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Wednesday 2nd January 2008

Asia's oldest casino to be rebuilt Macao's first ever casino resort Hotel Lisboa is to undergo redevelopment, Xinhua news agency reports. The Sociedade de Jogos de Macau (SJM) casino operator will launch a rebuilding project to be ...

Wednesday 2nd January 2008

Betting Terminal to Integrate Texas Holdem Poker Software into Game Terminals January 3, 2008 (London, UK) -- Betting Terminal Inc., a company with game terminals located across the globe, has announced that they will integrate BackgammonMasters poker game software into...

Wednesday 2nd January 2008

Best online poker player named The Card Player Online Player (OPOY) of the Year has finally been named as Isaac Baron, or 'westmanloAA' as his handle is on the net. It wasn't an easy victory however, with Matt 'ch0ppy' Kay thre...

Wednesday 2nd January 2008

Andreas Krause wins Mansion Poker European Player of the Year Having spent most of the year on top of the leader board, you couldn’t blame Soren Kongsgaard if he had cleared a space on his Danish mantelpiece for the Mansion Poker European Player of the...

Wednesday 2nd January 2008

Pokerstars Claims Simultaneous Player Record As Pokerstars put it in their blog, “That's the same, if you will, as every citizen of the city of Chatanooga, Tennesee, sitting down for a poker game simultaneously.” The poker site...

Wednesday 2nd January 2008

JJ Prodigy Banned from Pokerstars PCA Event JJProdigy is an online player who is probably best known as having to forfeit $140,000 for a first place prize in the PartyPoker $500k because he played on two accounts during the tournament. Once...

Wednesday 2nd January 2008

2008 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Schedule Announced Following on from an incredibly successful first year, the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour once again looks to be the premier stop on the UK circuit calendar, with more details having been announced by...

Wednesday 2nd January 2008

Online Player Record for PokerStars.com Online poker site PokerStars.com set a new world record last week with over 20,000 players participating simultaneously. The Kahnawake-licensed site announced that it saw 20,386 poker players...

Wednesday 2nd January 2008

Online Poker Software Goes Terminal Online backgammon site BackgammonMaster.com has announced a deal with London-based software developer Betting Terminal Inc that will see poker software it developed being used on betting terminals...

Wednesday 2nd January 2008

Australian Government Ruling Draws Fire In Australia, the Vice-President for the New South Wales Council For Civil Liberties has claimed that the nation’s new proposed Internet censorship laws would not stop computer-savvy...

Wednesday 2nd January 2008

Glimmer’s New Online Casino As 2007 drew to a close, Swedish online casino turnkey supplier Net Entertainment announced the 18th client for its Casino Module online gambling system this year, Glimmer Ltd. Glimmer has a...

Wednesday 2nd January 2008

Search Giants Face Class-Action Lawsuit In America, legal partnership Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro (HBSS) has announced that it has filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court against Google and Yahoo! along with several other popular...

Wednesday 2nd January 2008

ToteSport.com Snubs UK Move According to the Guardian newspaper, online casino ToteSport.com has decided to switch its licensing from Curacao to the offshore tax haven of Alderney. The move has been seen by many as an...

Wednesday 2nd January 2008

Macau To See Record Year According to the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau in Macau, predicted total casino revenues for the year rose 46.5 percent and should reach ten billion dollars. The Xinhua news agency...

Wednesday 2nd January 2008

New General Manager For Ace Interactive Server-based gaming and video lottery technology specialist Ace Interactive has announced that it has strengthened its senior management team with the appointment of Hakan Andersson to the post of...