1st US Online Casino

Several bills which would legalize online poker and other forms of online gambling in the USA are currently languishing in the U.S. Congress. One or more of those bills could become law soon. Or maybe not so soon. Or maybe never. In the meantime, however, several online poker rooms are already operating from the USA and they claim [...]

MasterCard was the first of the major credit card companies to pull the plug on transactions to and from online gaming companies when it switched off the service last January. Under the terms of the UIGEA, there is no need to turn off the service until June this year. However, it would appear that both [...]

The Grand Jury enquiries into online gambling and arrests in Kansas last year resurfaced this week with the news that a Kansas City man has pleaded guilty to running a sports bookmaking business. The Kansas City Star reports that Michael V. Badalucco (26) admitted that he and others provided bettors with a toll-free telephone number [...]

Gary Craig – Staff writer, RocNow.com Local News – February 7, 2010 – 5:00am BetOnline.com, a Panama-based online wagering site, is one of an untold number that will be accepting bets today on a premier gambling event – the Super Bowl. Meanwhile, Joseph J. Fafone, an Ontario County man who helped build BetOnline.com, is awaiting [...]

The Dow Jones news service reports that a federal appeals court on Monday upheld a contempt order for refusing to comply with a grand-jury subpoena against two companies owned by a Canadian man accused of processing more than $350 million in payments for Internet gambling companies. In an order Monday, the U.S. Second Circuit Court [...]

The Sega Corporation has made the move from creating games consoles for the masses into the world of online gambling. Sega has launched a brand new online casino and poker room with unique games developed and designed by the world renowned and iconic, Sega Games. This brand new online casino is packed full of slot [...]

Pioneers of live dealer gaming, Evolution Gaming, has signed a deal with online gaming company, Sportingbet to enable customers to play live roulette, blackjack and baccarat. This will mean that sporting bet will now have a branded blackjack table at its disposal and users will have the opportunity to play games with real dealers using [...]

Informed market rumour drove Party Gaming stock up 11% Friday – an eight month high – on speculation that the group was about to sign a merger agreement with the giant Austrian online gambling group Bwin. With media speculation mounting, Party Gaming issued a statement saying: “Further to recent press speculation, the Board of PartyGaming [...]

Delaware’s Sports and Video Lottery Commission voted five to four to reject the "de facto finding" of a study on gambling expansion in the state carried out by a gaming consulting firm. The study, conducted by TMG Consultants, a gambling industry specialty group, concluded that the state would enjoy increased revenues and a potential net [...]

January 19 – Ladbrokes has today announced a new addition to its online casino offering in the form of a new five reel, 20 pay-line video slot machine, Hellboy. The game will feature Hellboy and other iconic characters from the comic including: Professor Trevor Bruttenholm, Johann Krause, Abe Sapien and Liz Sherman. Hellboy is Ladbrokescasino.coms [...]