Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have studied the building blocks of a neurobiological link between alcohol use in the adolescent years and later decision-making impairments with adults. The results of the study were published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences website, and indicate a link between heavy drinkers and adult decision-making. Ilene Bernstein and Nicholas Nasrallah are the authors of the study, Nicholas is a psychology doctoral student at the UW and Ilene a professor of psychology and faculty member of the neurobiology and behavior program. Nicholas said: “We know early exposure to [ Read More ]
Archive for September, 2009
Leading online gaming software provider Microgaming has launched nine new bingo side games covering a range of video slots, scratchcard, casual and pub-style titles designed to provide players with an enhanced gaming experience. The Isle Of Man-based developer stated that bingo side games are beginning to play an ever-increasing role in the gaming industry after initially being undervalued. It revealed that side games offer an excellent form of entertainment within bingo rooms while players wait for balls to be drawn. Halloweenies is the first of the new titles and is a spookily-themed five-reel video slot complete with a bonus game [ Read More ]
Tonight’s edition of Monday Night Football sees the winless Carolina Panthers travel west to meet a strong Dallas Cowboys side that is still hurting from its narrow loss last weekend at the hands of the New York Giants. One of the strongest franchises in all of American sport, the Dallas Cowboys have five Super Bowl titles to its name but have not appeared in the post-season for two years. Third-year coach Wade Phillips is under pressure to correct this as soon as possible with VictorChandler.com and ExtraBet.com currently offering odds of 1/5 on a Dallas win. Always a strong side [ Read More ]
Governor Pat Quinn has brought Illinois into the twenty first century earlier this year in regards to their gambling laws. The governor signed a law that will allow video gambling machines for establishments with liquor licenses. Many towns and cities have already stopped the video gambling machines from entering their area. The law gave these areas a grace period during which they could ban the machines. Once that grace period is over, establishments can apply for the rights to operate the machines. That is where the change over will take place from the current video gambling options to the new [ Read More ]
Het tweede evenement van de World Series Of Poker Europe 2009 is eindelijk afgelopen. De bedoeling was dat het £2.500 Pot Limit Hold’em/ Omaha evenement dinsdag afgelopen zou zijn, maar door een wijziging in het schema was er nog een extra dag nodig om het toernooi uit te spelen. Woensdag moesten de laatste spelers dus nog een keer terugkomen om de strijd te beslissen. Het ging om vijf spelers met als chipsleader Mats Gavatin, die bijna een half miljoen aan chips had. We hadden graag gemeld dat er ook een Nederlander tussen die laatste vijf spelers zat, maar helaas mocht [ Read More ]
Major League Baseball is roaring down the home-stretch toward the playoffs and fans across the country are looking for answers as to where there teams will end up, who will win what awards, and which teams will see coaching changes. This being the case, one of the largest sportsbooks on the web, BetUS released odds on all things regarding the MLB. The bookmaker offers every new customer up to 145% in total bonuses. “This is one of the most exciting times of the sports cycle”, stated BetUS spokesman Reed Richards. “Fans have been hitting our site hard looking for the [ Read More ]
Wink Bingo features regularly in our news headlines, almost so frequently we could just as well make a sticky Wink Bingo sticky item recurring each week. One week Wink Bingo hosts the “Big O Game”, the other week it introduces “Team Bingo”, and this week it comes up with “Speed Bingo”. Guaranteed Jackpot The Big O Game was one of the things that made this entire summer extra exciting at Wink Bingo. For a long time players were able to collect as many tickets possible to the Big O Game, with a Guaranteed Jackpot of £25,000 up for grabs. Last [ Read More ]
September 13 – Spin3 is now the first mobile casino software provider to receive the coveted accreditation from eCOGRA. Spin3 went through a number of inspections by eCOGRA auditors to ensure that the platform complies with the groups tough standards in terms of software and technology, as well as best practice business. Inspections also included probity and on site operating systems. Spin3′s software had already passed with flying colours a thorough review during earlier eCOGRA inspections, when some of its clients applied for our mobile casino operator accreditation, said Andrew Beveridge, the Chief Executive Officer of eCOGRA. It was pleasing [ Read More ]
The long-running litigation between Austrian online gambling giant Bwin and the Portuguese state betting monopoly Santa Casa has entered a new and negative phase following a ruling from the European Court of Justice. The Court has found that the Portuguese government’s gambling monopoly may comply with European Union law, ruling that the prohibition which Portuguese legislation imposes on operators such as Bwin of offering games of chance via the Internet may be regarded as compatible with the freedom to provide services, if it is designed to combat fraud and other crimes. The case has its roots in an attempt by [ Read More ]
Launched late last year with massive publicity and plenty of commercial hype, the online banking operation Ivobank – owned by the Indonesian billionaire Sampoerna family – appeared to be going from strength to strength with a list of gilt-edged online gambling clients that included some of the top companies in the business. It came as something as a shock, therefore to learn this week that the bank is apparently turning away new business without a clear explanation for its motives or its future, now the subject of intense speculation. The bank’s advisory that new business was being turned away was [ Read More ]
