1st US Online Casino

It didn’t work in Italy, and it is creating major waves of protest in Australia at present – the prospect of governments forcing Internet Service Providers to impose blocks censoring online gambling websites. Sweden is the latest country to consider the censorship option, reports The Stockholm News this weekend. The newspaper reveals that a government [...]

Lottomatica S.p.A.’s wholly-owned subsidiary, GTECH Corporation Owner of Boss Media), has announced that it has been chosen as the preferred bidder to negotiate a seven-year integrated services contract with the New York Lottery to provide new online lottery solutions and services. The Lottery has the option to extend the contract for an additional three years. [...]

Seattle lawyer and Poker Players Alliance supporter Lee Rousso may have reached the end of the line in his litigative attempts to overturn the state of Washington’s draconian ban on Internet poker. The feisty lawyer has been battling the state, which allows almost every form of land gambling but imposes draconian penalties on anyone caught [...]

Playtech, one of the leading online casino software developers on the market is adding sportsbetting to its list of services. Increased Earnings2008 was a great year for Playtech. The company released their full 2008 numbers last week and reported a huge €40.69m in profit, quite the step up from the €26.9m profit that they had [...]

Also using the UK Gambling Commission numbers this week was the political opposition Conservative Party, which claimed that ‘nearly a quarter of a million more’ people gambled online last year compared to 2007 when advertising was permitted for the first time. The Gambling Commission estimates that 7.4% of online gamers go on to develop an [...]

Sandra “Black Mamba” Naujoks won this year’s European Poker Tour Dortmund event Sunday, becoming the second woman behind Vicky Coren to score an EPT title. With the tournament’s $917,000 pot she also becomes the second woman to claim over $1 million in career poker winnings. In addition to Naujoks, the $5,000 buy-in tournament’s final table [...]

There can be few people with a track record in the hotel and casino sector to match that of Stephen Wynn the founder of Wynn Resorts. While many of the larger competitors in the sector continue to struggle, as highlighted by our post on MGM Mirage, it appears as though Wynn Resorts is in one [...]

The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was put in place by the Bush Administration with the idea in mind that the government could do away with Internet gambling in the US. Now, a couple of years later it appears that the law has backfired. That is according to Focus on the Family, who reported that [...]

Recently released statistics from the USA are showing a desperate need for new revenue across a number of states. This comes after recent reports that a regulated online casino industry could see the country making $52bn. Unemployment in the United States is at nearly 15% after over 650,000 jobs were lost last week. This means [...]

MARRAKECH, Morocco – Chilipoker.com and WPT Enterprises announced today that they have finalized an exclusive partnership to launch the first ever World Poker Tour® (WPT) event to  take place on the African continent—WPT Marrakech. The three-year deal enables the partners to create annual televised broadcasts around the events. The first WPT Main Event will take place [...]