Gambling.co.uk: Gambling News Archive

Tuesday 23rd January 2007

£50 Says You’ll Read This With the rise in popularity of online gambling, poker and poker on television, it was perhaps inevitable that the documentary makers would get in on the act. And tonight sees the start of a new ser...

Tuesday 23rd January 2007

Online Poker Sites Suffer NETELLER’s Withdrawal After a week of record player numbers on some of the big poker sites, it would now appear that the tide is turning in the opposite direction as NETELLER’s decision to pull out of the US has a devas...

Tuesday 23rd January 2007

I’m Moving In…ALL IN Following on from Bond’s poker heroics in ‘Casino Royale’, former 007 actor Pierce Brosnan is set to star in his own poker movie. Scheduled for release in 2009, ‘The Big Biazarro’ will portray Bro...

Tuesday 23rd January 2007

US Continues Its War On Poker The United States Department of Justice has expanded its war against online gambling across the Atlantic Ocean to take on the international banks that have offices in Britain. At least 16 banks h...

Tuesday 23rd January 2007

Swede Plays It Cool To Take Home The Bacon Magnus Petersson, a 29-year-old financial advisor from Stockholm, beat off competition from some of the best poker players in the world to win more than four million Danish Kroner (approximately €5...

Tuesday 23rd January 2007

PlayboyGaming Launches New Poker Site Online gaming site PlayboyGaming.com has announced the launch of its new poker room that will not only give online players the chance to win cash prizes, but also the opportunity to open up the do...

Tuesday 23rd January 2007

Swedish Online Poker Player Wins Copenhagen EPT Magnus Petersson, a 29-year-old financial advisor from Stockholm, beat off stiff competition from some of the world’s finest poker players to win more than four million Danish Kroner (approximatel...

Tuesday 23rd January 2007

Online Casino Laws Get The OK From The UK A survey conducted by online poker room, pkr.com, and YouGov has revealed that there is little public resistance to government plans to license and regulate online gambling as part of the new Gamb...

Tuesday 23rd January 2007

Bluff Names 20 Most Powerful People and Organizations in Poker January 23, 2007 (Atlanta, GA) - With a following of hundreds of millions of players and enthusiasts world-wide, poker is a powerful force in the world of entertainment. Presidents, Kings, billiona...

Tuesday 23rd January 2007

Orbis and Parlay Entertainment Sign Partnership Orbis, one of the world’s leading providers of interactive gaming and betting solutions, has announced it has signed an agreement to provide games content to leading Internet bingo solutions develo...

Tuesday 23rd January 2007
Online Casino Shares Suffer Dip Following US Bank Probe Shares in online gambling sites including PartyGaming and 888.com fell yesterday, following the news that the US Department of Justice is stepping up its investigation into the industry. The lates...


Tuesday 23rd January 2007
Online Casino Shares Dip Following US Bank Probe Shares in online gambling sites including PartyGaming and 888.com fell yesterday, following the news that the US Department of Justice is stepping up its investigation into the industry. The...


Tuesday 23rd January 2007

Orbis and Parlay Join Forces Orbis, one of the world’s leading providers of interactive gaming and betting solutions, has announced it has signed an agreement to provide games content to leading Internet bingo solutions...

Monday 22nd January 2007

Shilpa Shetty's Poker Face Could Prove Lucrative The Asian Poker Classic, sponsored by MaharajahClub.com, looks set to capitalise on Shilpa Shetty's success on the UK's Celebrity Big Brother (CBB) programme by inviting the actress and reality TV ...

Monday 22nd January 2007

Gus Hansen Triumphs Down Under Poker pro Gus Hansen took down the final pot of the 2007 Aussie Millions in style when his pocket aces held up against the straight and flush draws of second-place finisher Jimmy Fricke. Hansen's ...