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Gaming industry renews push for legal online poker
11 May 2011
Top gaming industry executives launched a lobbying push Tuesday to persuade Congress to legalize Internet poker.»
Interwetten chooses Kambi for pool betting
11 May 2011
Interwetten will deliver its Supertoto and SuperScore pool betting products to Unibet’s Sportsbook B2B business Kambi. »
Player scoops nice jackpot at Golden Hat Bingo
11 May 2011
"Mollybelfast" won a Cash Cow jackpot worth £2,500 at Golden Hat Bingo on May 6.»
eCOGRA publishes revised eGAPs
9 May 2011
eCOGRA has published a revised version of its widely respected Generally Accepted Practices. »
IGT moves to acquire Swedish Internet gaming company
6 May 2011
IGT has offered $115 million to acquire Entraction Holding AB, a Swedish technology company that operates one of the world's largest online poker networks. »
EveryMatrix takes home sports betting award at EGR Awards
6 May 2011
EveryMatrix took home the ‘Sports Betting Rising Star Award’ from the EGR B2B Awards in London on Tuesday night. »
Gambling and the Law: A Law Professor Looks at Poker's Black Friday
6 May 2011
Professor I. Nelson Rose gives his view on the Department of Justice's indictments against major online poker sites on April 15.»
Deal or No Deal Bingo joins Income Access network
4 May 2011
The bingo room is running is running a TV ad where players can get a 25 pound bonus offer when they register an account and deposit 10 pounds or more. »
Income Access named best affiliate network
4 May 2011
Income Access won the Affiliate Network of the Year award at the 2011 EGR B2B Awards for the second year in a row. »
LVFH to acquire online gaming rights in Mexico
4 May 2011
Las Vegas From Home.com Entertainment has acquired a 99 percent equity interest in Poker from Home de Mexico. »
Moody's believes states will be first to legalize online poker
29 April 2011
Analysts for Moody's Investors Service there is still a chance online poker will be legalized federally in the U.S., but it will take several years.»
PPA steps up online poker legalization fight
26 April 2011
The Poker Players Alliance has been the main voice of poker players in the United States following April 15's online poker indictments. »
Affiliates can now promote Betfred's mobile platform
26 April 2011
The Betfred mobile betting platform is now integrated with taffiliate tracking software from Income Access. »
FremantleMedia, CalvinAyre.com to sponsor golf open
21 April 2011
The Fairway Charity Golf Open has confirmed that FremantleMedia Enterprises and CalvinAyre.com are official sponsors of the event.»
PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker to regain domains, pay U.S. players (eventually)
20 April 2011
PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker have reached a deal with Department of Justice that allows them to regain their domain names in return for blocking U.S. real-money play and return money to American players. »
Nevada online poker bill not dead
19 April 2011
Steve Sebelius says efforts to legalize online poker in Nevada are still alive because it may ultimately benefit the Nevada Resort Association.»
Victory Poker leaves U.S. market while others jockey for position
19 April 2011
The fallout from last Friday's indictment of the owners of the three largest online poker rooms that accepted U.S. players continues this week, as poker rooms across the industry are surveying the new landscape, evaluating their own policies regarding American players and jockeying for position for new players.»
Gaming and the Law: Federal Poker Indictments -- Revisiting Prohibition
17 April 2011
Professor I. Nelson Rose breaks down the major online poker indictments handed down by the U.S. Department of Justice on April 15. »
News analysis: DOJ has online poker figured out
16 April 2011
Casino City's Vin Narayanan examines the serious trouble facing PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker following Friday's indictment, including forfeitures that could exceed $7 billion, and busts the myth that American law enforcement has problems following the money in online poker.»
DOJ indicts founders of three major U.S. online poker operators
15 April 2011
The Department of Justice has indicted the founders of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker on charges of bank fraud, money laundering, illegal gambling offenses and violating the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.»
Ladbrokes' 888 takeover talks over
15 April 2011
Ladbrokes and 888 fail to agree a price as takeover talks collapse.»
The day online poker died
15 April 2011
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told Steve Wynn that online poker was "as American as apple pie." If that's the case, April 15, 2011, may be remembered as the day that online poker died. »
Playtech sees record win on Italian bingo network
13 April 2011
A player hit a 121,196 euro jackpot in SNAI's Cassiopea bingo room after landing the Corona jackpot. »
D.C. becomes first U.S. jurisdiction to regulate online poker; other states fold efforts
13 April 2011
A half-page provision in Washington, D.C.'s 2011 budget that never even uses the word poker made the city the first jurisdiction in the U.S. to adopt legislation regulating the industry.»
NeoGames celebrates its 100th game
12 April 2011
The launch of multi-scratch card "Royal Wedding" completes NeoGames portfolio with 100 interactive, Flash-based games. »