New Stanley Sites -- To celebrate the launch of its new software and Web sites--StanleyCasinos.com and CrockfordsCasinos.com--British betting company Stanley Leisure is hosting free online casino tournaments that will offer £12,500 in cash. Players can participate in two tournaments each week for five weeks, and new players will receive a 100 percent match bonus and automatic entry into the company's player reward scheme. Stanley is also launching StanleyInstants.com, an instant win games site with minimum bets of 10p and minimum deposits of £5.
Faithfull in Court -- Kim Faithfull, the former Commonwealth Bank manager who stole $19 million to feed an online gambling addiction, appeared in an Australian court again yesterday. The crown is appealing his five-year prison sentence, claiming it fails to "reflect the overall criminality" of what he had done. District Court Chief Judge Kevin Hammond, who originally presided over the case, eased Faithfull's sentence because of his complete cooperation.
Pulling Ads -- MSNBC.com has removed two I-gaming ads from the Covers.com section (http://covers.msnbc.com) of the MSNBC Web site. Advertisements for World Sports Exchange and PartyPoker.com were pulled Jan. 29 after they were brought to the company's attention by MediaDailyNews, which was pursuing a story about the persistence of I-gaming advertisements despite a recent U.S. Justice Department crackdown. Cherylynne Crowther, vice president of marketing for MSNBC.com said, "The bottom line is that sports betting ads are illegal on our site, and we enforced our policy. Once we realized that we had out-of-policy ads running, we yanked them."