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Friday 15th February 2008

It’s ‘Sloan’s Seat’ for Tony as he wins a place at the Virgin Poker Festival Tony Sloan, a 34 year-old from Blythe, Newcastle, was one of ten players from a field of 190 this week to win a spot at the Virgin Poker Festival in April. The £105 buy-in tournament held at...

Friday 15th February 2008

Ladbrokes Poker Million VII Details Released Ladbrokes Poker Million VII is Europe’s longest running televised tournament and from now until the 29th of June you can qualify exclusively at Ladbrokes Poker for a package worth $21,000 to...

Friday 15th February 2008

Three Is The Magic Number for The Master Men ‘The Master’ Nguyen has really come into form of late. With a final table at the WPT Tunica followed by another deep run at the WPT Borgata, his attentions have now turned to Los...

Friday 15th February 2008

Casinos Poland Hosts Poker Casinos Poland is to host the premier European Poker Tour (EPT) for the eastern European nation, the Polish Open 2008, from March 11 to 15 at the company’s casino in the Hyatt Hotel in...

Friday 15th February 2008

Grosvenor Sueing High Roller's Bank For Upto $18m Grosvenor Casinos is to go to court this week in order to recover over $14 million in unpaid wagers from one high-rolling player. The UK land casino group claims that Ahmed Al-Reyaysa made $14.35...

Friday 15th February 2008

Macau Double-Digit Growth Continues Macau’s gaming revenues for 2008 are expected to see a double-digit increase to reach over ten billion dollars for the second year in a row. Lau Pun Lap, Member of the Legislative Assembly...

Friday 15th February 2008

Californians Approve Slot Expansion Four tribes in the western American state of California have won the right to add up to 17,000 new slot machines to their casinos after voters approved Propositions 94, 95, 96 and 97 last week. ...

Friday 15th February 2008

Sportsbetting Referendum For Atlantic City New Jersey legislators added to America's plethora of confusing gambling laws this week by proposing a bill that would legalise betting on professional sporting events at Atlantic City licensed...

Friday 15th February 2008

Online Casino’s Instant Millionaire The Gold Rally progressive slot has paid out $2.5 million at Playtech-powered online casino 32Vegas.com and made one lucky player and instant millionaire. The Internet casino stated that a Dutch...

Friday 15th February 2008

Gambling Takes To The Skies America’s Las Vegas Sands Corporation has purchased two airplanes and is retrofitting them to serve as private jets ferrying high-rollers from Hong Kong to the company’s two Nevada...

Friday 15th February 2008

Bulgaria Agrees On Online Gambling Legislators from Bulgaria’s three-way governing coalition have agreed to regulatory amendments paving the way for licensed and regulated online gambling. According to the Sofia News...

Friday 15th February 2008
Five New Online Slots As part of its regular monthly additions, Isle of Man-based online gambling software developer Microgaming has released five further video slots to a gaming inventory numbering almost 300. The...


Friday 15th February 2008
Online Game Goes Mobile British mobile technology company Mfuse Ltd has signed a deal to bring its Deal Or No Deal fixed-odds betting game to the Ladbrokes mobile gambling service. Identical to the online version,...


Thursday 14th February 2008

Hellmuth shown the Door-chester He might be able to dodge bullets, but he can’t dodge the dress code at The Dorchester by the looks of it. Whilst dining in acclaimed The Grill restaurant with fellow UltimateBet pro Annie...

Thursday 14th February 2008

Another Online Pro Enjoys Live Success The name Vivek Rajkumar might not mean a lot to you, but “Psyduck” is a well known professional amongst the online poker community. It seems like he’s cracked the live game too,...