2010 August 12 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Jennifer Harman is one of the latest inductees to the Women in Poker Hall of Fame.

The Bremerton Lanes Poker Room has reopened after closing in May, and 19 people have been hired to run it.

The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour kicked off its seventh season this week in Tallinn, Estonia.

Alberta is considering entering the online gambling industry as websites such as Party Poker have captured betters’ interest.

However, all that is changing. Following the success of the Baltic Festival here in June, the seventh season of the European Poker Tour Wednesday with the PokerStars.net EPT Tallinn from the sixth floor ballroom of the lavish Swissotel.

Jim Wilkinson, the financial director for British online gambling group Sportingbet plc, has opined that his company is unlikely to be a player in industry consolidation until it has agreed a settlement with United States authorities to protect it from the threat of prosecution for activities pre-UIGEA. The Sportingbet executive told the Reuters news agency: […]

I approached my first visit to the Rivers Casino with apprehension. I’d call my luck average at best.

The UK online gambling group Sportingbet plc has reported a strong performance during the World Cup in June-July, recording over GBP50 million in bets and margins boosted by a number of results going against the favourites during the global football championship. A notable feature was that an impressive 65 percent of bets were made during […]

One of the industry’s most respected and historically successful software developers, Cryptologic, has released another disappointing set of figures, at the same time announcing the resignation of chief executive officer Brian Hadfield. The Q2/2010 report from the company notes: “After working with the Board on the restructuring plan, Brian Hadfield, Chief Executive Officer, has decided […]