Gambling.co.uk: Gambling News Archive

Monday 9th July 2007

Rank Group Ponders Offshore HQ Leading gaming company Rank is contemplating relocating its telephone and Internet sportsbetting business offshore in reaction to steep tax rises marked out for the gambling industry in the last Bu...

Monday 9th July 2007

Internet Gambling Group to Enter Italy Gaming VC’s CEO Kenneth Alexander has stated that he expects to finalise the purchase of an Italian sportsbook license prior to the beginning of 2007/8 Italian football season, whilst also aiming t...

Monday 9th July 2007

Blackjack Ballroom Wishes On a Lucky Star Popular online gaming site, Blackjack Ballroom, has announced the launch of its new video slot title. Lucky Stars takes players on a journey through deep space and utilises gaming technology powe...

Monday 9th July 2007

Online Bingo Industry Still Scores a Full House According to research by the Global Betting and Gaming Consultants (GBGC), the online bingo industry generated prize funds of Ł72 million in 2006 – and that figure that is set to soar by 2008. An...

Monday 9th July 2007
Titan Poker Set to Stage Million Dollar Tournament Online poker site, Titan Poker, has announced that it will be making several poker buffs’ dreams come true by staging a $1 million guaranteed prize tournament on September 9, 2007. Players will s...


Monday 9th July 2007

Hellmuth and Enright Admitted to Poker Hall of Fame Phil Hellmuth Jr and Barbara Enright have been admitted to the Poker Hall Of Fame, joining 33 other stars of the game including Doyle Brunson, Stu Ungar, Johnny Chan and Thomas James ‘TJ’ Cloutier....

Monday 9th July 2007

Rookie Graves Takes Home WSOP Bracelet A member of Bodog.com’s World Series of Poker (WSOP) team triumphed over 1,048 other players last week to take home a preliminary event bracelet. Preliminary event 55 was a $1,000 buy-in with re-b...

Monday 9th July 2007

PokerTek Releases Heads-Up Table The company behind the PokerPro electronic poker table, PokerTek, has announced that it will soon be distributing a ‘heads-up’ version of the table. The machine, Heads-Up Challenge World Series of...

Thursday 5th July 2007

Online poker forums top of the flops As many as 40 per cent of online gamblers utilise the services of web-based forums, a new survey says. After questioning 11,000 online gamers, a survey commissioned by the e-Commerce Online Gaming...

Thursday 5th July 2007

Graves buries everyone at WSOP event 52 Michael Graves has walked away from event 52 at the World Series Of Poker (WSOP) with $742,121 and a coveted gold bracelet after he dug in against the more experienced Theo Tran in the Head's Up. ...

Thursday 5th July 2007

Online poker forums top of the flops As many as 40 per cent of online gamblers utilise the services of web-based forums, a new survey says. After questioning 11,000 online gamers, a survey commissioned by the e-Commerce Online Gaming...

Thursday 5th July 2007

PokerPro Performs Well at Aspers American software development and engineering company PokerTek Inc has announced that the world’s first electronic poker table, PokerPro, has been a success following a promotion at the Aspers At T...

Thursday 5th July 2007

Electronic Poker Table Now At Aspers The PokerPro® is an electronic poker table that shuffles, deals and even calculates pots has had a month-long launch at Aspers casino in Newcastle. Each player is seated in front of a screen which...

Thursday 5th July 2007

Wild Card Poker Auditions Open The Calvin Ayre Wild Card poker reality show is holding open auditions for contestants in its second series. Most of the twelve contestants will be selected on the back of one minute video submiss...

Thursday 5th July 2007

High Profile Gaming Takeover Talks Shelved English online gambling company Sportingbet has announced that talks regarding its takeover by Austrian Internet bookmaker bwin Interactive Entertainment have ended by mutual consent. Talks began ...