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  • Readers Fired Up Over Root, Negreanu Racism Allegations

    Gambling911.com readers are all fired up over recent articles appearing on the website related to former Libertarian Vice Presidential candidate, Wayne Root, and poker pro, Daniel Negreanu.  Both have published attention grabbing rants.  Root’s had to do with the state of the union and President Obama’s failings while Negreanu was busy trying to figure out [...]

    Aug 11th, 2009 | Filed under Gambling News
  • Legalized Sports Betting is Inevitable

    By Art Spander, Real Clear Sports Legalized sports gambling is coming. Bet on it. There’s opposition from the leaders of the pro and college leagues. You already know that. It doesn’t matter. This isn’t an issue of being pure and saintly, it’s an issue of reality, an issue where already one state, Delaware, said it [...]

    Aug 2nd, 2009 | Filed under Gambling News
  • NFL Betting: NFC South 2009 Odds to Win

    The folks from BetUS.com have released their NFC South 2009 odds.  Which of the four teams will win in what is always one of the NFL’s most unpredictable and often tightest divisions? NFL betting gets into full swing over these next few weeks and people will be looking to make out with some sweet payouts.  [...]

    Jul 28th, 2009 | Filed under Gambling News
  • 2 Months, $2 Million Poker Reality Show to Air on G4

    This week there was some speculation about poker players Maria Ho and Tiffany Michelle appearing on the upcoming season of hit reality TV show, The Amazing Race. This follows up poker pro Annie Duke’s foray into the reality TV realm with her second place finish in this spring’s Celebrity Apprentice. Now, an actual show about [...]

    Jul 28th, 2009 | Filed under Gambling News
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  • US Casino Stocks At Highest Point Since May

    MGM Mirage Last week was the first strong week across the board that US based casino companies have had on the stock market in months. Shares rose continually throughout the week, and it left the companies hoping that the new week will bring more of the same. The Macau gaming industry is what fueled the [...]

    Jul 23rd, 2009 | Filed under Gambling News
  • Paddy Power Declares Holy War On Golden Palace – 07-24-09

    July 24 – Ireland’s largest bookmaking outfit, Paddy Power, have today declared a holy war against online casino operator GoldenPalace.com who yesterday offered a bid of CAD$5,000 to purchase the holy tree stump of Rathkeale. The Canadian based gaming company already own Pope Benedict’s old VW Golf along with a slice of toast allegedly bearing [...]

    Jul 23rd, 2009 | Filed under Gambling News
  • 'Mochy' Triumphs In Monte Carlo – Online Casino News

    Japan’s Masayuki ‘Mochy’ Mochizuki has been crowned as the world’s best backgammon player after beating reigning champ Lars Trabolt in the final of the Monte Carlo World Championship over the weekend. Sponsored by online skill games community CasinoRip.com, the week-long 34th annual Monte Carlo World Championship was held at the five-star Fairmont Hotel and featured [...]

    Jul 18th, 2009 | Filed under Gambling News
  • Internet Gambling Makes Push in Asia Pacific Region

    The past month has seen a surge of both established and not so established Internet Gambling and other gaming companies make a push into the Asia Pacific region.  Greg Tingle, Special Contributor to the Gambling911.com website and Australian correspondent, takes a look at the Internet gambling sector in that region.  He also looks at the [...]

    Jul 18th, 2009 | Filed under Gambling News
  • Zookz.com Record Industry Pirating Result of UIGEA

    Here is an interesting spin on the current state of the record industry and pirating downloads. Pokerati.com on Thursday featured a great entry on something many of us have been expecting to happen for a very long time now and – quite frankly, we’re surprised it hasn’t happened sooner. There’s a new company in the [...]

    Jul 13th, 2009 | Filed under Gambling News
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  • World Series of Backgammon joins Jadestone network

    Jadestone Networks, the Nordic based owner and operator of multi-player gaming networks GamArena and DiceArena, has signed the World Series of Backgammon for its new backgammon network. The official launch will take place on Friday July 24, 2009 in Cannes at the WSOB live event. The backgammon network, built on Jadestone’s DiceArena multiplayer platform, was [...]

    Jul 13th, 2009 | Filed under Gambling News
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