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The French newspaper Les Echos reports that hotel and casino operator Lucien Barriere and the former state gambling monopoly La Francaise des Jeux (FDJ) will soon announce a partnership with Caesars Interactive Entertainment, the online subsidiary of the famous Las Vegas gambling group Caesars Entertainment. It is believed that the partnership will centre on the [...]

Conservative estimates that the British government’s sale of the Tote gambling group will realise around £100 million in net profit will see the British horseracing industry benefitting by £50 million, according to reports in the UK media as the week ended. The cash bonanza would flow from the government’s undertaking to donate half the net [...]

The Hard Rock really knows how to party! According to Nevada regulators, though, they are a little too eager to help customers party, even if it involves something illegal. On Wednesday, the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino agreed to pay the Nevada Gaming Control Board $650,000 to settle a casino involving the supplying of drugs [...]

Realm Entertainment, a Malta-based company, has signed a £1.6 million deal with Swedish online gambling firm Betsson which secures the Betsson Turkish database, along with a five year business-to-business deal providing a complete online gambling operation. Realm has applied for a Malta (LGA) online gambling licence to operate the enterprise, which will be offered in [...]

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Senator Ray Lesniak’s S490 bill seeking to legalise intrastate online gambling will go before the Budget Appropriations Committees in the New Jersey legislature on Thursday this week to formalise minor changes in the financial provisions before the bill goes to the Assembly floor and a hopefully positive vote. The Senator has said that he hopes [...]

The chief exec of the Poker Players Alliance, John Pappas, never one to mince his words, has characterised one aspect of the Reid proposal to federally legalise online poker in the United States as “absurd,” but believes the long term benefits of the bill make it more palatable. Pappas took exception to the proposed 15 [...]

The Irish gambling industry in general is closely watching moves by the cash-strapped government that could see gambling tax doubled during the budget presentation this week. The Irish Times reports that the troubled Irish horseracing sector is hoping that Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan will provide more support through an increase in betting tax to [...]

One small consolation for people who have the unfortunate circumstance to live in France is that they now have another good option for online poker. Titan Poker has launched a new online poker room tailored to the French market. Many online gambling operators are unhappy with the French government’s regulations, with a BetClic chairman even [...]

Recently online gamblers in the Canadian province of Quebec experienced a landmark day. It was the grand opening of the province’s first government-licensed online gambling website, espacejeux.com. The online casino is run by the province’s lottery monopoly, Loto-Quebec. The local news has reported that hundreds of players visited the casino website during its first day [...]