Gambling.co.uk: Gambling News Archive

Wednesday 21st November 2007

Leaving Las Vegas for Atlantic City In a bid to rival the attractions of Las Vegas, a host of new mega-casinos are to be completed by 2012, transforming Atlantic City into a futuristic gambling resort. Some $9 billion has been ploug...

Wednesday 21st November 2007

Aussie Millions Satellites Now Running at Bodog The New Year will see major poker tournaments taking place all around the world. One of the biggest events will be the Aussie Millions, which will play host to some of the leading pros between...

Wednesday 21st November 2007

Betfair Appoints Bruce Stubbs as Director of Poker Betfair have announced the appointment of online poker industry veteran Bruce Stubbs as their new Director of Poker with immediate effect. Stubbs joins Betfair Poker having been an influential...

Wednesday 21st November 2007

'fkscreennames' on FTOPS of the world The main event of this season’s FTOPS (Full Tilt Online Poker Series) at Full Tilt came with a monster prize pool – a guaranteed $2,000,000. It actually ended up being even bigger,...

Wednesday 21st November 2007

Hansen's Online Streak Gus Hansen has got it all, right? A leading poker pro, WPT titles for fun, and barrages of fans around the world, all raising with total nonsense in his honour. Well, ‘The Great Dane’...

Wednesday 21st November 2007

Sweden Releases Online Poker Prevalence Study The Swedish National Institute of Public Health has published the details of its one-year study into the effects of online poker that classed 27 percent of the country’s Internet poker...

Wednesday 21st November 2007

Betfair Appoints New Poker Chief Online gambling group Betfair has announced the appointment of industry veteran Bruce Stubbs as its Director of Poker with immediate effect. Replacing Ben Fried who is to remain with the company...

Wednesday 21st November 2007

New Live Support for Online Backgammon Masters Online backgammon site BackgammonMasters.com has announced that its All-In-One Game Lobby has launched a live customer support feature after seeing an increase in player traffic. Using this...

Tuesday 20th November 2007

Poker among top sports leagues The World Series Of Poker (WSOP) has been named as the 11th most admired sports league in North America out of 24, beating 13 traditional sports sanctioning bodies in a recent poll. The National H...

Tuesday 20th November 2007

Bookies call for scrapping of racing tax Two British bookies have spoken up saying the ten per cent horse racing levy should be scrapped. Although the levy has been in place for the past 46 years, Ladbrokes and Gala Coral have now called...

Tuesday 20th November 2007

US Online Poker to be Legal in 2009? The Chairman of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) pressure group, Alfonse D'Amato, has announced that he expects online poker to be legalised in the United States within 18 months. Speaking at...

Tuesday 20th November 2007

US poker fans to celebrate 2009? The chairman of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) has said that he expects online poker to be made legal in the US within two years, Online Casino News reports. Speaking at the Global Gaming Expo (...

Tuesday 20th November 2007

‘Jesus’ Wins in Tahoe Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson has become the first professional poker player to win three World Series Of Poker (WSOP) Circuit events after taking down the Harvey's Tahoe championship event...

Tuesday 20th November 2007

Charity Poker Event Investigated In America, investigators in the western state of Colorado are looking into the legality of a charity poker event held over the weekend. Held in the Denver suburb of Lakewood, the event was...

Tuesday 20th November 2007

Worker Cleans up in Saipan In Saipan, the operator of a poker room has been ordered to pay over $19,000 to a commercial cleaner forced to work with no days off as a cashier. Following a hearing, the island’s...