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Tuesday 29th April 2008

Ivey Hits a Hot Streak Online With the end of the World Poker Tour season drawing in last weekend, many of the high stakes games in Vegas wound up too, meaning many pros came back to the big online games. Phil Ivey logged in...

Tuesday 29th April 2008

France Still Considering Opening Market According to a report from the Dow Jones business news service, the French Government is still considering the implications of legalising online gambling under strict controls. Prime Minister...

Tuesday 29th April 2008

Grand National Winner Costs William Hill $14 Million British land and virtual gambling operator William Hill has announced that a public gamble on which horse would win the Grand National earlier this month cost it almost $14 million and wiped out...

Monday 28th April 2008

Financial Company Cantor Fitzgerald Move Into Online Gaming CantorCasino.com has been launched as the first online casino created by a blue-chip financial company following the success of Cantor Gaming’s white label B2B offering. Cantor Casino is...

Monday 28th April 2008

Philippine Appeals Court Finds For PAGCor In the Philippines, the Court of Appeals has thrown out a petition from Internet gaming service provider Sports and Games Entertainment Corporation (SAGE) seeking monetary compensation from the...

Monday 28th April 2008

Atlantic City Goes Smoke-Free In America, legislators have ended their relentless fight to protect casino workers from second-hand smoke by passing legislation that will outlaw smoking in Atlantic City’s eleven casinos....

Monday 28th April 2008

Record Results For Casinos Austria Casinos Austria International has reported record results for 2007 with aggregate revenues from its 66 global casino operations rising by 10.7 percent year-on-year to $1.72 billion. It stated...

Monday 28th April 2008

Gold Cup win for Monkerhostin Richard Johnson rode Monkerhostin to victory on Saturday in the Bet365 Gold Cup at Sandown. The Philip Hobbs-trained horse was not well tipped at the bookies, rated only at 25/1, but it managed to...

Monday 28th April 2008

Chiu takes down WPT Championship David Chiu is $3,389,140 richer this week after winning the World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship on Saturday night. Chiu entered the heads-up at a significant disadvantage, as opponent Gus Hansen h...

Monday 28th April 2008

Take On Annette Obrestad In A Freeroll With Bluff Europe Bluff Europe and Betfair have joined forces to create a $1,500 freeroll featuring online poker professional Sorel Mizzi and world champion Annette Obrestad on May 20. Both players will carry a...

Monday 28th April 2008

PKR Announces New Tournament Format By Merging Old Favourites PKR, innovative online poker room, have bought their players the best of both worlds by combining two tournament formats to bring you their inaugural Terminator Bounty tournaments. Each...

Monday 28th April 2008

Resort Casinos Could Soon Appear In Jamaica Casino gaming could soon appear in Jamaica after the Prime Minister stated last week that legalising the activity could generate tax revenues to help pay for health care, education and security. ...

Monday 28th April 2008

TBG London Wins Online Advertising Account Land and Internet gambling operator Ladbrokes has awarded the contract covering all of its online media accounts to advertising agency TBG London, worth an estimated seven million dollars. Aegis...

Monday 28th April 2008

Good Win for Marc at GUKPT Manchester There must be something about the Manchester leg of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour. Last year saw one of the most recognisable British pros, Dave Colclough, win the title. This time around the winner...

Monday 28th April 2008

PokerStars.tv Beta Launched PokerStars.com has launched a new video site at PokerStars.tv dedicated to broadcasting live webcasts of major events along with a unique collection of poker footage. The site is currently...