White label deal signed between Party Gaming and ITV

Publicly listed online gambling group Party Gaming has scored a major coup with a white label deal to provide television broadcaster ITV plc with branded betting, casino and bingo games on its websites, the Reuters news agency reports.

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Wed, September 5th, 2007

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  • The Great Wall of China was financed, in part, by a lottery. The Bible is replete with references to drawing lots. Lot casting was a favored means of communication between man and god.
  • The name of the game "Poker" likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ("to knock"), but it is not clear whether the games named by those terms were the real origins of poker.
  • In 1911 US legislation prohibited stud poker but ruled that draw poker was a game of skill and therefore was not illegal.
  • In 1980, the American Psychological Association included pathological gambling in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III).