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Income Access Nominated for A4U Affliliate Maketing Award

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Rewarding excellence and innovation in affiliate marketing, the A4U Awards has announced its shortlist for this year's event in June. Nominees will compete across 16 categories, 9 of which will be judged by a panel of experienced affiliate marketing practitioners. Income Access, the leading independent affiliate network and affiliate software solution, moreover, has won a nomination for the Gaming and Casino Category.

“We are thrilled that the Income Access affiliate software and network has been nominated for the Gaming and Casino Category Award, along other upstanding nominees.” said Nicky Senyard, CEO of Income Access. “For 7 years, now, we've been dedicated to building profitable relationships in the gaming affiliate marketing community, and appreciated this recognition of our commitment.”

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William Hill Online Bingo Ad Banned by ASA

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The UK advertising regulator has banned a TV campaign by William Hill for breaking betting advertising rules by featuring a woman who was “desperate” to gamble and was hiding it from her family.

The William Hill ad promoting the company's online bingo opened with a man and a woman in a kitchen at breakfast time. The woman hurries the man to work by winding the clock forward to make him think he is late for work.

“I get mine the minute he's out the door,” the woman says. She then runs upstairs and logs on to William Hill bingo.

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Celebrating 30 Years of Gambling in Atlantic City

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Fireworks and skydivers were seen floating over Atlantic City this weekend as Resorts International rolled out the red carpet to celebrate 30 years of gambling at the Jersey Shore. The celebration comes with nostalgic enthusiasm, but also some nagging worries about the future of gaming in Atlantic City.

When the bells of those first slot machines rang out across Resorts, Atlantic City heard the sound of silver rolling out into giant piles of cash. On May 26, 1978, what was once a worn, seaside resort with a famous boardwalk and pier became a town with glittering possibilities. Steve Callendar, who is now a senior vice president of Resorts, was in that first class of dealers. Callendar remembers walking down the famous Boardwalk with 500 other newly minted dealers, with thousands of people lining their path.

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South Africa Parliament Approves Internet Gambling Law

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South Africa’s Parliament approved a new internet gambling law to regulate an industry plagued by crime and vulnerable to money laundering and terrorism financing, parliamentary papers showed today.

A memorandum attached to the National Gambling Amendment Bill said the interactive gambling industry was currently unregulated and “generally plagued” by crime. “This situation has resulted in a considerable loss of revenue to the national fiscus and compromises the country's reputation as a responsible global citizen,” it said.

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Parlay Entertainment Bingo Software Nominated for Awards

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Parlay Entertainment Inc., the world's leading supplier of Internet and TV bingo software solutions, has been nominated for two awards that recognise excellence in bingo software in the lead up to the first-ever Online Bingo Awards. The awards take place in conjunction with the Annual Online Bingo Summit in London, June 17 and 18.

Parlay has been nominated in the Best Online Bingo Software category for its industry-leading product, Parlay 4, and in the Best Online Bingo Innovation category for its patent-pending side game, BingoBets. The nominations were suggested by a panel of seven recognized industry experts who selected the categories and chose the nominees for each category.

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Player at Casino Tropez Wins over €550,000 on Gold Rally Jackpot

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The multi award winning online casino, Casino Tropez reports another major progressive jackpot winner. Yves G. of France recently won a grand total of €587,314 on the ever popular 8-line progressive slot machine, Gold Rally. Yves had placed a €16 wager when he won over half a million Euros, within just 30 minutes of logging into the online casino.

Yves is just one of many recent big winners at Casino Tropez in what has been an unprecedented run of big progressive wins. One happy Casino Tropez member won €68,865 on the Dollar Ball progressive, while another member scooped almost €52,884 on the Magic Slots progressive. A few weeks prior to that another two other lucky Casino Tropez members won their share of €577,174 in progressive jackpots on the slot machines, Lotto Madness and Gold Rally.

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Casino Affiliate Convention to be Held in Moscow

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Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. announces its first Eastern European Casino Affiliate Convention taking place June 7-8, 2008 in Moscow, Russia. It is a business event on internet marketing and advertising methods for the casino, poker, bingo and sportsbook industry for Eastern European nations and languages.

Affiliate managers in the gaming industry have taken notice that a higher percentage of affiliates from Eastern Europe tend to perform better and are more likely to be high revenue producing affiliates (known as Super Affiliates) than affiliates from other regions.

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888 Gaming Revenue Rises Again

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Online gaming firm 888 said on Wednesday the first quarter of 2008 started well with a 38% rise in net gaming revenue and growth has continued into the second quarter, driven mainly by casino and bingo games.

It said net gaming revenue, a key performance indicator, rose to $64 million from $47 million in the same period of 2007 and was up 3 percent on the previous quarter. Last month, Chief Executive Gigi Levy said he hoped the company would achieve 30% revenue growth for the full year, helped by its new sports betting and bingo sites.

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Charles Barkley Owes $400k to Vegas Casino?

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Retired NBA star Charles Barkley has acknowledged he owes a $400,000 gambling debt to a Las Vegas casino and promised Thursday to repay it after a prosecutor said he faced criminal charges.

“My mistake,” Barkley said in an interview at a pro-am golf tournament in Hoover, Ala. “I’m not broke, and I’m going to take care of it.”

Barkley was responding to comments by the Clark County district attorney, David Roger, who said prosecutors would file a criminal complaint if he did not pay the debt cited by the Wynn Las Vegas resort.

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Press Release: World Series of Poker Announces Enhancement to 2008 Main Event Final Table Format

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Continuing the trailblazing efforts that have made the WSOP the industry standard, this move is being made in close collaboration with ESPN, the television rightsholder of the WSOP, and the WSOP Players Advisory Council (PAC), the commissioner-appointed committee of professional and amateur poker players who provide guidance and perspective to the WSOP leadership team.

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