interaction with our content and suggestions tell us they understand iGaming as few other sites can claim.

“A Best of iGaming award from iGamingPlayer.com will recognize the best in the industry today, as chosen by the players—the true experts when it comes to evaluating online games, websites, sportsbooks and promotions.”

The Best of iGaming Awards recognize excellence in 17 categories, including Best Casino Overall, Best Sportsbook, Best Poker Room, Best Slot Game, and many others.

After three months of open nominations, finalists were named in each category. Five finalists in each group was selected based on the number of votes. The finalists for the Best of iGaming Awards are:



Vote for your favorites from June 17 through September 15. The winners will be announced prior to the Global Gaming Expo (G2E), the industry’s largest and most important trade show and conference, October 4-8, 2021 at the Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas. The awards will be presented at the show.

Players can vote as many times as they like by following this link.

For more information about the Best of iGaming Awards or about iGamingPlayer.com, contact Roger Gros at rgros@ggbmagazine.com or 702-248-1565 X225.

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