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Tuesday 20th December 2005

2005’s Most Influential Names in Poker December 19, 2005 (Atlanta, GA) - Poker is a game of power: The power to be courageous, the power to win with nothing in your hand but a fistful of determination and the power to turn rags into roy...

Tuesday 20th December 2005

Raids By Israeli Police On Gambling Offices The online gambling media offices of Internet websites, Walla! and Sport Line were raided earlier this week after reports that they were advertising illegal online gambling websites. The search wa...

Tuesday 20th December 2005
Online Casino Releases Xmas #1 Odds With Christmas less than a week away, online bookmaker, sportingodds.com, are NOW taking bets on which song will come in at number one this Yuletide in the United Kingdom. With the winner of ITV’s...


Tuesday 20th December 2005

$100 Million Poker Prize On Offer Online casino, Noble Poker, is offering the largest prize in online casino history – an incredible $100 million dollars. In order to win this unheralded purse, players in their latest freeroll...

Monday 19th December 2005

Aces.com Poker Tournament Champ Wins Super Bowl Weekend December 16 (Las Vegas, NV) – Every week, Aces.com awards a pair of NFL tickets to winners of its Super Bowl Private Poker Tournaments, but the winner of the final match will be going to the Super ...

Monday 19th December 2005

Aces.com To Send Tournament Champ To Super Bowl Super Bowl XL in Detroit is the hottest ticket in sport at the start of this coming year. Online casino, poker room and sports book, Aces.com will be giving players in its weekly ‘Super Bowl Priva...

Monday 19th December 2005

GigaMedia buys World No. 1 Mahjong Site Highlights • GigaMedia acquires FunTown, the world’s largest online Mahjong game site in terms of revenue • Mahjong, the poker of Asia, has an addressable market of over one billion native player...

Monday 19th December 2005

Bluff Magazine Names ‘Poker’s Power 20’ To mark Poker’s entry into the public ‘mainstream’ in 2005, Bluff Magazine have complied ‘Poker’s Power 20’, which ranks ‘individuals and organizations based on their demonstrated ability and willi...

Monday 19th December 2005

New Site For Online Casino Beginners A new website has surfaced that offers for novice online gamblers numerous tips, guidelines and free learning games from which to hone their online casino skills. The new site at Comewincasino.co...

Monday 19th December 2005

Online Casino Offers 30% Poker Rakeback With competition fierce as ever between online poker rooms, poker operators are throwing just about everything at gamblers to entice them to play, and more importantly stay, with them. GoldenRivier...

Monday 19th December 2005

Betandwin To Purchase Ongame Ongame, the world’s third largest poker group, is to be sold to rival online gaming company, Betandwin for at least €473m. The deal, which is expected to be finalised by April 2006, will create the...

Monday 19th December 2005

Cherry Splits Into Three Publicly traded Swedish gaming company, Cherryföretagen (‘Cherry’), has announced that the company is to be split into three independently listed companies. The board of Cherry determined that by r...

Monday 19th December 2005

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Friday 16th December 2005

Bowmans To Join Tribeca Tables In a deal announced earlier this week, Bowmans International Sports are to join Tribeca Tables Europe Ltd, in a move that will significantly expand Tribeca’s portfolio of online poker rooms. Stev...

Friday 16th December 2005

Champion USC Favoured in Rose Bowl With two Heisman Trophy winners sharing the backfield, a mercurial quarterback leading an undefeated powerhouse, and a defending national champion considered to be one of the best college teams eve...