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Wednesday 21st May 2008

Mobile Phone Gambling The Way Forward First the real thing, then PCs, now mobile phones – casino gambling is aiming for pocket-sized convenience now, according to a leading industry figure. Brian Wright is the business...

Wednesday 21st May 2008

MGM Macau Under Performing Las Vegas-based casino operator MGM Mirage has announced that its Macau venue is under-performing and that it needs to increase its marketing efforts in Mainland China. The Nevada firm holds a 50...

Wednesday 21st May 2008

Green Lotteries, Whatever Next? It is a link which few people would have ever guessed, but it seems that money raised from the massive number of lottery schemes around the world is being used to fund a whole range of...

Wednesday 21st May 2008

Organisers Concerned About 2008 WSOP Attendance Numbers Say it quietly, but apparently the organisers of the 2008 WSOP are becoming ever more concerned about the fall in the economy and the impact this may have upon those playing and attending the...

Wednesday 21st May 2008

Would Bill Gates Make A Good Poker Player? With billions of dollars in the bank, a highly successful business and his face is in the press each and every week of the year, Bill Gates is a success on all counts, but can he play Poker? ...

Wednesday 21st May 2008

Charles Barkley In Casino Debt Mystery While basketball star Charles Barkley is not averse to negative publicity there is something of a mystery about an alleged $400,000 debt he owes to the Wynn Las Vegas casino. The debt apparently...

Wednesday 21st May 2008

Credit Crunch Kills Poor Quality Casino Expansion Plans There can be very few good things to come out of the ongoing credit crunch but experts in the financial markets believe that the current situation may well kill a number of ill conceived casino...

Wednesday 21st May 2008

Sportsbetting Helps Bwin Results On the back of record sportsbetting revenues, Austrian online betting company Bwin Interactive Entertainment has announced a net profit of $17 million for the first quarter of 2008, a rise of $1.7...

Wednesday 21st May 2008

Party Gaming Announces Sharp Profits Rise In Online Casino And Poker Leading online gambling company Party Gaming have announced a rise of full-year earnings for 2007 in their two main sites Party Poker and Party Casino. The internet casino has declared a 119%...

Wednesday 21st May 2008

Billionairio.com Announce Latest Winner Billionairio.com is a raffle-style numbers game that has the potential to make a billionaire out of someone who bets as little as €25 (£20). Sarah Jackson from Stafford, England, was...

Wednesday 21st May 2008
All Change At PartyGaming Online gambling operator PartyGaming has announced the appointment of Canadian Jim Ryan as its new Chief Executive Officer along with the promotion of John O'Malia to the post of Managing Director,...


Wednesday 21st May 2008
Paddy Power To Earn $127 Million Irish bookmaker Paddy Power has announced that it expects to earn around $127 million in operating profits this year, a rise of 14 percent from last year and eight percent above the current...


Wednesday 21st May 2008

Backgammon Masters Players Prefer Real Currency over Second Life Linden May 22, 2008 -- In a recent survey conducted by http://www.BackgammonMasters.com online backgammon game operator, only 20 of 500 survey-participating players had ever heard of Second Life Virtual...

Wednesday 21st May 2008

Barkley settles Wynn debt Legendary basketball player Charles Barkley has stuck to his promise and paid back the $400,000 he owed to Wynn Las Vegas. Barkley ran up the debt last October when he took out a series of loans -...

Wednesday 21st May 2008

Lucky Leeds Three Hit the Jackpot at CantorCasino.com 21 May 2008 (London, UK) -- It’s a hatrick at CantorCasino.com this week, as three lucky winners from Leeds have all hit the jackpot and with Cantor Casino paying out top cash prizes to all...