Earlier this month, federal officials arrested the founders of Neteller, an Isle of Man-based online payment processor, while they were in the US to switch planes. John Lefebvre and Stephen Lawrence are set to fight the charges laid against them when they appear in court in February. Shortly after Neteller announced its decision to pull…
Much to the joy of Dutch poker players, the state of poker is finally improving in the Netherlands. The liberal Dutch government has partnered with Holland Casino in entering the lucrative online casino games market. CryptoLogic, the leading public e-gaming software developer and supplier, will power a new Dutch state-sponsored gaming portal. The site will…
Gambling firms 888.com and Cryptologic both recorded strong interim results as they continued to recover from the fallout of the US online gambling ban. Operator 888 said turnover was up 7% to $290m (£148m) for the year ending 31 December 2006, from $271m (£138m) the previous year. It cited its mobile casino and sports betting…
Neteller, the online payment processing group, will trim about 250 jobs at sites in Canada and the U.K.Around 220 jobs will be cut at the group’s contact center and security operations in Calgary, Alberta. Another 30 jobs will be lost in Britain when Neteller operations move from Gatwick to Cambridge in March. Neteller said in…
Antigua and Barbuda’s Financial Services Regulatory Commission, Division of Gaming has announced that the country expects to play a key role in developing international regulations and legislation for remote gambling following publication of the UK Government’s communique regarding the 2006 International Summit on Remote Gambling. The communique, released by the UK’s Department of Culture, Media…
Mobile Phone Operators are facing calls from gambling charities to classify themselves as gambling companies and to fund helplines as they increase their activity in the growing mobile gambling market. This week T-Mobile will become the latest operator to place a bet on the sector when it announces a deal with Cecure Gaming, a Scandinavian…
Several factors seem to make Chris Sligh early favorite to win the 2007 American Idol edition. Randy Jackson hinted in a media conference call that the eventual winner may be someone that auditioned in Birmingham, but maybe not from Birmingham. Chris Sligh is from Greenville, SC and was auditioned in Birmingham. For his Birmingham audition,…
D’Amato, a famously avid poker player, is in talks with the Poker Players Alliance about becoming the group’s lobbyist and spokesman, said Michael Bolcerak, president of the San Francisco-based group. “We looked for three-term senators who love poker,” Bolcerak said Thursday. “He fit the bill.” Word of D’Amato taking on the online poker lobby first…
A POKER millionaire from Northampton might just be the luckiest man in the world after hitting three massive jackpots in one week…beating odds of 8,000,000,000 to 1. Rajesh Modha, who won the Europe’s biggest poker tournament last year, scooped £113,200 in six days playing an online fruit machine. The father-of-three’s incredible lucky streak began last…
The Asian Poker Classic at the Intercontinental Grand Resort in Goa was already set to be the richest tournament in Asia, but with an added $250,000 in the pot, the action is looking considerably better. This brings the prize pool to a minimum of $1 million–on par with the European Poker Tour. Not bad, considering…