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Monday 19th May 2008

GigaMedia Has Record Quarter Taiwanese online software developer GigaMedia Limited has revealed that its revenues climbed 51 percent to reach a record $54.6 million for the first quarter of 2008. In addition, the...

Monday 19th May 2008

Full Tilt’s FTOPS Comes to an End The two largest events in Full Tilt Poker’s flagship tournament series were played out last night with a $2,500 buy-in deepstacked event hosted by Phil Ivey and the $500 Main Event. The...

Monday 19th May 2008

Bluff Europe Freeroll with Annette and Sorel is Tomorrow Night! STOP PRESS! The Bluff Europe Exclusive Freeroll with Annette Obrestad and Sorel Mizzi is tomorrow night at 8pm GMT. If you didn't get your 10 Betfair points together over the weekend though, don't...

Monday 19th May 2008

High Stakes Poker Show To Be Axed? Industry blogs have claimed that TV executives are ready to drop the hammer and scrap the popular US television show High Stakes Poker. A number of websites have claimed that, following a change...

Monday 19th May 2008

Aurora Casino Fined $800,000 The Illinois Gaming Board has announced a massive $800,000 fine for the Aurora casino which was found to be targeting problem gamblers with their promotional literature. The campaign was in direct...

Monday 19th May 2008

Big Brown Wins The Preakness While Big Brown may not have received the acclaim deserving of his Kentucky Derby win, following the terrible injuries to Eight Belle, the horse certainly lived up to the star billing at the...

Monday 19th May 2008

Poker stars fail to win at WSOG Despite the betting side of things being to their advantage, poker players failed to come out on top at the World Series of Golf tournament last week. Daniel Negreanu, Rhett Butler, Chris Ferguson...

Monday 19th May 2008

Haxton confirms WSOP participation Isaac Haxton has become the latest poker professional to confirm his place at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas this summer. Haxton told readers of his Card Player blog that he will be at the...

Monday 19th May 2008

Negreanu 'expects to have a good WSOP' Daniel Negreanu believes he could do well at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) when it gets underway at the end of this month. In his Full Contact Poker blog, he picked himself as being among the t...

Monday 19th May 2008
Sportingbet Downsizes After Move Online gambling operator Sportingbet has announced a number of redundancies at its London headquarters following its successful transfer of operations to Guernsey and Dublin. As part of the...


Sunday 18th May 2008

Autopsy Shows No Problems With Eight Belles While for many of those running the sport of horse racing it may have been better had the autopsy on Eight Belles shown problems with the horse’s health, this was not the case. There has been...

Sunday 18th May 2008

Is Private Poker Legal In The US? Despite the fact that millions of people have been playing Poker at home for many years, it seems that in many States a simple game of Poker at home with your friends may actually see you breaking...

Sunday 18th May 2008

Why Cant Hollywood Catch The Poker Atmosphere? The recent release of the much hyped and long awaited Poker based movie, ‘Deal’, went down like a lead balloon with the general public. The movie had been billed as Hollywood’s answer to...

Sunday 18th May 2008

MGM Grand Casino Stirs Up The Unions While the Unions have only recently received the vote from casino workers at the MGM Grand Casino at Foxwoods in Ledyard, it seems that the management are not yet willing to introduce Union...

Sunday 18th May 2008

MGM Mirage Looking For An Ace Even though the casino industry has shown signs of a slowdown of late and more and more of the larger developments are being postponed for the moment, it seems that MGM Mirage is going against the...