Thinking of going online and wagering on a few games in the upcoming NCAA basketball tournament?Uncle Sam doesn’t want you to, but he’s having big trouble stopping anyone. The government’s latest effort to get Americans to stop gambling via the Internet has been largely ineffective, according to the online casino industry. The law makes it…
A ban on TV adverts for casinos, betting shops and online casino sites will be dropped as part of new rules announced today. The changes come into force in September as part of the Gambling Act 2005. The legislation gives gambling operators greater scope to advertise in the broadcast media. But the commercials must comply…
Over the next 19 days, the much-touted work ethic in America is put to its severest test as the annual basketball tournament, nicknamed March Madness, gets under way.No other event in the nation’s calendar eats into workdays as does the National Collegiate Athletic Association men’s basketball tournament, which involves 65 teams in a knock-out event,…
Full Tilt Poker Launches Main Event Mania With the Main Event of the World Series of Poker set to begin in less than four months, many sites have developed a multitude of ways for their players to win their way in to what could be the largest live poker event in history. When the Main…
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank is considering a bill to repeal a ban imposed last year on online gambling, said a spokesman for the lawmaker on Wednesday.”Chairman Frank is considering legislation,” said Steven Adamske, spokesman for the Massachusetts Democrat, who chairs the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee. Adamske said Frank is still thinking over the…
YouTeller will start in March with a revolution in simplicity of worldwide online payments. Everybody who can download songs or play online casino games will now be able to pay for that instantly. It took three month to develop the new online payment framework …(said Florian Schweitzer, company spokesman and co-founder). We have no overseas…
Titan Poker one of the fastest growing online poker rooms, has launched its popular poker software in Danish and Finnish. These latest additions are part of ongoing expansions and upgrades to the software and they mean that Titan Poker is available in eleven different languages — English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Turkish, Swedish, Norwegian…
The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) has enlisted a key ally in the “War on Online Gambling”, former U.S. Senator Alfonse D’Amato. Senator D’Amato is joining the PPA as Chairman of the Board and will be leading the efforts of the PPA in Washington D.C. The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), a grassroots organization of more than…
 NEWS ALERT - NEWS ALERT - NEWS ALERT The office of US Congressman Barney Frank, who is chairman of the House financial services committee, has confirmed that he is currently working on legislation to repeal the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. The news item appeared this afternoon on the Financial Times website and has been…
Stardust casino is now just a memory. The casino-hotel on the Las Vegas Strip was imploded early Tuesday in a hail of fireworks to make way for Boyd Gaming Corp.’s $4.4 billion megaresort Echelon. Hundreds of people partied beneath tents and on makeshift patios before Boyd chairman Bill Boyd’s four grandsons pushed a plunger to detonate…