Catching the attention of football fans and fuelling speculation on a high roller’s identity Friday was a report in the UK newspaper The Daily Star that a famous UK football player had blown GBP 1 million in a matter of hours at an unamed land casino.
President Elect Barack Obama’s “suggestions” website at http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/home, and especially the threads proposing the abolition of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, continues to attract the attention of the online gambling community .
Matchroom Sport’s live sports events offering is to be made more widely available following a deal with digital sports television and internet specialist Perform.
The death sentence imposed on corrupt Chinese government official Li Shubiao in 2005 has been confirmed by the Chenzhou Intermediate People’s Court following a retrial for graft and misappropriation of public funds, reports the Xinhua news agency this week.
The German horseracing betting channel e8 television has launched on Astra after running extensive test transmissions since mid-2008.
The Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA) has announced that its legal team has been asked by the US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals to provide notice of their availability in April 2009 for oral arguments in their challenge to a Federal law targeting the Internet gambling industry.
Further to our earlier report today on Stanleybet’s confrontation with the Greek government and its OPAP monopoly, Reuters reports that an Athens court has ruled that Stanleybet can reopen its outlet in the Greek capital city.
Global Betting and Gaming Consultants and BetMarkets have combined to offer a free copy of the 13 page ‘The State of Play’ report on current sports betting developments.
The latest online gambling partnership deal is a games supply agreement inked between software developer and provider Cryptologic and Gaming Technology Solutions plc – a supplier of platform solutions for online gaming operations.
Cynics might say that Cryptologic’s latest public update on its growth strategy was to some extent spurred by the recent challenge from ex-CEO Javid Aziz that management’s strategy needed some revision.
Reports that have yet to be confirmed by either party involved have speculated this week that the online casino and poker operations of Doylesroom.com are about to ditch software provider Microgaming in favour of the Cake Poker Network.
In a reprise of a similar incident last year, when European gamblers using laptops and mobiles were ejected from a major tennis match, an alleged mobile better was removed from a Brisbane International tennis tournament match last week.
The ILBS.com legal information website confirmed this week that the Seychelles is a licensing jurisdiction for online gambling operators in terms of its Interactive Gambling Act.
The British gambling group Stanleybet has revealed that it is legally challenging the closure of its two Greek outlets last year by Greek officials acting on a complaint from the OPAP Greek gambling monopoly.
The convicted sex offender who ironically won a $500 000 Alaskan lottery designed to raise funds for sexually abused victims last week himself became a victim when he was subjected to an unprovoked street assault, the Juneau Empire newspaper reports.
A Mississippi gambler from Biloxi who feels she has been cheated out of a million dollar win by the land venue IP Casino has taken the fight to the Supreme Court this week, protesting that the slot machine she was playing had reflected a million dollar jackpot win way in excess of the $8 000 …
Swedish fraudsters masquerading as tax officials are the latest threat to online gamblers in the Scandinavian country, several websites reported this week.
Taking many online gamblers by surprise this week was the news that the Cryptologic-powered Playboy Gaming.com operation is to shut down the operation.
The “midnight rule” political tactic, in which the last-minute legislative push-throughs of outgoing US administrations can be reversed by successors, became familiar to online gamblers last year when the Bush Administration rammed through the flawed and controversial regulations supporting the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.
Antigua’s Finance Minister, Dr. Errol Cort must be racking up the airmiles on the Caribbean government’s continuing World Trade Organisation dispute over online gambling with the United States.
The Canadian online gambling software provider Chartwell Technology Inc. has announced the return to the ranks as Chief Executive Officer of Lee Richardson.
eCommerce and Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance (eCOGRA) has extended its independent testing, standards and monitoring services to cover Internet bingo, sportsbetting and live gambling operations, positioning its influential Safe and Fair certification seal within reach of most online gambling operators.
The importance that the UK government places on containing the threat of problem gambling was again illustrated this week when Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe visited GamCare’s London HQ to view the range of telephone, online and face to face services the charity offers nationally, free, to problem gamblers.
Almost a year back, one lucky online casino player turned a 25 cent stake into a win of over $5 million, an achievement made possible by lots of luck, wagers and the use of big-win progressive jackpot online slots like Microgaming’s Mega Moolah and Cashalot.