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The Gold Rally progressive slot has paid out $2.5 million at Playtech-powered online casino 32Vegas.com and made one lucky player and instant millionaire. The Internet casino stated that a Dutch player identified only as ‘Rens' took home the prize, the largest ever jackpot at a Playtech casino and the second biggest in history. The previous…

Isle of Man-based online casino software supplier Microgaming has announced the release of four new online slot games, Little Chief Big Cash, Treasure Island, Mark of Medusa and Polar Bash. Little Chief Big Cash is a five-reel slot machine with 25 paylines where the Chief serves as a wild symbol doubling wins while the Coyote…

Online casino FullTiltPoker.com has announced the start of its seventh Online Poker Series mega-tournament, which is to offer 20 events and a collective guaranteed prize pool of ten million dollars. This is the first Online Poker Series of 2008 from the online casino, as the last series was held in November, and will run until…

The European Commission has launched investigations into German and Swedish prohibitions on online gambling and requested further information over concerns that they are restricting free trade. Under European Union law, member states should be able to trade on an equal footing with one another. However, some member nations are increasingly restricting online gambling in order…

Online casino EverestCasino.com announced that one lucky video poker player took home a $50,000 jackpot after getting a rare Royal Flush on its Tens or Better game. The Kahnawake-licensed site offers over 200 casino games including 500-hand video poker, and said that the player, an Italian, was only one of many recent winners. Online winner…

TitanPoker.com has announced that it will be sending a four-man team to compete in this week's South African Poker Open. Three of the players are travelling from Canada to attend the event being staged at the Italianesque MonteCasino in Johannesburg this week while the fourth is scheduled to fly from The Netherlands. The four players…

Swedish amateur online player Cecilia Borg triumphed this week at Bet365.com's Poker Leaderboard Challenge to take home guaranteed seats at every iPoker-supported land-based European Poker Tour and World Poker Tour tournament this year and a chance at starting a lucrative professional career. The student teacher from Vasterbotten stated that she was more used to playing…

The founder of the Nuts Poker League, Steve Bellis, has teamed up with a travel business in the northern Welsh town of Holywell to offer exclusive poker holidays. The British poker entrepreneur stated that the first party of poker players for 2008 is scheduled to travel to the Sands Beach Resort in Costa Teguise on…

Online backgammon site BackgammonMasters.com has announced the integration of the patented Signature Link verification system to allow VIP players to register and sign their names with only a few movements of the mouse. BackgammonMasters.com, which features 21 blackjack, poker, Perudo and backgammon gaming software, said that its new signature verification system would better protect players…

Public relations and events firm Lyceum Media announced that last Wednesday's successful Fire and Ice Cabaret event was the biggest and most extravagant in its seven-year history. Held at London's Hippodrome, Fire and Ice featured live cabaret performers including burlesque, comedy and music acts alongside aerial shows entertaining i-gaming industry leaders from around the globe.…