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Welcome to Bet Sages Gambling News Section, featuring the latest breaking
gambling industry news courtesy of InfoPowa News. This is your one stop source for
all and any of the latest developments concerning leisure based wagering
activities on the internet.
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| 01 SEPTEMBER 2006 : HEADLINES |
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It's a gamble - trying to reduce opposition to an online gambling ban by sliding around the exemptions issue
Whilst there are doubts that U.S. legislators will have enough time and support in the current Congressional season to get the latest attempt to prohibit online gambling approved, the Las Vegas Gaming Wire made some cautionary points on the issue this week.
In an article which took an objective look at the previously abortive US banning attempts (there have been six of these in the past decade) the Wire reports that prospects appear bleak that the Senate will pass a prohibition bill when it returns after Labour Day for the final weeks of the 109th session of Congress.
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Baptist spokesman in the U.S. wants to see "a more moral, healthy, God-honoring nation"
The Baptist Press focused on the legislation facing a reconvened U.S. Congress this week, looking toward the resumption of legislative activity on September 5 and describing legislation supported by pro-life and pro-family Americans as "...hanging in the balance." The prohibition of Internet gambling is one of the legislative items that the religious right wants to see banned, apparently.
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As Rep. Leach embarks on a field hearing in Iowa, the PPA lets rip at online gambling ban proposal
The 100 000 strong Poker Players' Alliance is pretty smart at choosing the right timeframes for its attacks on the proposed bans on Internet gambling in the USA. This week it synchronised its latest blast to precede a field hearing scheduled for Iowa by one of the bans proposers, Rep. Jim Leach.
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Chartwell Technology and Parlay Entertainment agree to merge
Two gambling software developers and providers in Canada have agreed to the latest industry merger this week. Chartwell Technology Inc. and Parlay Entertainment Inc. intend to combine their businesses and talents as agreed in a binding letter of intent (LOI) executed on Aug. 30, 2006.
The merger will combine two significant international software providers in the Internet-gaming arena with a compatible customer base, complementary product offerings and identical business models, to better compete on the global stage.
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Hours of online casino fun and great opportunities for reward in latest game releases
Blackjack fans at King Neptune's Casino (www.kingneptunescasino.com) and Trident Lounge Casino (www.tridentloungecasino.com) will surely greet Trident's just released Gold Series Volume 2 games with enthusiasm. With 4 variations of the popular blackjack genre, all brilliantly crafted with imagination, cutting edge technology and gambling tradition, the Gold Series is set to define new quality levels in online gambling table games.
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Wireless developer issues an open invitation to play on new promotional website
Diamond I, Inc., a developer of wireless gaming products, including the WifiCasino wireless hand-held gaming system, announced this week that it has launched a new, interactive website to offer visitors a chance to try out the same slots, roulette, blackjack and poker as will be available on the company's GS2 wireless gambling device. The trials will be "for entertainment purposes only" the company emphasises.
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European Commission assured that Dutch government is playing it by the book
The Dutch government has reiterated its view that its policy on gambling does not violate EU rules, according to a report this week in NIS News. Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner briefed the Dutch parliamentary Lower House on his response this week.
Donner sent the letter in response to criticism from European Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy, who expressed strong reservations about the Dutch gambling monopoly in a letter written in April. McCreevy opined that the Dutch are not in compliance with the free traffic of services because the Netherlands government allows only state company Holland Casino to operate casinos.
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Luxury goods and cash receipts impounded.
Reports in the San Antonio press this week claim that local police searched a home owned by Richard Lee, the recent winner of nearly $3 million at the World Series of Poker, for evidence of an extensive illegal Internet gambling operation.
"This operation is the largest here in San Antonio," the publication quotes local police spokesman Joe Rios, who confirmed the search warrant was served on a Shavano Park home in the 100 block of Geddington Street.
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Geneva panel to decide whether the U.S. is compliant with earlier WTO rulings
Next Monday could be crunch day for the United States in its long-running World Trade Organisation dispute with Antigua and Barbuda over internet gambling bans (see previous InfoPowa bulletins)
A WTO three member panel will meet in Geneva next week to determine if U.S. legislation is compliant with an earlier WTO decision in an online gaming dispute with Antigua and Barbuda. The panel meeting begins the next stage of Antigua & Barbuda's protracted Internet gaming dispute with the United States.
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Remarkable turnround by Aussie betting group, and expansive plans for the future
Australian online gambling group Centrebet International Limited has turned a loss of $2 million in 2004-2005 into a net profit for the year of $2.798 million in its latest financial results.
The company, which debuted on the Australian Stock Exchange in July posted an annual result ahead of its own forecasts and reported a good start to the year.
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Treasury publishes guidance plan for poker
If you were worrying about the tax implications of that big poker tournament win you enjoyed in the United States, the U.S. Treasury has a plan for you according to a report carried in Card Player magazine this week.
The magazine discusses the August 15 publication of the U.S. Treasury's 2006-2007 Priority Guidance Plan, which includes a list of 264 tax projects scheduled for implementation within the next 12 months. Four final regulations listed within the tax administration section include a project on revenue procedures regarding withholding rules applicable to poker tournaments.
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This year's 888.com UK Poker Open to be broadcast daily on Challenge TV
Online poker players looking for a sponsored seat in the 2006 UK Poker Open championships can still qualify through 888.com satellite tournaments on the Internet every Sunday, the gambling group announced this week.
The championships commence in Maidstone, England on September 5 through to October 8, but players still have the opportunity to earn a place through Internet play for a modest $100 plus $5 buy-in. The site also offers free daily super satellites where players can win their way into the Sunday qualifier.The last qualifier for the U.K. Poker Open will be September 17.
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Two seasons of coverage for top blackjack players and ordinary joes vying for a million dollars
Move over, poker here comes blackjack could be the cry from US television broadcaster CBS which this week announced a two season commitment to screening a major blackjack oriented TV show titled Ultimate Blackjack Tour.
The first season of the show starts September 16 at 2.00pm Eastern time, with a second season scheduled to run in the Spring of 2007.
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Leading UK spread betting group to join network
Sporting Index, a major spread betting company that holds some 70 percent of the UK market has chosen Tribeca Tables as its online poker software and network provider of choice, signing a deal this week.
Founded in 1992, Sporting Index has established itself as the UK market leader in the sports spread betting sector. The company covers 28 000 sporting events a year, has approximately 45 000 customers and takes over 3 million bets annually.
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Pokerzade.com stays silent as LGA publicly denounces its licensing claim
The Lotteries and Gaming Authority which oversees online gambling licensing on the Mediterranean island of Malta is clearly determined to turn the spotlight on false claimants to its license.
This week the LGA publicly denounced the Turkish language online poker site Pokerzade.com for making a false claim that it carries a Malta remote gambling license.
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Football and snooker the themes for new video slots
Major online casino operator 888.com has followed up on the success of previous sports-linked new slots by releasing two more themed video slot games developed by the in-group software company Random-Logic.
The games, Top Spin Snooker and Goals of Gold, are available on the downloadable Casino-on-Net software program.
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Horse racing simulator can handicap races
Advantage Sports Betting has released a new betting product branded Virtual Horse Racing targeted on sports bettors who enjoy virtual horse racing on PCs and laptops using this sort of lifelike racing simulator.
The virtual horse races are based on an advanced software engine that gives bettors the ability to handicap the races.
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Women players take refuge from World Cup at Cyberslotz
It may be a coincidence, but the UK online bingo site Cyberslotz.co.uk has recorded a 30 percent upswing in business - mainly from female players - over the past 8 weeks during which mainly male attention has been focused on the World Cup.
There were more gamers who enjoyed longer playing times and were predominantly female over the two months, the company reveals in a press release this week.
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11 new game titles feature in v.6.1
Online casino software developer and turnkey provider RealTime Gaming has continued its competitive software release schedule for 2006 with the introduction of the new version 6.1 of its popular online gaming software platform. Version 6.1 marks the second release of 2006, with one more release scheduled before years end.
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Action Poker Gaming signs up Legendz online gambling group
Vancouver - based Las Vegas From Home.com Entertainment Inc. (LVFH) online poker software will soon be providing exciting action at the Legendz Gaming Corporation operator group online poker venue The Pig.com following a licensing deal signed this week between LVFH subsidiary Action Poker Gaming and the gambling operator.
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When land facilities in the remote Mong La area of Myanmar (formally Burma) close, an alternative rises....
Live-over-the-Internet gambling services accessible by Chinese online gamblers are taking shape in a remote Myanmar region close to China, reports the Asia Times Online this week.
The new facilities are the brainchild of the local warlord and are centred around the 'mini-Vegas' town of Mong La in Special Region 4, formerly a fave for Chinese folks with a gambling itch that needed scratching. Situated opposite the town of Dalou in China's Yunnan province, Mong La in the 1990s established itself as a Chinese tourism hub for gambling, but times have been hard for the past year or more following fierce Chinese clampdowns on citizens visiting the jungle casinos.
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Classy and understated
The owners of the latest online casino to be launched with Realtime Gaming software seem to have done a lot of research before putting the site together, and the result at VIP Lounge Casino.com bears witness to their diligence.
The presentation of the theme successfully conveys an ambience of luxury, opulence, elegance and class and is very professionally executed on a site that has plenty of upfront information and is easy to navigate.
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British gambling group becomes a key partner with new contract
Coral.co.uk is the latest major gambling company to become a key partner of Premier Rugby and the Guinness Premiership as a result of a contract that will see the company backing rugby at professional club level for the next two years.
The online betting and gaming company has followed its title sponsorship of the Middlesex Sevens earlier this month with confirmation this week that it has secured a ground-breaking sponsorship deal that involves branding on the reverse of all the Guinness Premiership clubs playing shirts. The branding will be incorporated as part of the number patch, providing a link between numbers, statistics and betting.
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CDM Fantasy Sports makes Fun the biggest fantasy sports provider in North America
Fun Technologies, the Canadian skill gaming and fantasy sports provider headed by Lorne Abony has acquired another prime property for its expanding group of companies.
The latest acquisition is CDM Fantasy Sports, a St Louis-based operator with a strong emphasis on baseball. Company spokesmen claimed that the deal makes FunTech the largest fantasy sports provider in North America.
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Counsel for poker group say's top players' case is misleading and without merit, and places WPT at a disadvantage
World Poker Tour group's legal counsel filed the company's first response this week in an interesting case brought by leading poker players who claim that the WPT tournament agreements place them at a personal and business disadvantage (see previous InfoPowa bulletins)
WPT has hired top legal councel in Makan Delrahim of the Washington D.C. law firm of Brownstein, Hyatt and Farber, working in conjunction with Gibson Dunn and Crutcher. In his 22 page response (which can be read in full at www.media.worldpokertour.com) Delrahim suggests that any of the players involved in the litigation that are affiliated with, or participate in the business decision making process of an online poker room are putting the WPT at an unfair advantage.
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Is poker a game of skill or chance?
A Durham, North Carolina businessmen has put the skill vs chance argument surrounding the game of poker back under the microscope by launching litigation that challenges a previous ruling by a local judge.
In the ruling, the judge found that poker was a game of chance and consequently it was illegal in terms of state law when betting was involved, but Durham businessman Howard Fierman contests this in a case now before the state Court of Appeals.
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Jamie Gold 'disappointed' that litigant chose to file suit instead of negotiating a resolution
The 2006 World Series of Poker champion, Jamie Gold issued a statement over the weekend regarding litigation launched by Bruce Crispin Leyser, who claims that he has voicemail messages and other evidence on an pre-main event agreement with Gold to share half of his $12 million winnings in return for recruiting celebrities to endorse Gold's sponsors, the Bodog group.
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WSOP champion alleged to have confirmed 50-50 deal before the main event took place
The British television producer resident in Vegas who is suing current World Series of Poker champion Jamie Gold for half his $12 million in winnings has claimed in his suit that on the day before the final table began Gold left a telephone message assuring him that their deal was good.
Gold's accuser is a man named Bruce Crispin Leyser, who claims that he has voicemail messages and other evidence on an agreement with Gold to share half his winnings in return for recruiting celebrities to endorse Gold's sponsors, the Bodog group.
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US player wins the Gold Rally jackpot
The latest instant Internet multi-millionaire is DianeB from Georgia in the USA, who hit the Playtech Gold Rally progressive jackpot at the 32 Vegas.com online casino this week.
Good luck seems focused around the state, as earlier this month a King Neptune's player and fellow Georgian hit the Microgaming Major Millions progressive for a $362 745.20 jackpot on a total wager of only $18!
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Quick reference guide for upcoming events
CAC - Casino Affiliates Conference in Las Vegas 14 September 2006.
Poker and Beyond '06 scheduled for London 13 - 14 September 2006.
EiG - European Gaming Congress in Barcelona 11 to 13 October 2006
G2E - Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas 13 - 14 November 2006.
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The Mobile Gambling, Gaming & Lotteries Summit
Diarise October 3 - 4 for The Mobile Gambling, Gaming & Lotteries Summit in Montreal, the summit that will show you how to get the most out of the iGaming market in North America.
With recent shifts in US legislation concerning "over the wire gaming" there has never been a better time to assess your mobile operations in North America. You will hear from more than 30 mobile gambling industry leaders in North America including 777Mobile, Ongame, Progressive Gaming, PhantomFiber, ImpactMobile and more!
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