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Reuben Portanier, who took over as chief executive officer of Malta’s online gambling licensing body the Lotteries and Gaming Authority (LGA) nine months ago, has so far maintained a low international profile, but this week broke out somewhat in an interview with The Sunday Times newspaper. Portainier took a decidedly upbeat stance in the interview, [...]

PALM SPRINGS – After the California Nations Indian Gaming Association chairman called for unity at the Western Indian Gaming Conference on Wednesday, tribes began to tackle the complicated issue of legalizing Internet poker in the state.   Tribes have been polarized since the Morongo Band of Mission Indians and four card rooms formed an alliance [...]

Slot machines have been one of the biggest icons of casinos and gambling on our lives. These are in bright colors, noisy machines have been always with us, and served to draw us into the casinos to see more of the huge jackpot prizes on offer. Slot machine players are interested in the dream of [...]

Only days after an adverse Court decision forced it to close its inaugural venture into land gambling through a betting shop in Stockholm, the Swedish online gambling group Betsson has been able to re-open the facility. The re-opening was made possible by Sweden’s Supreme Administrative Court, which revoked a negative December 7 ruling from the [...]

In Sweden an unidentified online gambling company has voluntarily paid back 4.9 million kronor (around $673,000) stolen by a gambling addict from her employer and wagered at its website. The unnamed problem gambler was in charge of an Uppsala company’s finances and siphoned off some 15 million kronor to finance her gambling addiction. The embezzled [...]

Rep. Barney Frank It has been a bittersweet year for online casinos when it comes to the US. The country has actively gone after several online companies, while at the same time, members of Congress were working towards changing Internet gambling laws. Representative Barney Frank has been at the front of the push for regulated [...]

The so-called sweepstakes parlours in North Carolina have dodged the legal bullet following a finding by an appeals court which preserved a broad ban on physical video poker machines, but found that phone card sweepstakes do not at present constitute illegal conduct. Sweepstakes parlours sell phone cards to punters which gives them Internet time on [...]

Having failed in its attempt to set up land-based betting shops in Italy, the United Kingdom’s biggest bookmaker will try once more by marketing its online poker and casino platform to the country. The company will offer Texas Hold ‘em tournaments to Italian players, in compliance with Italy’s gaming regulations. Chris Bell, chief executive of [...]

The news last week that a major executive shake-up in the European Commission will see the European commissioner for internal markets, Charlie McCreevy, replaced by a French bureaucrat in February 2010 is still the subject of discussion amongst online gambling executives. McCreevy frequently fought the industry’s corner when it came to enforcing EU principles of [...]

The US enforcement and legal system took what appears to be token final kick at the carcass of bankrupt online gambling group BetonSports this week when a federal judge in St Louis sentenced the firm, which has been defunct for several years, to probation and a $28.2 million fine that lawyers on both sides admit [...]