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Monday 23rd May 2005

New Yorker Cashes In at Kiwin Online Casino Over just two days, a Kiwi Casino poker player has turned an initial deposit of $200 into $54,146 winnings. Linda from New York state joined Kiwi Casino in early May 2005 and made a $200 deposit...

Monday 23rd May 2005

3 Players Cash in at Online Casino GoldenPalace.com has regularly hit the headlines in recent weeks after winning a series of controversial novelty eBay auctions such as the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich, Britney Spears' Pregn...

Saturday 21st May 2005

Hilton Group Reports Overall Dip in Profits Hilton owns and operates almost 1,900 Ladbroke betting shops in the UK and around 400 hotels. After a lull in the hotels industry in 2001, Chief Executive David Michels was comforted by an increase...

Friday 20th May 2005

Try your luck at the World Series Pacificpoker.com is offering all players the chance to make it to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas this summer. The internet poker room has set up a special website for the occasion g...

Friday 20th May 2005

Gambling Law Update™ Although several attempts have been made by different lawmakers, Internet gambling prohibition measures have failed each year, while the industry continues to gain more ground with the American pub...

Friday 20th May 2005

Play with Celebs at the Palm Beach Classic CelebPoker is holding a £1000 entry tournament at the Palm Beach Casino in London's Mayfair on July 30-31. Restricted to 120 runners, the prize pool for the Palm Beach CelebPoker Classic will be £1...

Friday 20th May 2005

Net Entertainment Receives Double RNG Certification Net Entertainment has announced that it has had its Random Number Generator (RNG) certified and approved by two independent certification bodies: Canada-based Technical Systems Testing (TST) and th...

Friday 20th May 2005

The Secrets of Basic Craps Tournament Play Pssst...! Wanna know a secret? How about the secrets of basic tournament play? If you are a regular crapshooter, you might want to enter a craps tournament some day. Some of these contests are f...

Friday 20th May 2005

William Hill buys Stanley Leisure for £504 million William Hill has announced a deal to buy Stanley Leisure's betting shops for £504 million. The deal means that William Hill have dropped plans to return £453 million to shareholders, at the expe...

Friday 20th May 2005
Bo Bice is the chosen one on American Idol Odds are being offered on the next winner of American Idol, due to be announced after a day of voting on May 25. Sportsbook.com has updated its prices for the season finale and has Bo Bice the fa...


Thursday 19th May 2005

Last Woman Standing in Celebrity Charity Poker Tournament Starlet Shannon Elizabeth rocked the tables at GQ and Calvin Klein’s 2nd Annual Celebrity Charity Poker Tournament when she bowed out of the tournament as the last woman standing. Elizabeth ende...

Thursday 19th May 2005

PokerRaffle.com Opens for Business A new online raffle site, PokerRaffle.com, has been launched. The latest entry in the increasingly crowded online poker market offers real money online raffles for high profile on-and-off-line poke...

Thursday 19th May 2005

Students Prepare For 2005 College Poker Championship Final As a result of yesterday’s Semifinal tournament in the 2nd Annual College Poker Championship, the tournament playing field has narrowed to 457 students from 12 countries. Representing the top 20 pe...

Thursday 19th May 2005

Online casino buys Michael Jackson Puppets The online casino, GoldenPalace.com, now famed for buying oddities and novelty items on eBay has bought another moment in history. The puppets Keith Olbermann used to explain the Michael Jackson tr...

Thursday 19th May 2005

Zone4Play Deliver Mobile Casino Games In Europe Zone4Play, developer of multi-platform gaming solutions, and Cosmotrade Investments, operator of a large online casino in South Africa, have announced that they have signed an agreement for the dev...