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WPT Enterprises Incorporated has announced an agreement that gives Rupert Murdoch's Fox Sports Network (FSN) the exclusive broadcast rights to Season VII of the World Poker Tour (WPT) television series. Los Angeles-based FSN is owned by News Corporation and is a leading provider of sports programming. The agreement sees it have the rights to broadcast…

Costa Rica-based online casino operator GPS Global has announced that it is currently beta testing its new Live Dealer Elimination Blackjack offering with plans to add it to its existing games inventory in the next three weeks. GPS already offers Live Dealer software for blackjack, roulette, sic bo and three-card poker at its TheLiveDealerCasino.com alongside…

Antigua-based BodogLife.com became the first online casino to award seats to next year's World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event last week through its Mini Series promotion. The Kahnawake-licensed site's Mini Series consisted of 25 tournaments through its poker sub-site that mirrored the hold 'em events taking place at the WSOP 2008 only with buy-ins…

UK-based sportsbetting and virtual casino firm Totesport has launched the exclusive members-only Emerald Club at its TotesportCasino.com online casino. Membership is offered to casino customers on an invite-only basis with those lucky enough to have been invited receiving monthly offers and promotions above and beyond the standard. Members are being offered different casino promotions every…

PokerStars.com has announced that a player from Switzerland won its Sunday Million tournament and took home nearly $210,000. Online player ‘Sam66' walked away with $209,571 on Sunday after defeating ‘Shantaram' from France, who took home $141,718 for second place. PokerStars.com doubled the guarantee for its weekly competition two weeks ago and, as a result, saw…

Online Casino Reports -- July 20, 2008  UIGEA to goRecent Congressional hearings in Washington designed to clarify the impact of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, or UIGEA, may actually end up discarding the act altogether. New legislation introduced by Barney Frank, chairman of the influential Financial Services Committee seeks to restrict the Federal Reserve…

iGaming Business recently ran a story about how Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank has become a cult hero to American gaming interests because of his "staunch opposition" to UIGEA (the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act). As opposition to the bill grows, Frank is making more and more headlines as leader of the campaign to repeal the…

MONTREAL, QC -- July 20, 2008 -- Income Access, the leading affiliate network for the online gaming space, has just launched a new payment option that will change the way gaming affiliates receive their monthly revenues. Through this payment option, Income Access affiliates will be able to access their monthly revenues wherever the MasterCard® brand…

Free online slot machine site FreeSlot.com has announced that it has added new features to its slot tournaments and increased the size of its weekly prize pool. FreeSlot.com is operated by Anjouan-licensed SlotLand.com and runs free tournaments around-the-clock. It will now give away a total of nearly $10,000 a week with a top tournament prize…

Jim McDermott has introduced legislation attempting to legalise and regulate online casinos, poker and sports betting for US citizens – the income generated from online casinos (as much as $40 billion) could be used to school children in foster care, provide job training for declining industries and more, hence why it is called the Investing…