2011 March 09 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Carroll Mayfield is led away by corrections deputies Wednesday to begin serving a ten-year sentence on assault charges.

A If you like to gamble and want to learn more about the life of a poker player, listen up! Poker Champions Jonathan Duhamel and Joe Cada stopped by KCAL9 Wednesday to talk to us about the upcoming tournament at The Bicycle Casino.

When someone mentions the city of Madrid to you what comes to mind? Is it bullfights and flamenco or bar hopping and tapas? A modern city with great shopping or a European city steeped in history and classical architecture? Madrid is all those things, and now there’s one more thing to add to its illustrious charm–it’s a city that hosts the …

Online players can look forward to a whole range of fresh online slots once an agreement between slots manufacturer Aristocrat Leisure Limited and online gambling network GameAccount comes to fruition. The deal signed this week will see Aristocrat content redeployed and developed for online use and distributed through GameAccount, which has licensing from the UK […]

Gamesys’s Jackpot Joy bingo site will unveil its latest comical ‘Queen of Bingo’ commercials this week, with the new television advertising campaign running through until 18th March and coinciding with the popular annual TV Comic Relief charity fundraiser. This year the charity will be supported by Jackpot Joy, which is offering special Red Nose Day […]

A merger between Italian betting group SNAI and the Cogetech group should transform both companies and create a strong offline and online sports betting presence, according to reports in the Italian daily newspaper Il Corriere della Sera. The newspaper spoke with Andrea Bonomi, president of Investindustrial, a company that partnered with Palladio Finanziaria to acquire […]

There was more disappointing news from New Jersey this week as local media reported that Senator Ray Lesniak’s lawsuit seeking to overturn a federal sports betting ban has been unsuccessful. U.S. District Judge Garrett Brown ruled that New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney and state Senator Raymond Lesniak, who filed the complaint, lack legal standing […]

A poker dealer and two patrons were arrested on Tuesday after an investigation into cheating at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut.

Faced with the unpleasant task of closing a $4 billion state budget gap, some lawmakers are hoping to entice Floridians and tourists to lose enough of their money gambling to help the state pay its bills.