The soft launch of online gaming products in New Jersey is scheduled to take place on the 21st of November and a number of companies are already allowing pre-registrations to their websites One such company is Nevada-based Ultimate Gaming's wwwUCasinocom which will offer their full suite of gaming products to New Jersey residentsIn a press..

In an announcement earlier this month, Unibet Poker let their players and partners know that they would be switching their fast-fold poker version from the current Fast Poker (powered by Relax Gaming) to Blaze Poker (powered by the Microgaming Poker Network) Fast Poker was discontinued on November 5th with Blaze Poker immediately being rolled out..

53 year old Vadim Trincher, a professional poker player, has copped a guilty plea yesterday to running an illegal and very lucrative sports wagering ring out of his residence on Trump Tower condo in New York The operation catered to high rollers in the United States, Ukraine and Russia but also had an extensive list of Hollywood celebrities as..

Playtech has decided to move out from the Finnish and Dutch online gaming markets by the end of the current year There were also rumours that Playtech was going to pull out from the Canadian market, but finally these rumours were put to rest as false since under Canadian law, game developers can offer and promote their games to Canadian players as..

Professional poker player and WSOP gold bracelet holder, Mike Sica (also known as "Little Man") passed away on Wednesday 13th, at age 69 Sica had been diagnosed with a form of cancer last April and the decease was made public during Sica's participation at the WSOP Circuit Harrah's in Philadelphia in the same month This poker tournament would be..

Betfair has announced that it was granted a transactional waiver by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement which will allow the company to go live in New Jersey and offer online real money gambling via their website wwwbetfaircasinocom on November 26thTransactional waivers allow operators to launch, operate and administrate online gambling..

Players who are still owed money by Full Tilt Poker have until Saturday 16th, to file their claims online to eventually receive compensation Back in September 16th the government appointment payment processor, Garden City Group, sent a mass mailing to 14 million potentially eligible players obtained by the company from the poker room According..

The fight between Manny Pacquiao and Brandon Rios is expected to be the most lucrative and wagered on boxing match of 2013 The odds on this fight could produce such profit amounts to whomever guesses how many rounds the fight would last, that they could represent a life-changing resultPacquiao and Rios say they are ready for the big match on..

Southern Nevada's largest casino corporation, Station Casinos LLC, has reported net losses of $47 million for the 3rd quarter of 2013 in comparison to the $78 million profit from the same quarter in 2012Despite the losses, Station Casinos has experienced good business opportunities from its land-based casinos in Northern California and their..

Full Tilt Poker is probably the biggest mover this week having beaten both the iPoker Network and 888Poker to the second position in the rankings right underneath its sister company PokerStars which still reigns supreme above all other poker rooms Full Tilt Poker now has a seven day average traffic of 2700 playersThird place in the rank is the..

Bryan Zuriff, a famous Hollywood producer who got mixed up with bad company and was arrested for his participation in a Russian mafia controlled illegal sports betting operation, will have a sentencing hearing on November 25th where it will be decided if he will serve time for his crime Zuriff is one of the 34 people arrested last April in..

New Jersey has a gambling self-exclusion list for its land-based casinos in Atlantic City and has now also extended the list availability to players of online gambling companies The system has been put in place barely two weeks before the official launch of online gaming and poker in the state and due to growing concerns by groups regarding..

Lock Poker is no longer able to process deposits via Skrill (formerly Moneybookers), although players of the room can still request withdrawals via Skrill through the Lock cashier Lock has had much trouble with its withdrawal waiting times, with some players complaining about waiting weeks and even months for their money to arrive and this latest..

There is a great promotion underway at Royal Vegas Casino and its called "Escape to Paradise" The promotion will see players take home a share in a massive €120,000 worth of vacations, prizes and casino coins The vacations are the crown of the promo with players being able to choose a beach, ski or safari getaway The promo will end on..

There is still time for CIS and Baltic regional players to play heads up against world reknowned poker pro Gus Hansen on TV Full Tilt Poker's new TV show "Poker Pro Battle" is aimed at an audience from the Commonwealth of Independent States and Baltic countries and has proven to be quite popular as there are only three seats left for the..

Portugal might very well start regulating online poker as soon as by 2014 The announcement was made right after a visit from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), representatives from the European Union and from the European Central Bank to the country Portugal is in need of more bailout money, specifically €78 billion in bailout cash if the..

According to Darren Small, director of integrity at Sportradar (a betting and sports information analysis firm), "The current estimations, which include both the illegal markets and the legal markets, suggest the sports match-betting industry is worth anywhere between $700bn and $1tn (£435bn to £625bn) a year" Close to 70% of that..

There aren't many places in the United States where a person isn't within a 3 hours drive from a casino The saturation of the US land-based casino market is evident, but what is the significance of this for the casinos themselves It means they will keep growing but not independtly or from scratch as most have done so already, they will instead..

500com Ltd, a Chinese online company which also offers online sports wagering, wants to launch an initial public offering (IPO) worth $150 million in the United States with (tacit) approval from the Chinese governmentThis could represent a shift in attitude by the Chinese government in an effort to fight against illegal internet sports betting in..

At the end of 2012, Nevada legalized and regulated online poker throughout the state In 2013, New Jersey and Delaware decided to legalize online poker, casino gaming and gambling Now, questions arise on whether Nevada should follow suit offering legalized online gambling too or if it should just limit itself to online pokerThe chairman of the..