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 ]

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 ]

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Miller in San Diego denied a bid Thursday by lawyers for the company, Account Services Inc., and the Poker Players Alliance to return the money. On June 2, the US Attorney’s Office in Manhattan seized approximately $40 million in funds belonging to Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars, the two largest online poker rooms.  Some of that money was being transferred through Account Services, Inc. After filing a motion asking for return of the funds, the US Attorney’s Office issued an indictment against Account Services owner Douglas Rennick. Lawyers for the players contend prosecutors in the case  [ Read More ]

Online gambling and poker software company, Microgaming, once had a stellar reputation.  They are still a respected firm for the most part, but this year has been especially tough on the group beginning with the state of Kentucky singling out Micrograming in its efforts to seize some 141 online gambling domain names, an effort that failed thanks to a winning appeal by The Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association. The company has had its once impeccable reputation tarnished by licensee Grand Prive (Bella Vegas Casino), which decided to cut off all its "life time affiliate partners" and Microgaming has remained  [ Read More ]

  One of online poker‘s most aggressive players has been scooped up by a top online poker site. UltimateBet today announced that Billy Kopp, who finished 12th in the Main Event of this year’s World Series of Poker, has signed on to join UltimateBet’s Team UB, a group of successful poker pros that includes Phil Hellmuth, Annie Duke and some of the most respected online poker players in the industry. In just a few short years, Kopp has earned over $2.6 million in both online poker games and in land-based tournaments. In the Main Event of the 2009 World Series  [ Read More ]

The still restrictive laws on offering online gambling to Italians could be in for a more enlightened remake, industry observers are speculating. And it could happen before the end of 2009. The reason behind the optimism is a recent slew of Italian “crisis legislation” proposals prompted by tough economic conditions and natural disasters this year, which have increased the need for additional tax revenues. However, anticipation should be moderated by the fact that the national regulator, the AAMS, has yet to make any formal announcements on what is and is not allowed, and when implementation might take place. The speculation  [ Read More ]