2010 August 11 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Many stories paint the poker industry in a positive light. Of the hundreds of professionals who make a living off of cards, many of them are upstanding citizens who donate millions to various charities around the world.

An Albuquerque stockbroker who confessed to stealing from clients to support a gambling habit is being dealt an unusual hand.

Delmar Alan Sisk had $34.50, a set of keys, a box cutter and a cell phone in his pants pockets when he died.

By now ita s been well documented that as Marylanda s first slots parlor readies to open next month, neighboring states have already gone a step further with live table games .

The spectre of Internet censorship at national level through Internet Service Providers (ISPs) came a step closer last week when the French government regulator ARJEL went to the courts to obtain orders on ISPs blocking a blacklist of online gambling websites without French licensing. In the same week, Canadian players on the Boss Media-powered Casino […]

Police dealt the final hand at Hong Kong’s best-known poker venue after nearly 200 people were arrested in a raid on the house’s closing night, a media report said Wednesday.

Earlier this week Raymond Ang, a senior executive with the San Miguel food and beverage group, intimated in a press interview that, acting independently he would be putting together a consortium to make a $10 billion offer for the state-owned Philippines gambling group PAGCORP, but events since then indicate that he may have been a […]

Sportsbook technology provider Offside Gaming has announced an agreement with Botsphere to run both its pre-match and live match facilities via the Botsphere Rightprice system. Botsphere has pioneered the use of algorithmic trading to optimise sportsbook performance and works alongside some of the largest names in sports betting, a spokesman said this week.  The integration […]

Party Casino.com, a member of the PartyGaming online gambling group, has released a powerful, polar-themed new progressive jackpot slot branded “Snow Business”.  At the start of 2010, the company launched what it boasted was the largest seeded progressive jackpot in the online gaming industry (see previous InfoPowa report) in the form of ‘The Big One’ […]