Blotter: Robbers raid German poker tournament
A gang of four robbers disguised in black motorcycle masks robbed the Grand Hyatt Berlin hotel in a daring daylight robbery during the European Poker Tour poker tournament. The robbers pointed handguns and long knives at a cashier, escaping through a crowded shopping mall with over €100,000 (US$136,000). A hotel security guard [...]
Spain favored to win World Cup at betED.com
The World Cup – the equivalent of the Super Bowl and March Madness rolled into one for soccer fans – takes place in June and betED.com has a wide range of betting options, including outright winner, group winners and team matchups. Spain, which has never won the title, is the favorite when the [...]
Alabama Governor Cracks Down on Bingo Machines
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – (Associated Press) – The governor of this Bible Belt state is waging a one-man crusade against gambling – and stirring racial tensions in the process – by sending state troopers on late-night raids to shut down electronic bingo parlors. Republican Bob Riley, a lifelong opponent of gambling, contends the electronic devices [...]
Pinnacle Entertainment Stock Continues To Rise On Wednesday
Pinnacle Entertainment Pinnacle Entertainment has had one of the best starts to their stock week in recent months, and on Wednesday the rise continued. Pinnacle closed the day up 3.88%, or $.31, ending at $8.29.On Tuesday, Pinnacle won a round in court against the Missouri Gaming Commission regarding the President Casino in St. Louis. [...]
Melco Crown Entertainment Stock Finishes Week On A High
Melco Crown Entertainment For the most part it was an uneventful week for gaming stocks on the US market, but a couple of companies finished the week strongly. Melco Crown Entertainment and Century Casinos both ended on high notes going into the weekend.Melco Crown stock has developed a reputation of going against the trend [...]
Online gambling division among the under performers at Rank Group
Full year 2009 results from the Rank Group showed small improvements, although the online gambling division was one of those that under performed last year. Nevertheless, investors will be pleased to hear that a small dividend is in prospect after some tough times with the UK gambling group.
2009 revenues totalled £540 million, up 3.4% year-on-year [...]
Loto-Quebec contests claims that online gambling leads to increase in problem gamblers
Loto-Quebec has strongly defended its intention to join other Canadian provinces in entering the online gambling sector following complaints from public health authorities that such a move would lead to an increase in problem gamblers.
Regional public health officials had earlier claimed that research elsewhere indicated that there could be problems, and called for a 12 [...]
Sportsbook .com Moves to Merge: 6 Times Growth Expected
The Merge Poker Network just received a serious injection to help in its aggressive growth plans. Sportsbook.com, a long time sponsor of the Gambling911.com website, will switch from the Cake Network to Merge, as will all its affiliated brands including Players Only. Liquidity will grow four-fold as a result of the deal, Merge CEO [...]
Good Job Poker Nordica: CEO Responds to Complaint
Gambling911.com readers might recall we had one online poker operator recently threaten a lawsuit against us after we criticized his company’s new policies regarding its showing certain "winning" players the door. Others, like Aced.com, elect to ignore complaints against them or have some lackey respond offering up lame excuses. With that said it is [...]
Bwin drops sponsorship of AC Milan, Emirates airline to take over
According to the Forbes magazine sportsmoney blog, online gambling group Bwin's shirt sponsorship of the top Italian Serie-A football team AC Milan has been relinquished and re-issued to the Arabian airline Emirates.
The blog informs that reports from Italy disclose that AC Milan has agreed a four-year €50 million ($70 million) shirt sponsorship with Emirates, effective [...]
