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December 7, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- Europe's major sporting bodies have taken the first steps to set up a global body to combat sports betting corruption, an article in The Telegraph newspaper reported this week.The piece refers to a meeting in Brussels last week in which representatives from football, rugby, and cricket owners associated with…

December 7, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- The Jutarnji List daily newspaper reports that Croatians spend an estimated HRK 6.6 billion (about €920 million) on gambling annually.Last year HRK 5.4 billion went on the races, HRK 746 million was spent on lotteries, about HRK 1 billion was wagered on gambling machines at clubs, and HRK 350…

December 7, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- 242 avid poker players, including a few internationally known names, face a weekend of disappointment following official intervention in the PokerStars.com Latin American Poker Tour event at the Marival Resorts and Suites in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico on Friday. Despite having a favorable ruling from the Mexican Ministry of the…

December 7, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- The decline of the economy in Britain has generated more sad reports of gambling businesses shrinking this week, with The Observer newspaper revealing that over the last 12 months nine land gambling establishments have closed their doors, axing hundreds of employees.The Observer cites Gala Coral, owned by private equity…

The leading business website and community for casino affiliate marketers, CasinoAffiliatePrograms.com, has launched the inaugural edition of CAPTV. CAPTV is a high-definition iGaming channel designed to bring weekly updates to the 8,000 plus members of the CAP community. "After weeks of preparation, CAP TV is ready for its big premiere," announced Lou Fabiano, CasinoAffiliatePrograms.com's founder…

Netlog is one of Europe's most popular social networking platforms; Jadestone is a Nordic online gaming company currently well-known for innovative multi-player dice game DiceArena. So how do the two fit together? The two have joined forces, aiming to bring JadeStone's plethora of innovative new multi-player games to Netlog's community. Netlog's use of Google's OpenSocial…

Popular online casino Vegas Red has announced that one of their players, Joerg S., has won a year's supply of beer from the site. Joerg is from Bavaria, Germany, home of the world-famous Oktoberfest, however – this makes him winning a year's supply of beer like a Canadian winning a year's supply of maple syrup.…

RomeCasino, one of the most popular online casinos to accept US players, have realised that since the great online poker players play from two to twenty tables at once, blackjack players should have the same opportunity. In their new Multi-hand Blackjack game, a player essentially plays every seat at the table – four hands at…

Throughout the month of December, PartyPoker are helping their players to kick off 2009 in a big way by offering them the chance to qualify for three major live events. Qualifiers are online now for the Philippines leg of the successful Asian Poker Tour; the PartyPoker Irish Poker Championships and the PartyPoker World Poker Showdown,…

December 6, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), an organization dedicated to the political protection of the rights of Americans to play poker online, named Dianna Donofrio as its Nevada State Director this week. "The PPA is fortunate to have over one million dedicated members, and even more fortunate that Dianna is…