Bodog are renowned for their casino, sportsbetting and online poker. It was the former that netted one lucky player $127,000 at the Let ‘em Ride poker game. Drew C from Texas scored the big win at the game last week. Let ‘em Ride is dealt from a standard 52-card deck but unlike regular poker, the player is competing against the house. The flop, turn and river are the same as Hold ‘em but each player has three cards. As well as this huge win, several other players at Bodog had good weekends. Leroy B. was the weekend’s top blackjack player [ Read More ]
Archive for March, 2009
PKR currently offers a unique version of online poker, whereby players can customise and control 3D avatars at the tables to give an entirely new sense of realism to the online game. The site has added a ton of new features including the increasingly popular games of Pot-Limit Omaha as well as its split pot variant, Omaha 8. These games are apparently some of the softest on the web. Marketing Director Simon Prodger said, “Our community is highly valued and as we grow we like to make sure we provide our players with exactly what they need. Many of the [ Read More ]
The recent non-binding vote in the EU Parliament on the Schaldemose own-initiative report has resulted in some critical fallout for Malta’ 5 MEPs. The non-binding vote approved the concept that the regulation of online gambling in Europe should be left to the individual member states instead of hewing to a pan-European set of regulations. The vote effectively suggests that for Internet gambling, the broad EU principle of free movement of goods and services between member nations should not apply. An alternative report prepared by British MEP Malcolm Harbour was defeated, and it is the Malta MEPs treatment of this report [ Read More ]
It didn’t work in Italy, and it is creating major waves of protest in Australia at present – the prospect of governments forcing Internet Service Providers to impose blocks censoring online gambling websites. Sweden is the latest country to consider the censorship option, reports The Stockholm News this weekend. The newspaper reveals that a government report suggesting the blocks is at present undergoing a public consultative process, and picking up plenty of flak as it does so. With Wednesday April 1st as the deadline, the criticism is likely to escalate, the newspaper reports. By then, regional authorities, local governments, relevant [ Read More ]
Gibraltar Internet news source Panorama reported Monday that the British territory’s online-gaming sector has experienced a rash of layoffs in the past year. All told, Panorama said, the number of Gibraltarians employed by online casinos and poker rooms fell from 360 in October 2007 to 261 last month. Panorama also listed several popular Gibraltar-based online-gaming companies that have shed jobs, as well as the number of positions they’ve cut: PartyGaming, recently in the news for U.S. legal action against co-founder Anurag Dikshit, trimmed its staff of 317 in August to 227 employees in February; Mansion made similar cuts, reducing its [ Read More ]
English bookmaker Better has fired old Arsenal legend Paul Merson from its advertising campaign. Managing director of Better said they took the decision after receiving ‘a lot’ of complaints. Paul Merson especially known for his time with Arsenal, was asked to do the campaign at a social event. The 41 year old ex problem gambler has fought years against his gambling addiction, which was well documented. This did not fell good with people. Ian Hogg, managing director of Better said they never meant to offence people and they are pulling the campaign, he also said: “We have no wish to [ Read More ]
Popular online casino GoCasino.com has announced a series of slots tournaments over this weekend. They are available to all new and pre-registered players, without the need for sign-up codes or passwords. In a slots tournament, the players pay a fixed fee for a certain amount of tournament credit. The aim is to essentially get lucky, trying to accumulate the highest return on investment with your credit. Entry fees are wide-ranging for the rich or poor. A $1.49 tournament with a $2k prize pool is to be found as well as a $20 buy-in for a $30,000 prize pool.
Three additional fully qualified accounting professionals have been taken on by the standards and player protection body eCOGRA in a move to expand the business advisory and standards compliance services which the organisation offers to a growing number of software providers, operators and affiliate programs. The new members of staff will join experienced teams travelling to eCOGRA accredited operations and new applicant companies to conduct acceptance and compliance reviews. All three hold university business degrees and chartered accountancy qualifications and have previous experience in major international audit and professional business service companies. Gareth Muirhead joins eCOGRA’s Data Department. He is [ Read More ]
CryptoLogic announced a multi-year contract with film studio Paramount Digital Entertainment, that will bring some of the most world-famous superhero’s come to live on the internet casino world beginning in the final quarter of 2009. Noticeable is the fact that CryptoLogic made similar deals last year with DC Comics, Marvel Comics and Warner Bros. With this contract CryptoLogic gains exclusive rights to offer online slot machines based on more than 20 Paramount films, including Braveheart, Forrest Gump, Beowulf, Beverly Hills Cop, Ghost, Ferris Bueler’s day off and many more. Also CryptoLogic gets the opportunity to build a dedicated gaming site [ Read More ]
At the last EPT stop in Copenhagen, young Norwegian PokerStars qualifier William Thorson topped the leaderboard on Day 1a. Now he is repeating the trick in Dortmund, having built his 10,000 stack to just shy of 90k before the end of the day’s play. 2008 7th-place finisher Johannes Strassmann had a rollercoaster ride of a day but finished with a comfortable stack, ready for Day 2. Also surviving are Alexander Kravchenko, Rolf Slotboom, and Soren Kongsgaard. They survived dozens of eliminations including those of Barny Boatman, Rasmus Nielsen, Roberto Romanello, and Ivan Demidov. Expected to make an appearance in the [ Read More ]
