888 Casino Announce Profits Up
The 888 income report for the first quarter of this year saw that their bets were well placed – a £33m profit is a dramatic rise on the £24m taken in the same period last year.
That figure...
Friday 9th May 2008
Celebrate The FA Cup Final With Betfred
If the run-up to this year’s surprise FA Cup Final wasn’t tense enough for football fans, BetFred Poker have arranged three consecutive multi-table tournaments in the three days...
Friday 9th May 2008
Gaming Giants Join Forces In Three-Year Deal
Software developer CryptoLogic Ltd and online casino giants 888 yesterday announced the successful signing of a three-year contract between the two companies.
This agreement means that 888 will...
Friday 9th May 2008
Bet365 Offer Free Shot At $3.5m
Bet365 Poker are offering a potentially unlimited amount of free seats for the European Championship of Online Poker II (ECOOP II) in an exciting race against time dubbed the FREECOOP II.
The...
Friday 9th May 2008
World Poker Crown Down To The Final Table
888’s World Poker Crown is set to be won as ten players remain having fought their way through a field of over 2,200.
The final table is comprised mostly of Canadian and Dutch players,...
Friday 9th May 2008
Titan Poker Announce Inaugural Live Tournament
Titan Poker, billed by some as the fastest-growing poker site today, have announced they are to host a live tournament.
Like many sites before them, they will be staging a live 200-player...
1st Technology Suing For Patent Infringement
According to numerous media reports out this week, 1st Technology has served seven more online gambling companies with patent infringement lawsuits in St Louis Federal Court.
Law firm Simon...
Friday 9th May 2008
GUKPT Heads North
The 5th leg of the 2008 GUKPT takes place at the Grosvenor casino in Newcastle next week from Wednesday 14th to Sunday 18th May. The five day poker festival gets underway with a £200 NL...
Friday 9th May 2008
Blue Square Saves Rank’s Blushes
Online and land-based British gaming giant Rank has announced that overall revenues for the first 17 weeks of the year dropped by eight percent on a like-for-like basis compared to last year due to...
Thursday 8th May 2008
EMex Launches CasinoPalmas.com
Mexican land-based casino operator Entretenimiento De Mexico (EMex) has gone virtual with the launch of its new Playtech-powered PalmasCasino.com online casino.
The Curacao-licensed site...
Thursday 8th May 2008
Another Two Resign At Svenska Spel
Svenska Spel, Sweden’s State-owned gambling monopoly, has announced that another two executives have resigned following the departure last week of Chief Executive Officer Jesper Karrbrink.
...
Riviera Holdings' casinos suffer revenue hit
The two casinos owned by Riviera Holdings have fallen victim to the current trend sweeping the casino industry. It was announced today that revenue from both venues fell during the first three mon...
Thursday 8th May 2008
Swiss casino industry's profits increase
Casinos in Switzerland made more money last year than they did in the previous 12-month period, it has been revealed. Swissinfo.ch quotes statistics from the Swiss Casino Association (SCA) that sh...
