Gambling News
Sheldon Adelson Done With Newt Gingrich: ‘He’s at the End of His Line’ (Video)
In an interview featured on the Jewish Journal Thursday, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson essentially said that Newt Gingrich’s campaign to become the GOP US Presidential nominee is over.
Mega Millions Jackpot Now Stands at Record $540 Million
Good news: The Mega Millions Jackpot has yet to hit and is now up to a record $540 million.
Foxwoods $2 Billion Debt, FBI Probe
(Associated Press) - - For two decades, the Mashantucket Pequots lived like Indian gambling royalty. Luxury cars abounded on their tiny, gated reservation of colonial and ranch-style homes in the woods of southeastern Connecticut.
EPT Campione 2012 Day 3 Chip Leader Board
Hungarian PokerStars player Balazs Botond has a massive lead at EPT Campione going into Day 3. Botond has 646,000 with EPT Tallinn winner Ronny Kaiser currently second with 505,900. Botond's best EPT result so far was 13th place at EPT Vienna last season for €26,000.
Among the 99 players who will be coming back tomorrow are Team PokerStars Pros Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and Liv Boeree. EPT San Remo champion Boeree enjoyed an amazing comeback today - from just 8,000 after the second level of the day to more than 300,000 tonight.
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Florida Derby 2012 Betting Odds
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Irish Poker Open 2012 to Get Underway 6-9 April
The Irish Poker Open 2012 main event gets underway at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin 6-9 April and all of Europe is abuzz with excitement.
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JetBlue Pilot Talked About ‘Sins in Las Vegas’ Before Diversion (Video)
JetBlue Airways captain Clayton Osbon’s erratic behavior Tuesday that forced Flight 191 en route to Las Vegas to make an emergency stopover in Amarillo, Texas included rants about the “Sins in Las Vegas”.
"We're not going to Vegas," Osbon said.
Judge Won’t Accept Guilty Plea in Online Poker Case
Just one day after banker John Campos entered into a guilty plea connected to the processing of payments for three large online poker rooms, a judge has disallowed the guilty plea.
Casino Hires Robert De Niro as Celebrity Flack
You talkin' to me?
A casino in South Korea hopes you'll be listening!
The Paradise Walker-Hill Casino in Seoul, South Korea, has announced that it has hired actor Robert De Niro to serve as a paid celebrity spokesman for the casino.
The casino, which is South Korea's oldest and is open to foreigners only--meaning no South Koreans are allowed in--is located in the Sheraton Walker-Hill Hotel, a luxury hotel in Seoul that is popular with tourists and foreign business people.
Some Forms of Internet Gambling Could Take Place in Delaware
Delaware Governor Jack Markell said on Wednesday that an expansion of gambling in his small state is possible, include Internet gambling.
Delaware's Gaming Competitiveness Act of 2012 is the piece of legislation in question.
From NewsWorks.org:
Tribes Opposed to Some Language in California Internet Poker Bill
A bill to legalize Internet poker in the state of California is meeting some resistance from state tribes.
Last month, the California Tribal Business Alliance issued the following statement:
PPA Applauds the Fraternal Order of Police for Its Support of Regulating U.S. Online Poker
The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide, today applauded the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) for publicly expressing their support of a regulated U.S. online poker market.
Merge Gaming Expected to Take Over Number 7 Spot Next Week
Merge Gaming, which has been clinging onto the number 8 spot of most trafficked online poker rooms in the world for the past few months, is likely to become the 7th largest as early as next week.
Merge and Winamax.fr were essentially in a dead heat for the number 7 spot though Winamax’s 24 hour peak traffic was still greater than that of the Merge network, which hosts a handful of Gambling911.com sponsor card rooms including Lock Poker, Carbon Poker, PDC and Aced.com.
Alderney Gaming Control Commission Publishes External Review of Full Tilt Poker
The Alderney Gaming Control Commission (AGCC) has published an independent external review of its investigation leading up to the revocation of Full Tilt Poker’s license last summer.
Full Tilt Poker was named in a US-Government indictment April 15, 2011. Executives from the beleaguered firm were charged with money laundering and bank fraud. Accounts connected to FTP were frozen. The company has not paid customers for nearly a year now.
Betfair to Introduce New Brand: Enters Fixed-Odds Market
The world’s largest betting exchange, Betfair, has announced its intention to enter the lucrative fixed-odds market.
Sportingbet Enters Partnership With Foxwoods Resort Casino
Sportingbet is now in advanced discussions with land-based operator Foxwoods Resort Casino about providing it with an online platform for intrastate poker and casino games over the coming months, such as in Connecticut, as part of a joint venture, according to a report in This Is London.
888.com Reports Full Year Earnings Nearly Doubling
(Reuters) - British online gaming company 888 Holdings' full-year earnings nearly doubled, helped by strong growth of its casino and poker offering, and the company named Brian Mattingley as chief executive.
The company, which operates 888 casino, poker, sport and bingo brands, said it planned to invest in several newly regulated markets across Europe and the United States.
More Britons prefer to stay at home, watching TV and gambling online, updates from consumer-facing companies showed, amid fears that the UK will slip back into recession.
Substance Abuse Linked More Heavily to Internet Gambling
A new study published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, has attempted to link Internet gambling with substance abuse and the findings are staggering. This is Jagajeet Chiba reporting for Gambling911.com.
Second Man Pleads Guilty to Charges Related to Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars Indictment
John Campos, the former vice-chairman of a Utah bank that processed payments for online poker firms Full Tilt.
Poker, UB.com and PokerStars has plead guilty to a single misdemeanor charge
Daniel Negreanu: ‘I’d Rather Teach My Kids Poker Over Chess’
Outspoken poker pro Daniel Negreanu didn’t mince words when he tweeted in regard to why he would teach his kids how to play poker over chess. No it’s not about the money that can be won playing poker.
I'd rather teach my kids poker over chess so they can learn a more diverse skill set, improving math and social skills.
Negreanu’s social skills have sometimes come into question. Just two weeks ago, he referred to Full Tilt Poker head Ray Bitar as a “weasel”. In the past he has called female poker pro Annie Duke a “c***”.
WMS Industries Latest to Apply for Nevada Internet Poker License
Casino game maker WMS Industries announced Tuesday it has applied for an Internet gambling license in the state of Nevada. The Silver State became the first to legalize intrastate online poker for real money with the potential to expand beyond its borders should federal legislation be passed.
Sportingbet Looking to Re-enter US Market After Paying Fine to US Government
Reuters was reporting that Sportingbet, one of Europe’s biggest online gambling firms, has made a final payment of $6 million to the U.S. Justice Department, as per a settlement reached in 2010 over alleged illegal Internet gambling, and said that it was exploring opportunities to re-enter the market.
Sportingbet to Appeal Spanish Injunction
* Expects licence from Spanish gaming regulator by May 25
(Reuters) - British online gaming firm Sportingbet Plc said it would appeal an injunction against it sought by Spanish casino group Codere, aimed at restricting online betting and gaming in that country.
In December, the Spanish company had sought several injunctions against companies operating in the online betting and gaming industry citing unfair competition before licences under new laws were about to be issued.
San Francisco Murder Victims Identified: Suspect was Supposed to Have Been Deported
San Francisco medical examiner identified five victims in a grizzly early Friday morning slaying as Hua Shun Lei, 65, and Wan Yi Xi, 62, who were married, and their children Vincent Lei, 32, and Ying Xue Lei, 37. The other victim was Chia Huei Chu, 30, the girlfriend of Vincent Lei. All were found brutally murdered in an Ingleside district home.
Davide Andreoni Leads 2012 EPT Campione Day1a
178 players have taken part in the 2012 European Poker Tour Campione, an event held in a small town that borders Switzerland and Italy. Campione is both an Italian enclave and a Swiss territory.
It’s an interesting little town that takes advantage of its EU VAT exempt status by operating a famous the Casinò di Campione, as gambling laws are less stringent than in either Italy or Switzerland (also a legacy of the pre-World War II era).
Relative unknown Davide Andreoni led the EPT Campione event after Day 1a.
Chad Elie Pleads Guilty in Full Tilt Poker, Black Friday Case
(Bloomberg) - Chad Elie, a Las Vegas man who processed payments for online poker companies, pleaded guilty to a scheme to deceive banks into processing hundreds of millions of dollars in Internet gambling transactions.
Elie, 32, was one of one of 11 people charged last April by prosecutors in the office of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in a revised indictment against the founders of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker.
Oh The Irony: Rick Santorum Banner Ads Appearing on Poker Site
GOP Presidential candidate Rick Santorum is opposed to pornography, contraception, heavy metal music and most forms of gambling, especially the Web kind, yet shockingly his banners began appearing on the popular TwoPlusTwo.com poker forum in recent weeks, right along side a thread questioning why members of that forum should be asked to support someone who supports Internet poker prohibition (which is precisely what the tower banner we saw was asking the forum community to do)
Gambling Debt May be at Center of Brutal San Francisco Quintuple Murder
Authorities in San Francisco now believe that a gambling debt could be the motive for a brutal quintuple murder that occurred in the Ingleside district Friday morning (March 23, 2012).
Laurent Tapie Relocates to Dublin to ‘Take Over Full Tilt Poker’
Laurent Tapie, the man behind the supposed deal to acquire shuttered Full Tilt Poker, has reportedly moved to that company’s Dublin base where he will reopen FTP for European players. Tapie’s firm, Group Bernard Tapie, operates out of France.
Full Tilt Poker is now going on one year owing customers millions of dollars after it had several bank accounts seized by US authorities. An indictment was handed down against two company executives charging them with bank fraud and money laundering. Full Tilt’s licensing arm eventually pulled the plug on the company last summer.
Poker Pro Phil Galfond’s $4 Million NYC Penthouse for Sale: Features Helical Slide (Video)
Poker pro Phil Galfond has relocated to Canada following the events of last year whereby his sponsor, PokerStars, had to exit the US market. Enlisted pros were given the opportunity to relocate and Galfond did just that.
This has left his double-condo conversion in New York City up for sale.
