Las Vegas professional poker player Frank Kassela, is planning on running for Congress According to his adviser, all paperwork has been already filed with the Federal Electoral Commission and Kassela will be representing the Democratic party in the 3rd Congressional District The district comprises Henderson city and other rural areas of southern..

In less than one week, IGT has handed out over $6 million in jackpot prizes through its Wheel of Fortune slots machines in both Iowa and Nevada  The first jackpot was hit at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on October 15th The prize won exceeded $243 million Only the next day, a second jackpot was won at the Montbleu Resort Casino..

Snooker authorities are intent on monitoring worldwide betting markets in an effort to reduce the threat of match-fixing Match-fixing in snooker has gained notoriety since the banning of Stephen Lee, a professional snooker player and former number 5 in the world who was handed a 12 year ban in September for participating in corruption and..

The most popular poker forum twoplustwocom has become a platform for players and operators to resolve their issues and express concerns about a number of issues and the latest high profile case relates to PartyPoker Players and bwinparty representatives are planning a sit-in on November 1st where players plan to expose the many problems they have..

For the few months that legal online gaming has been available in Nevada things seem to going well but the Gaming Control Board is in no rush to expand into any other type of card games The board has said it is considering applying changes to the current regulations AG Burnett, chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board said: “We’re..

Australian police are looking into the workings of an AUS$70 million ponzi scheme allegedly perpetrated by a Melbourne accountant and an international poker player The accountant could have made use of fraudulent documentation in order to gain loans from the Commonwealth Bank and later move them to both their private accountsRobert Zaia, a..

Pennsylvania has had much success with its land-based casinos but the state does not seem too eager to go online like its neighbours While neighbouring Delaware and New Jersey are hasting course to launch online gambling and poker as soon as possible, Pennsylvania does not feel it has to compete and is instead adopting a "wait and see" attitude..

Police have been harassing and abusing poker players, according to the Indian Poker Association The accusations follow closely to raids carried out by police on poker clubs in the state of Bangalore The latest high profile raid was on July 27th, when the Royal Flush Sports and Cultural Association in Chamrajpet was stormed into by police officers..

All Slots Casino is gettin ready to launch its forst ever TV ad for the United Kingdom and its accompanying the campaign with a barrage of promotions and incentives for new players The ad will focus on the different games available via online and mobile gaming platforms“We are really excited about showing off all that All Slots Casino has to..

According to a poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University, voters have divided opinions in regards to New Jersey's legal battle to introduce sports wagering to Atlantic City Opinions are almost equally divided with almost the same number of people voting agaist and in favour of New Jersey's intent to appeal a recent ruling to the United States..

Ultimate Poker rolled out real money Omaha games on Wednesday Currently there are only $010/$025 and $1/$2 PLO tables available which will remain open during a test phase of the client More stakes will be added in the near future and might even be available all the way from $001/$002 to $10/$20Players have for a long time been asking Ultimate..

Yesterday we reported on Betfair and Trump Plaza making an official announcement of their partnership to launch online gaming in the state of New Jersey Now Betfair has announced its plans to launch an ad campaign via television, radio and online and social mediaThe campaign actually started last week with the launch of LetsPlayNJcom, a webpage..

Virgin Gaming has recently launched a subscrition based real-money eSports league service which will allow its players to compete against each other for real money adding yet a new layer of services on top of its current fee-based serviceIt seems eSports is one of the fastest growing areas in the gaming industry with many players making serious..

A representative of 888Poker, while posting a reply to a question on the popular poker forum 2+2, revealed that the company was making the fast-fold version of its game available to certain players The quote from 2+2 reads: "The SNAP poker version is now being released to some new members that join 888poker; so only a limited amount of players..

Trump Plaza has announced it is entering into partnership with one of the United Kingdom's biggest online gaming companies, Betfair The partnership is intended to extend Trump Plaza's reach unto the New Jersey online gambling and poker markets once they open up in November 26th Betfair already owns 4NJBets which is the only real money horse-racing..

Chinese owned online sports and lottery operator, 500com, filed for a $150 million IPO in the United States, however this is but a placeholder to calculate registration fees and is sure to change soon 500com hasn't yet announced how many US depositary shares it is going to offer and at what priceThe IPO plans were announced together with two other..

Vernon Kirk, the lottery director for the state of Delaware, announced in an interview with CardPlayer that the state is gearing up to launch its online gambling and poker platforms on October 31st Delaware will become the second state in the Union to offer regulated and legal online gambling and poker to its residents, after Nevada and after..

Caesar's Entertainment Corp has managed to get itself into almost unrecoverable debt with $235 billion in long-term arrears Most of this debt is due to a move by the company in 2008 to go private, exposing it to a $30 billion buy-out by its current owners, Apollo Global Management and TPG CapitalThe corporation has also been struggling with..

Sportsbook, poker and casino website Betsson is going to launch their own mobile gaming application for iPhone and iPad owners who wish to take their gaming with them The app doesn't support free-play, instead it only offers real-money gambling and can be downloaded from the App Store since Apple's policy on real money gambling apps recently..

Ultimate Poker has lost members to its Team U unit of professional and sponsored poker players Last week, Team U members Tom Marchese and Randy Dorfman chose to quit the unit and leave their representation deals with the first ever legal poker site in the United StatesIn June 2013, Dorfman and Ultimate Poker agreed to initiate a sponsorship deal..