Gambling.co.uk: Gambling News Archive

Sunday 18th April 2004

Harvard Study Allays Student Gambling Fears In what is thought to be the first comprehensive study of student gambling patterns in North America, a new Harvard report claims that student gambling habits are not a cause for alarm. Anti-gambl...

Sunday 18th April 2004

VIP launches multi-functional terminal VIP Gaming Solutions is bringing to the casino market a multiple result touchscreen terminal that offers the ultimate in game flexibility. The product is a result of detailed discussions with opera...

Sunday 18th April 2004
BetCBSports.com: 'NBA COACH OF THE YEAR?' (Zapote, Costa Rica, 14 April 2004)- In an NBA season, which has featured two of the best rookies to come into the league in decades, entrenched in their own intense battle for the 'Got Milk?' Rook...


Sunday 18th April 2004
Five Million on the Nose An anonymous businessman has placed 5 million AUD on Lonhro to win the Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Sydney's Randwick racetrack on. Sportingbet Australia said the mysterious punter accepted odds of 1...


Sunday 18th April 2004
Totalbet.com Offers Free Wagering Online bookmaker Totalbet has announced it’s offering a free stake for new customers who register and place their first bet on any of their fixed odds markets. Where the odds are evens or greater, ...


Sunday 18th April 2004
Betdaq Unaffected by Betting Drought Betdaq has announced that profits are still healthy despite reports of poor performances elsewhere in the industry. Bookmakers’ fears that the current void in televised horseracing will dent profit...


Saturday 17th April 2004

UK: Joint Scrutiny Committee Overall the Committee was supportive of the DCMS's aims; there had been a number of industry rumours that the Committee had taken a very negative line. However, there were a number of important p...

Saturday 17th April 2004

Canadians Queue Up to Gamble Online The Atlantic Lottery Corp has announced that it wants to turn its new eClub Reward site into one of Canada’s first legal online casinos. The club, which has 24,000 subscribers, currently offers co...

Saturday 17th April 2004

Gaming Corporation Launch New Internet Casinos U.K. casino group Gaming Corp has been busy recently. Amid speculation that that it is currently attempting to acquire an, as yet unnamed, software company as part of its new expansion program, th...

Saturday 17th April 2004

GTECH Enjoy Record Profits Lottery giants GTECH have achieved staggering profits this year, thanks in no small part to various deals to provide Internet lotteries around the world. Recent contracts with Sri Lanka, Spain and...

Saturday 17th April 2004
Venerable Bookmaker’s Modern Online Makeover E-business experts, Zendor, have announced the official launch of the tote’s brand new corporate website and new look betting website, www.corporate.totesport.com and www.totesport.com respectivel...


Saturday 17th April 2004

Bookmakers Suffer From Dead Airwaves British bookmakers have announced a £8 million downturn in profits, mainly from Internet and telephone betting, since Attheraces ceased broadcasting, it emerged this week. Denied their daily fix of...

Wednesday 14th April 2004

Poker goes to college with US$50,000 Professional poker player Lou Krieger, author of Poker for Dummies and Internet Poker, has announced plans to host the 1st Annual College Poker Championship. The plan: to find the best college Tex...

Wednesday 14th April 2004

Poker's Float on Berlin Stock Exchange LegalPlay, operators of Skillpoker.com, one of the few poker sites permitted to operate on North American soil, has announced the next phase of its European expansion in the form of flotation on th...

Wednesday 14th April 2004

Belgians catching up on Internet gambling In a recent report released earlier this week, by the Belgian Gambling Commission, which supervises wagering, more than 25,000 of Belgium's citizens play on Internet casinos on an average every mon...