New Stuff -- InterCasino announced today that it's the proud new owner of poker software and will now offer poker rooms along with its regular offering of casino games. Ryan Hartley, managing director of InterCasino and InterCasinoPoker, said players can use U.S. dollars, pounds sterling and euros in the poker rooms and that the site is offering existing players $10 an hour to balance tables and start new ones. "We feel that the combination of our six years experience of online gaming, software that is more realistic than anything else I have seen out there, incentive schemes and bonuses renowned for being the most generous in the world and a large player base will quickly boost InterCasinoPoker to the top of the market," he said.
US Bit -- Today The New York Times takes a look at Eliot Spitzer, the attorney general of New York. Spitzer is known throughout the I-gaming community as the prosecutor who has extracted pledges to halt I-gaming transactions from both PayPal and CitiBank. Spitzer, who was dubbed "The Enforcer" by Fortune magazine, is making a name for himself by investigating corporate wrongdoing. The Times quotes Democratic political consultant Richard Schrader as saying that Spitzer is the leading contender for New York governor in 2006. In tomorrow's election, Spitzer is favored a third term in a landslide against Dora L. Irizarry, a Republican.