The Chinese Ministry of Culture announced Saturday that the country’s first regulation specifically governing the marketing of Internet gaming and gambling will take effect Sunday, claiming that the laws are necessary to protect the nation’s children from ‘unwholesome content and Internet addiction’. BNO News reports that the legislation was issued by the Ministry on June [...]

Two of the largest online gambling companies announced Thursday that a merger has been planned between the two entities. PartyGaming and Bwin Interactive Entertainment will be combining to become the world’s biggest publicly traded Internet gambling company. Both PartyGaming and Bwin are full blown gambling sites, incorporating online casinos, sports betting, and online poker. Read [...]

To even the casual observer, it should be apparent that the global online gambling industry is growing. After all, we are seeing nations overturn gambling bans, other nations do away with gambling monopolies, and new online casinos spring up all over the place. Just how much the industry is growing, though, exceeds even my estimates. [...]

The excitement was heating up at the 2010 World Series of Poker with noted pro Johnny Chan looking to tie Phil Hellmuth’s record number of WSOP bracelets:  11 In 2005, Chan became the first player to win ten World Series of Poker titles, defeating Phil Laak in a Texas hold ‘em event. He is currently [...]

Poker Cards Over the past couple of years, the online gambling industry, which is comprised largely of online poker and online casino sites, has been concerned about how the rules of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act would affect business. Read the full post >>

One of the biggest names in online poker, Tom "Durrrr" Dwan, was dangerously close to being eliminated from the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event Wednesday evening.  Dwan was down to a 6500 chip count by the 7 pm PST hour.  Dwan is known as a maniacal gambler online who often places side [...]

The tiny Caribbean island nation of Antigua plans to take sanctions against the United States in its quest to have full compliance of a World Trade Organization decision on Internet gambling.  To date, the US government and local law enforcement continue to aggressively go after online gambling entities operating outside the States.  Antigua claimed that [...]