Gambling.co.uk: Gambling News Archive

Friday 21st May 2004

Caprice Becomes Face of ParadisePoker.com Model Caprice has signed a deal with ParadisePoker.com to become the figurehead of a new multi-million pound UK marketing campaign by the company. ParadisePoker has been around for five years and, ...

Friday 21st May 2004

Poker Makes Move Onto Games Consul The next phase of Poker’s relentless march into the realms mainstream culture, it seems, is the gaming console, following Crave Entertainment’s announcement that ‘World Championship Poker’ is sched...

Friday 21st May 2004

Zone4Play brings Texas Hold‘em to the small screen Leading content provider of Interactive games on multiple platforms, Zone4Play has created the first play-for-fun, multi-player Texas Hold‘em package for the iTV market. Available for all existing ...

Friday 21st May 2004

Betfair Launches Poker Site Betfair, the world’s first and biggest betting exchange, which is seldom out of the news these days, has launched its long awaited poker platform, BetfairPoker.com. Using the latest Cryptologic sof...

Friday 21st May 2004

PokerStars.com to Send 315 Players to World Series Pokerstars.com has announced that it has qualified 315 amateur players for the World’s hottest poker tournament, which kicks off in Vegas this Saturday. At $10,000 per buy-in, PokerStars.com will ...

Friday 21st May 2004

The Advertising Onslaught The grey area surrounding advertising practices in the interactive gaming industry has convinced many network executives to reevaluate their advertising policies and discontinue online gambling adv...

Friday 21st May 2004

Gtech Served Double Blow as Shares Plummet Online lottery giant, Gtech Holdings, has seen its share prices fall as it was announced last week that two of its top executives face bribery charges in Brazil. The Brazilian government is suing t...

Friday 21st May 2004
William Hill to Launch iTV Channel Bookmaker William Hill has announced it is to launch an interactive TV channel on the Sky Digital platform at the end of this year. Following agreement with Digital Interactive Television Group Lim...


Friday 21st May 2004

NTF Back The Horse Racing Channel The Horse Racing Channel is gathering more momentum with the important news that the National Trainers’ Federation has thrown its full support behind the project. What began as a trot is now a dis...

Thursday 20th May 2004

Blue Square Online Casino Launch Imminent Blue Square is expected to launch its new online casino as well as an online poker room next month. Rumour has it that the company were eager to use Euro 2004 as a means of increasing brand awarene...

Thursday 20th May 2004

Coral Dismisses Stock Market ‘Speculation’ Coral has spoken out to deny the claims which appeared in several newspapers earlier this week, that it is about to float its shares on the stock market, branding them “pure speculation”. The comp...

Thursday 20th May 2004

The Ultimate Golden strike at the UEFA Cup Final (www.goldenpalace.com; www.goldenpalace.co.uk ) Gothenburg, SWEDEN, Wednesday May 19 , 2004 – 21.55hrs local time. Cheering crowds of soccer fans leapt in a cheering frenzy this evening in una...

Thursday 20th May 2004

EBet Secures Land-based Casino Deal Antipodean gaming technology specialist, eBet, whose online operations develop and maintain interactive wagering sites for world leaders such as TAB and Penn National Gaming Inc., has announced a ...

Thursday 20th May 2004

More Gamblers Back Bush All the votes have been cast in Fortune City’s Presidential Poll this week, with the surprising results that a higher percentage of online gamblers back Bush in the forthcoming presidential electi...

Thursday 20th May 2004
Bonus MLB Play for Thursday MLB - Bonus on San Diego -119 - Line available at PinnacleSports.com - Valdez & Vogelsong - Listed Pitchers - Game goes at 4:05 PM PST., 7:05 PM EST. An interesting dichotomy has...