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To open the calendar year of 2010, officials from the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) will focus their energy mostly on state level, the states where the PPA are targeting to legalize online poker include Florida, California, Alaska, and Delaware.
The success of this depends mostly on Congressman Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. [...]

As is the case with all Internet-based industries, social networks have the potential to revolutionize the online casino gambling market. Unfortunately it seems as though experts in the casino industry does not understand the concept of social media sites like Twitter and Facebook.
As it is at the moment, almost 50% of the online casino gambling [...]

It seems that there is no uniformity in the advice provided by the attorney-generals of the European Court of Justice, regarding online casino gambling companies and their compatibility with EU law.
Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi has recently given his opinion regarding online gambling, he said that Member States are not obliged to allow foreign gambling companies [...]

The Mintel International Group, is a media study group in the U.S. that published a new study on casino gambling. The study notes that U.S. citizens visit land based casinos less often, but more often go to gamble at casinos online. This happens despite the fact that anti-online gambling law, UIGEA should prevent people from [...]

According to the latest rumors in online casino news, Tiger Woods has turned down an offer from online sports betting and online casino operator Paddy Power for a sponsorship contract worth 49.5 million pounds. Tiger Woods would receive this amount over a period of 5 years.
If Tiger Woods would have accepted the contract offer, he [...]

Last Saturday, a live poker tournament in Germany got robbed by a group of four heavily armed men who have gone off with part of the jackpot for the tournament. Police say the four men are still at large, according to rumours they have captured between € 100,000 and one million Euro.
Berlin police said that [...]

In an interview with Party Gaming Director, Jim Ryan on the site of PartyGaming, Jim Ryan gives his thoughts about the operating results of PartyGaming in 2009. Jim Ryan was asked by a number of questions, we give you a summary of the interview.
Financial Results
Jim was asked how he would characterize the results of [...]

In the American state Florida the issue of online gambling and specifically online poker are being examined for some time as a way of generating revenue through legislation of the internet gambling market in the state. Last week, Florida representative Joseph Abruzzo introduced a bill under the name Internet Poker Consumer Protection and Revenue Generation [...]

If you fly with Ryanair, you can buy a scratch off lottery ticket for £1.80. With this ticket you can win fabulous prizes, including a car worth €£36,000, vouchers for flights, new scratch cards but also large cash prizes. A man on board flight FR1724 from Krakow in Poland to East Midlands has eaten his [...]

At the beginning of last month the Chinese government notified that they were planning to crack down on illegal online gambling. In a statement from the Ministry of Public Security, stated that licensed casino gambling sites will be investigated, and the operators will be prosecuted.
In China, the two state lotteries are the only legal forms [...]