According to reports from 9 out of 10 top online poker rooms, player and game volumes have increased by at least 5% during the first week of December This constitutes the largest increase since June 2013 All top rooms except for one saw traffic rising during this first week of December For example, Winamax is now in 8th place having replaced..

UK based online games developer, Realistic Games, has signed an agreement to supply its full suite of online and mobile slots games for a period of several years to online gaming giant William Hill Initially, there will be only six new slots games deployed at WH with many more to follow soonThe first set og slots include Super Graphics Upside..

Rep Joe Barton's proposed bill, HR 2666 or the Internet Poker Freedom Act of 2013, was reviewed last Tuesday at a subcommittee hearing and has earned a certain level of respect amongst representative The legalization and regulation of online poker is a out on the table and will be analyzed and debated acccordingly in the US senateThe first steps..

According to GemCare figures, in 2012 alone, over 5000 people between 18 years and 35 years of age got in touch with the organization's helpline for advice on problem gambling According to people involved with the organization, smartphones and online gambling in general, might be directly responsible for more and younger people suffering from some..

The PokerStars Christmas and December Festival promotion is underway and the poker giant is giving away over $27 million Sunday 15th December The Sunday Storm will have a $1 million guarantee The Sunday 500 will have a $1 million guarantee There will also be "missions" promotion where players can choose from five different missions to..

Online game suplier and software developer iSoftBet has been issued a "Category 2" online gambling license by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission This represents a landmark step in the company's growth and development phase since the license grants iSoftBet the ability to increase its customer base even furtheriSoftBet has also received..

Poker players are furious and protesting about a reported connection between e-wallet service PayPal and Iovation, the online fraud detection platform that has ties to UltimateBet John Mehaffey, poker journalist, was the first to report about this connection when he discovered that Iovation was on PayPal's list of "non-exclusive examples of the..

Steve Happas, a poker player and amateur punter, has placed a $25,000 moneyline bet on Florida State to beat Auburn and win the BCS Title This shows gret confidence on behalf of the player, who didn't just place the wager but also took pictures and posted them on Twitter, sending the picture to Darren Rovell for maximum exposureA similar situation..

27 year old Spanish tennis-champion-turned-poker-pro, Rafael Nadal, has won his first ever live-poker tournament in Prague Nadal started learning how to play poker when a knee injury forced him off the tennis courts last year, but he has only played online poker so farNadal had a chance to face some of the world's best poker players and much like..

Arsenal football club has found itself embroiled in a betting scandal in the worst possible moment as only days ago, three people were arrested over match-fixing allegations The club has shown zero tolerance or mercy to the academy coach who tweeted inside information about transfer deadline wagers Mesut Ozil's £42 million transfer to Arsenal in..

The Division of Gaming Enforcement of New Jersey has suspended the review of the application by PokerStars for an online gambling and poker license for a period of two years This basically locks the poker giant from participating in New Jersey's online gambling market This decision means a huge setback for PokerStars and trumps its efforts to make..

Senate house members pointed out the seemingly contradictory position towards online gambling in the US of billionaire Sheldon Adelson, during a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on Tuesday Adelson who is CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation has been doing nothing but opposing attempts to legalize online gambling on federal and..

According to Rep Joe Barton (R-Texas), "God wants us to have the right to play poker online" This is what Barton said during a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on Tuesday The committee was appointed review the possibility of regulating online gambling in the United StatesBarton introduced his bill Internet Poker Freedom Act in July..

Many former Waterloo University students have made a career and a living out of playing poker and some have even managed to make it to the international poker tournament stratosphere becoming stars in their own rights, winning up to millions of dollars in earnings Amongst these former students one can find renowned names such as Mike Watson who..

Yesterday, three more people were arrested following new claims of match-fixing in English football The National Crime Agency (NCA) has stated it moved ahead with the arrests based on data provided by The Sun on Sunday's tabloidAccording to the newspaper, an undercover reporter met Portsmouth player Sam Sodje who started boasting to the undercover..

There are many international online gaming hubs in the world and the biggest and trusted ones are also the most popular ones including Malta, Gibraltar and Isle of Man Now Atlantic City wants to add their name to this select listThe proposal and legislation comes from Senator Ray Lesniak, who is partly responsible for the promotion of online..

Back in August, Vietnam started discussing how to proceed with a draft bill for the regulation of football betting under a government company, through its National Assembly Standing Committee Some of the issues facing the commitee today include setting spending limits, top tier caps and such since the gap dividing poor and rich is abismal and..

Last week a group of Japanese lawmakers sent a bill to parliament with a proposal on how to legalize and regulate land-based and online gambling in the island state Pro-casino lawmakers have been more and more vocal in the last few weeks regarding submitting the bill during the current session, which has finally happened Now its up to parliament..

Next week the United States Congress will have a meeting to consider the idea of regulating online poker on a federal level The meeting, entitled "The State of Online Gaming", will be held by the House Subcommittee for Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade on December 10th and according to data from the congressional website, "The Subcommittee will..

Microgaming, one of the world's largets online gambling software developers, has just launched an option to switch the current mobile platform into German, Dutch or Russian This will make the software giant's platform and games even more accessible to these markets which currently represent a sizeable chunk of Microgaming's overall marketPlayers..