Online Gambling Press

Even though it’s all about football right now, nobody can forget that the WSOP was just a couple months ago and the final table will be here before we know it.  I had the opportunity to sit down with a Dream Team Poker player who gave me his take on team poker events.  Dan Michalski from my favorite website after Gambling911.com and Swingular.com, Pokerati.com, was on the winning team, Team Tao, along with Paul McGuire and Lana Maier.   JENNY:  How was it playing in the first WSOP Dream Team Poker event?  DAN:  Good times.  Seriously, it was a well-run tournament  [ Read More ]

Costa Rica-licensed online casino RomeCasino.com has revealed that one lucky player has walked away with $60,000 after hitting it big on its Crazy Pizza three-reel slots game. Online player ‘Ruth K’ revealed that she had taken out a bank loan of the same amount last winter to help pay for a house renovation along with her daughter’s medical bills after the youngster had been involved in a traffic accident over the summer. “I thought I’d be paying off interest on this loan for the rest of my life and that I may never get around to paying it off completely,”  [ Read More ]

Representative Barney Frank has introduced legislation that would overturn the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. Rep. Frank has received growing support for the Bill from lawmakers, and he is also receiving support from outside of Congress. The Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative has launched an advertising campaign aimed at convincing lawmakers to end the prohibition on Internet gambling. The campaign is being used to educate people in the US on the dangers associated with millions of Americans gambling online in an unregulated industry. “As Congress searches for ways to pay for health care reform and other worthy programs,” said  [ Read More ]

The internationally famous – and now professionally retired – Aussie cricketer Shane Warne will be on Australian television screens in a poker role soon following a 888.com marketing move exploiting the interest in the recent England vs. Australia Ashes test cricket series. Shane Warne’s Poker Ashes will be the first major poker television show of its type broadcast on network television Downunder, a 888.com spokesman has claimed. The show was filmed in London during the recent Ashes test match confrontations between the two national cricket teams. The show will have a series of five episodes, first flighting on the Nine  [ Read More ]

In case you missed it on Tuesday, the folks from Smart-Live’s online gambling affiliate program addressed concerns over the recent "suspension" of said program here at Gambling911.com.  We were among the first to report on this situation and will continue to monitor it. From Smart-Alive: "We deeply regret that many of you are so disappointed. Whilst we quite expected this response, some clarifications need to be made on our part to ensure that we are communicating our position as effectively as possible. First of all, we want to reassure everybody that the Smart-live affiliate program has not shut down -as  [ Read More ]

There was a time early on in the Bush Administration when Attorney General John Ashcroft was considered among the biggest enemies of online gambling.  Many believe it was he who got the ball rolling to quash the industry.  Investigations were begun on his watch though the resulting prosecutions came much later after he had left office.  Yael T. Abouhalkah, a Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist described Ashcroft states that: "The cases involving Ashcroft, Missouri’s ex-governor, will get plenty of media attention. Democrats and liberals have been calling for former Bush administration officials to be held accountable for their actions  [ Read More ]

BOSTON (AP) – Internet poker fans won’t be getting a chance to push for a ballot question legalizing the game. Attorney General Martha Coakley ruled Wednesday that the initiative didn’t meet the legal requirements to secure a place on next year’s ballot. Also barred were two mortgage modification proposals and a question requiring a certain percentage of the state budget go to local aid. Dozens of other questions – including a proposal to eliminate tolls, several questions to roll back the state income tax, a question to require whale-safe commercial fishing and a proposal to lift the state cap on  [ Read More ]