2009 February 01 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

The hit NBC poker show Poker After Dark was hosting their a oeClose but No Cigara week, with poker pros who made it to the final table of the World Series of Poker but did not win.

The Cook County Sheriff’s department says its officer confiscated 31 video poker machines in a series of illegal gambling raids on businesses in Chicago’s southern suburbs.

Luck was not on the side of a handful of south suburban businesses targeted Saturday in an illegal gambling bust set up by the Cook County sheriff’s office.

Cook County sheriff’s police have raided 10 businesses in southern Cook County and seized 31 video poker machines.

Global Interactive Gaming Ltd. has signed up the UK betting group Sportingbet for another three years of its real time betting software, extending the deal to the end of 2011.

Police in Malaysia continued their anti-online gambling drive last week with a raid on an Internet Café in the Jalan Air Itam area.