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The gates to ParaDice, the newest gaming platform at the Vienna-listed online gambling giant Bwin, are now open following the launch this week. This arena of brand-new dice games boasts skill gaming battles galore using multiplayer dice games like Jadestone’s ‘Dice Hold’em’ and ‘Shoot the Moons’.

Both dice games offer a mix of skill, strategy and chance, offering Bwin players a more comprehensive line-up of games. The games are available as cash games or in tournament formats.

Dice Hold’em is an exciting dice version of the classic poker game Texas Hold’em.

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The Australian branch of online gambling group Betfair is championing the cause of Internet gambling downunder, recommending to a government committee studying gambling reform that legalising and regulating Internet casino and poker gambling would be a good bet.

The government’s Productivity Commission is in the first phase of a government consultation process to study gambling reform, and has to date received over 200 submissions from interested parties other than Betfair.

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Christine Papakyriakou (52), a Hamilton, Ontario woman who currently awaits criminal sentencing for embezzling Cdn$7 million from her former employer to pay gambling debts that may be as high as $10 million, is to sue two land casinos and the province for her troubles.

Papakyriakou’s civil lawsuit, which contains allegations not proven in court, alleges that Casino Niagara, Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort and the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation are responsible for turning her into a pathological gambler, reports the Toronto Sun. Those named intend to defend the action.

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Adam Lambert may have sealed his chances of getting into the American Idol final after this past week’s performance.  Oddsmakers at Sportsbook.com have responded by making Lambert a -400 favorite to become the next American Idol.  One would have to bet $4 to win $1 (the initial $4 is returned if Lambert wins). 

From MTV.com:

What would Adam Lambert pull off this week? Dr

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Jackpot City Bingo is doing its absolute bet to make sure that their players have a great time this summer as they raise even more money for the Cystic Fibrosis fund.

Raising Good Money
Jackpot City has chosen to support the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, the organization that’s dedicated to fighting this life-threatening sickness and so far they have raised over  £10,000 in aid of this worthwhile cause. But now with a limited edition signed football from French soccer star Thierry Henry, they hope to raise even more.

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To win this rare piece of memorabilia, players must purchase 10 or more Charity Bingo Tournament Tickets at Jackpot City Online Bingo to qualify.

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The satisfying prospect of a gang of lotto fraudsters meeting their comeuppance features in a story in The Register this week, which reported that Somerset police have busted a bogus lottery winner scam following a raid on a cheque processing and clearing house.

Readers will be familiar with the letter-based scam at the centre of the raid, where the fraudsters attempted to dupe members of the public into thinking they had won a prize. Recipients were asked to send in £20 as an “administrative fee” in order to collect their “winnings,” and of course if they were unwary enough to do so, that was the last they saw of the lottery, their fictitious winnings…

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Chinese police in the city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang province this week arrested 11 people on charges of running an illegal gambling network, involving bets worth over 500 million yuan ($73 million).

“The (Hangzhou) network acted as a bridge between Chinese gamblers and overseas Internet casinos in the Philippines,” Wu Jun, spokesman for the public security bureau of Xiaoshang district told the newspaper China Daily.

“About 80% of the gamblers are local businessmen, and chances are that the money they bet came from their companies’ accounts,” Wu claimed.

Briefing the press, Wu Jun said that the underground gambling network was set up by a wealthy forty-something local businessman surnamed Li in March 2008.

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Just a reminder that tonight is the start of the Final 4 $40,000 Guaranteed Slot Tournament at Vegas Technology powered online casinos.

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Tonight at 8PM (ET), the Final 4 $40,000 Guaranteed Slot Tournament will kick off and it will run until April 7th at 8PM. The top 125 finishers will split the great $40,000 prize pool and the top 4 will also get $444 on top of their winnings.

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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 report suggesting the blocks is at present undergoing a public consultative process, and picking up plenty of flak as it does so.

With Wednesday April 1st as the deadline, the criticism is likely to escalate, the newspaper reports.

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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. GTECH’s proposed solution set includes a full suite of online and instant systems, up to 20,000 online lottery terminals, a variety of self-service lottery products and multimedia technology, a new wireless telecommunications network, instant-ticket warehousing, and ongoing services.

Online activities in state lotteries are exempted from US legislative bans on Internet gambling financial transactions.

The proposed contract, which is expected to commence in March 2010, follows a competitive procurement process. The

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