September 10, 2009 (CAP Newswire) -- The main party behind the recent initiative to come up with a new, UIGEA-friendly way to legalize and regulate online poker within California, the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, has announced that its actions in this area have been halted for the rest of 2009. "In our consultations with…
September 10, 2009 (CAP Newswire) – It’s unlikely that the $40,000 No Limit Hold’em Championship tournament new to this year's World Series of Poker will be featured at next year’s event, Bluff Magazine is reporting. The event was introduced earlier this year in celebration of the WSOP’s 40th anniversary, and attracted 201 players going after…
September 10, 2009 (CAP Newswire) -- In another example of the lengths some governments will go to in order to outlaw gambling, a court in Denmark has stripped an online poker player of about 190,000 kroner (roughly $30,000) in winnings. The action was taken because the man was found to hold no other job over…
September 9, 2009 (CAP Newswire) -- Recent reports that Austrian online betting giant bwin was in the final stages of acquiring Italian Internet gambling site Gioco Digitale S.p.A. ("Gioco Digitale") have been sharing the European iGaming headlines in recent days with a high-profile court case that may spell an end to such across-the-border acquisitions in…
September 9, 2009 (CAP Newswire) -- The Interative Media and Entertainment Gaming Association (iMEGA) is set for its rematch against Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear and his action last year to seize 141 Internet gambling domain names. Late last year, iMEGA successfully got that order blocked on the grounds that Judge Thomas Wingate “had misapplied the…
September 9, 2009 (CAP PR Wire) -- The auction will feature 150 high-quality domains, which have been chosen from more than 5,000 submission as the most likely to appeal to gambling webmasters, companies and investors attending the live event or viewing the auction online.Pre-registration for live attendees and absentee bids form are available at gamblinginvest.com.…
September 9, 2009 (CAP Newswire) -- Reasons are emerging for why an online poker vote was unceremoniously pulled from the upcoming Massachusetts state election ballot last week, and the political motivations involved. Massachusetts’ Attorney General Martha Coakley was apparently the party responsible for blocking the vote, telling the Poker Players Alliance that the ballot measure…
September 9, 2009 (CAP Newswire) -- Pre-tax profits for the first half of 2009 were 37 percent greater than the same period in 2008 for online gaming software firm Playtech, indicating a strong growth in the gamnig software industry during in a time of global economic difficulty.According to Reuters, the profit increase came partially because…
September 9, 2009 (CAP Newswire) -- Why lose tens of millions of dollars to places like Antigua or Costa Rica when the local government can claim its share of all the online gambling money being generated within its borders? That’s the reasoning behind Canadian province British Columbia’s recent decision to regulate its own state-run online…
September 9, 2009 (CAP Newswire) -- Regardless of their chances for success — which unfortunately appear to be less and less likely as the year draws to a close and the larger financial crisis dominates the headlines — the two pro-online gambling bills now in the U.S. Congress are themselves signs of a warming legal…
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