The online website Royal Flush Club provides players with an online poker club and poker school. The site offers instructional poker videos and an exclusive poker community. Recently the club added Brett "Gank" Jungblut as their poker pro expert. Brett will be prov...

Several stories have been circulating about Sharhram Sheikhan, otherwise known as Shawn or Iron Sheik, and his past. Apparently in 1995 Shawn served nine months in jail for three misdemeanor counts of child molestation. His past first came to light on the gambling911 site an...

The Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling(FCCG) are calling out the State government today in hopes that the State will set aside funds that would go toward gambling addiction treatment. The State of Florida has seen an expansion of gambling revenues and taxes and the State...

Germany and Sweden have taking measures over the past few months to restrict or completely ban online gambling companies from servicing their citizens. For the most part this decision was made to protect the large state run monopolies revenues. The European Union however dis...

Tomorrow begins a host of promotional offers and online casino tournaments at Mansion Casino, providing members with a chance to win special offers, incredible cash prizes and extra points throughout the entire month of February. Mansion Casino is dubbing the promotional ser...

Another tournament is open for registration on PTSeats.com that will take place at the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. The Taj Mahal was the first casino to offer registration through the online website PTSeats. The online registration eliminates a player from having to stand in...

PartyPoker sponsored The Big Game II, which took place in East London last year. The Big Game II is a continuous poker cash game that takes place for 24 hours. Matchroom Sport was the organizer of the event and many well known players participated. Players could leave the ta...

32Red Casino, winner of both "Best Casino" and "Best Customer Service" awards in 2007, have further innovated their casino products with the launch of 32Red Mobile. The Mobile Casino is a collaborative effort between 32Red Casino and Spin3, a leading prov...

Several online jackpots have been busted recently with many online players winning hundreds of thousands of dollars. Millions of online gamblers flock to the progressive jackpots hoping that they will hit it big. One company, Microgaming, has released a statement saying that...

Major League Baseball player, Geoff Jenkins, hosted a charity poker tournament to benefit the Boys and Girls Club of Phoenix, Arizona on Monday. Jenkins had played baseball for the Milwaukee Brewers for the past ten years, but this season he will begin his first season on th...

Digitaria announced recently that they would be providing the World Poker Tour Enterprises with their services. Digitaria is a full-service digital marketing and technology firm and will be the Interactive Agency of Record for the WPT. Working with Digiatria, WPT has created...

While China does not yet allow legal online gambling, Bodog is anticipating this to change in the near future, turning their marketing campaign in that direction. Bodog Online Poker and Bodog Online Casino have integrated new Chinese web sites to accommodate players from Chi...

The Aussie Millions was a dream come true for Alexander Kostritsyn, a young poker player from Russia. Alexander came to the Crown Casino in Melbourne to try his luck at the top prize and succeeded. He took down a number of players on his way to the top and even beat out Erik...

The popular online community, Facebook, has added a new poker application to their website. The new application was created by the Ujogo online poker site. Ujogo is a rewards based poker site. Ujogo funded TNS, a research firm, to do a study on poker. The study showed that i...

Over the past year 888 has been signing deal after deal with different groups to build their selves back up after the losses from the passing of the UIGEA. One such deal was with Kamay Holdings. 888 announced a deal with Kamay back in December that would see Kamay accepted t...

With the increase in poker popularity an increase in the desire for professional poker players is created. Since poker has become more mainstream many pros have found themselves with more opportunities, whether it be online, land events, commercials, etc, and they need to ma...

Paddy Power, the largest betting operation with 220+ facilities across Ireland and the UK, not to mention its online operations, has embarked on a new marketing campaign with Electronic GameCard, producer of a novelty electronic gaming device that is very popular in the UK.

Sometimes, it seems, getting an ear full for a week from a girlfriend can pay off big. Sammy Zabib forgot to buy her a pair of designer jeans she spotted in a casino boutique last weekend.

According to Sammy, "She was mad. We had an argument. More than one."...

Mansion Poker launched a new VIP Loyalty Club designed to offer special awards to players who regularly play on their site.

The New Mansion Poker VIP Loyalty Club is a points system that will give players prizes, specially designed VIP rewards, promotions exclusive ...

The 2007 Internet Poker Rankings Player of the Year Race was won by Jon "Pearljammer" Turner. This race was very tight and Jon beat out some of the best names in online poker to get this waward.

The 2007 Internet Poker Rankings Top 10 Final Standings are as...

The MANSIONPOKER website has decided to up the ante when it comes to player benefits. The site recently launched a VIP Loyalty Club that will reward players who are consistently playing on the MANSION site. The Club is a player point system that will give away more prizes, h...

Casino Unreal has unveiled a new online video Keno game title, Lightning Ball Video Keno. The online casino game features all of the basic components of online Keno, with a few extra perks.

Lightning Ball Video Keno is well suited for all favored playing styles. Among...

As many members already know, the Big Juicy Odds (BJO) online gaming operation has been undergoing a poker network transition, leaving behind Dynamic Gaming Systems and moving to Dobrosoft. While the transition has slowed dramatically, BJO poker players are being given an un...

32Red Plc operates the online casino 32Red and the UK poker room 32RedPoker, both award winning sites. The Company has now decided to take their operations to the next level. 32Red has teamed up with Spin3 who will provide 32Red with a complete mobile casino. Spin3 is one of...

The list for the upcoming 2008 National Head-Up Poker Championship has been released and there are quite a few big names listed. From poker players to celebrities and even sports stars the people invited make up a very exciting group of players. The Championship will begin o...

A new online poker room, T6Poker, has entered the market with a bang, offering a plethora of promotional offers to encourage new player sign-ups.

For starters, T6Poker is offering a very generous sign-up bonus to new players. The welcome bonus at the online poker room...

In recent news, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health in Finland was planning on introducing a new amendment that would essentially leave Finland online gamblers without a place to play. The new amendment would give players the ability to claim back their losses during g...

The VCPoker online casino has joined forces with Initial-Poker to create a new Action Point loyalty redemption store. VCPoker is currently running their point store but sometime within the next twelve weeks the new store will be launched and maintained by the independent pro...

Annette Obrestad has steadily been making a name for herself in the poker world. Whether it is at live events, online events or her investments she is making some very good decisions. The nineteen year old saw an increased in her shareholding in Norwegian community and infor...

ButcherPoker, LTD has entered into an agreement with VEGA PROMOTIONAL SYSTEMS, INC that will allow ButcherPoker to create an online poker academy featuring the "Bob the Butcher" personality. VEGA has full ownership of the Right of Personality for the "Bob the ...

The jackpot was won on the 13th of this month (January) at about 7pm EST. ITALIANMEX hit a five high stra...

Online gaming company, Ultimate Blackjack Tour (UBT), has employed the geolocational services of Internet security provider, Quova, to ensure the absence of fraudulent activities at the online gaming site.

The Ultimate Blackjack Tour at ClubUBT.com complies with all U...

WPT Enterprises, Inc. has created and launched a subscription based online club, called CLUBWPT, that will give United States players a gaming platform that they may not have had access to in the past. The new website is conducting services under the sweepstakes rules in the...

Lisa Tenner is a member of the Queen of Hearts Team and has been recognized by Global Gaming Business Magazine as one of Twenty Five People to Watch in 2008. The Queen of Hearts Team is comprised of women who come together at the WSOP and play. Their goal is to raise money a...

It was announced yesterday that the Western State College of Colorado Extended Studies would begin immediate enrollment for their non-credit Casino Gaming program. The school has partnered with Gatlin Education Services to provide the school with the online casino gaming cou...

It was recently announced that the MarathonBet website has now been added to the CakePoker Networks long list of partners. Marathon is a sports betting operator in CIS countries and Eastern Europe. They are one of the largest operations in the area and will bring more succes...

Starting this past December, The Orleans in Las Vegas hosted a tournament for the Ladies International Poker Series. The tournaments will continue to be hosted by the casino every month on the third Saturday of the month. The next tournament is set to begin this coming Satur...

The Aussie Millions 2008 tournament series has seen its share of losses over the past few weeks but nothing compares to what Jason Potter endured this past week. The twenty-two year old American poker player had made his trip to Melbourne to try his luck at the Aussie Millio...

There will be a new game on TV tonight in Sweden anyway, as PartyPoker will start airing the Scandinavian Poker Masters - The Game. This will be the first Scandinavian high stakes cash game to be televised. It is scheduled to run for nine weeks.

This seri...

CelebPoker announced starting February 1st 2008 the launch of a new online poker league. To help kick off this new league by putting up more than €612,000 in prize money. The poker league will be monthly tournament with a unique points system.

The po...

The online casino 888.com has announced that it will be sponsoring Shane Warne, a famous Australian Cricket player as he embarks on his professional poker career.

According to 888.com Warne will represent 888 as well as its online poker subsidiary Pacific Po...

Titan poker has concluded its promotion of the Top Canadian Titan tournament and it was James Galvin, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada who came away the winner. James Galvin is 23 years old and has been playing at Titan, the largest room on the iPoker network, for a little...

The 2008 Irish Open schedule was announced today by Paddy Power Poker. The website announced the full timetable for the tournament which includes side events, satellites and of course the Main Event. The tournament will begin with the first event on March 19th and continue u...

February 1st through the 8th is the set dates for the European Open IV. The PartyPoker event will be commentated by Jesse May who will be joined by Phil Hellmuth. Phil has stated he is looking forward to playing and lending his opinion at the European Open.

Several suc...

Richard Read, of Plymouth, Connecticut, has been sentenced to 50 years behind bars for the murder of Brian Raboin. Read stated that he was playing online poker the night of the murder, and did not go out with his friend Brian that night.

The incident took place over t...

U.S. Presidential candidate Ron Paul has taken an affirmative stand on Internet gambling, but will it sway enough voters to win him the election? According to many, that depends on the individual person, and whether playing online poker is a big enough concern to them to dis...

Representatives from both the United States and Antigua are supposed to meet today and discuss the online gambling issues between the two countries. The World Trade Organization already made their arbitration ruling but apparently the two countries still have much to discuss...

The gaming industry in Asia is booming. Many online operators are moving into the Asian market to take advantage of the increase in interest and activity. It was recently announced that the CY Foundation will be supplied with an Asian multi-player software platform. The Las ...

Online gaming software developer Wagerworks has announced the release of a new 5-reel, 40-payline slot machine game titled, "Wolf Run". The introduction of Wagerworks newest online slot game comes just in time for the International Casino Exhibition (ICE), schedule...

2007 was a difficult year for those with a stake in the online gambling industry - the players, the operators and the gaming licensors alike. From the UIGEA to the UK White-List, very few online gambling operations were not effected in some way or another.

The Unlawful Intern...

Over the past few months several other countries have followed in the footsteps of the United States and placed some sort of ban or restrictions on online gambling. First there was Norway, then Turkey and Germany and now it seems that Finland is leaning toward an online gamb...

Shane Warne, Australian cricket player, has signed a deal with an Internet poker company to represent them at the World Series of Poker this year. Warne retired from Test cricket last year. He will miss the beginning of the cricket season due to his poker commitments.

H...

On January 1st a ban went into effect in Germany that prohibits online gambling. Because of this the European Gaming and Betting Association has filed a complaint to the European Commission stating that Germany is breaking the European Union law on the free movement of servi...

Jesper Kärrbrink, CEO of Svenska Spel, confirmed during the latter part of 2007 that Austria would be launching the next state owned online poker site. He announced that the site would run with the help of Svenska Spel and boss Media. Kärrbrink had stated that Aust...

The UK WhiteList, as it has become known, defines what jurisdictions can and cannot legally advertising online gambling operations in the UK. Newly added to the list is the jurisdiction of Tasmania, located 240 kilometers south east of the Australian coast, 2,000 kilometers ...

A new online casino has hit the virtual air-waves with an impressive, 3D virtual design - WinADay Casino. The operators of Slotland Online Casino have worked diligently to develop this latest online casino software with unique games powered by Flash and utilizing the latest ...

Recently the group, GamCare, moved to a new facility in South London. The new facility is closer to the capital and the transport networks. GamCare, who works to help people with gambling problems, announced that they are in their tenth year of service. They have been provid...

Free online poker community Ujogo has announced the first free poker application to provide rewards and prizes with the integration of the Facebook Platform. Already known for a quick, sleek interface, Ujogo has reconfigured its application to access the Facebook Platform an...

The anticipation has been building for many months and the wait is finally over. The Aussie Millions have begun and many people are in Melbourne Australia enjoying the festivities. You can find any type of player at the Aussie Millions from professional poker players to ever...

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure brought in 2008 with a bang. The event hit a record high 1136 players boarding the ship to try their luck at the multi-million dollar tournament. Several online players qualified for the European Poker Tour event by entering in satellites o...

In the past few months several poker sites have been providing their customers with different language sites. The online poker websites have recognized that poker is becoming increasingly popular especially in other countries. They have changed accordingly to meet their cust...

The 888 Holding plc and Entertasia Technology Company Ltd have joined in a partnership agreement that will develop a live casino service in Asia. Entertasia Technology Company Ltd provides gaming solutions for Asian operators and they will manage the operations for the new l...

Sports fans will have a busy weekend starting February 1st. Not only will the NFL Super Bowl XLII be taking place but the Poker Celebrity Bowl will be kicking off as well. The Poker Celebrity Bowl will begin on February 1st and will hosted by Royce Clayton, Major League Base...

The Poker Royale Casino in Wiener Neustadt, Austria will be hosting the European Poker Championships this year. The Poker Royale is known for having the largest Card Room in Europe and will now get a chance to show it off. Starting April 18th and continuing until May 4th the...

The developer and marketer of the online casino and online poker room smart tool, B4Playing, and 888.com has made plans to work closer together in 2008.

According to Ms. Sharon Argov, VIP Affiliates Manager at 888.com, "Now, three months after B4Playing has star...

The audit by Gaming Associates is complete and the Kahnawake Gaming Commission has released its report regarding the Absolute Poker cheating scandal that occurred last summer.

The report itself does not go into any detail and if you have been following the story unf...

Since its launch 1 ½ years ago, PKR Poker has continued to grow steadily with a rise in sign ups and users contining to grow and this pass week, it passed the 10,000 concurrent user mark.

Many were skeptical about a 3D online poker room but according to PKR, ...

Gus "The Great Dane" Hansen, professional poker player and multiple WPT champion is not only taking on the worlds best poker players but also the online poker industry. Gus has launched the online poker site called ThePlayr. This unique online poker community wi...

Greyhound Poker, a new online poker room launched December 11th, 2007, has reported great success in its first month. The online gaming company provides a strong variety of online poker games, for real money or just for fun, to poker players around the world, including US pl...

On January 12th a charity poker tournament will be taking place at The Joint, inside the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. UltimateBet announced recently that Scott Ian, guitarist for Anthrax, will be representing the online poker room during the charity tournament. The event, Ope...

Betfair, the online gambling operator, recently released a statement announcing that the site has seen an increase in popularity since they improved their software. The new improvements have helped the site gain an increase in their player numbers and the site believes it is...

Mark your calendars folks, this February 6th; Full Tilt Poker will be starting their seventh Full Tilt Online Poker Series. The event is held three times a year and is regarded as one of the top online events. It gained popularity for its guaranteed prize pools and large ava...

Online gaming company, William Hill Plc, has faced a heavy loss for its recent attempt to develop its own online gaming software, "NextGen". The project was abandoned last year after an independent review, leaving the company with the familiar option of outsourcing...

According to online poker room, Betfair, its regular players are quite pleased with a recent upgrade to the online poker software platform. Updates to the payment system, security and integrity of the software have attracted many more players to the high-stakes tables.

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The poker website Poker Source Online has added yet another language to their long list of available languages on their site. Poker Source Online has continued to bring their site to new and existing markets by providing their customers with a version of their site in their ...

The popular backgammon site, Backgammonmasters, have recently remodeled their lobby. On the heels of the remodel will be a fully integrated us casino system. This system could house up to 200 casino games. Some of the games that would be included would be poker, roulette, sl...

It was announced this week that the site, PokerSitesUK.co.uk, will have a new toolbar available that will help online poker players keep up with live daily tournaments. The new toolbar can be downloaded for free on the PokerSites webpage and will consistently update you with...

The Tatts Group, an Australian gaming firm formerly known as Tattersalls, has acquired full ownership of online gaming company, European Gaming Group. This latest move is only the most recent in a line of online gaming related acquisitions that have been occurring quite freq...

Leading online gaming software developer, Playtech, has revealed its intent to take an aggressive stance towards acquisitions in 2008. The company began a substantial acquisitional conquest in late 2006, and appears to have heightened its efforts, according to a recent inter...

Female poker players are becoming more and more prevalent in today poker tournament industry, and the World Poker Tour (WPT) has responded accordingly, officially launching it first ever World Poker Tour Ladies (WPTL) league. Buy-ins for the various WPTL events and No Limit ...

Pamela Anderson and current husband, Rick Salomon, are headed to the land down under, where Salomon is said to be a definite started in the 2008 Aussie Millions Poker Championship tournament. According to reports from the Herald Sun, Andersen is in the process of negotiating...

The PartyPoker Irish Poker Championship has come to an end and the winner is none other than a local of the area, Jude Ainsworth. Jude managed to outlast 298 other players including many professionals. Mike Sexton, Marcel Luske and Robert Williamson III were among those play...

Players have been qualifying for some time now to win their spot on the Ladbrokes Poker Cruise. This Friday, players will have one last chance to qualify for the last cabin available on the Cruise Ship. At 7:45pm on Friday night there will be an invitation only All Aboard fr...

It was announced yesterday that a person had been selected to provide on-air commentary for the Vega Latin American Poker Tour. Vega Promotional Systems Inc, have decided to use "Bob the Butcher" as their voice for the first season of the LAPT. "Bob the Butche...

The winners of the 2007 Oggs Online Casino Awards were announced today with awards honoring operators, casinos and games. Several awards were received by those who provided the best in entertainment, customer service and other areas.

The Best United States Casino for 2...

The website 888 started a tournament series at the beginning of last year titled Poker Pro For A Year. It would be a series of events in a series of six that would eventually name a player who would get to live as a poker pro for one year. The site hosed 12 large freerollls ...

A new poker website, T6Poker, was marketing nonstop to reel in players for their January 2008 start date. The site did some testing and they found that their existing software could not support the many players who were enrolling on the site. T6Poker decided to choose CyberA...

Democratic candidate, Barack Obama, is an avid poker player hoping to become the 44th president of the United States. Last Thursday, Obama won the Iowa State Caucus, bringing him one step close to that goal, and one step closer to the possible relief of online poker prohibit...

Online money transfer and payment processor, NETeller, announced Monday that the web site has undergone a complete overhaul, giving the payment portal a whole new look and feel for 2008. Today, January 8th, the new web site went live. The new NETeller web site offers a crisp...

Online poker room Full Tilt Poker has announced the upcoming Full Tilt Online Poker Series VII (FTOPS-VII) scheduled to kick off this February. The 2008 major poker event will now consist of 20 events, including popular poker games like No Limit Holdem, Pot Limit Omaha, Razz...

This past weekend the preliminary events began for the Aussie Millions. Many professionals as wells as regular Joes showed up for the event to try their luck. One winner of an event was Jimmy "Gobboboy" Fricke. He had played in two events without winning anything b...

A new series of poker will begin tonight as the Late Night Poker show begins airing on UK television. The new series will begin with a celebrity version that will have such players as John Thompson, Dave Groman, Cleo Rocos and Howard Marks. Later down the road in the series ...

Playtech Limited, considered strongly within the online gambling industry to be one of the top two designers and developers of online casino, online poker and other gambling software for use on the internet, announced today in a Pre-close Trading Update to Reuters, in spite of...

On January 12th at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Randy "The Natural" Couture will be hosting a charity poker event. The event is titled "Operation All In" and will benefit the Xtreme Couture GI Foundation. Couture formed the organization wi...

Some very big names are expected to ...

The record amount of logged-in players occurred this past Sunday on Dec...

The highly anticipated Aussie Millions Poker Championship is set to kick off this Saturday, January 5th, at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. A host of poker tournaments will take place from January 5th through the 20th, including the Main Event, scheduled to begin J...

Online poker player, Josh Field, at only 18 years of age, will no longer be able to hold an account or play poker at PokerStars. The lifetime ban was handed down by the online poker room after Field, known online as "JJProdigy", was caught using multiple accounts.

AsianLogic Ltd an online casino developer has been listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in London. This makes it the first major Internet gaming company to make the list since the U. S. passed the UIGEA and crippled companies like BetOnSports, Sportingbet and Pa...

Norway has enacted a new Responsible Gambling Code in an effort to avert the proposed Norway UIGEA. The proposed ban would prevent their citizens from transferring funds to foreign operators.

Since the government of Norway announced their UIGEA-like ban, it has been me...

Amateur poker players have a fantastic place to learn and play in tournaments at a modest price at FlopTurnRiver.com. At the present time, FlopTurnRiver (FTP) boasts 6,500 plus members and 600,000 plus poker forum articles. The main purpose of their site is to mentor the nov...

Despite all the bad press regarding Absolute Poker during the latter part of 2007, it was still a profitable year for their poker players. The online poker site released their Bad Beat Jackpot figures for 2007 today.

June 22nd, 2007 brought the addition of the Bad Bea...

Betting Terminal Inc, a London based software developer, has teamed up with the Backgammon Master website and signed a deal. Betting Terminal Inc will use the websites poker software at various land locations on betting terminals. The deal will include using Backgammon Maste...

Many countries seem to be following the United States footsteps by banning online gambling in some form or fashion. Norway was the first after the US and then Turkey was next when they added online gambling restrictions. Now Germany has banned online gambling as well. Back i...

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