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The leading online poker site has signed a sponsorship agreement with the National Hockey League’s Calgary Flames, and to celebrate, they are giving away tickets to the Flaming C’s March 11 home game. A highlight of the UB.net sponsorship agreement will see the free online poker site’s logo debut on dual Rinkboards at the Flames [...]

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 [...]

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The study ordered by the Florida legislature to inform its decisions on the legalisation of online poker was delivered to the legislature by the state’s Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability last week and is expected to be presented to the state Senate by the end of November. (Read the full post about [...]

With last years winner of both sites’ Yearly TLB 011POKERDR on a mission to take down back-to-back honors, expect the top three spots on the Yearly Tournament Leaderboard to be hotly contested. This year’s Tournament Leaderboards at UltimateBet  ("UB")and Absolute Poker ("AP") have combined to go network-wide and for the first time ever delivers  a [...]

In only two short months the online gambling industry has seen an avalanche of new games of all types from a wide range of Internet gambling software providers. Following is a summary of all the latest game releases in one source. The Swedish company Play ‘n Go was among the most prolific in recent weeks, [...]

By ALEXANDRA BERZON, The Wall Street Journal Though he was a Las Vegas impresario and master of publicity ploys, Bob Stupak never saw some of his grandest visions come true, such as constructing a giant King Kong on the side of a tower, or building a casino in the shape of the sinking Titanic. Expensive efforts [...]

In August, Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) introduced S 1597, the Internet Poker and Games of Skill Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act. Menendez’s measure calls for the licensing and regulation of internet games of skill like online poker in an effort that is narrower than Congressman Barney Frank’s (D-MA) HR 2267, the Internet Gambling Regulation, [...]

August 24 – Its’ time to draw First Blood. On the reels that is. The newest online slot from Party Gaming is a real block buster. The game is based on the Rambo trilogy starring Sylvester "Sly" Stallone. It is a thrill-a-minute 20-payline, 5 slot machine game and the real stand-out feature is the enormous [...]