3D Tournaments -- Swedish online gaming developer Designed Quality Entertainment (DQE), which produces, develops and maintains gaming platforms for 3D gaming on the Internet, is about to launch a system that will enable its customers to run their own poker tournaments on the Web. Beginning July 4, DQE's customers, The3Dpoker.com, bizipoker3d.com, vegas007.com, arcticstarpoker.com, showdownpokeronline.com and 3BoyutPoker.com will be able to launch their own multi-table free rolls with guaranteed pot and satellites and tournaments for invited participants only.
New Poker Vision -- Online poker newcomer PKR.com announced today that beta testing has moved into its next phase. The PKR.com software is available for download without restriction as part of the 'PKR preview.' The current download version includes a full range of play-for-fun games, as well as real money free-rolls. Full launch is expected later this summer.
Gender Inequality -- To make up for the apparent lack of gender equality at the Wimbledon tennis tournament, online betting and casino company Gamebookers has offered £30,000 to the winner of the Wimbledon women's singles competition in response to Wimbledon organizers decision to award higher payouts to the top men's finishers than to the top women's finishers. Gamebookers has set aside the chunk of change to bring the women's amount to £655,000, which would equal to the men's. Luke Brill, Gamebookers' global marketing director said, "We were amazed that Wimbledon should take such an outdated view on equal prize money. There is little we can do to influence policy decisions of the organizers, however if we can redress the prize money balance, maintain the profile of the issue, and help to keep the Women's competition truly competitive, then we shall have achieved some good."
Avoiding Debt -- North West Leicestershire MP David Taylor is backing a campaign to cap the amount that can be spent on credit cards on Internet gambling websites in the UK. He is one of several MPs who want to limit the level of debt people can find themselves in after gambling online. He has signed a Parliamentary petition asking the Government to intervene and look at regulating such gambling sites. The petition also urges credit card companies to introduce caps on spending.
More Busts in Vietnam -- Since the start of the World Cup, police in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City have discovered three Internet-based soccer betting dens that branches of international gambling rings, according to local newspaper Thanh Nien (Young People). The three dens run by a 52-year-old local woman, a 49-year-old man and a 36-year-old man, respectively, used laptops with Internet connection to receive bets averaging US$1,258-1,887 each from local bettors.