• Online Skill Games Fuelling Luxury Lifestyles| Leave a Comment

    “I’m off abroad to live the life of a country gentleman” says Dan C. from Surrey, an average English guy with a not-so-average way of making his fortune. 34-year old Dan has earned over GBP30,000 playing online skill games in little over one year. He’s been saving most of this supplemental income and always planned [...]

  • Poker scam bilks casinos of $500K| Leave a Comment

    Two men and a woman cheated the casinos in Britain out of nearly half a million dollars in a high-tech poker scam using hidden miniature cameras and earpieces, police said Monday. Detectives said they thought at least six casinos in the London area were targeted over a period of several months by the sting, which [...]

  • Online Casino Gambling Get’s Legalized in More and More Countries!| Leave a Comment

    Good news for the online casino gambling industry. Online gambling and online poker is getting legalized in more and more countries!! (Like Italy, Spain, UK, and Singapore, Ireland, Belgium, South Africa)
     
    According to and interesting online gambling article from casinogamblingweb:
    After the Unlawful internet Gambling Act was passed for US poker site and casino players, many Mac [...]

  • MOBILE GAMBLING WORTH $16 BILLION BY 2011?!| Leave a Comment

    Prospects for the development of the global mobile gambling market remain strong, despite the strengthening of legal barriers to its development in the USA says Juniper Research. In new forecasts for the mobile gambling market, Juniper Research predicts that the global market for all forms of mobile gambling (casinos, lotteries and sports betting) will grow [...]

  • The Indian Gaming Revenue Continues To Rise| Leave a Comment

    Revenue for Indian gaming has nearly doubled nationwide since 2002, while wagering on sports and horse racing has declined, it was reported.
     Indian gaming revenues nationwide rose 19.2 percent in 2005 to $22.7 billion, while wagering on racing and sports declined by 7 percent, according to media reports on Casino City’s North American Almanac.

    The Coachella Valley’s [...]

  • Poker game is skill or chance - Court to decide| Leave a Comment

    A court in East London is expected to decide this week whether poker is a game of skill, chance or a combination of both. A jury has been asked to weigh up the role played by Lady Luck in the world’s most popular card game, after police accused a club owner of illegally hosting a [...]

  • Thailand Research Fund - Porn, teen sex and gambling on the rise| Leave a Comment

    Young children and teenagers drink and smoke less but are more occupied in viewing pornography and gambling than a year ago, according to the latest research.
    The Child Watch 2005-2006 study, sponsored by the Thailand Research Fund (TRF), conducted on primary, high school and teenaged university students, also found fewer suicide attempts and more students continuing [...]

  • Australia’s biggest poker game| Leave a Comment

    Australia’s former king of spin Shane Warne will keep his life after cricket kicking along today, launching Australia’s richest poker event.

    Warne will speak about his love of the game - poker not cricket - when he opens the Aussie Million Championship’s No Limit Holdem main event.
    Last week, AFL footballer Brendan Fevola and tennis stars Mark [...]

  • Bodog Regular Sunday $100 000 guaranteed tournament boosted| Leave a Comment

    Bodog Poker regulars will have a bigger incentive to play in the Sunday online poker tournament prior to the Super Bowl on January 28 - the betting group is doubling its usual $100 000 guaranteed prizepool, providing gamblers with a minimum pool of $200 000.
     
    The good news is that buy-ins remain the same at $109, [...]

  • Titan Poker Now Available In Norwegian| Leave a Comment

    Titan Poker one of the fastest growing online poker rooms, has launched its popular poker software in Norwegian. This latest addition is a part of ongoing expansions and upgrades to the software and it means that Titan Poker is available in nine different languages - English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Turkish, Swedish, and now [...]

  • Wins $1.5 Million in PokerStars Caribbean Adventure| Leave a Comment

    When 22-year-old, Ryan Daut arrived on the shores of Paradise Island, he had no idea that he would return to New Jersey as a millionaire. Last night, Daut, a Ph.D. candidate in Mathematics at Penn State won $1.5 million at the Fourth Annual PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) that began January 4th at the Atlantis Resort [...]

  • IT’S TIME TO ESCORT THE PRESIDENT OUT OF THE CASINO?| Leave a Comment

    Desperate times call for desperate measures. Anyone who has spent time on a casino floor has probably witnessed a black jack or roulette junkie on a losing streak. But, he keep’s on gambling, saying to his wife or friends, all I need is one more chance, I’m hot, I can feel it this time, I [...]

  • POKER WINTER CHAMPIONSHIP| Leave a Comment

    The Poker.com Winter Championship kicks off Monday, January 22, with 7 guaranteed tournaments over 7 days. The Winter Championship will provide a poker carnival atmosphere to all our online players who can’t join us at this year’s Aussie Millions.
    All 7 championship events will award points that count towards the Poker.com Winter Championship leaderboard. At the [...]

  • Kazakhstan has taken drastic steps to fight Gambling| Leave a Comment

    Kazakhstan has taken drastic steps to fight the nation’s gambling addictions by ordering all gambling halls and casinos to move to just two lakeside towns.
    The government measure took effect on 1 January 2007, although construction is far from finished in both towns.
    The new Gambling resorts - outside the main cities of Almaty and Astana - [...]

  • 2007 World Series of Poker will be a little bigger| Leave a Comment

    This year (2007) the world’s biggest poker event will be a little bigger, thanks to the additions of the 9 new Poker Tournaments.

    The World Series of Poker will run with 55 events instead of last year’s 46, and quite a few new items are on the menu. H.O.R.S.E. is back, but in addition to the $50,000 [...]

  • China’s police crack 347,000 gambling cases 2006| Leave a Comment

    China’s police busted a total of 347,000 gambling cases involving more than 1 million people last year and retrieved 3.56 billion yuan (445 million U.S. dollars) of betting for money, according to the Ministry of China’s Public Security on Tuesday.
    China’s Police departments had specially targeted illegal private lotteries, gambling at overseas online casinos, online betting and gambling cases involving [...]

  • Shareholders okay Hard Rock sale to Indian band| Leave a Comment

    Shareholders in Rank Group PLC have approved the US$965-million sale of the Hard Rock cafes and associated businesses to the Seminole Tribe of Florida.The company said shareholders approved the sale at a meeting on Monday.
    On Dec. 7, Rank announced that it had agreed to sell the Hard Rock business, including its massive collection of rock [...]

  • The world’s smallest country - Run your own gambling nation!| Leave a Comment

    Want to run your own Gambling nation?
    For sale: The world’s smallest country with its own flag, stamps, currency and passports.
    Apply to Prince Michael of Sealand if you want to run your own nation, even if it is just a wartime fort perched on two concrete towers in the North Sea.
    Built in World War Two as [...]

  • Betting By Sports - At nine.com| Leave a Comment

    At nine.com it is our goal to make your wagering experience as Easy and as Exciting as possible. We are The Only Choice for the beginning, as well as the seasoned bettor. With our extensive Wagering Menu, you are always assured to get all the action you desire.

    Nine.com boasts of outstanding customer support and an [...]

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