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Thursday 11th January 2007

Slotland.com Launches Striking New Game Slotland.com, the pioneering online casino that brought us mobile slot games as early as 2005, has added the video poker game “Striking 7s” to its mobile gaming repertoire. The game, which has a u...

Thursday 11th January 2007

Gaming Giant secures acquisition of Online Casino The Canadian gambling software developer CryptoLogic has confirmed that it is to acquire the brand and assets of Scandinavian online poker room Parbet.com for around €9 million. The company confi...

Thursday 11th January 2007

Hands Up if You’re a Poker Celebrity The World’s First Celebrity online Poker Room has confirmed that the 500 millionth hand has been dealt this week. The site already began celebrating the milestone at hand number 498,000,000, wher...

Thursday 11th January 2007

Games Ahoy at Online Casino Online casino group English Harbour has launched two new games developed by Vegas Technologies. Appealing to players across the igaming world, the group has added a Five Card Mulligan game and a b...

Thursday 11th January 2007

Parlay Entertainment Appoints Steve Cook as European MD Parlay Entertainment Inc, the world's leading supplier of Internet bingo solutions, has announced the appointment of Steve Cook as its new European Managing Director. Peter Trinz, Senior Vice-Pres...

Thursday 11th January 2007

Pacific Conference to Bridge the Great Divide The River City Group is to host its fifth annual conference aimed at bringing iGaming companies together to diminish the cultural gap between the East and West and capture their most sought after m...

Thursday 11th January 2007

Poker Writing is the Real Deal Writing Career Press has announced the release of “FREELANCE POKER WRITING: How to Make Money Writing for the Gaming Industry”, a 250-page how-to book written by Brian Konradt. Konradt, a professi...

Thursday 11th January 2007

CelebPoker Celebrates Major Milestone CelebPoker.com has announced that it has reached a new milestone. The online poker room has confirmed that the 500 millionth hand was dealt this week. More than 32 poker players received a cash pr...

Thursday 11th January 2007
BetonSports Casts Legal Shadow on Lord Glentoran Irish Shadow Minister Lord Glentoran could be first in the line of fire as the case of the now defunct online gambling site BetonSports is dragged through the courts. A key prosecutor overseeing...


Wednesday 10th January 2007

Pokerzone Launches Revamped Website British poker TV channel Pokerzone has launched a new look website which it hopes will attract new users and players into the game. Amongst the features of the site are a forum in which users can...

Wednesday 10th January 2007

PokerRoom.com Responds to High Profile Complaint A high profile complaint involving OnGame’s PokerRoom.com and its Christmas Day tournament has finally led to a management response. The row broke out when players were disappointed to discover t...

Wednesday 10th January 2007

Gaming Giant Confirms Acquisition of European Poker Room Canadian company CryptoLogic has confirmed that it will purchase the poker brand and related assets of Parbet.com, a Scandinavian online poker room. CryptoLogic companies will reportedly license t...

Wednesday 10th January 2007

EPT Cancels Deauville Leg The European Poker Tour (EPT) Deauville tourney which was originally scheduled for late February has been cancelled and no reason has yet been released. An official announcement from EPT read: 'Eu...

Wednesday 10th January 2007

Scandinavian Players Get to Mount Everest Everest Poker has announced a series of satellite tournaments that are exclusively open to players from the Scandinavian countries of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark leading to the first Nordic Summit ...

Wednesday 10th January 2007

eCOGRA Survey Promises Industry Revelations A report initiated by Nottingham Trent University promises to be the largest ever online gambling survey commissioned by eCOGRA, and is expected to reveal some surprising results. The findings of t...