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Friday 13th October 2006

Bush Signs Internet Gambling Bill Reports are surfacing that President Bush has signed the Port Security Bill, which has in turn set the wheels of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act firmly in motion. On signing the bil...

Friday 13th October 2006

Cory Lidle Death to Impact Poker Playing Community News of the tragic plane crash involving Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle has affected poker players as well as baseball enthusiasts. Lidle was a poker fanatic and a regular in poker tournament circuits. ...

Friday 13th October 2006

TouchStone Relaunches Poker Site with a New Promotions Global Fortune N.V. has announced the re-launch of TouchStone Gaming, previously known to the gambling world as TouchStone Poker, and has issued promotions which it hopes will entice poker players ...

Friday 13th October 2006

PlayShare.com Integration Means a Better Poker Platform PlayShare.com has been announced as the new integrated operating platform behind poker and casino gaming sites PokerShare.com and CasinoShare.com. A UK public company, PlayShare bills itself as b...

Friday 13th October 2006

Belle Rock Entertainment Launches New Poker Room Promotions Belle Rock Entertainment has announced a number of new promotions across its portfolio of online casinos and poker rooms. At the Belle Rock poker rooms, the highest hand of each day will win a coo...

Friday 13th October 2006

Cyberarts Announces Software Platform for Service Developers Barcelona (10 October 2006) – CyberArts LLC announced today a significant upgrade to the global capabilities of its Foundation™ software platform for developers of online gaming services. The upgra...

Friday 13th October 2006

Microgaming Strengthens its Hand Microgaming, the world’s largest supplier of poker and casino software, announces unprecedented new operator sign-ups for the year so far. In what is seen as a potential record breaking year, the c...

Friday 13th October 2006

Sportingbet Sells US Operations for $1 Troubled online gaming firm Sportingbet has sold its US sports betting and casino operation to Jazette Enterprises for the nominal sum of $1 (53 pence), prior to the impending passage of law to cri...

Friday 13th October 2006

PokerStars to Flout Gambling Law One of the world’s most prominent online poker sites, PokerStars, has announced that it fully intends to continue its US facing business despite today’s anticipated signing of the Internet gambling...

Friday 13th October 2006

Speaker of House Commends Bush Signature Following the signing of the Port Security Bill by President Bush within the last few hours, the Speaker of the House has praised the passing of a bill which he describes as a ‘top priority’. J D...

Friday 13th October 2006

EU Conducts Internet Gambling Investigation The European Commission announced yesterday that it has begun investigating three more European Union member nations to determine whether they are restricting access to their gambling and online sp...

Friday 13th October 2006

Online Casino Award Eases Sportingbet Troubles Winning the award for 2006 ‘Non-European Sportsbook of the year’ would normally spark prolonged celebration and announcements of bigger and better things to come, but for Sportingbet plc, the news...

Friday 13th October 2006

Online Casino Legislation Benefits Private Companies According to industry commentators, the impending ban on Internet gambling is likely to force many online casino operators to sell their US-facing businesses to private operators who aren’t as sus...

Thursday 12th October 2006

PaddyPowerPoker.com Promotion to Send Player to WSOP 2007 PaddyPowerPoker.com has announced that the last PaddyPowerPoker.com online qualifier standing at the Irish Open 2007 will win a seat at the World Series of Poker 2007 Main Event in Las Vegas as par...

Thursday 12th October 2006

Tain Poker Network and Tribeca Table Europe Complete Merger In the first poker site merger to be announced after the approval of an online gambling prohibition bill in the US, Tribeca Table Europe has announced that it has joined the Tain Poker Network. Th...