William Hill has been forced to remove their betting kiosks from bars and restaurants throughout Las Vegas because of a new law that prevents any company aside from established casinos to offer sports betting in public spaces without an unrestricted license William Hill has decided to instead make a move towards the mobile betting market but will..

Merge Network, one of the last US-friendly poker networks in the online poker market, is currently considering the use of Bitcoins in order to help facilitate player withdrawals The idea came about when a 2+2 poster suggested on the forum that Carbon Poker, Merge Network's main poker room, start using Bitcoins to pay out US players and at the same..

On Monday Pokerstars again lost the battle over keeping the option to buy out the Atlantic Club Casino An Appellate court in New Jersey ruled in favour of the casino and against the online poker giant who has been eagerly trying to get a foothold in the US online (and continental) market New Jersey is by far the best if not maybe the only chance..

Just a few months after becoming the first ever legalized and regulated online poker room in the United States, Ultimate Poker wants to move beyond its current borders an expand its operations to New Jersey New Jersey is a newly regulated online gaming market and as such has great potenial for online poker rooms, online casinos and online sports..

The CEO of Macau based Melco Crown Entertainment, Lawrence Ho, has revealed plans to set up and operate a casino resort in the outskirts of Russian city of Vladivostok This information was made public by the Wall Street Journal, allegedly citing a person with inside knowledge of the dealAccording to a document dated June 28th and filed in the Hong..

As for Sunday, William Hill US will make sure to disappear all sports betting kiosks in Nevada from bars, taverns and restauarants where they operate statewide This will be a good chance for patrons to open an account where they can fund or withdraw money and even place bets without having to visit a traditional casino-based sportsbook Will Hill..

A new version of Playsino Poker has been released for Facebook, becoming the first social poker platform to offer up to four tables at a time in more than fifteen different languagesAlex Kelly, Playsino's Chief Executive, announced that this offering will provide players with "the most realistic experience of the classic card game" He added that..

It was announced earlier this week that IDology in now Ultimate Poker's new player verification provider, replacing iovation Originally, Verifi outsourced this service to iovation but, players requested Ultimate Poker to stop using iovation as the service providerBack in a press release in 2008, it was informed that IDology and iovation teamed up..

Luongo's future as a goalie with The Canucks might still be uncertain, but his card action definetely isn't The 34-year-old goalie, finished 634th out of 6,598 players in last year's WSOP Main Event, earning $19,277 and his first official live tournament cashThe gold medal winner with Canada at the 2010 Olympics, has been informed that The Canucks..

Coin-operated slot machines, gray-haired gamblers and a busload of senior citizens are no longer Atlantic City's (or any other casino) reputation or marketing target The casino industry has been dramatically reshaped, taken over by young customers According to the American Gaming Association, the visiting rate to casinos is the highest among..

In an affort to join the four states currently allowed to offer at least some kind of sports gambling, New Jersey has placed a last request this Wednesday before the US Court of Appeals in Philadelphia However, lawyers for the four major professional sports leagues and the NCAA immediately expressed their position against this appeal Some of the..

It's been a few weeks since Forbescom published an article with Sheldon Adelson's opinion regarding online gambling In the arcticle, Adelson clearly pointed out that online poker and gambling "are dangerous and immoral" It didn't take too long for the poker industry to answer back Some gamblers for example, are boycotting some of the many Sands..

As a way to reinforce the UIGEA, it was the money processors and banks that the Department of Justice first attacked This meant nothing but a headache to US players when trying to make deposits in gambling sites that were, by then, considered to be illegal In the middle of the chaos, Neteller kept offering this service to US-based customers,..

In 2011, one in five bets placed on online gambling sites were placed using a Smartphone in the UK That same year, £13 billion in bets were placed using mobile devices worldwide The figure is thought to increase to $45 billion by 2017 and the US will represent most of its growth With mobile sports betting now legal in Nevada, anyone within..

Back in November 2012, when Amaya acquired poker and egaming network Ongame from bwinparty, Ongame's financial status was exposed when it was known that the network had only 31% of the cash segregated Players were owed a total of $157m in funds and only $49m were available at the moment of the negotiation This revealed a lack of player fund..

Online gambling has reached its popularity peak in the UK, making the industry worth more than £2 billion As UK residents seek for new entertaining methods, especially those easily accessed at any time or moment, various gambling sites have experienced a significant growthWith thousands of jobs created in the gambling industry, the figure..

The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office announced that a high and important gambling enterprise was taken down on Monday as part of operation "Shore Bet" Twenty-two were arrested and financial accounts were shut down after an 18-month investigation, said Christopher Gramiccioni, Monmouth County Prosecutor Gramiccioni also added that these..

"Million Dollar Summer" is Ultimate Poker's latest promotion created to attract more players to their site Director of Marketing for Ultimate Poker, Jonah Midanik, told Pokerfuse that this promotion was designed to "give back" to the actual players but also to invite tourists in the state of Nevada to take in part in big events such as the WSOPThe..

Social game provider, Zynga, recently acquired the Chicago-based gaming studio, Spooky Cool Labs as a way to boost the online casino-style gaming market The company is one of the top developers of free-to-play social casino games According to AppData, Spooky Cool Labs' latest release, The Wizard of Oz, has gathered 188,386 monthly active..

Traditional casinos are opening more and more casino options, online sites and sports-marketing agencies as the sports betting activity keeps growing rapidly This works both for the benefit of the industry and for the players themselves, as more opportunities, the better In South Africa for example, online sports betting is legal but online..