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Big win week

14 Apr 2010

There are two cyber-gamblers out there who are probably still celebrating following major hits on internet jackpots recently.

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Players concern over long casino downtime

14 Apr 2010

Following player reports of slow-pays involving RTG-powered Cuba Club and Lucky Slots online casinos, it is perhaps not surprising that these casinos going offline for the last 48 hours and counting has triggered alarm.

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DDoS protection offered

14 Apr 2010

Last month’s Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on four online gambling information portals, including a 1 gig/sec assault on Casinomeister.com, put the subject of robot armies and cyberinvasions of this nature back in the spotlight, but new solutions are evolving all the time.

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PPA mobilised 25 000 Massachusetts poker players

14 Apr 2010

More details are emerging about the Poker Players Alliance involvement in the Massachusetts political debate on the introduction of two land casinos.  The debate has attracted the attention of the online gambling industry because an Internet gambling ban was buried among the many clauses.

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Cashcade extends Dragonfish arrangement

13 Apr 2010

888.com’s b2b subsidiary Dragonfish received a ringing endorsement this week from the top UK online bingo group Cashcade, which has extended its bingo platform agreement for a further two years.

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Bwin has plans for South America

13 Apr 2010

South America apparently features in the plans of the Vienna-listed online gambling group Bwin, which is expanding outside of its traditional European markets and plans a presence in as many as four South American countries over the next two years.

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Live dealer Evolution accredited by eCOGRA

13 Apr 2010

Live dealer provider Evolution Gaming, which has offices in London, Malta and Stockholm and high tech Internet video-streaming studio facilities in Latvia, has become one of the first in its sector to achieve the high standards required for the eCOGRA Certified Live Dealer Seal.

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Players won´t get Kentucky losses

13 Apr 2010

Kentucky governor Steve Beshear’s latest attempt to squeeze money out of the offshore Internet gambling industry will have little upside for Kentucky taxpaying gamblers, according to a report in ABC News this week.

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Many amendments for Massachusetts casino bill

13 Apr 2010

Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo’s legislative attempt to introduce land casinos to the state is to be debated today (Tuesday) and has already attracted some 216 suggested amendments from House representatives, reports the Boston Globe newspaper.

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Online gambling bill hearing postponed

13 Apr 2010

The April 16th House Financial Services Committee hearings on two bills authored by Barney Frank has been postponed indefinitely, according to a spokesman for Frank’s office.

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More monitoring for World Cup betting

12 Apr 2010

The Malaysian authorities have joined those in Indonesia in threatening to monitor Internet betting on the run-up to the World Cup football championships in South Africa mid-year.

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Greek gambling monopoly has online betting plans

12 Apr 2010

Ioannis Spanoudakis, the chief executive of Greece’s state gambling monopoly OPAP has online gambling in mond once regulators give their greenlight.

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Anti-online gambling establishment critical of cricket hero

12 Apr 2010

The former Australian cricket star Shane Warne, who since 2008 has represented 888’s online poker interests at poker events around the world, has been criticised for using his Twitter page to promote online gambling.

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Modern marketing from bwin

12 Apr 2010

The Austrian listed Bwin online gambling group is to showcase its modern marketing broadcast medium Sheeva at the Las Vegas NAB Show , which starts today and runs through April 15th, a spokesman revealed this week.

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Scratchcard developer inks another media deal

12 Apr 2010

The major UK newspaper The Daily Mirror is the latest media company to sign up for a white label scratchcard solution from Neogames.

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Gambling commissioners reappointed

12 Apr 2010

The UK government’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport has announced ther reappointment for a further four years of Rachel Lampard and Lord (Andrew) McIntosh of Haringey as Commissioners of the Gambling Commission.

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Reports of portal owner´s death

12 Apr 2010

Mystery continues to surround officially unconfirmed reports that surfaced on Saturday that Eye On Gambling.com portal owner and sports betting industry personality Ken Weitzner and his wife Jacqueline had been found dead at their Chesapeake home.

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Indonesian cops to monitor online gambling activity

11 Apr 2010

A spokesman for the Indonesian national police in Jakarta, Indonesia has warned that the Internet will be monitored in the run-up to the World Cup football championship in South Africa in order to guard against illegal Internet betting activity.

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Further congressional hearing for Barney´s bill

11 Apr 2010

The Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative, an advocacy group pressing for the legalisation and licensing of online gambling in the United States, reports that Congressman Barney Frank’s Reasonable Prudence in Regulation Act (HR2266) and Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection and Enforcement Act (HR2267) will be the subject of further legislative hearings in the House Committee …

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Two new slots from RTG

10 Apr 2010

Online gambling software provider RealTime Gaming is currently rolling out its latest two online slots, Lucky Last and Hockey Hero, to its online casino licensees.

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Indian casinos hold on internet gambling decision

10 Apr 2010

The Morongo Band of California Mission Indians were disappointed this week when the National Indian Gaming Association laid aside its proposal to block Barney Frank’s federal legislative attempt to legalise and tax online gambling in the United States.

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Betsoft launches new 3D slot

9 Apr 2010

BetSoftGaming, specialists in developing cinematic 3D games known as the Slots3, has announced the 12th release in the series with of the latest ambitious creation – Mr. Vegas.

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Party Casino launches role-play slot

9 Apr 2010

Party Casino.com has launched a new online game branded Circus Slot that innovatively combines slot action and gaming activity. The casino bills the new approach as “the world’s first role-playing online slot,” and says that players are invited to choose from four memorable characters with varying abilities and unique storylines to take them through an …

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Online gambling investors sue mutual fund

9 Apr 2010

Shareholders of two Vanguard Group Inc funds have launched litigation in a Delaware court against the company and fund executives for allegedly investing their money in four illegal offshore Internet gambling businesses, reports the news agency Reuters.

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