French player reports surfacing Friday indicate that online casino and poker operators powered by Microgaming are excluding French gamblers in compliance with the new liberalising laws which came into effect early June.
The joint Ladbrokes and Canal+ joint venture into the French online gambling market has named a high powered management board that includes experienced French television exec François Deplanck as CEO, and Ladbrokes’ head of IT and remote gambling Mick D’Ancona as chief operating officer.
The notoriously complex legislative position regarding online gambling in the United States has prompted two members of the House of Representatives to launch a bill seeking to clarify the legality of online pari-mutuel horserace wagering.
The betting exchange peer-to-peer business model, pioneered in the UK years ago by online gambling giant Betfair, could find new application in the state of New Jersey, reports the Thoroughbred Times.
Police and other enforcement authorities in China have told the Reuters news agency that their concentrated drive against internet gambling on the World Cup has yielded another gigantic bust – this one arguably the largest online gambling ring yet.
The London-listed online gambling giant PartyGaming plc issued a trading update Tuesday revealing that its second quarter revenue is expected to be up around 28 percent compared to the same period last year, mainly due to strong growth in its online casino division, along with the acquisitions of Cashcade and the World Poker Tour.
According to a trading update issued Monday, the French online and land gambling group Pari-Mutuel Urbain (PMU) is enjoying significant and early rewards from the liberalisation of the French gambling market, reporting a 400 percent growth in sign-ups at its pmu.fr website since May alone.
Sixty-three year old Texas Lottery player Joan Ginther has to be one of the luckiest people in the lone star state…she has just won $10 million off a $50 scratch ticket….and it’s her fourth major seven-figure lottery win!
One year on from Russia’s draconian bans on gambling in all but four remote regions , gambling is still apparently rampant despite police raids and other enforcement measures.
There’s apparently no stopping the gambling boom in Macau, an island off the Chinese coast renowned for gambling entertainment. The latest statistics from the Macau Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau reveal that compared with June last year, 2010 June revenues are up 65 percent to 13.6 billion patacas ($1.69 billion).
A grandmother was among the latest 65 people detained for online gambling Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Thursday, reports the Bernama news agency, quoting police spokesmen.
Hot on the heels of Thursday’s announcement by Bwin Interactive that it has begun online poker operations in the French regulated market , subsidiary Ongame Network France has revealed its next sally into the sector.
Online poker operators Everest Poker and BetClic Poker have commenced operations in the French market, having won the approval of French regulator ARJEL. Both operations are jointly owned by Mangas Gaming and GigaMedia.
Live betting specialist Zukido has upgraded licensee Boyle Sports.com with new mini-games, enhancing a b2b agreement between the two companies signed in January this year which requires Zukido to provide live odds, real-time scores, statistics and text commentary for snooker, tennis, football, cricket, darts, ice hockey, and basketball.
Online gambling operator Sportingbet plc will get brand exposure at England’s most hallowed cricket venues following its recent two year partnership deal with England test match grounds.
The Isle of Man-based internet gambling software provider and games developer Microgaming has announced a partnership deal to provide internet games content for PhilWeb’s new online casino venture, Vibrant Vegas, which launches this week through the Pagcor e-Games (PEGS) café network.
A new study conducted amongst Australian university students found no overlap between excessive Internet use and problem gambling…. but both addictive behaviours are associated with psychological issues such as depression, anxiety, stress, social isolation and loneliness.
With the repercussions of England’s stinging 4-1 World Cup defeat by Germany still reverberating around the internet, major online bookies in the UK have confirmed that they are honouring bets that Frank Lampard would score a goal in the match.
In New Jersey, thirty five suspects pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of racketeering and operating a multi-billion dollar offshore gambling ring, reports Associated Press.
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters this week that in a major enforcement action titled ‘Operation Bettor Days’ the police and prosecutors from the Kings County DA’s office have successfully taken down five illegal sports-gambling rings, which took bets totaling roughly $20 million annually.
The launch of internet scratch card games by the state of New Hampshire’s Lottery Commission has been delayed for a month by the need to better educate state leaders on the offering.
Online scratchcard software developer Neogames has launched three new games – ‘Ready Set Go’, ‘World Champions’ and ‘Fast Hands’ – to licensees.
888.com’s b2b division, Dragonfish, has announced the extension of its licensing agreement with Moon Bingo through to 2013.
AJ Thompson, formerly CTO of the Expekt group which is now owned by Mangas Gaming, has been recruited by Bodog Europe and will be responsible for technology issues going forward.