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Betsoft slots for Mr Green

21 May 2009

The 3D online gambling games developer Betsoft Gaming has inked an agreement to provide eight 3D games in its Slots3 series to the ubercool Scandinavian-facing online casino Mr Green.com, voted by Internetworld the top Internet gambling website last year.

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Bigger facilities for live gambling provider

21 May 2009

Live dealer provider Evolution Gaming has had to increase the size of its studio facilities in Riga, Latvia by a thousand square metres to handle growing business demand following a spate of new user contracts that has included Party Gaming and William Hill Online, the company reported this week.

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Online lottery on the cards for Illinois

21 May 2009

Senate legislators in Illinois looking for cash to finance an ambitious state-wide construction program approved two gambling related measures this week along with other tax proposals.

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38 percent first quarter loss for Atlantic City casinos

21 May 2009

Atlantic City’s 11 land casinos have reported first-quarter gross operating profits down 38 percent on the same period in 2008, an Associated Press report reveals. 

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Microgaming and Intertops part company

21 May 2009

Publicity earlier this month by the online gambling group Intertops, revealing that it was reentering the US market with a RealTime Gaming-powered online casino had industry observers speculating.

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Intralot lands US lottery

21 May 2009

Greece’s international lottery specialist group Intralot has announced the successful achievement of a 6-year deal to supply the New Hampshire Lottery with a system for online games, its ninth such contract in the United States.

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Bwin betters beware

20 May 2009

Online gamblers are being warned to be on the alert this week for fraudsters who have been trying to exploit the reputation of the major listed European online gambling group Bwin to leverage a criminal advantage over players.

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Half a million members at online Casino Euro

20 May 2009

Management at Casino Euro are gearing up to celebrate an important milestone for the five-year-old online casino and poker room as it closes in fast on its 500 000th customer registration.

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New chairman for Gigamedia

20 May 2009

TheStreet.com reports that persistent rumours of an acquisition deal being negotiated between PartyGaming and Gigamedia have heightened interest in the appointment of a new chairman at the Taiwan online gambling group, which owns the popular Everest Poker website and Funtown, the Internet’s largest Mahjong site.

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Internet gambling murderer convicted

20 May 2009

The Reuters new service reports that a court in Newcastle, UK has convicted a restaurant worker for the brutal murder of a Chinese graduate couple last year over their part in an Internet betting issue.

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Tax relief for Irish bookies

20 May 2009

Efforts by Irish bookmaking companies and associations to convince the government that moves to double gambling tax would endanger employment prospects and businesses in the sector were successful this week as the government relented.

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Fantasy games for Danish gambling monopoly

20 May 2009

Live sports data provider Enetpulse is to supplu a series of Internet fantasy sports games to the Danish state gambling monopoly Danske Spil under the terms of an agreement that will run for the next three years.

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Gambling software company steps in to assist online player

19 May 2009

A little known online gambling software company, Galewinds Software Incorporated gave larger rivals a lesson in player-sensitivity this week by stepping in and paying an online player who had been jerked around by an online casino it powered for months.

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Quick as a flash at Le Croupier

19 May 2009

Barriere Hotels and Casinos group’s recently launched 3D online casino, Le Croupier.com, has added a suite of instant-play games to its offering.

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Ukraine protests

19 May 2009

The Ukraine government’s abrupt ban yesterday on gambling other than in a specially delineated location has resulted in thousands of employees of gaming halls and casinos staging protest marches and demonstrations in the country’s capital, reports Reuters new service

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Banking hassles for European online gambling operators

19 May 2009

E-Gaming Review reported exclusively this week that the UK’s Royal Bank of Scotland has recommended to its online gambling clients that they find another bank to service transactions from the Netherlands and Switzerland going forward.

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Bingo chief on the move

19 May 2009

The UK listed gambling group Rank plc has announced that its Mecca Bingo subsidiary is currently seeking a new managing director following the resignation to pursue other business interests of present incumbent Simon Wykes, who has expressed a wish to move on with immediate effect.

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More Malaysian online gambling raids

19 May 2009

The Malaysian police maintained their active drive against illegal gambling this week with further raids in the Prangin area Monday, reports the Bernama press agency.

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AGA report shows gambling revenue decline

19 May 2009

The American Gaming Association, a trade association representing the interests of US land gambling operators, has confirmed news reports of tough times for the industry by releasing annual statistics showing a decline in gambling revenues of  $ 1.6 billion to $ 32.5 billion in full year 2008.

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Sinatra faves the theme of new Partycasino game

19 May 2009

Party Casino.com has added 13 new games to its inventory, with the flagship release featuring a theme that is a musical slot tribute to legendary songster Frank Sinatra.

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South Carolina bills make it out of committee

18 May 2009

Draconian and antiquated gambling laws that prohibit gambling, and especially poker, in the state of South Carolina could be in for revision as two key bills move out of the legislature committee stage and toward full debate and voting.

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New games from Virtue Fusion Alderney

18 May 2009

Online gambling software provider Virtue Fusion Alderney has launched three new games aimed at player retention.  BlackJack, Mafia Millions and Fruit & Veg will be available to players on all Virtue Fusion sites from this week.

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Online gaming exec arrested in Malta

18 May 2009

According to widespread reports in the Malta mainstream media, a Greek national working on the island of Malta as an executive with online sportsbook and casino company Gold Victory Limited was arrested over the weekend on allegations of misappropriation of Euro 500 000 from customer accounts.

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Online gambling industry vets make another interesting investment

18 May 2009

Savvy industry veterans Mark Blandford and Andrew Black, who were involved in founding Sportingbet and Betfair respectively, are looking to a football oriented sports betting enterprise as a profitable investment.

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