Gambling.co.uk: Gambling News Archive

Thursday 10th January 2008

Casino creating giant smoking haven Star City Casino is set to build a massive outdoor area for punters who want to smoke while they play poker, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. The New South Wales casino will build the largest ha...

Thursday 10th January 2008

Swedish Player Wins $330,000 At High-Stakes Poker Table Betfair is certainly one of the growing forces in European poker. The sponsors of the World Series of Poker Europe haven’t been resting on their laurels though, and instead they have...

Thursday 10th January 2008

Jay Z blows a load on poker It's A Hard Knock Life for rapper and music mogul Jay Z at the moment as he blew a bundle of cash at a poker game last week, MediaTakeOut.com reports. The former Def Jam boss is said to have lost ...

Thursday 10th January 2008

Casino 'killer' not yet caught Despite the fact that an entire SWAT team was sent to Harrah's Rincon Casino and Resort to conduct a comprehensive search, officials have still not been able to find a woman who claimed she had kil...

Thursday 10th January 2008

EPT PokerStars Caribbean Adventure – The Final Table is Set He began at the top of the chip count, and that’s where he ended: David ‘The Dragon’ Pham is the chip leader at the final table of eight. It wasn’t all plain-sailing for...

Thursday 10th January 2008

Online Poker Chipped Up in 2007 You’d have expected online poker to have a bad year in 2007. The USA tightened online gambling restrictions, companies connected to online gambling in the US were hauled through the courts,...

Thursday 10th January 2008

Everest Poker Prepare for an Avalanche Everest Poker have announced the return of the Avalanche, a series of events which proved to be a major success for the site in 2007. Once again you will have your chance to take down a million...

Thursday 10th January 2008

UltimateBet's Online Poker Site Now in 14 New Languages UltimateBet, the sponsoring sites for pros Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke, are reaching out to the international market having announced it has translated its website into 14 new languages. The new...

Thursday 10th January 2008

Anderson Goes Down-Under with Salomon In what appears to be a relationship with more variance than a drunken game of Omaha, Pamela Anderson and husband Rick Salomon have announced they will head to Melbourne for the Aussie Millions....

Thursday 10th January 2008

Tattersalls Complete Purchase of Talarius Australian gambling group Tattersalls has announced that it has completed its purchase of British slot machine operator Talarius after acquiring Macquarie Bank's 50 percent stake. The...

Thursday 10th January 2008

Patent for Lightning Poker Granted Pennsylvania-based Lightning Poker Inc, one of the two largest makers of electronic poker tables for use in live-action casinos, has been awarded a patent for one specific element of its products....

Thursday 10th January 2008

BackgammonMasters.com To Create Online Casino According to senior sources at the company, the newly redesigned lobby at online backgammon site Backgammonmasters.com is set to soon become a fully integrated casino system that could feature up...

Thursday 10th January 2008

MIT Blackjack Movie Set for Release Columbia Pictures has announced that a film based on the exploits of the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Blackjack Team, 21, is to be released in late-March. Based on the...

Thursday 10th January 2008

Online Casino Sponsors Snooker Player Leading British online casino VCCasino.com has announced a one-year sponsorship deal with professional snooker player Stephen Maguire. Glasgow-born Maguire is currently ranked tenth in the world...

Thursday 10th January 2008

Two New Casinos for Rhode Island According to the Associated Press news agency, a lawmaker in the small American state of Rhode Island is to file legislation in the General Assembly that would allow two slot parlors to become...