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Friday 31st August 2007

Bingo! Sun Calls In Impressive Numbers The Sun newspaper’s bingo site has grown to become the highest-earning business partnership on the internet with revenue climbing up to a staggering £3.8 million for the last financial year. News...

Friday 31st August 2007

Ladbrokes Launches Poker In The Pub Championship Taking advantage of new legislation that comes into effect tomorrow, British gaming giant Ladbrokes has announced details of its new online Pub Poker Championship. Beginnning on September 10, the ...

Friday 31st August 2007

California Poker Players Conference Los Angeles’ Hollywood Park Casino has announced that it will be the venue for the first annual California Poker Players Conference (CPPC) from October 20 to 21. Located in the suburb of Inglewood...

Friday 31st August 2007

Betdirect Launches New-Look Poker Software Leading online gaming site Betdirect has announced a redesign of its website at betdirectpoker.com with the launch of new poker software. The new Microgaming-powered software is available to downl...

Friday 31st August 2007

Brunson’s daughter Pamela wins WPT Ladies Night V The daughter of poker legend Doyle Brunson has been crowned champion at the fifth annual ladies night event at Los Angeles’ Bicycle Casino. Pamela Brunson saw off competition from the likes of Eve...

Friday 31st August 2007

Canadian Police Raid Illegal Poker Games Police in the Canadian city of Mississauga have charged seven people with running illegal gambling houses following a series of raids in which as many as 80 people were detained. After an investig...

Friday 31st August 2007

Online Casino Group Determined Not to Lose Rank Rank, a leading gaming group with casino and bingo interests, has announced that they will be attempting to compensate for potential losses due to this years smoking ban, with the introduction of a...

Friday 31st August 2007

Online Casinos are SA OK Fears by South African (SA) politicians that the country’s online gambling industry will overshadow bricks and mortar casinos have been appeased with figures showing that the former only represents...

Friday 31st August 2007

Antigua Takes Compensation Bid To WTO Friday Antigua and Barbuda will meet with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) today (Friday), in a bid to outline its reasons for the $3.4 billion in sanctions it wishes to impose on the US, after it accus...

Thursday 30th August 2007

Seattle mayor's son changes casino cheat plea Son of Seattle mayor Greg Nickels, Jacob Nickels, has revealed that he will change his plea on casino cheating charges from not guilty to guilty, according to the Associated Press. At the federal ...

Thursday 30th August 2007

Online casinos take Maltese retreat Ahead of the introduction of the UK Gambling Act on September 1st, Malta has received a flood of applications from online casinos and gaming sites to relocate their companies to its shores. As man...

Thursday 30th August 2007

Cream Rises at EPT Barcelona, but Brits are Skimmed Off Nearly 600 players paid the €7,700+€300 buy-in for the inaugural European Poker Tour (EPT) Main Event in Barcelona, swelling the prize pool to nearly, € 4,181,100, of which € 1,170,700 will go to t...

Thursday 30th August 2007

From Bad Beat to Brilliant - $821,670 Jackpot Triggered Online card room Absolute Poker’s Bad Beat Jackpot game has proved popular, but Australian player KADI is absolutely loving it. Kadi’s ten-high straight flush was beaten by a King-high hand, but tr...

Thursday 30th August 2007

Football Sponsorship from Everest Poker Not Just for Pros The world of football sponsorship is big business, but Everest Poker will prove popular amongst amateur players who can now compete online for £1000’s worth of football equipment. The tournament,...

Thursday 30th August 2007

Online Casino Launched By WPT Leading software developer for the global online gaming market, CryptoLogic, has launched a new casino on World Poker Tour’s (WPT) gaming site at worldpokertour.com customized to match the look, fe...