EGamingPulse

NY POST
Internet gambling sites, beaten back by a federal crackdown, are flexing their marketing muscles again.
The industry, which is legal in Britain and elsewhere overseas, is promoting online gambling and sports betting in plain view of the U.S. public, flouting federal ...

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LA Times
Ruth Parasol has made a fortune selling vice to the masses.
Through phone sex, then Web porn and most recently online poker, the 38-year-old lawyer has leveraged a succession of new technologies to become a self-made billionaire whose net worth rivals those of Internet ...

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Boston Globe 
Michael Corfman believes he knows when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em.
That's why the 52-year-old entrepreneur is betting he can win a court battle with the Justice Department.
Corfman's website and assorted directories and almanacs make his business something ...

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NY POST
Oddjack, the Gawker Media Web site devoted to exploring "the future of gambling," is folding its hand and joining the great blog in the sky. Citing lackluster readership, Gawker blog tycoon Nick Denton, announced earlier this week that Oddjack would shut down by the ...

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Columnist Jeff Haney: Why some people in the gaming industry don't like playing favorites
LAS VEGAS SUN
Don't tell veteran bookmaker Jimmy Vaccaro that this season has been christened the "year of the favorite" in NFL betting.
Or
that a gambler who bet every ...

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NY TIMES
A no-limit hold `em tournament, which continues until one player has all the chips, is the form of poker that most lavishly rewards an aggressive approach. Not surprisingly, the most successful demographic group, including 7 of the top 10 in the Card Player rankings, are men in ...

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Las Vegas Review-Journal
Wireless technology and hand-held gadgetry may take betting to open areas on casino grounds
After investing millions of research dollars into developing a wireless hand-held device for bond and securities traders, executives from Cantor Fitzgerald LP, a New ...

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Las Vegas Sun
Thang "Kido" Pham, a native of Vietnam who has kept his profession a secret from his parents because they don't approve of gambling, won the top prize of $453,456 in the World Series of Poker Circuit tournament that concluded Tuesday at Bally's.
Including ...

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Coral Eurobet, the European sportsbook and gaming operator, announced on 23 November it was joining the Ongame poker network.
Further to PartyGaming announcing its poker software platform switch in early October, Coral Eurobet had subsequently said it would leave the PartyGaming network ...

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PartyGaming dismissed outright the chances of Empire Online’s threatened legal action over the former’s recent decision regarding its ‘skins’ meeting with any success. John Shepherd, director of corporate communications at PartyGaming, said Empire was “clutching at straws” after it had ...

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www.thelocal.se
Swedish state-owned gambling monopoly Svenska Spel has been given the go-ahead by the government to start an internet poker service.
But Deputy Prime Minister Bosse Ringholm said that Svenska Spel would not be allowed to run internet casinos or betting exchanges.

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Las Vegas Sun
The popularity of parlay cards among Las Vegas sports bettors continues to thrive.
In the most recent 12-month period that included last year's football season, gamblers in Nevada wagered about $60 million on parlay cards -- those brightly colored betting tickets that ...

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Despite the U.S. government's efforts to keep online gambling advertising from seeing the light of television, media companies are beginning to fight back, and the I-gaming industry may be better for it.
In 2003, the Department of Justice sent letters to various members of the ...

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XFN-Asia
INTERNET firm Philweb Corp. said its contract with UK betting company BETonSPORTS PLC to offer online sports betting here has been approved by the state-run Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp.
The deal covers betting on all sports except soccer, PhilWeb said in a disclosure ...

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Daily Mail
IT'S not everyone's cup of tea but there were plenty of buyers around to help PartyGaming show the rest of the Footsie a clean pair of heels. It closed 7p higher at 106p on hefty turnover of 77m as the market heaved a huge sigh of relief that it has terminated acrimonious bid ...

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