Online Gambling News
Below is a list of the latest casino news.
With their extensive experience and unique perspectives, Steve Lipscomb, founder and CEO of WPT Enterprises, and Hendrick Knopp, Head of Poker for bwin Interactive Entertainment, bring their dynamic interaction to the opening of the Third Annual World Poker Congress (WPC), scheduled for October 29 - 30 this year.
Both...
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One of online poker's biggest tournaments kicks off Friday (Sept. 5) when the seventh edition of the Poker Stars World Championship of Online Poker starts, with nine new events in the overall 33 event program that will culminate with the $10 million guaranteed No...
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It seems just yesterday that the 3D online poker site PKR.com founded by Internet whiz Jez San, OBE - the first person ever to be awarded an OBE for services to the computer games industry - celebrated its one millionth player registration, yet this week that number had doubled, according to a press release from marketing di...
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News International's online bingo website Sun Bingo has relaunched powered by Gamesys and operated by a subsidiary of the Gibraltar licensed company, Entertaining Play Limited, following a deal signed earlier this year .
The new site retains all of Sun Bingo's faves, and 3 new games - Gold Digger, Whack a Moley and WAG's Shopping Spree.
Among the launch promos is a prize draw to wi...
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The Casino Connection blog reports the death at the tragically young age of 39 years of Adam Fine, one of the most player-popular and respected writers on gambling in the business and a well liked bon vivant. It is understood that the cause of death was a stroke.
Fine's writing in Casino Player magazine was both erudite and humorous, and he enjoyed a large and mainly player oriented following.
Friend and fellow manager Frank Leg...
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Negative predictions on its full year results notified some weeks ago by the Australian Internet casino operator Lasseters were confirmed this week when the official results were announced.
Lasseters Corporation posted a 49 percent decline in operating revenue from A$6.8 million in 2007 to A$3.5 million Australian dollars, for the year ended June 30, 2008.
In August the Australia...
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Nordicbet.com, an Isle of Man licensed online gambling firm, has incurred the wrath of the Swedish Ice Hockey Association following an advertising deal it closed with ice hockey club IF Bjorkloven which resulted in advertisements appearing at an ice hockey festival in Umea.
The Association took umbrage because the agreement breached a prior deal that the Association and its member clu...
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The days of state-monopolised online sportsbetting in Sweden could be numbered, according to reports in the Swedish media this week which indicate that a commission of enquiry will propose a licensing system open to foreign companies by the end of the year.
Thought to be prompted by increasing pressure to liberalise its gaming market from the European Commission, and the threat of be...
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Visitors to the 7th Annual European Interactive Gaming and Expo (EiG) in Barcelona later this (September) month will be the first to see exciting new Multiplayer Blackjack Tournament and Hitman Slot games...
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Big moves are afoot for the currently Spain-based Bingos.com firm acquired earlier this year by NetPlay TV . The interactive gambling company announced this week that it is to relocate the bingo company to the UK, thus effecting significant cost savings for the group.
Top management, including chief executive Dominic Mansour, will move to Britain throughout September as the restructuri...
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William Hill has announced the impending retirement of Corporate Affairs Director
4th of September 2008
British land and online gambling group William Hill plc has announced the impending retirement of Corporate Affairs Director Ian Spearing (61) who plans to leave the company at the end of this year after almost 20 years of service.
In a statement issued by the company this week, chairman Charles Scott said: "Ian...
4th of September 2008
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Poker fans hoping to see online poker legalised in the state of California will have to wait a little longer following news this week that Assemblyman Lloyd Levine's bill AB 2026, currently before the Senate Appropriations Committee before going to the vote, will now only be reintroduced in January 2009. No reason was given for the hold, w...
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Scott Lewis and his 1st Technology patents on Internet gambling technology have dominated the headlines recently in bruising but successful encounters with Parlay Entertainment and Bodog, but this week a patents action name from past years was back as Mel Molnick and his Home Gaming Network resurfaced in the business press.
Molnick was at the centre of a number of controversial patent...
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In a major Las Vegas criminal case this week two former managers of the Bank of China and their wives were convicted by a federal jury on charges of racketeering, money laundering, international transportation of stolen property as well as passport and visa fraud, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Grego...
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A Syrian "whale" who wagered millions in Aspinall's land casino in London's swanky Mayfair district won a legal bid to avoid paying a GBP 2 million debt in a London court this week.
The Times Online reports that Syrian billionaire and high stakes gambler Fouad al-Zayat won his High Court case against Aspinall's, following a claim by the latter .
Known in gambling circles as the "Fat Man", al-Zayat had contested the Aspinall's cl...
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