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‘Winner Takes All’ rake system to be used by UP

A post released last week by an Ultimate Poker representative, announced that the regulated Nevada site will be using the “Winner Takes All” system of rake attribution as a VIP reward system Regularly, the promotional system in online poker works by giving players loyalty points proportional to the amount of money the player has..
13 years ago

Switzerland to introduce new gambling regulations

The Department of Justice and Police along with representatives from every Canton will be drafting new laws and regulations for online gambling within the Central European nation The drafts will be made available for public scrutiny during the second half of 2013 The Federal Gaming Board has decided that virtual or online gambling should be..
13 years ago

Betting on Barcelona’s new coach

Tito Vilanova surprised the world by announcing his resignation as manager for one of the world's premier football clubs, FC Barcelona, due to health reasons This means his position has now become not only available but it is considered to be one the most covetted positions in the football world Reports from Spain point that the Barcelona board..
13 years ago

Bodog vs Pokerscout

Bodog has been trying hard to set a new standard of poker play on their network by introducing anonymous tables and campaigning against poker tracking software and poker volume tracking sites like Pokerscout It is Pokerscout especially with whom Bodog has the biggest bone to pick and it seems they must have made a right move somewhere down the..
13 years ago

Greece taken to EU court as they fail to recover from casino assistance

As Greece failed to recover the government's help that state-owned casinos have received for the last decade, the nation will be taken to the European Union‘s top court While private casinos have been paying an admission tax of 12 euros (1570 dollars) per person, public casinos of Mont Parnes, Corfu and the private casino of Thessaloniki on..
13 years ago

Apple poker apps off Australian market

A law known as the Interactive Gambling Act was passed in Australia in 2001 with the purpose of banning online gambling services The legislation also prohibited any other nation to provide interactive gambling products to the countryThe law didn't work the way it was meant to and now Australians have forgetten about the law and have reminded Apple..
13 years ago

Lithuania to regulate online gambling

Later this year a new proposal for a law to regulate online gambling could be introduced to the Lithuanian Parliament, according to several news outlets Until recently opinions have been divided regarding whether online gambling should be regulated or not and even though in practice online gambling has never been formally recognized, Lithuanians..
13 years ago

SBTech extends partnership with Mermaidbet

SBTech, one of the industry's leading sports betting software providers, has announced it will extend its partnership with Mermaidbetdk, a company owned and operated by Gaming Media Group, to continue offering their mobile betting platform to the recently regulated Danish online gambling market SBTech provides an HTML5 based mobile betting..
13 years ago

Online poker regulation could generate many jobs

Republican Representative Joe Barton's 'Internet Poker Freedom Act of 2013' has higher possibility of success than his previous attempt to regulate online poker when he introduced Bill HR-2366 The aim of this new bill is to re-enforce all the weak spots of the UIGEA of 2006, including regulation of online poker on a State to State basis while..
13 years ago

Belgium bans more sites

Four more online casinos join the list of online gambling sites that the Belgian Gaming Commission has been blacklisting recently Intercasino, Betsafe and Belgian-focused Casino-eagle, are among the gambling sites that have been recently banned by the European nation According to the Belgium's online gambling legislation, licenses can only be..
13 years ago

The Bodog Casino Race

Bodog Casino is launching today it's latest promotion, titled "The Bodog Casino Race" This promotion consists of a fun and challenging race where players get the opportunity to earn $10 every week for 12 weeks in a row, and get into the chance to win $2000 in cash! The race starts today 18th of July and will run all the way through October 6th..
13 years ago

Anti-match fixing programme funded by betting firms

As an effort to fight match-fixing among athletes and avoid any type of corruption, an education programme has been created and funded by three betting firms The  Professional Players Federation (PPF), an organisation that represents more than 15,600 athletes in the UK, has signed a three-year education agreement with bet365, Betfair and..
13 years ago

FTP Montreal Festival promises lots of action

Montreal will be experiencing Canada's largest poker event this upcoming fall as Full Tilt Poker has revealed details of the first Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival A guaranteed $1,000,000 prize pool and 13 days of non-stop poker action are some of the features this event will be offeringSarne Lightman, Full Tilt Poker's Head of Marketing..
13 years ago

Macau, the mecca for U.S casinos

It is common to think that Las Vegas is still the centre of US gambling, as for years the city has handled most of the action in this industry However, as China's economy continues to grow, so has their focus on gambling, casinos and show businesses The center of US gambling is ironically on the other side of the world, in Macau, dealing with more..
13 years ago

Royal baby booms bets in Britain

Even though Britain is a well known nation for betting, according to bookies, no event outside sports has had such a heavy reaction towards betting than the royal baby So far, odds point out that it will be a girl and Alexandria, is the favourite name If it's a boy, he will be named GeorgeThe Duchess of Cambridge is hospitalized in Saint Mary's..
13 years ago

FTP to offer online casino games

Independent news organization Pokerfuse has received confirmation from Full Tilt Poker's parent company, The Rational Group, that it will soon start offering online casino games as well Unlike Full Tilt Poker, Pokerstars will remain exclusively poker oriented In a statement sent to Pokerfuse yesterday, the company explains: “The Rational..
13 years ago

Pokerstars closes deal with Resorts Casino Hotel

Not long after attempting to buy out the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in New Jersey (the deal eventually fell out because of opposition by the American Gaming Association), Pokerstars once again made headlines when they announced a new deal to purchase another casino This time the casino in question is the Resorts Casino Hotel, which will now offer..
13 years ago

New Jersey goes to appeal court over sports betting row

New Jersey has been trying to get a piece of the sports betting action for some time now, which is why it will take its court case to the appeals court in order to secure its right to regulate and license sports betting operations within its borders At this point, only Las Vegas is allowed to offer legal sports betting options including office..
13 years ago

The US might reform its views on poker

A bill was recently introduced to the House of Representatives in the United States which aimes to allow individual states and accredited Indian reservations to license and regulate internet poker The bill, officially named HR 2666 or commonly known as "The Internet Poker Freedom Act of 2013", was introduced by Texas republican representative Joe..
13 years ago

Online gambling is back before Congress

The issue of legalizing online gambling is once more back before the US Congress but this time there are many more positive outlooks than ever before This comes after several states took it upon themselves to regulate and legalize online gambling and while others are expected to follow suit So far, at least 2 bills are awaiting a decision by the..
13 years ago