EGamingPulse

A source at Tribeca Tables has said that the company has laid off almost 30% of its first and second tier support staff. The firings were from UK and North American locations. The source said that “The remaining support staff is very busy. We are still servicing an unchanged level of poker ...

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Sportingbet, the London based publicly traded gaming company posted a first-quarter loss.

This came after taking a charge for a pre-emtive withdrawal from the United States ahead of a ban on Internet gambling. Sportingbet also said its executives would still avoid flying to and via the ...

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Online Gaming operation Bowmans has ceased US facing operations immediately. 

All of Bowmans’ US player accounts are being migrated to Bodog.com, where all existing wagers and account balances will stand. This is the second high-profile deal of this nature Bodog has brokered, after ...

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Johannesburg based daily The Citizen report that Online Gaming Operators and end users may face fines of up to R10 million (aprox.US$1.4 million) and 10 years in prison following a landmark ruling in the Pretoria High Court. At present the court ruling was applicable only to “casino-style ...

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James Giordano, a professional poker player, was ordered held without bail in Queens Criminal Court today after pleading not guilty on charges of running an online gambling operation.

Giordano was arrested and indicted along with 26 on charges of running a $3.3 billion online ...

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Keith Furlong, deputy director of the Vancouver, British Columbia-based Interactive Gaming Council has said that banning online gambling is counterproductive.

"While the bill sponsors may have good intentions, they're not protecting consumers," Furlong said. "They have ...

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In the wee hours of an early Saturday morning several weeks ago, about half an hour before Congress left for its pre-election recess, it passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. The act tries to bar credit-card payments to Internet gambling sites, and there has been ...

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UK online gambling industry fails to offer adequate customer service

Online gambling is set to exceed £5.2 billion this year — with 76 per cent of the UK’s 29 million internet users betting on a regular basis. An independent audit, by customer service specialist Talisma, of the 100 ...

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The perceived risk of holding Ladbrokes Plc debt rose after a report that the world's biggest publicly traded bookmaker may be taken over in a leveraged buyout, according to traders betting on the creditworthiness of companies in the credit-default swap market.

Contracts based on 10 ...

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British bookmaker Victor Chandler became the first major international bookmaker to be granted a gaming licence in Argentina. Their localised site www.VCapuestas.com.ar will launch later this month. A poker, and skill games offering will follow.

”There are strong gaming links in ...

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The British Broadcasting Commission has reported that as many as 5.8
million people in the UK visit online gambling sites every month. The
statistics were based on the period April to September of this year.
Nielsen/Net Ratings reported that in May there were more than ...

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Monte Weiner, 56, and Eric Weiner, 27,  stood before Queens Supreme Court Justice Stephen Knopf yesterday. Both were arraigned on enterprise corruption, promoting gambling, money laundering and other charges. Both are facing up to 25 years in prison and posted $1 million bail yesterday. Last ...

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If you ever travel Route 138 from the island of Montréal in the direction of Châteauguay, you would be forgiven if you missed spotting the world's 3rd largest online gaming jurisdiction. Plaza 138 is a sleepy, run-down strip mall, comprised of weather-board buildings with mostly ...

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Thai police yesterday arrested 11 people including two foreigner nationals, the Naewna a daily newspaper reports. They were apprehended for operating an online casino, something which is illegal in Thailand. They were apparently doing this in a building directly opposite the Bangkok Crime ...

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The detainment of two high-profile Online gaming executives made our industry collectively shudder. BetonSports’ CEO David Carruthers was arrested at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport while waiting for a connecting flight en route from the UK to Costa Rica in July. Executive assistants ...

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