The Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative, an advocacy group pressing for the legalisation and licensing of online gambling in the United States, reports that Congressman Barney Frank’s Reasonable Prudence in Regulation Act (HR2266) and Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection and Enforcement Act (HR 2267) will be the subject of further legislative hearings in the [...]

At least two legal experts have expressed doubts about the prospects for success of Kentucky’s latest legal wheeze trying to wring money from Full Tilt Poker and other online poker operators. Civil action 10-CI-505 claims that Full Tilt Poker owner Poker Kings and the other unknown defendants knowingly conducted commercial transactions, solicited money transfers, maintained [...]

The prospect of tourists attending the Euro 2012 football tournament matches in the Ukraine has generated renewed interest in establishing gambling operations in resort areas like the Crimea and Western Ukraine. It is understood that these regions will be exempt from the draconian bans against gambling established last year. Interfax-Ukraine reports that the regions will [...]

As first reported by Gambling911.com, the chief judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals has approved iMEGA’s request to have its petition to send iMEGA, et al v. Commonwealth immediately back to the state’s Supreme Court. The order, signed early Friday, allows the Supreme Court to now make a decision on the merits regarding the fate of [...]

The French state gambling monopoly Francaise des Jeux has announced its acquisition of LVS, a software provider and supplier to the French giant. The sale comes only months after FdesJ commissioned an online fixed odds sports betting platform from the software firm. Christophe Blanchard-Dignac, chief exec of FdesJ commented this week: “This is an important [...]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – (Associated Press) – MGM Mirage said Friday it will sell its 50 percent stake in Atlantic City’s top casino and stop doing business in New Jersey rather than cut ties with the family of an Asian casino mogul that the state felt was too closely linked with organized crime. The Las [...]

We consider online blackjack game as one of the most popular source of entertainment. But you will slowly lose your interest if you go on losing and realize that it is destroying your fund base. This game is one of the easiest way to learn but tough to master in real life. Moreover, this is [...]

Two more online gambling ventures have been taken over by stronger firms this past week. It was announced earlier in the week that 5Dimes.com had taken over the Sportbet/Island group of online betting shops, which had been looking for a buyer over the past number of years.  Sportsbet was among the first online sportsbooks to [...]

Senator Raymond J. Lesniak, D-Union, a leading voice in the State Legislature who is pursuing a legal challenge to the federal sports wagering ban as unconstitutional, issued the following statement after the Senate approved a resolution, SR19, through a voice vote, to allow the Senate President to join in that legal challenge:

      "In 1992, PASPA, [...]

The grand opening of the Resorts World Sentosa casino on the island city-state of Singapore drew record crowds. The new gaming facility, the first of its kind in the territory, brought in more than seventy-five thousand visitors as its opening coincided with the start of the Lunar New Year. In many Asian cultures, the start [...]