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Saturday 28th June 2008

Team Bodog Hitting The Spot As we move on to Event number 48 at the 2008 WSOP it is team Bodog that is back in the headlines with the scintillating form of team player Jose Severino. The $2,000 NL Holdem WSOP event has seen...

Friday 27th June 2008

New Jersey Casinos Will Avoid Future Shutdowns Those who remembered the New Jersey government shutdown in 2006 will be relieved to learn that all casino operations will be exempt after the signing of a new law this week. After the government...

Friday 27th June 2008

Party Time For The Man Behind Bodog While life has been very good for globe trotting Calvin Ayre, the founder of online gambling portal Bodog, there is one place which you will not catch the playboy billionaire, the US! ...

Friday 27th June 2008

Ladbrokes Poker Claims Top Spot In The UK Even though some in the industry may not believe the figures, it has been confirmed that Ladbrokes Poker was the number one poker operation in the UK for the week ending 14th June. The figures,...

Friday 27th June 2008

Fun And Games At WSOP 2008 As the WSOP bandwagon rolls on the action today centred around Event 45, the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship. This was day one for the popular event and saw 148 players join the ranks which...

Friday 27th June 2008

Evening Racing Growing In The UK As the spectacle of evening horse racing continues to grow in the UK it seems as though more punters are actually taking a visit to courses such as Chester and the like. Some of these more...

Friday 27th June 2008

Slots player pockets $31k jackpot All Slots Online Casino, a member of the Jackpot Factory, has announced that a member of its VIP club has scooped a jackpot in excess of $31,000 (£15,500) in a progressive jackpot game. Tony...

Friday 27th June 2008

WSOP Event #45 $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Day 2: The Pace Quickens There was still plenty of play come the end of Day 2 at the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship event, but for a few the cumulative loss of pots began to form an insurmountable hurdle. While others...

Friday 27th June 2008

Absolute Poker Bad Beat Jackpot Pays Just Under $1m Absolute Poker has reported that its Bad Beat Jackpot was hit recently, less than $4,000 shy of hitting the $1 million mark. The record-breaking $996,115.28 jackpot is the largest Bad Beat Jackpot...

Friday 27th June 2008

Online Gambling Grows In Norway In Norway, the online gaming market grew by 6.1 percent last year with an estimated 244,000 citizens gambling online and the vast majority of profits going to foreign operators. The report from...

Friday 27th June 2008

Singapore Online Gambling Increases Ten-Fold In Singapore, a recent study has revealed that online gambling has increased ten-fold over the past three years even though placing bets with foreign operators is illegal. A survey from the...

Friday 27th June 2008

Biggest World Series of Poker Event Begins The Main Event is the largest poker tournament in the World Series of Poker and indeed the world itself. The most expensive event and the one which carries the most prestige, however, is the...

Friday 27th June 2008

New Director for Gambling Supervision Commission The Isle of Man's Gambling Supervision Commission, which licenses online gambling operators from around the world, has announced that Steve Brennan has been appointed as its first Director. In...

Friday 27th June 2008

Allslots Casino VIP Has A Fruity Party AllSlots, a popular and leading online casino who boast a membership to the renowned Jackpot Factory group, announced another big winner at the premier website. The $341k progressive jackpot win...

Friday 27th June 2008

Cantor Gaming Signs Deal With Heavy Metal Magazine Cantor Gaming, operator of Cantor Casino, have signed a deal with fantasy publication Heavy Metal magazine to bring you a new range of exclusive games based on characters from within the pages of...