China’s police busted a total of 347,000 gambling cases involving more than 1 million people last year and retrieved 3.56 billion yuan (445 million U.S. dollars) of betting for money, according to the Ministry of China’s Public Security on Tuesday. China’s Police departments had specially targeted illegal private lotteries, gambling at overseas online casinos, online betting and gambling cases […]
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Australia’s former king of spin Shane Warne will keep his life after cricket kicking along today, launching Australia’s richest poker event. Warne will speak about his love of the game – poker not cricket – when he opens the Aussie Million Championship’s No Limit Holdem main event. Last week, AFL footballer Brendan Fevola and tennis […]
Titan Poker one of the fastest growing online poker rooms, has launched its popular poker software in Norwegian. This latest addition is a part of ongoing expansions and upgrades to the software and it means that Titan Poker is available in nine different languages – English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Turkish, Swedish, and now […]
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Anyone who has spent time on a casino floor has probably witnessed a black jack or roulette junkie on a losing streak. But, he keep’s on gambling, saying to his wife or friends, all I need is one more chance, I’m hot, I can feel it this time, I […]
A court in East London is expected to decide this week whether poker is a game of skill, chance or a combination of both. A jury has been asked to weigh up the role played by Lady Luck in the world’s most popular card game, after police accused a club owner of illegally hosting a […]
Internet gaming software developer CryptoLogic Inc said it has signed a three-way memorandum of understanding (MoU) to adapt and licence its online casino, poker and other skill-based games for the chinese market.The MoU with Brilliance Technology Co and 568 Network Inc, which both have strong links to the software and gaming industries in China, will […]
Back in the early 1960s, no states ran lotteries, only one – Nevada – allowed casinos and Indian tribes had yet to discover bingo or glitzy casino halls. Today, 42 states operate lotteries, 37 have commercial, Indian or racetrack casinos and only two – Utah and Hawaii – don’t allow any form of gambling. The […]
Everest Poker announced that it was beginning a series of tournaments for seats at the upcoming European Poker Tour Grand Final, held at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort in Monaco. “This is the biggest event on the European Poker Tour and that means the competition is going to be fierce, especially when combined […]
Two men and a woman cheated the casinos in Britain out of nearly half a million dollars in a high-tech poker scam using hidden miniature cameras and earpieces, police said Monday. Detectives said they thought at least six casinos in the London area were targeted over a period of several months by the sting, which […]